1. Anyone can benefit from attending their ancestors and slowly building a sense of other influences of spirit that are willing to answer. The practice can become a baseline reservoir of fortitude and stability that can go on to have many valuable magical applications.

2. Unresolved and intranquil dead set the patterns that we dance to, and generational trauma distorts healthy growth of the sprawling organism.

3. Nourishing and replenishing one's immediate section of the tree contributes to the benefit of the whole structure within time, and we might hope to create a form of herd immunity to the repeating patterns and transmitted suffering that pose a perpetual affliction.

4. Setting the light and refreshing the glass is medicine before it is anything else.

5. It can be picked up by anybody with a minimum of fuss. It doesn't even have to be a new cup or any special sort of candle. Creating a regular practice will take you further, as there is magic in its repetition and rhythm, but doing something is better than doing nothing.

6. A weekly interaction is a reasonable effort, but once a month is preferable to never. It should be adaptive to our circumstance and remain accomplishable in some form even when our agency or ability have been compromised.

7. Its simplicity offers a potent strategy for cultivating spiritual fortitude that does not exclude the disabled or those with restricted mobility. It could be set up for fifteen minutes and then taken back down again.

8. If you are a parent or carer, and time is your dwindling resource, it can be fitted around whatever scant moments might be available. If you need to keep it hidden from prying eyes, it can very quickly look like nothing.

9. Reach deep within to your own buried wellspring of strength and support. Your own forgotten dead, parched and decaying, empty belly and rasping whisper. Offering refreshment and illumination to lost ghost and faint presence.

10. Cultivating the field of ambient dead that surround you into a solid fortress of spirit. A skeletal army raised and vivified by the sun that touches all worlds.

11. The ancestors that will stand for you when nothing else will, and overturn wickedness and injustice even if your hands are empty. The dead that will topple false leaders and smite robber barons.

12. The flame of spirit that will burn up all those who willfully sacrifice their children's future for their own temporal profit. A blazing fire upon them.

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