The Ancestral Now
The Living Ancestor
Finding and Following Your 'North Star'
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Finding and Following Your 'North Star'

We each are like ships sailing through the night, aligning our voyage to a guiding light...

The concept of finding and following one's "North Star" is central to navigating fate and destiny.

The North Star serves as an internal guiding light, representing a clear unifying direction in life. Metaphorically, it represents an inner sense of guidance analogous to the stable north star already in the sky: Polaris.

As there is an outer sky, there is an inner sky.

Just as the North Star aids navigation by bringing a ships crew into alignment with a singular direction, identifying one's personal North Star helps unify and synchronize life's disparate aspects toward a chosen path.

Everyone already has an innate North Star, that is usually overshadowed by fate and conditioning. To transmute fate into destiny involves consciously aligning with this innate guiding light.

Practically, the North Star translates into day-to-day actions and routines, guiding all aspects of life—health, vocation, relationships, and spirituality. When each aspect aligns with this guiding light, life becomes cohesive and purposeful.

Traditional teachings emphasize this coherence, offering cosmologies, disciplines, and moral frameworks that align individuals with a cohering direction.

In modern contexts lacking such traditions, many experience desynchronization, with different aspects of life moving disjointedly.

Ultimately, walking in alignment with one's North Star is akin to walking the path of destiny daily, embodying the journey and destination simultaneously.

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The Ancestral Now
The Living Ancestor
This Podcast is an exploration of what it means to become a ‘Living Ancestor’: A fully embodied, 21st century human being connected to our deep time hunter-gatherer inheritance. Themes include: shamanism, spiritual cultivation, ancestral healing, embodiment, divination, animism, creative expression, and surfing with fate & destiny.