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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
1531 Posts
Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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 Posted - May 01 2010 : 9:21:54 PM
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Today I spent trying to do some spring cleaning. I always find that deep cleaning brings up deep thought and emotion. I'm trying to liberate myself from my recent "Mouse invasion" - I've caught 10 in the last three days!! Ewww....I really detest mice. Nasty little creatures if you ask me. Not too bad in the chicken house or barn but NOT in my house. I almost stopped to pull out my guitar but knew if I did I would loose my momentum.....tomorrow.
I did get the sheep done yesterday so now they are happily naked - it rained and lighting and hailed and just about everything else today as well so they are doing the naked dance for me!! I love to watch them after they are sheared they seem so liberated and frolicy - their little tails go a mile a minute as they eat the baby grass.
Hope everyone had a great day.
Blessings, Sheri
"Work is Love made visible" -Kahlil Gibran |
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Melbick
True Blue Farmgirl
81 Posts
Melanie
Venus
TX
USA
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Posted - May 01 2010 : 9:38:15 PM
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Ok my Witchy Sisters, I have a problem. My youngest son has always been very sensative to the after life, he has recently be having experiances with people touching his arms and feet while he is asleep, he doesn't know who it is. I have tried every blessing that I know and even some I was not to sure about, but tried anyway. I am honestly scared, he doesn't sleep at night anymore unless he is with me and even then he still wakes up screaming. I am not sure if he is really being touched or if he is just dreaming it. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Melanie Bickham
Homegrown Girls
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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
1531 Posts
Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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Posted - May 01 2010 : 10:51:03 PM
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I wonder if it is someone close to you like a grandparent? Most of those kinds of interactions are usually a loved ones. Children who are ultra sensitive can usually describe the person once they quit being afraid. The veil is thinning between dimensions as we near the 2012 energy shift so people who are extra sensitive are receiving more than usual. Have you tried to visualize a protective bubble around him? Another thing that sometimes helps is to place rose quartz around the bed as it promotes tranquility and love energy. Try to reassure him that he is in no danger - I do not feel anything malevolent in this case. How old is he? Many children go through similar dreams around age three or so. I don't know if any of this helps.
Blessings, Sheri
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Tn.Earthmama
True Blue Farmgirl
443 Posts
Phyllis
Englewood
Tennessee
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Posted - May 02 2010 : 05:57:09 AM
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Melaine, I'm so sorry your little one is having such scary things happen. I'm afraid I don't have enough experience to be able to offer much help. Sheri, has some good ideas I think. sending love and comforting energy your way.
Sheri, love the picture of the naked sheep dancing in the pasture. LOL. You sound like my hubby about the mice. LOL. he seriously freaks out if he thinks there is one in the house, I think we had some mousey visitors in the attic. My thing is spiders, eeeeekkkk. LOL.
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Melbick
True Blue Farmgirl
81 Posts
Melanie
Venus
TX
USA
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Posted - May 02 2010 : 07:28:46 AM
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Sheri,
He is 9. I thought that it might be my grandfather because he has alwasy followed me and my grandmother since a month or so after his death, but I showed him pictures of all the deceased family and he said it wasn't any of them. I hadn't thought of the rose quartz, I have some of that. Thanks will give it a try.
Melanie Bickham
Homegrown Girls
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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
1531 Posts
Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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Posted - May 02 2010 : 08:00:18 AM
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Melanie - my granddaughter went through a similar thing and was so afraid that she wouldn't even go in her room. Her father is hispanic and so they called a priest to do a blessing on the house and he even gave her a vial of "holy water" and she was fine after that. I can't say I agree with the priest per se but it was a big ceremony which reassured her. I do believe in the power of intent so perhaps a blessing is in order with pomp and circumstance?? I am very in tune with the other side and I have rose quartz all the way around my bed. It does help.
Blessings, Sheri
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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
1531 Posts
Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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Posted - May 02 2010 : 09:04:51 AM
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Just one more thought - the picture you showed him - was it when he was older? Many spirits come across as about age 35 and not how they looked when they were older. Try showing him a younger picture of your Grandfather if you have one.
Blessings, Sheri
"Work is Love made visible" -Kahlil Gibran |
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Melbick
True Blue Farmgirl
81 Posts
Melanie
Venus
TX
USA
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Posted - May 02 2010 : 09:21:01 AM
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I will try the younger picture. I have one when he was in WW2 and it was actually my grandfathers proudest times. I thought about the priest, but I am not a big fan of that, my son is pretty in tune with nature like I am so wanted to try this first, however it is possible the big production thing might be able to help. I think we are going to try one more blessing and this time include the whole family in it.
