Working With Your Ancestors

**graphic by Lyastri**

As Samhain approaches quickly, and the veil is getting thinner, many of us are curious about working with our ancestors that have crossed before us. I have been receiving a lot of messages from you telling me of visits from your loved ones, and many of you are seeking that connection.

As a medium and intuitive, this is something I've worked with my entire life, unbeknownst to me when I was younger that everyone didn't see them. With the veils thin right now, communication for them is much easier. However, many of you looking for signs, may be surprised to realize that you are just not noticing those messages being sent.

Often times on tv we will see the apparition making an appearance in a bedroom as the person lays in their bed and listens to the message being given. Other times you will see yet again an apparition skirting quickly down a hallway just out of our sight. Now for some of you, you may see apparitions of your ancestors. I have only seen my Grandfather and my Grandmother once, clear as a bell like this. When I did, an amazing calm sensation came over me and I was just mesmerized. It's as if the world stopped in that moment. However, after working with spirits almost my entire life, this is not typical. They tend to put through signs that are more subtle.

As you go through these days leading up to Samhain pay attention to your surroundings and what is happening in your life. Is their a symbol or phrase that keeps coming up over and over? A movie or song that you can't seem to get out of your mind? Do you have an urge to drive somewhere or do something that is out of the norm for you? As I've told some of you before, I often will see a deer crossing my path as a sign that my Grandfather is around.

Almost all of you with me are sensitive, but you will find your strengths lie in different areas. This will dictate how you see/hear spirits the most. For some of you, you have been blessed with the gift of sight. For those of you who are, you may find that you do see apparitions more readily then the rest of us. That is not my main gift so the majority of the time I will see them in my minds eye, either through meditation, or when they have an important message to pass along. Others of you may be blessed with hearing. You may be able to hear the spirits quite clearly. While I have experienced this a couple times too, the majority of the time, I can hear them in my head.

So let's move on to the empaths. You are likely having a lot of emotions that are not yours this time of year. Have you noticed it happening when no one is around? It's quite possible that a spirit is trying to communicate with you. This is what I feel the strongest. I will be doing something and all of a sudden be hit with an emotion that is out of place. Since working with my gift, this emotion is now coupled with sights, sounds and smells for me. However for those of you just starting out and working with your gifts you may only have one sense and need to piece together the rest.

It's an amazing time of the year, and I want to stress to you, that you need not fear when working with your ancestors. They wish the best for you and want to help you on your path. You may wish to say a blessing for them, or leave out offerings. Light a candle and ask them to guide you to the answers you seek on your path. We have an amazing opportunity to work with those who have crossed before us and the lines of communication are easier then ever. Use the oil that I gave you above and anoint a little bit on your wrists and your third eye, then do a brief meditation to ask them to communicate with you.

There are so many different ways to approach working with your ancestors. Use this time to look into your past and learn about them. Ask family members to tell you stories. Leave flowers as offerings on the graves of those who have crossed. I personally love using ancestry.com as it has helped me huge in discovering my roots.

Above all though, take care of you! Make sure you are grounding and centering frequently during the next few weeks. You may want to smudge yourself and your home frequently just to make sure the energy stays clean and for your greater good. Drink lots of water and make sure that you are maintaining your health. Take frequent walks if the weather allows to clear your mind and allow yourself to listen for messages.

Enjoy!

Much Love and Many Blessings,

Jasmeine Moonsong

Paranormal Activity

With Samhain quickly approaching we've been talking a lot about energy work over the past few weeks. It's one of my passions as part of my witchy path has been to work on mastering it and every time I learn something new I just love it.

Most of you working with me are either empaths and have intuitive gifts so you will find that you are adept at working with energy. So I have a kind of neat exercise for you to work with that goes along pretty well with our countdown.

How many of you love ghost hunting shows like Ghost Hunters, Paranormal State, I'm quite sure there's more out there I'm just not sure all of the names.  You don't have to agree with everything going on in them just the ghost hunting portion of it. For as long as I can remember I have been involved in psychic/paranormal energy work. The stories I could tell you!  However one of my favorite activities is sensing the energy of a place. Did you know that you can do it via distance as well? I can watch an episode of Ghost Hunters and I would say sense things with about 90% accuracy. Sometimes I just get nothing lol It happens. I use to write down my initial feelings of things and then compare them against their findings. Something for you to try out.

