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Things run pretty smoothly this week, with only one astrological shift of note, Mercury's move into Virgo on Friday. Mercury rules the sign of Virgo, so don't be surprised if your attention to detail increases or you find yourself nitpicking about things that really aren't important. We'll need to strive for balance under Monday's Libra Moon, but when it ventures into Scorpio on Tuesday for a three-day tour, we can pretty much cast caution to the wind and go with the flow. Fun and laughter are the names of the game on Friday and Saturday when the Moon moves into Sagittarius. Great time to get out and see a comedy show or through an impromptu "dog days of summer" party in your backyard! Just focus on keeping things light-hearted and easy going. You might be inspired to do a little house cleaning or repair work on Sunday, but that's just because the Moon will be in Capricorn. If you want to ignore those urgings and just hang out in front of the television or computer, be my guest!

Four Ways Your Energy Animal Can Appear to You, by Melissa Alvarez

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Animals. We share our world with them, we have them as pets, and they can be a source of comfort and love. Animals can also be spiritual guides for us during times of need or to help us grow on our spiritual path. I call them energy animals because I work with energy and animal frequency, but they're also known as totems, spirit animals, power animals, familiars, and animal spirit guides. All of these terms describe animals that guide, teach, and connect with you in order to deliver messages from the spiritual realm that you need to know at specific points in your life and on your path. Some appear for a short time, others are with us for a lifetime.

When an animal has a message for you, the energy surrounding the animal will feel different. It may feel as if the animal is staring you down, or you just intuitively know that there's something unusual about the bird that keeps perching in trees near you, making you notice it. The animal will not give up until it gets your attention and delivers the information. If you're not paying attention, things will start to happen that captures your awareness and makes you take notice. Your animal encounters may happen more often and with more intensity until finally you say, "What is going on?" That's when you'll be open to receiving the message that the animal is trying to deliver.

I'll give you an example. When I was writing Animal Frequency, there were so many animals showing up at my farm that every day I expected to see a new one and I usually did. It was also foaling season, and for ten days I was dealing with a mare who had retained part of her placenta after foaling out, which is life-threatening and meant I was up every two to four hours throughout the night giving her three to four antibiotic injections at a time to try to save her life in conjunction with her veterinary care. Being severely sleep deprived, I stopped paying attention to the animals showing up and didn't get much written during that time. Then one day shortly after the mare was over the incident I found myself bombarded with dragonflies. I walked out to the barn and there was one flying along beside me. While I did my work I'd find them sitting on the pitchfork handle or on the bags of shavings or they'd land on my arms. I acknowledged them and thanked them for the appearance but I was so tired I didn't think past that. Then I walked out into the yard by the barn and was swarmed with dragonflies all around me. There must have been fifty or sixty of them flying into the wind all around me. They've done this before in this spot but none had ever landed on me, and this time I had four land on me at once and they seemed to be looking right at me. Then when I went on an errand I was sitting at a stoplight and looked over and there was a tiny baby dragonfly sitting on my window starting at me. As soon as I got home I looked at my Animal Frequency manuscript to see what I'd written about the dragonfly. The line that stood out to me was, "Dragonfly means you need to add lightness to your life. Don't get bogged down in the heaviness of the world but be the light, airy being that shines in a multitude of colors." I had been bogged down in heaviness due to the issues with the mare and lack of sleep. I was still worrying about her even though the crisis had passed. Dragonfly helped me see that I needed to let it go so that I could get back to the lightness of being that I try to keep my frequency at. Once I did, everything flowed easily again.

By knowing some of the different ways that animals can try to capture your attention, you'll become more aware of their appearances. They can show up in any way that they believe will make you notice them, so this list is just a mere sampling. Here are four of the most common ways that animals can appear to you when they have a message to deliver.

1. Media
   With more and more people participating in social media, you're sure to see animals in videos, memes, advertising, news, and in online documentaries. When these animal appearances start repeating or standing out then that means there's a message. Seeing a cute lion cub video and then seeing two more lions online can be a sign that they're trying to get a message to you. Now, let's say you're driving to an appointment and see a lion on a billboard, and as you drive past the local zoo you notice a new advertisement for the lion exhibit, and the radio announcer is talking about a show about lions that he saw over the weekend. Once you get to your appointment you open up a magazine while you wait and there's a huge lion staring back at you. Later at home, you turn on the television and hear a lion's roar. By now you have probably realized that lion has a message for you. Take some time to sit quietly and ask lion what its message is and then trust in the first thoughts you receive.
2. Dreams
   When your spirit guides have a hard time reaching you when you're awake, they often appear to you in your dreams. It's the same with your energy animals. In dreams you're more open to receive their messages as long as you can remember the dream. They will return to your dreams multiple times if you forget it. When you see an energy animal in your dream notice what kind of animal it is. What is it doing in your dream? Is it acting as it normally would in real life, or is it doing something that it could never do in real life—like speaking actual words? If it is speaking words, then it's delivering its message the easiest way it knows how—in your native language. Try hard to remember what it said. Also look at the environment of the dream. Is the animal out of place or in its natural habitat? This can all be part of the message. If you dream of a hippo swinging on a swing set maybe it is trying to tell you that your life is out of balance and you need to have more fun. How are you interacting or reacting to the animal? This is part of the message too.
3. Spoken Word
   Sometimes, when you're not paying attention to the animal, the animal will enlist the help of others to get your attention. You may have noticed those lions and they've piqued your interest, but not enough for you to start looking up what they mean or to meditate to ask what the message is. So now your co-worker starts talking about going to the zoo and how wonderful the new lion exhibit is. She might tell you about how they changed the enclosure or that the lioness had cubs. Then your neighbor tells you about a dream she had that featured a lion. Or your significant other tells you about a new project at work that is featuring a lion. After several people have told you their lion stories, now you're inspired to find out exactly what message lion has for you.
4. In the Flesh
   Many times you'll notice animals because they simply show up in person to get your attention. There have been many times when a hawk, snake, alligator, or other animal has shown up on my farm and just stared me down. I believe that the "stare down" is one of their favorite ways to get your attention. I mean, how can you possibly ignore that? Once I had a big red-tailed hawk perch right on the fence and watch me clean a paddock. I kept looking over at him and just got stared at. When I moved to another paddock, the hawk flew over to a low tree branch and stared me down again. By the time I got to the round pen, where it perched on the panel about four feet away from me, I just stopped what I was doing, stared back at him and intuitively opened my energy to its message. Once I'd received it, the hawk made a loud screech and flew away. So when you see an animal in the flesh that seems to be looking at you or that you intuitively feel like there's something special or unusual about the animal, pay attention to it. Take a few moments to commune with it so that you can discover what it needs to tell you.

