Lucy and Catherine
Joanne and I have been friends since 1989, when I met her through a fellow High School teacher with shared interests in metaphysics. The story below, unfolds over the years following the events of one woman's journey in the realms of the physical and metaphysical.
Joanne's journey began with events in October 1999. Born in April 1962, the oldest of three children, Joanne deals that 1962-63 karma, 'Issues with Tissues Lifepath'. She has spent much of this lifetime dealing with depression and issues. She has a heart of gold and is one of the most sharing and loving people you will ever want to meet. She has lived in many places and is truly a free spirit. She has taught personal growth and development and how to overcome one's issues. She has never married and has no children, therefore the arrival of her first niece came with great anticipation and an unexplained soul connection, even before the baby was born.
In October 1999, Joanne who works in media production, and lived in Los Angeles at the time, came to Westchester, New York, for her sister Catherine's baby shower.
A beautiful baby girl, Isabel, was born on October 16, 1999. As Joanne was not working on a movie or TV project at the time, she decided to stay in NY until after New Year 2000 so she could play with her new niece and be with her family for the holidays. The family is warm and loving, the baby welcomed into a family that seemed perfect. Isabel was the first born to Catherine, 32 and her husband, Tom, who works in the financial world. The family had just moved into a new house that offered everything. The economy was prospering and all was well in the world.
As the script of our reality always brings in the quick and unexpected, Uranus, the Aquarius Effect, Age of Aquarius, something would quickly 'rock the cradle'.
On January 6, 2000, Catherine drove Isabel to their local hospital to partake in a class with other new mothers, dealing with infant care. It was to be a pleasant outing that would last about three hours.
After the class, Isabel was hungry so Catherine began to nurse her. Suddenly Catherine slumped over in her chair and dropped Isabel into her lap. A nurse in the room grabbed the baby who was uninjured. Catherine was raced to the ER and the family contacted.
Normally this hospital is not noted for brain surgery, but as luck would have it, a team was scrubbing to perform brain surgery on another patient. As Catherine was an emergency, she was operated on first, doctors assuming she was a brain aneurysm.
The surgery revealed cancer, a large tumor, Stage 4. The prognosis was 3-18 months. Part of the tumor was left in, to be treated with radiation later, so Catherine could function. For the 18 next months, the treatments seemed to work. Catherine grew stronger, Isabel grew, Joanne remained in NY to help her family, as did her parents who visited from Brooklyn, Joanne's mother, Lucy, moving in part time.
Joanne thinks 'out of the box' as I do and so we discussed what was going on, on many levels of experience. Why did Catherine's soul make such a choice when she had everything to live for? What lessons were each member of her family experiencing in all of this and why?
Catherine went through the usual treatments, standard radiation and chemotherapy, and holistic methods, Joanne found along the way.
Her beloved dog died unexpectedly of cancer in 2001.
For a while, Catherine was able to function fairly well after all sorts of treatments, many of which were holistic. This was truly a journey into the nature of cancer and how one can find help on many levels.
In June 2001, as Catherine was reaching a supposed safety margin of one and a half years, she and Tom decided to take a trip to Alaska, the trip with the cruise. Joanne and Lucy stayed home to take care of Isabel. A few days after Catherine and Tom left for Alaska, Joanne noticed a suspicious lump under Isabel's right arm and rushed Isabel to Sloan Kettering.
Sadly, the doctor's found cancer, a lump in the muscle tissue and lung. Catherine and Tom returned home immediately. Just after they got home, it was discovered that Catherine had a new brain tumor. Radiation could not be done again. The doctors reported that Catherine had the tumor during her pregnancy, as a result Isabel was born with damaged DNA and would deal with cancer in this lifetime.
Isabel and Catherine spend the last two years in and out of surgeries and treatments. Joanne survived this challenge with the help of family and friends, foregoing her prospering career and social life.
Isabel managed to survive and began a somewhat normal life. She is a fighter who did not complain through the horrific surgeries and treatments. Both mother and daughter went on record as survivors of their types of cancers. They had ups and downs at the same time.
