The Witches in Your Family: Guardians, Not Enemies

The Witches in Your Family: Guardians, Not Enemies 

The witches in your family are your first line of spiritual defense, shielding you from external forces and unseen adversaries. This statement is not a metaphor or an invitation to superstition—it is a deep spiritual truth, often misunderstood in modern discourse and violently rejected in religious circles that equate spiritual power with malevolence. However, ancestral wisdom teaches us otherwise.

In traditional African cosmology, particularly among the Yorùbá, the idea of Àjẹ́ (witches) is neither inherently evil nor entirely benevolent. It is a raw spiritual force—untamed, primordial, and deeply connected to the Orí (inner head), Ìyàmi (primordial mothers), and Ẹgbẹ́ Ọ̀run (celestial society). Within this matrix, the witches in your family, especially the matriarchal line, serve as guardians of the bloodline, protectors of its destiny, and spiritual regulators of its members.

Too often, people seek to destroy or suppress these beings or energies, not realizing that in doing so, they may be unraveling the very web of spiritual protection keeping their lineage intact. Instead of seeking to destroy or suppress them, find a way to honor, understand, and appease them. This is not an invitation to bow before evil, but rather to recognize and redeem misunderstood power.

The witches in your family—whether living or ancestral—often work silently, invisibly shielding you from arrows not seen, curses not spoken, and fates not revealed. They interfere in your dreams, redirect dangers, and rebuke spiritual enemies before they even reach your doorstep. When unrecognized or dishonored, they may withdraw this protection, allowing afflictions and spiritual attacks to break through. But when honored, their cloak of fire becomes a divine armor surrounding you.

If they are eradicated from your lineage, your generation may become vulnerable, left unprotected against external forces that could consume you. This is the tragedy of spiritual ignorance—a generation that declares war on its own protectors, only to find itself naked in the day of adversity. Many who call themselves “free” of witchcraft soon become entangled in cycles of misfortune, diseases that defy explanation, inexplicable poverty, or generational collapse. Not all such struggles are due to the absence of witchcraft, but the loss of spiritual balance and ancestral coordination plays a role more often than we are willing to admit.

Embrace wisdom, balance, and harmony in dealing with them, for they are part of the ancestral force that sustains your lineage. This does not mean accepting injustice or harm. It means rising into higher understanding. Speak with your ancestors. Offer prayers for equilibrium. Consult divination if needed. Make peace where peace must be made. For in your family’s spiritual ecosystem, everyone has a role, and to survive in this age of energetic warfare, every line of defense must be intact.

Let us reawaken to this truth in a world that has been trained to fear its own roots. Let us rebuild harmony between the spiritual and the physical, the seen and the unseen, the misunderstood and the divine.

When we understand the witches in our family as keepers of spiritual memory and protectors of ancestral codes, we stop living in fear, and we start walking in reverent power.