Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:44 pm Post subject: Gifted but scared
Ever since I was small I could see things, they don't bother me what does is my ability to see stuff that is going to happen or is happening else were. Usually it's fairly being and shows me small thing but recently it's gone crazy. I 'm getting shown symbols and being told things as well as my normal seeing, or as grandmother use to say, oricalisation.
I don't know what to make of it. A friend of mine who owns a esoteric shop said I'm throbbing with power. I feel like so much is trying to get through to me at once.
I've picked up a few new spirit friends, a new angel, and goddess knows what else. I want to tell what I'm being told but I'm so scared what people will say or think. _________________ Just call me blue most people do.
frist off people can go jump in a lake. second don't be scared you should be proud to have this gift. I am clayviotant and i do see spirits and spirit animals and people's auras. you don't need to tell anyone, u can be suprized in our community u are safe here.
also ground urself and remove negative engery u are having now, burn sage and wave the smoke to ur face and say this
oh goddess,
cleanse my mind,
cleanse my body,
mote it be.
Blue I know exactly how you feel. And in all honesty people can go bugger off. They're just jealous in my opinion _________________ My pen is far mightier than thine sword for in no moments at all I will leave you barren, wanting, and incredulous before you have the chance to strike
Joined: 07 Jan 2009 Posts: 234 Location: Sactown, Cali
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject: Re: Gifted but scared
Bluemoondreams wrote:
Ever since I was small I could see things, they don't bother me what does is my ability to see stuff that is going to happen or is happening else were. Usaly it's fairly beine and shows me small thnig but reacently it's gone crazy. I 'm getting shown simbols and being told things as well as my normal seeing or as gradmother use to say oricalisation.
I don't know what to make of it, a friend of mine who owns a esoteric shop said I'm throbbing with power. I feel like so much is trying to get threw to me at once.
I've picked up a few new spirit friends a new angel and goddess knows what else. I want to tell what I'm being told but I'm so scared what epople will say or think.
Hahaha, that's funny. Your experiences as described in your post constitute a normal, day-in-the-life for me ...probably for many others on the board, as well.
"Oracle-lization," hmm, very nice word. I like your grandma already! Grandmothers are cool. They are great psychic teachers, even when they're dead (--discarnate, I should say; my grandma would not appreciate being called dead). What else has your grandma taught you? She could probably teach us all a thing or two.
Bluemoondreams, you are a psychic medium. Imalorki's and Syndica's posts above have introduced you to universal Psychic Lesson #1: People who give you grief about your psychic gifts can "go jump in a lake," and/or "bugger off."
And now I will introduce you to Psychic Lesson #2. It is a very ancient East Indian hand movement (magical hand movements like this are called mudra in Sanskrit), that you can use to express Lesson #1's sentiment: OK, first raise one hand, and turn its palm toward you. Then lower all your fingers on that hand toward the palm, leaving only the middle one extended straight up. It may help to lay your thumb across the fingernails of the other three fingers to hold them down. Once you have mastered this mudra, feel free to present it to any haters you encounter, and let them know that Elisa at the EUTM message board told you to do this. Share with us how it works out for you. It works great for me.
You are in good company here. Nothing to fear. Everything you are experiencing is normal ...er, relative to your abilities, that is (and everyone's abilities differ somewhat, like eye color and nose shape differ on each person).
Have fun!
. _________________ With Love and Gratitude, Elisa
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Grandmother likes you all already I can tell she be laughing. As for my other friends well I feel kind of relaxed here. People made me scared of what I could see. I want to tell people what I'm seeing so i can help them I can't see whats wrong with that. Grandad seems to think I am safe here too that you will all understand what I'm going threw and have been going threw since I was a child. Intrestingly though I have a two elf compaions and there is a whole story attached to how I got those two. The question now is what do I do with these vissions I'm having these messages. . . they don't mean a lot to me but I can't help but feel people need to know. _________________ Just call me blue most people do.
Joined: 07 Jan 2009 Posts: 234 Location: Sactown, Cali
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:00 pm Post subject: the Cassandra Complex, blogging
Bluemoondreams wrote:
Intrestingly though I have a two elf compaions and there is a whole story attached to how I got those two.
Have you tried blogging? It's a great way to get it all off your chest, which is cathartic. Holding it in is frustrating.
