A Love Letter to Our Ancestors - And the Magic Within Us

Summary

In this intimate witching-hour love letter, Reverend Sex speaks to those who were once taught to fear their magic, distrust their ancestors, and turn away from ritual and remembrance. This episode arrives during the season of Halloween, Samhain, and Día de los Muertos in order to reclaim what was taken from us in the name of purity, control, and white Christian supremacy.

In This Episode Reverend Sex shares:

• A midnight meditation on finding each other in a chaotic world
• The painful erasure of ancestral practices under Christian supremacy
• A call for faith communities to reclaim ministries of death, ritual, and care
• The spiritual and political power of ancestor work
• Confronting complicated lineages — colonizer and colonized, heroes and harm-doers
• The sacred task of tending to the stories we inherit and the futures we shape

This episode honors those who were denied their histories — and those who are courageously reclaiming them.

A Blessing from This Episode
Our dead are still very much alive.
Their legacies live in our bones, our breath, our choices.
To remember them is to remember ourselves — and to heal what history tried to erase.

Take This With You
You are not alone.
Your people are with you — even the ones you never met, even the ones you wrestle with.
There is power in remembering, and holiness in repair.

For Those Who Need to Hear It
This love letter is for every church kid who was told magic was dangerous,
every queer child who lost their ancestors to doctrine,
every soul learning to speak again with the dead,
and every heart choosing remembrance over forgetting.