Ghost Cat

This is a true story about Ladybug the cat.  Well, she was a cat.  Now she is here as the spirit of her old self.  She’s a ghost cat.  

Ladybug’s owner is an 88-year old frisky, active lady, named Bunny, who lived in Florida for a long time.  But a few years ago she decided to move north to stay with her daughter, Liz, in Canada, and of course she brought Ladybug with her.  Bunny and Ladybug had been together for 18 years, through thick and thin, and they were pretty close.  Dear Ladybug passed away this summer, and everybody was very sad.  But she has come back for a visit!

Before I continue...... I should mention that I drove to the town where Bunny and Liz now live, a couple weeks before these interesting events with Ladybug transpired.  Liz and I were planning to do prayers and healing rituals.  She and I may be the only two people in the country with the powerful Indra rudraksha malas (necklaces)--tools capable of making some positive changes in the environment.  So we felt we should join forces for the betterment of humankind.  And, true to our hopes and wishes, many of us here have seen some important, positive changes.  But we also saw some funny and unexpected things, too, and this story is about one of them.

On Tuesday December 5, Bunny went out for groceries, leaving her room in its usual pristine condition.  Her daughter, Liz, was home, and so she took that opportunity to burn some sage and incense, and freshen the house.  She went through all the rooms in her home, including Bunny's, and everything was in perfect order.

When Bunny came back home, she went to her room to discover a huge tangle of fresh white toilet paper in the middle of her bedroom floor!  The trail lead round the corner, through the small alcove, into her private bathroom, over the toilet seat, and up to the roll of paper on the wall.  She immediately called her daughter to come and see this spectacle, and when Liz arrived, the roll of paper was still spinning and unraveling paper everywhere. 

They stood transfixed!  No words came.  Just total astonishment at the view before them, which was still in progress.  Both Liz and Bunny instantly had the strongest feeling it was their cat, who had come back to visit, and to make her presence known.  Ladybug was not fond of doing this sort of attention-getting, crazy thing in her later years.  But then again, she was an old cat when she left, and now in her new astral body, she is light and frisky, just like her old self.  The inner-kitten in her wanted to have some fun. 

Ladybug was in her element, but she didn't stop there!  Among Bunny's groceries was a packet of English biscuits.  After their surprise with Ladybug and the T.P. incident, Bunny sat down with a pot of tea and looked for her biscuits (Bunny is from England, and she likes tea and biscuits in the afternoon).  They were nowhere to be found, but everyone remembered seeing them come into the house in her bags.  Bunny and Liz scoured the place high and low to find nothing.   

Liz even went down to the basement to see if they might have gotten packed up with the empty grocery bags.  Nothing!  But while she was down there, rummaging through corners, out of nowhere she heard a crash from upstairs.  She raced up the stairs to see a perfect box of English biscuits sitting nicely in the middle of the kitchen floor.

Bunny came rushing in, too.  They looked at one another and realized that Ladybug had pulled the box over to her side of the veil, and then sent it back again.  Mmmmm….. English cookies make a very acceptable treat for the ghost cat!

Now this story may sound strange to some, but when you think about the prayer work done in that home just a couple weeks beforehand, it does not seem so odd.  Many years ago when I was studying sacred texts with my teacher, she told us that it takes two or more people to open a portal to the other side.  One person cannot do it alone.  There are many types of portals, and it is not wise to try creating one if you don't know what you are doing because you could inadvertently let in undesirable things. 

Liz and I had no intention of opening a portal; we were simply doing our prayers and sacred work in innocence, and with good intentions.  But considering we wore our two holy Indra malas, in the same place at the same time, it is conceivable that we did indeed, open a beneficial door to the other side.

Astrologers know that certain planetary events precipitate deaths, births, and other important events.  This happens because solstices, equinoxes, planetary stations, and eclipses, have the power to open portals.  When you get two or three planetary events occurring at the same time, it can allow someone to die from this body and pass on to the next level of existence.  When my Mother passed away last year, we were right on the Spring Equinox, and Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn were all stationing within days.  Without these celestial events, the doors are all closed. 

So, why now?  Why did Ladybug not identify herself sooner?  Perhaps because the prayers and energy-healing work done by my friend and myself, augmented by our powerful rudraksha malas, opened a great portal to us all.  Perhaps. 

We may not know for sure, but there is reason to think that something has changed.  My experience with spirit cats is that they do not stay around for long—maybe a year or so-- just long enough to bring comfort to their owners.  And because they remember the people they have loved, they often come back for a visit for their own benefit.  Sometimes they just like to play and sometimes they come to reassure us that they are still with us and love us.  I also lost a cat this year and she came to me in dreamsmpace about a month after she passed.  It was a great comfort to see her and ‘talk’ with her and it provided closure.

I dedicate this little story to all those who have lost someone—a mother, a father, a friend, or a beloved pet.