I've also done some work with this involving Unsolved Mysteries. I was actually interested in working with the police for awhile but I'm not sure if I can handle the energy? I had issues with it when I was younger but it definitely interests me. Something else for you to look at if you are feeling adventurous and wanting to experiment with psychic gifts.

Just make sure that you realize that the veil is thinner right now so your gifts will be heightened. Do it for short periods of time, no more than a half hour. Don't go doing any marathons Make sure you ground and center when you are done always. You don't want to carry any residual energy to give you funky dreams at night. Have fun with it!

I always love watching ghost stories around Halloween. Well all year really, it's one of my passions.
Have fun!

Much Love and Many Blessings,

Jasmeine Moonsong

The Energy That Resides In Between

The other day I ran an article called the Magickal Space In Between. If you missed it, I'm going to repost it at the bottom of this article. I had a few of you write in and ask me for more information on it. Today I'm going to share a method that some of you may be able to experience this with, and give you some extra examples.

Almost all of you, if not all of you, are gifted sensitives and empaths. Some of you can sense energy easily already, some of you are still in the beginning stages, wherever you are in it, please don't worry if you can't get this exercise. It's something that comes with time and just knowing your body and your senses.

If you go out in the forest and you find a grove of trees in a circle, have you ever noticed that the energy feels different? Did you ever notice that you will immediately gravitate toward the center of that circle? Why is that?

Everything in the world has energy and gives off energy. So if you envision a tree, it will put off energy in all directions, (try to picture the tree having an aura like us as it does pretty much) Now envision what would happen if you had a group of trees in a circle. Not only would the trees energy go to the tree next to it but all the energy will also go forward, collecting where? In the center Everyone going aha? :))))

If you want to heal someone and you have a group of people what is the best way to do it? Stand in a circle holding hands so that the energy goes from person to person and have the person you wish to heal go in the center of the circle. In between.

If you are working with magick and want to create a space of in between take something that corresponds and make a circle out of it. Let's go back to our oak tree example. Oak trees are excellent for strength, wisdom, and protection as well as channeling the Great Goddess. If you are working with magick to do with that see if you can't find a group of trees. If not, make a circle of twigs and leaves from an oak tree.

Want to channel the moon? Place lots of bowls or cups of water in a circle around you on the night of the full moon.

Can you see where I'm going with this?

The possibilities are endless. Always try to work out something where you are in that in-between place. Does that make sense? Please note it doesn't always have to be a circle. The crossroads is an example that is not circular. It's where the roads intersect. An intersection is another example of how energy would collect that would be powerful.



Here's another example :)))



Here's another example :)))



Can you think of other examples of magickal circles or places in between? :))))

I hope that helps!!

Much Love and Many Blessings,

Jasmeine Moonsong

"Look at that which is unknown not as something to be feared,

but as a place where opportunity may exist." 

 - Jasmeine Moonsong

That Magickal Space In Between

Did you know that the most magickal place to work with energy is in the space in between? How many of you just read that sentence three times? :))) Let me explain. How many of you have noticed that some spells call for you to be in some interesting places such as crossroads, doorways, etc? Almost all spells ask for you to make Sacred Space by casting a circle. Have you ever wondered why? Yes, a sacred circle will help protect you, and doors and crossroads are symbolic but did you also know that a space called in-between is the most energy charged place to work with magick? Let's look at the Sacred Directions. Sacred Directions are points at which we interface with the Universe. There are seven directions: above, below, in-between, North, East, South and West. Of these directions in-between is the most magickal.  So when creating Sacred Space, you call upon the elements in each of the directions, but you are actually standing in-between, the most magickal place to work during ritual. This is part of the reason why casting Sacred Space can really improve your energy, spell and ritual work. Here's where things get interesting. We live in the Material Realm, as we are in-between. This is the most magickal of the realms as we can turn thought into things. The first time Raven Grimassi talked about this with me it made me catch my breath. He told me about working with a Fae I believe it was, and how Raven thought at the time, much like I did, and I'm sure that most of you do, that the most magickal realm would be that realm where the elementals, fae, and other creatures of magick reside; or perhaps the other side, where our loved ones go to wait for us. Raven said that the Fae he was with told him that we are lucky in this Realm for our thoughts ultimately lead to things. In other words when we work to manifest something it happens. So, let's take a simple example. I think about making a perfect candle. I learn how to make one, add the aroma I wish, and place it in my home. I can now walk by that candle 100 times over the next week and look upon it and smell it. We are the only realm that can do that. All the other realms can create things quicker yes, but they only have those items as long as they are in their thoughts. So that same Fae that Raven was talking to could think about a candle and have it appear instantly, however the moment he went to another room to do something the candle would disappear as it is no longer in his thoughts. This is why the Law of Attraction is so powerful for us here. We literally can take anything we think about and make it happen, but it will stay with us. I know these principles may be a little advanced, but I tried to simplify them as best I could.  The main thing I want you to understand is that you live in the Realm that everything is possible. The mind is amazingly powerful. Think of the ability to create on different Realms for likely you've envisioned it's like that on the other side. Realize you have that ability here, yes it may take longer, but it lasts longer as well. The other thing I wanted you to take from this is that the most magickal place for your workings is any place that is in-between. :)))) Not only are you standing in the Realm of in-between, but you can also position yourself in another in-between place to ramp up the energy. So cast that circle, go out to some crossroads in the woods, or heck even a doorway will work lol  Realize how much power you have when you work with energy. Much Love and Many Blessings, Jasmeine Moonsong

