Many years ago I had this deep desire to connect to my ancestry on an almost spiritual level and had no idea where to start. I had felt a lack of roots or understanding of the idea of home, myself and felt like there was a deeper rift that just losing family or identity when I was adopted.

One night, I sent a prayer out from my heart- “Please help me connect to my ancestry and my roots- I looked for my birth parents, I travelled through korea for a months alone, and now i still feel like there is something missing and I have no idea where to start.”

Within a couple days a random friend of a friend became guest stayed out our home in Peru.

He had been practicing tai chi, chi gong and reading iching. He did a reading with me – I got symbol *revolution- * the revolution starts within. I don’t know what came over me but I felt this shaking in my bones and started sobbing uncontrollably over the breakfast nook table.

I heard over and over again, “you know this language, you speak this language, you understand this language.” It felt like an anchor just landed within me. I didn’t really know where to start but I knew it was something that would help me understand myself more, my history, my roots.

I started studying it from that point on. Not in any linear academic sense, but just pulling readings and finding lots of books and articles that I’d delve into over the course of 9 years. I moved on to also read oracle cards and tarot with basic understandings of astrology but it is the iching that gives me the clearest most profound readings.

As I rolled the coins and read the symbols it was like getting to know my ancestors who worked with the elements and the unseen energetic worlds. They knew and were masters of the subtle energies through space, time, seasons, relationships, physical spaces, and the physical body. I know my ancestors walk with me now, guide me, laugh at me with twinkling eyes and kind but fierce hearts. I see archetypal visions play out. And can hear their whispers in my dreams or when I let my mind calm down enough to hear their gentle guidance.

Almost a decade into study, practice and starting to do readings for others, I looked at the Korean flag – like really saw it for the first time. The yin yang, fire water elements and the iching trigrams at each corner of the flag anchoring it. The whole time, my place of birth had this language imprinted with the information, flying over my homeland the whole time and it all made more sense. ( I drew this picture in my journal a few months ago when I discovered this funny connection)