Messages from Spirit are a Healing thing for many reasons, but I will get to that later!
We moved into our new home in Sussex back in May 2024. It was a probate sale, purchased at auction; a renovation project.
This had not been a planned move, but events with a family member at Christmas 2023 meant that, as a mum, I may be needed by my child, even though she was all grown up, and so I felt the pull to be closer and if truth be told I missed not living near my children and grandchildren.
We packed our things and traveled down from Lincolnshire to camp in the property for the night. From the moment we stepped inside our new home we felt like imposters in someone else’s space, there were still bits and pieces of memorabilia around, a plaque above the kitchen door for a much loved Grandad. It made me cry. We left these things in place for a few weeks just to respect what had gone before.
We settled in for the night, each on a thin camping mattress, me in the sitting room with the dogs, to keep them settled and D in the bedroom. The removal truck scheduled for the following day with all our possessions.
This is where it gets interesting from the moment I put my head on the pillow I was aware that I wasn’t alone. The energy of the gentleman was indisputably with me. This was not a full body manifestation (although I have had a few of those over the years!) this was claircognizance or clear knowing. We all have sixth sense and can receive information in a variety of ways. Most people have one dominant ‘clair’ but information can come in a variety of ways; sight, hearing, smell, taste and feelings in our bodies. Claircognizance happens to be my dominant one and I knew that I had the former man of the house with me.
I could feel him in the room, his energy was strong and I could see a faint shadow moving around the room. This was not frightening, this was a spirit and the energy here was good. This place had clearly been loved and cherished for many years. I told him I could feel him with me and I thanked him for allowing us to move into his home, I then told him that we would love and cherish it as much as clearly he had done. I told him I was tired and asked if I could get some rest.
Over the coming weeks there were other interactions, but it was when we started knocking things out that he wasn’t very happy with us. The kitchen a little, but the fireplace! The energetic impression I got was one of decidedly annoyed! I asked a friend and fellow animal communicator, Gemma Cantillon, to communicate with one of my dogs who was not settling at all. I was too tired and involved to get clear messages from him aside to know that he wasn’t happy. I told her nothing as I wanted to see what she picked up on. The first thing my little dog conveyed to her was that “the man is still here and so is his cat”, the other was “he is angry that you have ripped out the fireplace”! A good validation for me of everything that I had picked up on. 
The activity continued, I could feel him around us a lot and so I decided to explain to him about the fireplace, why we were taking it out and what we were replacing it with, this changed his energy towards the whole thing in a more positive way.
A couple of weeks later I was in bed, not yet asleep, but almost, he moved close to my ear, I heard him as clearly as if he had been in the physical realm “BOO!” It made me jump. Cool as a cucumber I decided this was a good opportunity for a communication with him and so I telepathically said to him “Ah hello, I have been wanting to speak to you!” Honestly it was the most surreal interaction, like something that might be in a movie. He was so shocked that I could hear him. “You can hear me?” I confirmed that yes I most certainly could hear him and that saying ‘boo’ in someone’s ear when they are trying to get to sleep might not be the most polite thing to do. I felt him chuckle. This, I decided was a man who would have had a good sense of humour. I conveyed to him that we were worthy custodians of this little bungalow and now was the time for him to go and be with his loved ones who were waiting for him.
Nothing was heard of this gentleman for many weeks until November (the month of his passing 12 months earlier) then every evening I could see a figure moving about the sitting room, occasionally wandering through to the bedroom too. I commented to D that the figure was standing right behind one of the dogs on a particular night and it was clear that the dog, who by this time had turned his head and was looking straight at the figure, could see it also. No fear just a matter of fact acknowledgement.
I often think the the pieces of life fit together a big like a jigsaw puzzle each and every piece slotting in at exactly the right time and synchronicity is a wonderful thing. As it happened I received a message from my neighbour who had been contacted by this gent’s granddaughter ‘out of the blue’. She was asking what the new neighbours (us) were like and was told that we were lovely and therefore the granddaughter felt her granddad would have approved. Then ensued a lengthy 3 way text conversation. I mentioned that if she might be open to it she could be told that he was still very much around. Without transcribing the whole conversation the crucial bit of information that was given me was that this lady wished her grandfather would visit her.
I let her know that it’s a case of finding a still place to be able to receive the subtle messages from spirit. To look out for the signs when we have spoken to them. A coin in a random place, a feather, an animal that comes to you like you know them, Robins often appear, a song on the radio, a dream. The list goes on! Listen to the whispers!
This is her response copied and pasted:
“I think I need a gin!!!!
I have a Robin that keeps coming into my salon!! My first day back to work after Grandad died it flew through the front door, up the stairs & sat on a bottle of hairspray!!! So weird!!”
This gentleman had indeed contacted his granddaughter, but, as with so many people, she had not recognised the signs and symbols and so he decided that a go between was required and the lady who could hear when he said BOO in her ear seemed like a good prospect. Who do you suppose put the original thought in her head to contact my neighbour and ask what we were like? Was it a random act of chance or did she hear a gentle whisper, a voice without sound in her mind?
My reason for sharing this story with you is to bring comfort. Even though we are no longer able to sit and have a cup of tea with our loved ones, they are still very much around us. They hear when we speak to them, they know when we honour them and very often will send us signs and symbols to let us know they are there, but we have to ‘listen to their whispers’ and watch out for these signs. These messages have one main purpose. That is to let us know they are with us and that they are ok. This is not something that is reserved for just humans who have crossed over, but animals too. Here is a blog I wrote many years ago about a spirit dog. My only regret is not telling the man what I had seen.
I have been a ‘sensitive’ since my earliest recollection. As a child I saw spirit in my house and had to sleep with the radio on to drown out the voices I could hear, I felt what an animal was feeling and heard its voice in my mind. My work today includes being tuned into energies that many are unaware of. So please take this writing as comfort not one to make you fearful.
I have not gone
You think I’ve gone, that I am dead, and life has lost its will,
But look around, I am right there, living with you still
I watch your tears, I feel your pain – I see the things you do
I weep as well, each time you cry, my soul, it lives with you
It gives such joy to hear you laugh, and do the things you do
And when you smile o’er by gone days, I smile right with you too
For we’re still one, just you and me, one mind, one soul, one being
Walking forward into life, though only you are seen
And in the stillness of the night, when the pain it really starts
Stretch out a little with your mind and draw me to your heart
For I am always right in there, always by your side
For you have been, all my life’s days, my joy, my love my pride.
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