Nurturing Spiritual Gifts: Why It's Important to Connect with Ancestral Practices

As a Nubian woman, it's crazy to think that only this year I finally fully understood who I am. For so many years, I struggled to explain where I came from, and it was always exhausting. When I told people I was Egyptian, they would ask me why I wasn't white, and it felt like I had to constantly justify my identity. What's even crazier is that some people, even those in the Kemetic Conscious community, believe that Nubian people have been extinct for thousands of years.

This discovery was painful, especially after learning about how much my grandparents fought to keep our culture alive. My journey has been intense, but it has pointed me back to my childhood and the things that I was always drawn to. I remember making rituals with the earth in the back garden in our first home in London, connecting with my higher guides through hours of writing, and even being more interested in writing Medu Neter (also known as hieroglyphics) than Arabic when my mother tried to teach me - I will never forget her puzzled faces.

Unfortunately, like many African children, I was pushed to pursue only certain career paths, such as becoming a doctor, engineer, or lawyer. Everything else seemed like a distraction from what was expected of me. However, after taking a year off from the corporate world, I was able to reconnect with myself and my true purpose and it's up to me to continue that legacy that my grandparents and even my father fought for.

I have always had deep intuitive, clairvoyant gifts, and people would come to me for guidance. I can gauge a person's energy and predict things, except when it came to my love life - I think all spiritual people discover that we are not always so powerful when matters of the heart are involved. The energy of love is a whole force of its own sometimes. Anyway, I digress, somehow, I fell back into the spiritual practices of my ancestors without even realizing it.

It wasn't until I took a break from my corporate job that I fell back into the spiritual practices of my ancestors. And it suddenly hit me - this is what runs through my blood and ancestry. Spiritually, I have always followed the guidance of my ancestors. They open doors for me to understand things in a way that I hope to represent in the best way possible.

I sometimes wonder how much further my spiritual ascension would be if these gifts were nurtured while growing up. And that's why my work in giving a voice to Nubian people and supporting those who are keeping the culture alive back home is so important to me. If you're reading this, I encourage you to take a career break at some point. It's amazing how it can get you back in tune with yourself. And if you feel like something is missing or there's a part of you that you don't fully understand, take a step back and listen to your intuition. It may just guide you back to who you truly are.