Bridging worlds: communicating with your ancestors

Last week I discovered that my great-grandmother (who I am named after) has a street named after her in Adelaide.

So of course I had to track down Amanda Street!

The family owned a farm not far from the CBD (10km) back in the day. I learnt from my auntie that at one stage they were the largest supplier of eggs to the farmers markets.

My great uncle Roy named the street after his darling mama when he subdivided the farm in his later years (how bloody sweet is that).

I was surprised by how emotional I was walking the lands they once lived and worked on.

Imagining my mama spending time there growing up.

For a moment, the veil between worlds felt thinner.

That's Amanda in the middle of the photo (with glasses on). That's my grandma Rita on the left.

These ancestors are evermore present in my life since joining the Spiritualist Church (that shows communication with spirits is possible and how they can provide guidance, comfort, and healing to us in our lives).

My great-grandmama and my grandma regularly come through with messages of support for me.

I can't describe what comfort it brings to know I am not alone.

You are not alone either.

Your ancestors are with you too - loving, supporting, guiding and protecting you.

And they are always trying to communicate with you.

I shared on the podcast recently the ways in which you can more intentionally start to receive messages from them.

I learnt from the book 'Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe' by Laura Lynne Jackson that you can co-create a shared language with your loved ones on the other side.

Connecting with your ancestors and loved ones can be as simple as:

Choose something symbolic to them, or that held meaning between the two of you, or simply something that feels right - it could be an animal, song, image, anything!
Ask them to send it to you
Pay attention (and be patient - it may not happen instantly or in the way you expect)
Trust it’s a sign when you see it!

My mum and I chose to ask my grandma to send us each a blue butterfly - because mum has gorgeous memories of her mama giving her butterfly kisses as a girl.

Well, I’ve seen multiple! Cropping up not in real life, but in Canva graphics (a blue butterfly appeared ‘randomly’ after I searched for an animated balloon), a poster (I noticed few steps from church one Sunday), a comments thread on Facebook in a conversation I was a part of…. and mum had one on a sticker on a vehicle she parked next to you in a carpark.

All these special little winks from grandma to let us know she heard us and is close by.

If you want to listen to my whole story, tune into Eps #75 - Bridging worlds: communicating with your ancestors' on the podcast .

Love Mandie x

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