Intuitive Genealogy Part 3
The relationship changes when they heal.
I never knew I could love someone so much that I’d never met in this lifetime.
That’s how I’ve felt about many of my ancestors who have shown up to guide and support me during my lifetime, but particularly since 2012. It’s been interesting to me that the energy they appear with shifts the more I heal and the more they heal. When you pay attention, you’ll also notice the relationship you have with an ancestor will also change.
Today marks the 79th anniversary of the death of my cousin, James Privoznik, who was Killed In Action during the Battle of the Bulge on 11 January 1945, while fighting with the 90th Division near Bras, Belgium. James is an ancestor who appeared to love me, guide, me, support me, and ask me to help heal him before helping him cross over into the light.
2024 is the year to deepen your ancestral connections. If you missed reading Intuitive Genealogy Part 1, be sure to check it out. You can find Intuitive Genealogy Part 2 here.
In 2012 James knew I was open to being guided and knew I had a mission in military research, writing, and teaching to fulfill. He also knew he needed support in completing things from his past lives so he could cross over to wherever he was to go next. Over the course of Labor Day weekend in 2012 four people contacted me about James’ life and military service. If that wasn’t a sign to start researching his service, I’m not sure what was and so I began. If you’d like to read James’ story, you can find it in my book Stories of the Lost.
What if……..?
What if an ancestor shows up because they have unfinished business and you are the only person who can help them. What if they lead others to you because you are all connected and have unfinished business or karma to clear? What if all the healing that must take place pushes (or forces) you to travel?
My Story
James appeared to help me move deeper into the military research, writing, and teaching. He also helped facilitate the meeting of people in Europe with whom I had past lives and also unfinished business. Some of those people were also necessary to meet because they would contribute to the work I was doing. So I followed the energy, made the connections, wrote the books, and then my parents offered to take me to Europe.
Three time they offered and I only accepted the final time because James and the universe screamed YES!!! IT’S TIME TO GO!
Before I could make that trip, I had a lot to learn and many books to write and publish. Once this was done, anything was possible. In April 2015, my parents took me to Europe for three weeks, six countries, to see places I’d researched and to walk where a couple of my ancestors had fought in World War I and World War II, and where some had died.
On that trip I had many “interesting” and sometimes “scary freaky” spiritual experiences. I also had my first conscious experience of meeting people I knew in past lives - and knew I knew them. James was there through it all.
The end of the trip would take us to the ABMC Cemetery in Luxembourg where James was buried. There I’d made arrangements to fly his final burial flag and visit his grave. The following day I planned to meet a Luxembourg couple who honored the 90th Division and would take us where James had died.
That trip changed my life. Not only did James travel with me the entire three weeks, but I also got to meet several friends I’d made on Facebook who did military research or adopted graves. I also helped James heal some old wounds and take care of some business as we moved through certain places. I was very conscious of the fact that at times he was seeing things through my eyes. Or we had rearranged our schedule after the first couple of days on the trip and ended up somewhere we weren’t supposed to be…..Reims, France. I felt so strongly we were there for James. The 90th moved through that area and the whole experience of being there was just strange by all accounts. It was at that point I realized that by changing our plans, we were then following the 90th Division’s path through Europe to the point James was killed.
Our ancestors can do amazing things.
That trip also set me up to travel back to Europe in October where I arranged to teach four WWII research classes and travel for three weeks. James was with me for that trip as well. He also helped arrange a meeting between me and a Dutch man named Johan who lived near Amsterdam.
Johan and I became fast friends and realized we had been together in many past lives. It seemed we were to take a chance in this one - even across the ocean. James made sure this in person meeting took place and Johan flew to Chicago to meet me on 11 January 2016 - the anniversary of James’ death. After that James backed off a little and wasn’t in my life as often but I felt him lingering nearby in case I needed him.
Fast forward to 2019 and James and I had been through a lot together. He had completed what he needed in order to move on and he had completed his mission to help me. All along the way our relationship and energies shifted. When I was fully immersed in being a caregiver for Johan who was at that time my husband, James was ready to move on. He asked me to help him go into the light and be released from me. I honored that request.
Every once in a while since then I’ll sense James’ energy but he never stays around long. He has other things to do. He is one of my favorite ancestors because we went through so much together. I’m actually writing a book about some of our adventures. My love for James runs so deep. I’m so grateful for his presence in my life. He taught me so much.
Have your ancestors changed the more you have worked with them? What has that been like?