SHADOWS

A couple of months ago, my son told me he needed glasses. When I asked him why, he explained that he felt this way because when he was in our basement alone he’s been seeing shadows. He said he knows that he’s down there playing by himself, but then he’ll see a shadow walk by in front on the door. Thinking it’s another family member that must have come downstairs, he goes out into the hallway to see who it is and no one is there. Hence, he feels he needs glasses because he’s seeing things that aren’t there. Not wanting to say anything to scare him without looking into it more, I told him that we would talk about it later. The whole exchange was very powerful for me. If he had said something like this before I had started my own spiritual awakening, I would have just told him that his mind was playing tricks on him, which would have reinforced the idea that something was indeed wrong with him. However, my intuition was telling me that there was something more to this. I wasn’t able to communicate directly to spirit myself at this time yet and I had a couple more weeks before my next medium session, so I said my clearing prayer and did some smudging throughout our entire house in case the spirits he was seeing were negative. During my next medium session, I made sure to ask her about my son and what he was experiencing in the basement. Not surprisingly, she confirmed that my son was indeed seeing spirits. More specifically, he was seeing my maternal grandfather most of the time. He has been around our house more to show us support and also to protect us, especially our kids, from a nonfamilial spirit that resides in our basement. The medium didn’t feel that this spirit had any evil or negative intent, which is why she wasn’t cast out with my clearing prayer, the spirit was attached to the land and our home and her goal was to keep the land and home both protected. My grandfather wasn’t sure if she would perceive something that my kids would do downstairs as an act of harming the house or land, so whenever they were alone down there, he would be present to keep them safe. Sometimes, my son would be seeing his shadow and a couple of times, I believe that he saw her shadow as well. Per a suggestion from my medium, I performed a little ritual in my basement to encourage the spirit to move on. It wasn’t anything complicated; I’m hesitant to even call it a ritual. I simply recited the clearing prayer again, addressed the spirit directly to tell her that we owned this land and house as our home and had absolutely no intentions of harming either. I told her that she was welcome to stay as long as she did not cause any harm or discord to my home or family, but that if she was doing so solely to protect it from us, she wouldn’t need to stay as we loved it and would never do anything to harm it. I thanked her for keeping it safe for us. I then told her I was going to diffuse some lavender and rosemary essential oils in the basement to assist the whole area in cleansing and purification. From what I gathered from my maternal grandparents; she happily left our house that day. She was grateful to be free from the burden of protecting the house and land and for the chance to move on. I am very grateful that I was able to could help her move on and get the freedom she deserves. My point of this blog though is, I wonder how many times we as adults dismiss our children’s very real and valid concerns. By doing so, how are we changing them and the trajectory of their lives? All that I can say for sure is that I am extremely grateful that I have opened myself up to believe in the unseen. This way, I was able to tell my son that his eyes are working perfectly. I didn’t feel the need to tell him about the female spirit as he hadn’t been able to differentiate between the shadows. I did tell him that he was just receiving visits from my grandfather and it was his shadow that he was seeing. My son broke into the biggest grin and said, “Mommy, I’m not scared of the basement anymore.” I’m not sure what long-term impact this exchange will have on him or our relationship, but my intuition says it will be felt for many years to come. Next time your child tells you something that seems outrageous, please set aside your beliefs and fears to at least look into it a little further. Once you dig deeper, you may find something that you never expected. You are just as likely to find that their imagination did create it. Even at that point, I feel like there’s still something happening deep down with them that could provide a great opportunity for you to have a meaningful discussion that will help strengthen your relationship.

Love,

Yara Rose