Connecting with your energy animal can help you in many different ways. It can even be life changing. If you're not paying attention, energy animals can and will use all of these ways at the same time to inundate you with their presence so you pay attention and start to learn more about the animal. Getting your attention is often the hardest part. Once their message is delivered, the animal usually disappears from your life, but you'll probably always remember the message.

I encourage you to take time to open your heart, mind, and intuition to the animals that appear in your life. Connect with them through animal frequency to experience the Divine with them and within yourself.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2017. All rights reserved.

Is there any sense of time on the other side? For example, wouldn't a ghost haunting the same area for 100 years become restless, especially if it had not realized that it had died? Also, if you had contacted someone who had passed away, would it be possible for their spirit to already be back on Earth in another body, so that you would not be able to contact them anymore? These are subjects that I have always been curious about. Thanks!

Anne

Dreamchaser:

Anne, you are not the only person who is curious about these things, so thanks for being the one to ask!

There is a sense of time on the Otherside, but it is not human/ Earth time. It has been said that 1000 years can be like one day and vice versa over there. Time really has no relevance in that world; it is a very subjective thing. We are the ones who give time all of its meaning.

As for your example of the 100-year haunting, it would all depend on the entity haunting the place. Some spirits are very restless, and some are not. I have a ghost in my house that is almost 70 years "old" now. She putters around and has no desire to leave. She seems fine with the passing of time, but she also knows she is dead. If a spirit does not know that she/he is dead, then each day becomes the same thing over and over. Some spirits do become agitated and confused with the "Groundhog Day" aspect of their "lives." It just keeps repeating. If you feel ghostly energy around you, simply say into the air, "You are dead. Everyone you love is through the light. Go through the light and you will find everyone." Sometimes you can feel them RUSHING to the light. Others, like my ghost, choose to stay.

The reason time matters to us is because we use it to plan. If we are waiting for something, we need to know how much longer we have to wait. "How long until five o'clock?" "How long until my vacation?" "I have to get up in six hours." "She will be going to college in the fall." The examples go on and on and on. On the Otherside, no one is waiting for anything. Everyone is fully living in the NOW. If we all lived fully in the NOW, we would not need time here either.

Now we move to your question about channeling. I cannot go find someone - they have to come to me. Our souls carry energy along from life to life. If I am able to channel someone, it is because that soul or some higher power wants that soul to talk to me and relay a message or information. Energy does not have to specifically stay on the Otherside. It CAN come back through to this world. Our thoughts and energies are always traveling from our minds/souls to other places. There is no reason why the soul of someone who is already back in another body on THIS side could not speak to me and fully remember that other life as your friend or relative. We do remember our past lives. Most of the time we just do not believe it so we assume that deja vu is meaningless.

I wish you continuing curiosity.

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Astrea:

Time exists on the Other Side, but not the same way it does for us. When talking to the Departed, I've often found they are confused about time in our sense of it. They may forget how old someone they knew is, or when their birthdays are, and even their OWN birthdays don't seem to register with them. I try not to talk about time when I'm speaking with them, unless it is important to the Departed Person. It isn't that they don't CARE about us and keeping up with what's happening here, it's that they are having such a BIG TIME in Heaven, and they can't be bothered with something so unimportant as how the minutes and hours are passing in our lives.

Most of the time, we have Celestial Incarnations between our Earthly ones, so our Souls are able to rest and recuperate. There is no question in my mind that Souls return to relive and relearn. Reincarnation is one thing I believe in wholeheartedly. I feel God gives us many chances and many CHANGES to get things right. If, for instance, a good Granny crosses over and then a new baby is born, is there a good chance that Granny has come right back to Earth to help the rest of us on our Journeys? Of course! How do you tell? I can tell because, as you said, I am not able to contact that person on the Other Side any longer.

I've always been fascinated with the idea of a soul returning instantly to be born into another human body. I KNOW that happens! It is tricky, because when most people leave the Earth Plane, they spend about a "year on the beach." It often takes a year or even two after Death before a person can begin to communicate with Loved Ones here. In extreme cases, however, I HAVE seen this happen. If a child is being tortured by a parent, the grandparent may return as a sibling ally to that child. If a married couple is fighting all the time, one or more of their relatives might return as their children to straighten them out! They agree to return without the foreknowledge of their prior selves and/or personalities, but they are not by any means a "new soul" or a "one-timer" (someone who is only here on Earth once).

As for a ghost getting restless after haunting the same place for a long time, that's what exorcists are for. Depending on how long the spirit has been attached to a certain area, freeing earthbound entities can be tough. The longer a spirit is earthbound, the harder it tends to be to dispatch it to Heaven. (This is an entirely separate issue from souls returning, however.)

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.