We have a Members' Personal Blogs forum, in which I invite you to open a thread! You could write about all your supernatural happenings, your messages and visions ...everything. It'll be your little neck of the woods.
With that in mind, just how did you acquire those two elf companions, anyway? [blog about it!]....
Bluemoondreams wrote:
I want to tell people what I'm seeing so i can help them I can't see whats wrong with that ....The question now is what do I do with these visions I'm having these messages. . . they don't mean a lot to me but I can't help but feel people need to know.
There's something called the "Cassandra Complex." It goes like this:
The Cassandra metaphor (variously labelled the Cassandra 'syndrome', 'complex', 'phenomenon', 'predicament', 'dilemma', or 'curse'), is a term applied in situations in which valid warnings or concerns are dismissed or disbelieved.
The term originates in Greek mythology. Cassandra was a daughter of Priam, the King of Troy. Struck by her beauty, Apollo provided her with the gift of prophecy, but when Cassandra refused Apollo's romantic advances, he placed a curse ensuring that none would believe her warnings. Cassandra was left with the knowledge of future events, but could neither alter these events nor convince others of the validity of her predictions.
What the Cassandra woman sees is something dark and painful that may not be apparent on the surface of things or that objective facts do not corroborate. She may envision a negative or unexpected outcome; or something which would be difficult to deal with; or a truth which others, especially authority figures, would not accept. In her frightened, ego-less state, the Cassandra woman may blurt out what she sees, perhaps with the unconscious hope that others might be able to make some sense of it. But to them her words sound meaningless, disconnected and blown out of all proportion.
It's an archetype that's been used heavily in literature and entertainment:
In "Help," an episode of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a young girl named Cassandra "Cassie" Newton foresees her own death despite the attempts of the show's protagonist, Buffy Summers, to prevent it. She also foresees what will happen in Buffy's final battle with one of the show's antagonists, The First, and its army.
Other notable examples are the character of River Tam from the science fiction TV series Firefly, the character Cassandra in the TV series The X-Files (an alien abductee that nobody took seriously), and the science fiction short story "Cassandra" by C. J. Cherryh.
--[source for all above citations: Wikipedia]
I would say Bruce Willis' character was a Cassandra archetype in "The 12 Monkeys," where he went back in time to warn people of an upcoming, manmade plague that would kill 5 billion people worldwide, and he was put in a mental institution for his claims.
It's enough to make a girl wanna pull her hair out:
Seeking to gain entrance into Troy, clever Odysseus (some say with the aid of Athena) ordered a large wooden horse to be built. Its insides were to be hollow so that soldiers could hide within it.
Once the statue had been built by the artist Epeius, a number of the Greek warriors, along with Odysseus, climbed inside. The rest of the Greek fleet sailed away, so as to deceive the Trojans.
One man, Sinon, was left behind. When the Trojans came to marvel at the huge creation, Sinon pretended to be angry with the Greeks, stating that they had deserted him. He assured the Trojans that the wooden horse was safe and would bring luck to the Trojans.
Only two people, Laocoon and Cassandra, spoke out against the horse, but they were ignored. The Trojans celebrated what they thought was their victory, and dragged the wooden horse into Troy.
That night, after most of Troy was asleep or in a drunken stupor, Sinon let the Greek warriors out from the horse, and they slaughtered the Trojans. Priam [Cassandra's father] was killed as he huddled by Zeus' altar. --source: The Trojan War [author not specified] Troy was destroyed, the men killed, the women taken as slaves.
It's funny now, but at one time I had actually thought about changing my name to Cassandra. lol! It was so depressing seeing things happen to people, to whom I told beforehand the things would happen. It's been cathartic for me to do readings professionally. At least I have an outlet now and I won't be consumed by the Cassandra Complex anymore.
For the big things I adopted the following policy, which I advise you adopt or else you might go nuts: I don't offer a read on any situation, for anybody, unless I'm asked to. Period. If someone asks me something like, "what's your take on this?" then I'll offer what I see/feel about it. Otherwise no matter what I see or feel I think to myself, "May his gods be with him through that. When the shit hits the fan, I am confident he will make the right choice for his life path." Then I leave it alone. Simple as that.
