Blog by Valerie

This blog is for those of us who receive visionary insight through the gift of clairvoyance. Like all spiritual gifts, it can be tricky to work with. We need to discern what are visions and insights, and what is our imagination. We need to learn which visions are due to intergenerational trauma and ancestral wounds needing to be witnessed, and which are warnings of potential future events. It can take time to make peace with and accept some visions when it feels like there is little that we as individuals can do to change the outcomes.

It seems more common for us to have negative experiences when we reconnect with spiritual gifts as adults, which gives us abundant opportunities to practice acceptance, compassion and discernment. We learn a lot from unpacking negative experiences. But that may give us little comfort when we’re trying to process painful visions of natural disasters, traumatic deaths, and abuses. Some of us seem to be called to witness in our mind’s eyes (and some of us also in full embodied lived experiences), some aspects of nature and the earthly reality that are incredibly harsh. Lukas likes reminding me about the nature of lions, that the males try to kill all the cubs of the previous male who was the head of the pride so that the children are all his. If a human did that, we would be appalled, but with lions we accept it as their nature. Aspects of nature are brutal. (Image from JenaRose)

The concept of “All My/Our Relations“, a term commonly used in indigenous cultures in the Americas, is a way to describe an indigenous science concept of interconnectedness where we see ourselves in all aspects of nature. That means that we don’t other ourselves from lion behaviour even if we find it appalling, we hold it in our hearts and minds as part of nature that we do not wish to emulate but which we allow to exist (meaning we let go of any existential judgement and practicing acceptance). (Image from here)

I have found with visionary gifts in particular, we often feel forced to face our deepest fears, witness family secrets, and see society’s shadows with clarity. This isn’t easy. Even if we gain valuable knowledge, others won’t necessarily listen to us or value our insights. This may result in our having to witness and be negatively impacted by others’ poor choices. I used to overly share visions and insights out of hope (or desperation) that someone would listen. But that wasn’t respectful of myself and the gifts I was given. It helps to remember that visions are just that – visions. They may or may not come into being. It’s important to carry a bit of doubt and humility about them, even if we find much of what comes to us does happen. There may be metaphorical meaning in visions too. In visions involving others that we feel moved to share, we need to create space for others to interpret the visions themselves.

In cities, since I started having visions of plants intertwined with buildings (reminding me of a modern co-habitation version of some of the Angkor temples I visited many years ago), I have felt more peace when moving through urban spaces. It is up to you how to honour your visionary gifts. Your expressions may evolve over time from doing personal life and altar work, to sharing them with a few people close to you, to using them to inform your art, direction of work in society, and your everyday life choices. I hope you allow yourself to be creative and give yourself grace to try things and see how they work. And please keep in mind that if you pray for something you envisioned and it doesn’t turn out the way you wanted, your prayers do matter; the people and non-human kin involved in the event can feel your energy and impact on some level, however humble.

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