Melanie Bickham
Homegrown Girls
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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
1531 Posts
Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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Posted - May 02 2010 : 10:21:48 AM
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Melanie - another thought occurred to me while I was out watering my plants - The touching came to me as more of a caress. When one walks into a sleeping childs room, we tend to stroke an arm, a cheek, or touch the soles of their feet, esp. when they are babies. Can you possibly explain to your son that there is nothing to fear, that the touching is from love and nothing to fear? Also - if YOU are afraid or upset, he will more likely be as well. Whenever the kids would mention something like that I always respond in a totally benign, calm, matter-of-fact manner and then they tend to relax and tell me more about it. Our society makes too much out of these types of contacts and that is fearful because it's unknown. For me it's an every day occurrence. Let me know how it goes. You can e-mail me if you wish.
Blessings, Sheri
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NudeFoodFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
433 Posts
Heide
Benton City
WA
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Posted - May 02 2010 : 11:12:49 AM
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I agree with Sheri 100%. We love rose quartz around here. Any ceremony that could let your son not to be afraid but rather feel chosen, perhaps the fear of sleeping would fade. When he feels the ghost does it hurt or just freak him out? Do you know the history of his room, bed etc?
My daughters have Native American dream catchers and believe that they filter their dreams, letting the good ones through and holding the bad ones from reaching them. Before they go to sleep we always talk about our favorite things and what we want to dream about and it seems to help ease them into sleep.
When we moved into our house it had been abandoned for months. The couple who lived here where "foster parents" (we are told for the money). The wife found a lover and left and the husband went ballistic until the police took him to jail and relocated the children. From that day the house stood empty (except for the ants, skunks, raccoons and rodents that came in the pet door and ate all the food left out). Ugh! whatta physical mess. Well that was the main reason we got such an amazing deal on the property.
However there was an "invisible" spiritual mess remaining as well. Even after everything was remodeled and cleaned up (it took about a year) my husband and I kept hearing crying children. Now we are too far from neighbors for us to think it was coming from afar, and our kids would usually be sleeping or happily playing when we heard the distinctive sounds.
I believe that we are orbs of energy and exchange that energy everywhere we go. If there is negative energy in a place, one would first think that positive energy would fix it, but like in math, a positive and a negative charge make a negative. SO I am a big in the practice of Neutrality.
We grow lots of Sage and it's harvest is always a tradition here every fall. As soon as I had some dried (and I wanted to use the Sage grown here) we (as a family) took the burning sage to all of our rooms and took turn blowing on the smudge. I asked the girls to talk to the spirits of the house and we all took turns welcoming the spirits to stay but we also informed them that they were free to go. We opened all the doors and windows and turned on some music and as a family we danced (with our spirits). My husband even took the smudge to the corners of our property and blew the smoke to carry the spirits away.
Seriously, the crying sound stopped!
We smudge a lot, sometimes with Sage, to assist the spirit moving on. Then sometimes with Sweet Grass to invite goodness to come. My husband likes burning Ceder in his shop because he feels it brings creativity.
So this has inspired another one of my spiritual soul chores, one that we have worked on before and Sheri suggested the Bubble technique.
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Solidify. Have you ever imagined yourself in an invisible bubble protected from others and even protecting others from your own emotions? Imagine that feelings are just energy passing through you (in the time it takes to say "electricity" that atom has gone around the world once.) We are exposed to vibes from all over (the universe) and it takes shape in many different manifestations (especially while we sleep). In our culture we are taught to be afraid of these lightening like moments but really we need to know we can protect ourselves and not be shocked. Meditate for a moment about your bubble, I imagine a rubber ball (super brightly colored) around me, keeping me balanced while there is external charges trying to get in and keeping my "zap!" from being misplaced coming out. This exercise strengthens my focus to channel my energy (coming in or out) productively rather than living in fear (of someone or something) or from swimming in guilt for saying or doing something I didn't (or someone else didn't mean)to say or do.
