I am a Leo born 8/22/1957. I have ash wood night tables that I bought from an antique store. They were made sometime in the 1950's. After I moved to a new house and was in the midst of a very destructive relationship, I started to hear clicking, creaking and tapping sounds coming from them. I checked for bugs, etc. - nothing. I was told to put a mango seed and a bowl of milk under the table that seemed most active. The sounds stopped for a while, but started coming from another night table. This one is made of glass and wrought iron, but it produces the same wood-like noises. Then the noises happened from under the bed. I moved one table downstairs, and noises started again from the other table. Last night, noises from under my bed woke me up again. I don't quite know what to do. I don't know if it is a spirit from the land or house, or an entity that was attracted to the person I was in that destructive relationship with (which has been over for two years now). Maybe it's a guardian angel trying to get my attention? I have burned incense, sage, etc., and I can't get a read on its intentions. Should I give the furniture away? I don't feel right selling it to someone else and passing this on to them.
Elisa
Dreamchaser:
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, and I have to say it gave me quite a chuckle. Your "problems" are not in the tables. Your "problems" come from the land AND the house. You've burned sage, incense and prayed, and it's still there. Guess what that means? This being is not harmful. I want you to try one more thing just to satisfy your own mind. When you hear the noises again, I want you to say out loud, "If you are not from Love and Light, you must leave this house IMMEDIATELY in the name of the One God." If you still hear the sounds after that (and I am sure you will), then you can rest assured that the being is not evil in any way.
You mentioned your ex as a possible "source." If the beings were attached to that person, they would be with that person and not still living in your house. These beings are living in your house because that is where they live. You have quite a few living there, actually. They really just want you to know that they are there and that they are looking out for you. If they wanted to harm you in some way, believe me, you would know it. Nothing in your house means you any harm. Actually, it is quite the opposite. They realize how many scars you are carrying around with you and they do not want to add more. There is one woman in particular who is very protective of you. She is actually the one that is attached to the house itself and not the land. She died in that house, but loved it there and was very happy. She has maternal energy, and she never wants you in a relationship like that one again.
Many times when we are asleep, spirits think that they can roam around freely because we cannot see or hear them. They were once alive after all, and understand our ways. My bedroom is a loft space, and I can see out through most of the house. There have been times when I am lying in bed and can hear all this noise going on in the house, and I say out loud, "I can hear you." Things get very quiet very quickly. I know this is easy for me to say, but do not be afraid of your spirits. EVERY place has them. We just do not see or hear them usually, because we are moving through life too quickly.
Next time you get that chill up your back or feel like someone is watching you, stop and FEEL the energy that is around you. Do not use your eyes, as you will not see anything. Use your other senses and your instincts. It is quite an interesting exercise. Do not be afraid. Nothing can or will harm you. You are actually being watched over. I wish you healing.
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Astrea:
Haunted furniture is quite common in my family, but I don't think that's what you're dealing with; I think you have Ibys. They are SO HARD to get out of FURNITURE! You're correct that if you pass the furniture on to someone else, some of the Ibys will go along with it. What's worse, at least HALF of them will stay on with YOU!
At first I thought they were Old Wood Ibys or Carpenter Ibys, but they got into the glass and iron furniture too, so they are either Antique Ibys or regular House Ibys who have moved into your furniture. Wood Ibys tend to prefer Oak. They don't care for Ash wood because so many magical things are made from it. They were probably always in the house, but if you move from the house, they'll move WITH you unless you get rid of them first. Even if you buy NEW furniture, they'll move into IT, so get rid of them altogether if you can.
The bowl of milk and the mango seed worked for a while because they had to figure out why you did that. It takes Ibys a while to figure humans out when they act in unusual ways. I can just see them bending their little brown heads out of the tables, looking for the CAT who might come to drink the milk! (Cats love to chase Ibys.) When you took the milk away, they started up again because they knew there wasn't a cat on the way. They travel through all your furniture, knocking around, making noises and changing locations. That means that they ARE OUT of the furniture at times, and that's when you have to catch them, for that's when they are at their most vulnerable.
Go to the lumberyard and buy four scraps of oak lumber, each at least a foot long. Put a plastic trash bag on the floor in the center of the room where most of the activity is. Place the pieces of wood around in a square, touching at the corners. In the center of the square, put a slice of cake. (Ibys are very fond of cake.) Walk three times counter-clockwise around the square with the cake in the center. As you go around the circle, sprinkle a tiny bit of salt around it. Do this right before bed.
In the morning, take the whole thing (plate, cake, wood and trash bag), put it into ANOTHER trash bag and throw it out. The Ibys can only cross ONE WAY over the salt, so they'll eat the cake and then go back into the wood pieces, be picked up by the trash people and wind up in some landfill. Don't worry: they'll find their way into another piece of furniture sooner or later, or they might evolve into Fairies at the Land Fill. That happens sometimes, too.
Astrea:
Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.
Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!
While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!
I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!
As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.
I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.
You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!
Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.
A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.
You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.