Deep Reads: Ancestry

What lives in the blood? What stories move through us unseen? This week’s card asks us to consider inheritance—not just of genetics, but of memory, silence, survival, and spirit.

A young chick sets forth, seemingly unaware of what watches over. Behind it, a portal: the form of a towering elder.

Ancestry is often spoken of as “roots”, and for years I have worked to uncover mine. As a teen, I built out a family tree with hundreds of names. I collected newspaper clippings, visited cemeteries, memorized names dates. Ancestry was a ma…