By Working With The Energy Of The Past, You Can Tap Into The Energy Of The Past

Merry Meet. :)) Today I want to introduce a concept to you that I'm not sure if I've worked with you on before. I was taught it a few years ago and I thought it was really amazing.  Everything in the world consists of energy. This we've gone over a lot. That energy is in absolutely everything that surrounds us and everything that we do.

So it would stand to reason then that if you are tapping into an Oak Tree that is well over 100 years old, or even a white one that can get up to be around 300, that Oak Tree will not only have the energy footprint of itself, but it will also contain a bit of energy from you and anyone else who has spent time with that tree. There is an Oak Tree near my house that I visit when I can that I'm quite sure will hold my imprint for some time.

So let's take this one step further. Activities have energy as well. So take something like spinning. When I spin I have the potential to tap into the energy of other people who have done spinning in their lifetime. Neat huh? Ok ready to take it further?

When you use motions in your spells such as a manifestation triangle, you add your energy to that action and if you are working with the energy of it directly you have the potential to pick up and tap into the energy of others who have used this motion as well. That's the simplest explanation.

So during this month a huge focus is on our ancestors and honoring them. Find things that you can do that are similar to what your ancestors would have done. Things like spinning, making home made bread, any activity that you can think of that they use to love tap into that by investing some time in it yourself.  It will help you to mingle your energy with theirs even if they are on the other side.

Much Love and Many Blessings,

Jasmeine Moonsong

Historic Ghost Tour

Three Years ago now my town recently began something that I think is just wonderful and I wanted to pass it along to all of you, Ghost Tours. :))) This isn't your typical fright fest event, it's an event that's educational and raises money to restore the oldest cemetery in our town and we go every year because we absolutely love it. :))



In the center of my town is the Old Burying Ground. My first visit to it was when I was little with my Girl Scout trip and that trip really spurred my love of old cemeteries and their historical value. The Old Burying Ground in my town was established in the early 1600's and there's still 1100 graves intact on the grounds. You can go into it any time you like but you must get the key to the old iron gates from the library. They've done this to help prevent vandalism on the grounds as some of the graves are incredibly old.



Our public library teamed up with our historical society for this event along with a bunch of volunteers. What they do is have several people dress up as the people who are buried within the cemetery. They stand in front of their graves as the tour progresses and tell us the story of who is buried there and what their life was like. They really do an amazing job and I make it a point each year to go. The proceeds from the event go to maintain the cemetery and it's old gravestones.



As someone who loves visiting graveyards to view the old stones and the art on them I have lost track of how many I have found that are just in shambles. The event that we do in this town is sold out each year and generates a lot of revenue through ticket sales and donations as well as helps to recruit people to donate their time to help with the stones. Check on your cemetery in your town and see what shape it's in. It may be something you want to suggest for your town. It's important to preserve our history.

This year there were tons of people taking pictures of these two morning doves that were waiting on a stone right as we walked in. I loved watching people getting all excited and noticing this beautiful sign.

A lot of us also saw a well timed meteor that night! We saw it go streaking in the night sky behind one of my favorite "ghosts."

Have an amazingly magickal day!

Much Love and Many Blessings,

Jasmeine Moonsong