Visions

A Gift from the Goddess

My family has a very unusual and beautiful gift: the gift of true sight. It runs only in the female line and is passed on from mother to daughter. My mother had it and my grandmother before her. My sister had it too, but she said she lost it when she didn't honour the Goddess. For years I was searching for answers to where exactly this gift came from, with not much success -- until recently the Goddess revealed to me that my family is descended from an ancient Goddess line.

The gift of true sight is not an easy gift to have, because when not fully understood or appreciated it turns negative and shows only frightening and negative events. When the gifts of the Goddess are rejected because of religious conditioning, they become tainted and manifest in a negative way. That happened to my grandmother, a kind-hearted, generous woman, who blindly followed Catholic faith yet became earth-bound after her death (read more about earth-bound spirits on my Middle World Page) I had to sort her out shamanically after her death. It wasn't easy but she is at peace now.

Both my grandmother and my mother predicted my sister's car accident on the day that it happened. My grandmother even mentioned my sister breaking her neck -- and she did break two cervical vertebrae and one thoracic vertebra. My mother had told my sister not to drive with that friend because she "didn't want to have a cripple in her family". My sister went anyway, not heeding my mother's warning and had a serious car accident. Fortunately her spine could be mended and she has no disability now.

As far as I know my grandmother never predicted anything positive with her gift, only negative events. Her predictions usually began by "you mark my words..." or "you'll see the day when..." followed by a negative forecast which unfortunately always came true.

Handling the Visions

At first I too had great problems understanding and handling my gift, which at times seemed like a curse, for I always knew when somebody was going to die or when something bad was about to happen. However, that premonition got me out of harm's way on several occasions. As I started to work with the Goddess, my gift expanded and I began to see the true beauty of it. I have always had very colourful and magickal dreams. Since working with the Goddess these dreams have become even more intense. Most of my dreams are mystical, and some are what I call "great dreams". These come from a higher source and show me things I couldn't possibly know. Sometimes the Goddess speaks to me in my dreams. I often dream true and see future events. When I need guidance I pray to the Goddess and she will usually answer in a dream within a night or two.

The gift of sight works by knowing, which is direct knowledge coming from the Divine, as well as by "seeing" (having visions). My visions started in puberty and have been with me ever since. In my teenage years I was often very frightened by them as I seemed to have no control over the scary things that showed up in my home uninvited. As I faced my fears and released religious conditioning I could handle them better. Over the years my visions matured and now they are a great source of inspiration and knowledge to me. I am no longer afraid but treasure them.

Ways of Receiving Visions

The way I receive visions differs. Some happen spontaneously, any time of the day or night, when I am relaxed. When I need guidance I pray for a vision and scry (look into a pool of water, etc). Other visions come as prophetic dreams. Some of my visions happened when I was working with crystals, or when deep in meditation. Others occurred when working with magickal power plants or sacred medicine plants. But much as I love the sacred plants I am not dependent on them nor on any other thing to obtain a vision. My visions arise from within me, from the very core of my being. For example, once I had a powerful vision when I was at Stonehenge and gazed at the stones in pouring rain. Another time I had a vision when I slowed my breath and listened to the sound of the sacred drum. Another time I was lying in the grass looking at the clouds drift by and unexpectedly received a vision. Being in nature seems to help to trigger visions, as do meditation, breath work, relaxation exercises or beating my shaman's drum.

A Calling

The Goddess didn't give me this gift without reason. To honour Her and the gift bestowed, I believe it has to be put in service of the light and of the Goddess, the Great Mother of All. We are living in dire times and humanity is at the crossroads. In these times of spiritual darkness I would like to light a small torch of wisdom and therefore I have decided to share some of my visions with you, especially some of my greater visions, as I call the ones that seem to pertain to the future of the planet and of mankind.
(Please also read my Earth Matters page on that topic!).

As you can probably guess, not all of these visions are pleasant. You might call some of them scary, but they aren't negative, they always show solutions on how to avoid disaster. I believe the Goddess and also the spirits of the sacred plants are calling us all to wake up from our complacency and apathy and to preserve our planet and all life on it.

My visions are very private to me. The only reason I am sharing them now is because they all carry very strong messages for mankind to wake up and change our ways before it is too late. I believe we can still avert disaster, if we wake up now and all work together for a future of peace and prosperity, of living in harmony with nature, in a harmonious way, without exploiting our resources and polluting the planet. In my visions the spirits of the plants speak to me and tell me to pass the message on to as many people as possible. We are being called by the Higher Powers to stand up for what is beautiful and good.

Goddess Blessings