The Panther Pounces, The Cobra Strikes
After receiving my Medicine name of ‘Death Dreamer’, several events confirmed to me that I had indeed been given the spiritual gift to be able to receive information from Beyond the Veils regarding impending Death, mostly through my Dreams, but also with the symbols of Death that my Guides started using, namely the Panther and the Cobra.
In the summer of 2010, I had a dream where my Ancestors on my Dad’s side came to warn me that his time was short and that I needed to make amends with him before he left. My Dad and I had been estranged for several years and didn’t talk at all.
A month or so later, the opportunity came up to see him in the form of a family reunion, a five-yearly event where lots of his side of the family get together.
I went to this reunion specifically to make peace with him, give him a hug and say my goodbyes.
A few months later he died suddenly without warning, and it confirmed to me that this nudge from the Ancestors in my dream was indeed bona fide spiritual information, intended to help us make peace with our rocky relationship before he died.
The night before my Father’s Death, I had a dream where a huge old tree came crashing down. Also present were a Cobra, whizzing past the tree just before it fell, and a Black Jaguar lurking in the shadows.
Five years later, when Dan and I conceived our first child, I had many, many dreams which warned me about the loss of this child. These dreams were full of black kittens and Panthers, and I even received the date of the impending Death in one of them.
I awaited this date with trepidation as my pregnancy progressed, and sure enough on the exact day I had been given in my dream, I had horrible pain, and the baby died.
Over the years as the realisations dawned of the significance of the Black Jaguar in my dreams, Dan’s own sighting of the Big Black Cat in Shipley sat uncomfortably in the back of my mind.
In 2019, just after Dan and I split, I received a strong message that I needed to travel to South Africa to see my Grandmother, who had been getting more and more frail over the previous few years. I spoke to my Mother and we arranged to go and see her for Christmas. It was so lovely to see her again, after such a long time, but it was bitter sweet as I knew this would be the last time I would see her.
Sure enough, in March 2020, the world locked down, the borders to South Africa closed, and the Covid restrictions in her care home meant that she did not get the usual level of care and contact that she normally received. In this brutal isolation she swiftly deteriorated, and several months later, she died alone, without her loved ones around her, due to the inhuman Covid protocols.
After these three separate warnings of the impending Deaths of my close family members, I had started to understand more clearly the purpose and the meaning of my Medicine Name ‘Death Dreamer’.
So when my Ancestors and Spirit Guides started telling me in December 2022 that a loved one was going to pass soon, and giving me specific instructions for preparing myself to go to England, I took this warning very seriously, and I began to sort out and pack up my house in Guatemala, and organise for a friend to come and house-sit to look after my animals.
What was unusual about this Death Warning was that they wouldn’t tell me who was going to die. The previous three times, I knew exactly who was going to pass, but they refused to tell me on this occasion.
I had assumed that it was my Mother who was leaving, as she is the oldest remaining member of my immediate family.
I understand now that my Guides couldn’t tell me that it was actually going to be Dan, because then I obviously would have tried to intervene in his suicide.
And in the bigger picture of his own Soul’s Journey, as well as the Karmic dynamics of our whole family, this interference was not allowed to happen.
My Guides told me to have all my preparations done by the 3rd February 2023.
Dan died sometime between the 4th and the 7th February, the exact date is unclear.
But it is my belief that he died on the 4th, because on the 4th, 5th and 6th, my Heart went into an anguish like I have never felt before, and I keened and cried and howled at the lake in a way I have never grieved in this life-time.
I thought I was grieving in anticipation for my Mother’s passing.
But I know now that my own Soul knew that he was gone.
Dan was found on the 7th, hanging in his boat, The Kraken.