Hope this is helpful and everyone's reflection is a spring bloom.
h
"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple but only a Goddess knows how many apples are in a seed." ~anonymous
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barefootmama
True Blue Farmgirl
133 Posts
Jennifer
Orangeville
PA
USA
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Posted - May 02 2010 : 6:39:34 PM
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Melanie,
I have had this happen to my daughter when she was younger and I had read somewhere to bless an egg then place the egg on a stand beside her head and every morning check the egg for cracks or a break in it. you are supposed to do this every night until the morning arrives that the egg is "break free". anyway I did this for my daughter and on the first morning the egg had a crack in it so I put out a new egg that night then on the second morning the egg was un broken...we also hung a small dream catcher in her room and she had yet to have anymore "scary encounters" She would wake up screaming and crying saying that people where there talking to her and were going to hurt her it was really scary... after the egg and dreamcatcher she has been sleeping much better..I know she still get night time visitors but either she is unafraid of them or they are nice to her now..At the time I had no idea what was going on with her until a visit w my sister who is a psyhic and has been blessed with many gifts of that nature told us that she had many nights like that for as long as she can remember. I hope that everything works out for your son and that the fear will leave him and he can again sleep peacefully...Blessings
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Faransgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
895 Posts
Beth
Houston
Texas
USA
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Posted - May 02 2010 : 7:39:33 PM
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You may want to smudge his room and do a ritual sweeping of the negative energies in the room. Also you could put a pentacle under the bed either physical (metal, glass etc.) or you can draw one using blessed water or salt. If the visitor is negative that should take care of it if not then you just need to become comfortable with it. We have a visitor in our house that we have all encountered at one time or another but she is not negative and we have learned to accept her presence. She can be a little frightening for company.
Farmgirl Sister 572
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NudeFoodFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
433 Posts
Heide
Benton City
WA
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Posted - May 04 2010 : 07:11:30 AM
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Jen, the egg is a wonderful suggestion. It reminded me of a woman from Greece who placed an egg next to new babies to protect them in their sleep, must come from a similar tradition. I just assumed it was so SIDS thing, but after reading your post, I was like Ahhhaaa.
Melanie, how is he sleeping, any better? Keep us posted on what you try and how it works out.
There has been very aggressive energy around us, strong winds (over 60 mph) heavy rains and electrical storms. Everyone's moods seem to match the weather. So I am writing this meditation for today.
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Calm. Do you ever feel like Mother Nature is angry and taking it out on you and the rest of the world? Make a stack of magazines that you don't mind cutting up and start cutting out any pictures or words that reminds you of the image/actions of mother nature. Find a piece of butcher paper or anything long enough to fit your body on because you are going to lay on the paper and have someone trace the outlines of your body on it. If this is too much to do, you can always trace your hands or and feet on paper. Then take all your cut outs of Nature and glue them in your tracing. Enjoy the reflection of glory in mother nature within you.
"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple but only a Goddess knows how many apples are in a seed." ~anonymous
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Melbick
True Blue Farmgirl
81 Posts
Melanie
Venus
TX
USA
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Posted - May 04 2010 : 07:41:42 AM
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Sorry it has been haywire around here, as you said Heide the winds have been severe. He is doing better. We did a smudging ritual that he participated in and hung new dream catchers (he decided that maybe the old ones were full :))He even made one of his own and learned to bless it. We talked a little more about the person and he was able to tell me that he tought it was a woman because he could hear a rustling like when I wear one of my "dress up" dresses as he calls them. Our house is brand new so I don't think there is anything attached to it, but the land is old farm land so there could be there (i am researching it). Also as Hiede mentioned I had forgotten that most of the furniture that he has was my great grandmothers, I am wondering if she has attached to the furniture and is the one checking on him. I don't feel that he is in danger, I just think this is something new to him and he is not sure of how to deal with it.
So far we have had a quite week since the smudging, he also started sleeping with a crystal that I took him to the rock shop and let him pick out.
Thank you all again for the wonderful suggestions, I am so used to doing rites and blessings alone that I never thought of including him or the rest of the family.
Melanie Bickham
FarmGirl Sister #1475
Homegrown Girls
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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
1531 Posts
Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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Posted - May 04 2010 : 12:10:47 PM
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I am so glad to hear that things are going better with your son, Melanie. Keep us posted as to how things progress. I think you are spot on on it being your Great Grandmother.
The wind here was crazy insane yesterday - ended up with a 6 hour power outage. Fortunately, no downed trees but plenty of branches. Still windy today but not as bad. It feels more like March than like May. I know what you mean about everyone's moods matching the weather. When I get all agitated, I try to sit at my spinning wheel and let myself zone into the action of the spinning. I love how it mellows and centers me. Throwing pots on a wheel used to do the same thing for me.
Hope everyone is having a good, mellow day.
Blessings, Sheri
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