oooooh spooky!

Ghosts is reaaaal! This week's story is all about paying attention and connecting those dots..

"To give you some background, I am 25 and have grown up in a household that embraces the spiritual realm or the thought that death is in fact not real and that if we want to talk to someone who is "dead" then we should just start talking and they will find a way to respond. My mom is super in-tune with herself and regularly has dreams from "beyond the grave" which she isn't too fond of but has learned to accept and somewhat control. My grandmother (bless her beautiful soul) has lost a lot of people in very tragic ways; one of the more significant losses she experienced was at the age of 18 when she lost her best friend and sister in a car accident.

Once it became clear that my mom had abilities they started exploring the world after death. This led them to Sylvia Browne. (Side note: my grandmother and her sister were so close and looked like twins. They would switch classes during school and prank their teachers and friends. She is 72 now and still hasn't gotten over the loss of her sister.  My grandma started calling me "Sis" when I was really little - long before seeing Sylvia Brown) and now everyone in my family calls me "Sis". She and I have always just had this way of knowing what the other is thinking while also getting on each other's nerves at times... just like sisters.) They got really into Sylvia’s books and TV show, so much so that they bought plane tickets and flew out to have a live reading done. During this reading Sylvia told my Mother that she was going to have a 4th child (my father had a vasectomy by this point) and that my Mother's daughter (me) was my Grandmother's sister!  About 8-10 years later,  my parents got a divorce after my mom had an affair and got pregnant with my youngest brother, Phoenix, (her 4th child). Confirming the first prediction from Sylvia. Flash forward to November 2020, my mom's friend who is a psychic medium asked to do a reading for my grandmother, my mom, and myself. We made a trip down to her house and heard what she had to say. My mom's cousin (and best friend) who had tragically died in a car accident when I was a baby was coming through. She wanted me to know that she was the reason why I was so obsessed with horses during my childhood. She had been watching out for me and my interests. My mom's cousin then showed the medium two images. The first image was a horse with a Crescent moon on her forehead. I couldn't stop smiling but was also holding back tears. My horse that I've had since I was 6 or 7 is named Beauty and she has a Crescent moon on her forehead. It has always felt like I've had a special connection with her and known exactly what she's thinking. I'm the only one who can catch and lead her. To everyone else she is dangerous and unpredictable but to me she is easy and calm. The second image was of a giraffe. When I was 20 I got an outline of a giraffe tattooed on my back. It's not big and is out of sight so my mother and grandmother had no idea that I had it and there is no way that this medium had seen it before saying anything. This just confirmed to me that everything she was saying was in fact true. She wanted me to know that this connection that I have to her and my grandmother's sister is real.

To tie this whole story together, my grandmother's sister's name was Jo Anne. After she died, my Grandmother's brother had a daughter and named her Jo Anne after his late sister. Jo Anne and my mother were best friends (basically sisters). Both Jo Anne's tragically died in car accidents. Both Jo Anne's have stuck around to make sure their best friends are okay and taken care of in some way shape or form."