Ancestors, without Sentimentality or Fear

Episode 3: Ancestors, Without Sentimentality or Fear

In this episode of Living Irish Witchcraft, Lora O’Brien explores how ancestors actually function within an Irish witchcraft framework, without romanticising lineage, demanding devotion, or leaning into fear.

We look at the difference between family dead, cultural ancestors, and the dead of place, and why Irish tradition approaches ancestor work with restraint, honesty, and strong boundaries. This episode is for anyone who feels weighed down by inherited patterns, confused by modern ancestor practices, or unsure how to engage ethically without bypassing their own sovereignty.

You’ll also be guided through a simple acknowledgement practice rooted in Irish spoken charm structures, focused on responsibility rather than obligation.

Today’s Practice

A short spoken acknowledgement that places you in right relationship with the past, without summoning, invoking, or opening work you’re not ready to tend.

Want support with ancestral heaviness?

If you’re carrying ancestral weight that isn’t yours to keep, patterns you didn’t choose, or pressure that feels older than your own life, there is a steadier way to meet that work.

The Cailleach offers a path of clearing grounded in sovereignty, honesty, and right relationship, not blame or fantasy. You can begin that work here:
https://www.cailleach.community/past 

About the Podcast

Living Irish Witchcraft is an Irish Pagan School production, sharing grounded, culturally rooted Irish witchcraft with clarity, ethics, and right relationship.