‘Tis the season when many Pagans, myself included, are honoring and saluting the ancestors. People host Dumb Suppers, Cemetery Visits, and the like to help them remember and pay tribute to the dead. In my spiritual house we list the names of our remembered dead each day (not just on Samhain,) and honor them with prayer and drink. It helps us to connect and remember on a deep level.

What happens, however, if you are adopted or otherwise unsure of your ancestral lineage ? What should you do then ? In my twenty odd years of spiritual practice I have seen this happen on a few occasions. In these difficult cases you will need to rely on intuition, divination, detective work, and luck.