Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Brandy Williams, author of The Woman Magician, Practical Magic for Beginners, and For the Love of the Gods.
The ancestors came to me when I was 16. I was struggling to survive an abusive family. They'd ripped me out of the school where I had friends and ported me half a country away. I had rejected their values, their racism and sexism, their scam-people-and-run-away work ethic, and the Catholic faith in which they had raised me. Alone, battered, suicidal, I literally did not know who to pray to. So I prayed to the universe. "Help me!"
The ancestors heard a child in trouble and answered my desperate call. I clearly saw a ring of people,