Joanne and I had many talks about the souls staying here for each other, or one soul having two experiences with cancer simultaneously.
Catherine's tumors continued to grow, her head and face enlarged from steroids. She had few functions and 24 hour home care as she remains at home. The doctors had no idea how she has survived, but Joanne and I know that it was for Isabel and Lucy, as the three souls are linked.
Joanne's father, John, went into a clinical depression, followed by a stroke, as this story unfolded. He remains homebound in Brooklyn.
Turning 40, Joanne decided she needed to get back into the world and took a job in media in Manhattan and to try to pick up the pieces of her life, as the family waited for Catherine to cross over. Catherine is fading and yet Joanne and I could see that her soul was stuck between realities, not functioning in 3D anymore, yet not wanting to separate from her mother and child. There is nothing more the doctors can do for her.
In September 2002, I received a call from Joanne, who was crying uncontrollably. Here's the twist of fate, Catherine's home care attendant had found Joanne's mother, Lucy, 69, slumped over in a chair in the dining room that morning. She had a heart attack and died instantly. Joanne and I reasoned that Lucy crossed over to help guide her daughter to the other side. We wonder about the fate of the other souls involved. Lucy's death was something none of us foresaw at this time. Joanne was hoping I could connect with her mother and get messages. All I saw was a rainbow of colors weaving back and forth like a flowing river.
A few days later, at 5:55 AM, Lucy woke me up. She wanted to tell me that she crossed over after feeling that her time here was complete and that her daughter needed her more on the other side. Catherine's soul seems stuck and she would help her over now. I saw a third woman. It was aunt Mary, Lucy's sister, who Joanne and I talk to all the time. Mary crossed over 10 years ago. Lucy kept talking about Joseph, 75, who it turns out is Mary and Lucy's brother who is very ill and is expected to cross over very soon. There is another brother named Tony who is also old and lives in North Carolina.
Souls travel in groups. Often it is about one soul having many experiences at the same time, interacting in a network of relationships and experiencing many emotions simultaneously. This is often true with parents and children. You experience this when one of the souls leaves, and the other follows shortly afterwards.
Joanne does not believe that Lucy's crossing is a bad thing. She says, "Life is about going home."
As the universe sets things up....Isabel is in Brooklyn spending a week with her paternal grandparents. Her Nanny is unable to find an apartment in Westchester, so she and her two children 8 and 13, will be staying at Isabel's house this fall, filling the home with the sound of children as Isabel faces loss. Joanne knows that trauma creates illness and wonders about Isabel's soul in all of this.
As the universe sets things up, Catherine's mind cleared for a short time after Lucy died. She looked over at Joanne and asked if their mother had died. Joanne told her that she had. Catherine then zoned out again, a knowing look on her face. Lucy had been Catherine's lifeline to this reality, what choices would Catherine's soul now make?
That Friday night was Lucy's wake. Everyone was there including uncle Tony and his family who traveled to Brooklyn from North Carolina. Lucy was close to Tony even after he had left Brooklyn, years before.
Joanne told me that Uncle Tony was to be back in Brooklyn with his old friends, there was something nostalgic after his return at this time, a coming home, if you will.
Tony told everyone that when his 'time' comes, he wanted to be buried in Brooklyn near Lucy, that Brooklyn was his true home and where he belonged. Tony and his wife were staying with Joanne and her father in his apartment in Bensonhurst for the wake and funeral. Tony's children were staying at a local hotel, all of them having gathered in Brooklyn at this time.
Ten o'clock Friday evening ... as Tony was about to enter Lucy's apartment, he had a massive heart attack and died instantly. Joanne gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but it was too late. The police and EMS were summoned, to no avail. Tony had crossed over to be with his soul group, his sisters. Tony crossed over quickly with a heart attack just as his sisters, Lucy and Mary had done.
