I was driving in my car on the morning of May 3 getting ready to do some readings at a Spiritual Arts Fair at The Hudson Valley Mall when I felt my deceased mom’s energy come in. It was so strong and palpable and with it a string of childhood memories came into my head as the loving presence of mom drew ever nearer. I don’t often feel my mom’s presence and was curious why she was with me until it dawned that that day was her birthday. The charged feeling of the Scorpio full moon added to the flavor and it carried into today May 4 which was the anniversary of my brother’s death.
“Birds of a feather” or so they say and when 2 souls are super-connected there often is an overlap of the transition dates which I get to do all over again in the fall when my brother’s birthday and mother’s passing fall 2 days apart. It has often been said by the Spirits, as they come through during readings, that births and deaths are really one in the same, for a death from this world is a birth back into the world of Spirit. If you are a sensitive type and you have been in a room to witness a dignified passing, you may have noticed the feeling in that room is very similar to that for when a baby is born.
So is birth and death really that different?
I remember a time when I was doing a shamanic ceremony in a circle with a celebrated shaman from South America. During the height of that experience I found myself at my birth and at my death simultaneously. It was a brief but powerful feeling that would disappear if I tried to attach any conscious thought or logic to it. But there I was at both events at the same time and I realized it was the same – birth and death were one in the same. At that exact moment I could step outside myself and realize that all my personal challenges in life stemmed from the trauma of both being born, though I had not remembered that time, and my death which had not even happened yet. With the immense energy shift from that experience I could naturally release the core pain of being born, as well as the fear of dying that was attracting so many of my lifelong problems, never to return again. So, like birthing, death can be a time of celebration and like dying, being born can be the most traumatic event of your entire lifetime. Information to integrate by and to live a life that is whole and complete…
