Mallorie Vaudoise
The Gift They Gave You: Mallorie Vaudoise on Honoring Your Ancestors
Season 1
Episode 4
Mallorie Vaudoise, of Southern Italian ancestry, is a NYC-based spiritualist of Italian descent. With Vanessa Irena, she hosts Good Bones, a podcast about living and dying well. She is the author of Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration and Italian Folk Magic, a blog about devotional practices from Southern Italy and Sicily.
Drawn to witchcraft and folk magic from a young age, her path has required both careful study and wild abandon. Her writing is an act of devotion, an offering to the spiritual ecosystem in which she finds herself. She believes that music, food, wine, and kissing are vital tools of spiritual evolution.
Things discussed:
What ancestor veneration is and what it isn’t.
How different cultures venerate their ancestors.
Mallorie’s book, “Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration.”
How we repeat patterns from not only our own past, but the pasts' of our ancestors.
Ancestor veneration can shine a light on these patterns to help release them.
How to discern if a pattern is ancestral trauma.
The body and home are our spiritual foundations and need to be tended to first and foremost.
How to feel messages from our dead.
Resources:
“Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration”
Mallorie’s blog, Italian Folk Magic
Bella Figura website