Joanne and I believe that is the reason Lucy was talking to me about Joseph, another brother, to protect him but also to say that both brothers will soon join them. Joseph is not well. They are waiting for him.
Joanne and I also see a 'soul set-up' as she calls it, in all of this for Tony. He waited to cross over when he was back in Brooklyn with all of his family already assembled. He leaves behind a wife of 45 years. Their marriage was not happy and they were going through a divorce. His children are grown and he had completed his karma. Lucy was laid to rest on Sunday and Tony on Monday, next to his beloved sister and family here in Brooklyn.
Catherine was taken to the wake on Friday and stared at her mother's body, saying nothing as she does not communicate anymore. Joanne knew Catherine would want to be there. Joanne knows that on some level Catherine understands the transitions that are taking place, probably better than anyone else.
Saturday March 27, 2004
My attention was drawn to the Verrazano Bridge just before me. Crossing over the bridge, I saw Joanne's sister, Catherine, their mother, Lucy, and their aunt Mary. As I watched them, Joanne phoned to say that her sister had just died. Some deaths come as a blessing. There was a service at a funeral home on Sunday. Catherine asked to be cremated, with a burial at sea with fireworks, under the Verrazano Bridge.
Monday, Joanne came here and we spoke with her sister, Catherine. She showed us the Twin Towers and told me that she had worked there before she had a baby. Since her transition, Catherine has met some of the souls who died on 9/11. It was an emotional reading in which one understands that a soul who crosses over, is not lost. The physical form no longer exists, but we are not physical. The soul is energy, consciousness that remains and guides.
Joanne has returned to media production, working and living in Manhattan. She and Isabel see each other weekly, Joanne a mother figure to this special little girl, whose fate will be guided by her soul and those who left and wait for her.
Friday, November 6, 2005 -- In a sudden turn of events, Isabel, had a brain tumor removed at Sloan Kettering in NY today. Just one month ago, her check-up had shown her to be cancer free. This is a different type of cancer than the one she had as a baby, so this poor little girl will now undergo chemo and radiation treatment, in the time she has left. Her father must reinact the same pain and suffering he experienced with Catherine.
Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 9:09 PM
My friend Joanne's niece, Isabel, age 6, took crossed over tonight. Family and friends had been gathered at her bedside for 3 days. Isabel had been in and out of consciousness, sedated all of the time. When Z was with her, I saw him take her over, at least most of her consciousness, lest we forget only a small part of our consciousness is in the physical the rest experiencing on other levels.
Thursday 3:00 PM
I spoke to Isabel as a continuation for Joanne. Little Isabel described to us her journey to the other side.
When she returned to the tunnel again, she saw a man in glowing white light who she thought was god. Joanne and I recognized the figure as Z. He told her not to be afraid. He put her safely inside a helicopter where they flew off to her mother, grandmother, and others who were waiting. She seems happy there and has already met a boy she knew at Sloan Kettering. Still there is a period of confusion as her soul remembers the different levels of existence.
For the past few weeks Isabel's physical body remained here - its life force slowly slipping away - moment by moment - as her grief-stricken father would not let her go. In her final moments he read her a story and knew that only his words would release her. Alone with Isabel he told her to "go to mommy", after which she took one final gasp of breath as if to say she understood then crossed over. Her father is not into anything metaphysical, which makes the transition of his wife and child ironically both as a result of brain cancer, all the more difficult. People need to understand continuity and the journey of the soul.
The physical journey is laced with pain, suffering, grief and of course loss at the end. Prepare for a final closure of the program that comes quickly and consciously to those who are awakened on higher frequency while the other souls sleep through it getting reconciled back into the collective unconsciousness.
You have the codes within you that have brought you 'here' at this time. The age long secrets of time, creation, and the nature of our reality are being unraveled. You are part of something important, let the rest go. You read what I write about the illusion of time, and the program ending but do you fully understand it from outside the box?
We play out the roles we are encoded/designed for often for reasons we do not understand, nor do those who interact in our lives.
Does any of it make sense? We like to believe it does, somewhere out there.
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