You have to understand that your psychic abilities, including clairvoyance, precognition and empathy, are just abilities in addition to hearing, smell, vision, etc. I refer to them as abilities and not "gifts" because everyone is born with some degree of psychic ability (or "intuitive" ability if they feel uncomfortable with the word "psychic," which I find a lot of people are --sometimes when I say that word it's like I've cursed their mothers, or something; I don't get it).
We don't always act on all our other abilities, right? For example, with your ability to "hear," say you overhear a conversation between two people (may even be about a topic that really, really interests you). But just because you can hear it, does it mean you should budinski yourself into their conversation and start adding your $.02? I would hope not.
So why do we feel so compelled to always act on our psychic ability? Could it be some degree of "ego," masquerading as "being helpful," which underlies and propels that kind of behavior: "I'm special, I'm 'gifted,' I'm 'psychic,' and what I'm seeing could help someone ...therefore I should always be heard, and people should just be all the more thankful I'm 'helping' them!" Everyone who undertakes metaphysical work of any sort has to constantly check, and double check, his or her underlying motives and ego.
We as psychics would do well to respect that a course in The School of Hard Knocks is sometimes the best "help" a person could receive, not our "messages" and visions, etc. Many people come here to the EUTM message board looking for spells to make pain from a relationship or situation "go away." But some types of pain serve as teachers, and should not be banished magically with spells, neither anesthesized medically with drugs. Some pain has a lesson to teach, and when you don't integrate that lesson into your life, you keep recreating similar circumstances for the same pain/lesson to reappear again and again ...in this lifetime and in future ones! The right question sometimes isn't "how do I make this pain go away," but rather, "what did I not learn from this pain the first time; what did I miss?" and as our psychic abilities grow, we do well to respect the importance of giving people space in their lives for that.
For example, some women keep attracting the same no-good guys into their lives --different names, but the same no good stock-character guy. Do you think interjecting your visions and messages are going to help those women? I speak from experience: no. In fact if anything, they'll tell you to bud out of their business, "stop judging my man," etc. Let people come to you first, then tell them what you see. And be prepared in your mind that even then, they still won't listen to you. It'll make you wanna pull your hair out, so learn to just let it go.
Orderly outlets for your visions and messages might include:
* Blogging, as I mentioned above
This is a really cathartic outlet for all the visions and symbols and spirit
beings who have bombarded your consciousness of late (I know how you
feel, believe me; happened the same way with me). Maybe people will
read it, maybe they won't; who cares! It's great just getting it all out.
* Doing oracle readings for fun at parties and get-togethers
This is a fun, no-stress way to share your messages. There are a
number of fun card decks to choose from for this: fancy tarot decks,
"angel" decks, "animal spirit guide" decks, etc. Choose a deck or
theme that fits the particular occasion. For example for a bachelorette
party you could offer guests "What's Ahead in Your Love Life?" readings,
or something.
* Doing professional readings
Create a website to advertise, etc. (remember, let them come
to you) This is fulfilling because people will come to you a year
later and say, "thanks for helping me through that period when I couldn't
decide what I wanted to do." It's counseling actually. It makes you feel
like all that you go through because of your abilities was worth it.
* Participating in a development circle near you
This is a good way to share and practice your abilities with others.
Inquire at your local metaphysical store for where circles near you are.
* Journal writing - my favorite choice!
Everybody who regularly experiences psychic phenomena should
be documenting it all in a journal, especially those with precognitive
ability like you. That way when things come to pass you could see
patterns, timeline correlations (like, what is the average turn-around
time for your visions? etc). Also, for those things too private to post in
a blog, you can write in your journal. Finally, if you choose to practice
witchcraft, your journal could eventually turn into your Book of Shadows,
a resource to record what you do, how you do it, when, and why.
Perhaps you could think of others.
This was all just food for thought ...do what you like with your visions. I am sure your gods will be with you through whatever you do, and that you will make the right choice for your life path. But remember, if you don't get over urges to volunteer unsolicited visions/messages, you may end up like this guy: hehehe
_________________ With Love and Gratitude, Elisa
Last edited by Elisa on Mon Nov 16, 2009 10:05 am; edited 23 times in total
thanks for the advice I've started to write it out it does feel better. I was an already practising witch so I've started to add anything I see to my book too. I'm going to start bloggin it here too just incase it means somethnig to others. I've started to draw the syboles and people I see and since you asked abotu my elf compaions I'll try and settle down to write about them. _________________ Just call me blue most people do.
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