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Preparing for a Constellation

Constellations:
Introduction | Preparing | After | Individual | Supervision

It is important to gather as much factual information about your family as possible, (knowing that pertinent information will emerge during the constellation).

Did any member of your family:

  • have a child who died young (before 2 years)
  • lose a parent early, before the child was 28 or 30 years old
  • die as a result of childbirth or whose life was in danger during childbirth?
  • have a difficult birth (C-section, prolonged labor?)
  • have a stillborn child
  • have a miscarriage or an abortion
  • have an illegitimate or extramarital child
  • experience an early separation from their mother (due to hospitalization, etc.)
  • have children who were abandoned, passed on to foster parents or relatives at an early age
  • attend a boarding school at an early age
  • have children who were given up for adoption
  • have a major accident, injury or serious illness
  • suffer loss due to natural or other disasters
  • suffer physical disabilities or mental deficiencies
  • suffer from mental illness
  • become imprisoned (jail, prison, reservation, internment or concentration camp, prisoner of war, etc.)
  • serve in the military
  • suffer exclusion from the family
  • become a nun, monk or priest
  • suffer bankruptcy
  • emigrate from another country
  • become involved in slavery (as slaves, masters, slave traders)
  • have colonial rulers
  • have native ancestors
  • become a missing person
  • never marry
  • never had children
  • become a homosexual, lesbian, transgender or have gender identity issues
  • encounter prejudice: meaning disrespected, slandered, treated with contempt or as an outcast – due to disability, alcohol or drug use, homelessness or criminal activity
  • lose their fortune
  • complain of being taken advantage of (i.e., an unequal inheritance)
  • experience a family feud
  • were victims of violence or murder by a member of the family or others outside the family
  • gain from the misfortune or death of another
  • experience a traumatic life-threatening event/accident at any age
  • attempt or commit suicide
  • commit a crime, including a war crime
  • survive or die in the Holocaust or other genocide
  • have to flee their home/homeland
  • have parents of different nationalities
  • were not allowed to leave the parental home

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