May
16
My Nana (Tessa) is a medium and is always helping people by passing on messages from those who have passed, andtalking to those who have passed who need assistance. She gives a lot of herself to this task and I think sometimes she gives too much and doesn’t switch off. But Nana doesn’t mind. She is very kind and has developed another way of helping people which is so simple yet wonderful that it has proven very popular with the circles she holds. If you care to try, It’s also a lovely way of introducing yourself to listening to your inner voice and guides, as well as amplifying your intuition to help others.Nana has built a ribbon stick, it’s a long piece of bamboo with many different coloured lengths of ribbon ranging across the whole spectrum including silver and gold colours,Some of the ribbons are smooth to the touch, some are embossed or textured or have a pleat etc, but they are all roughly the same length and trail off the stick in the same direction. I don’t think it matters which ribbons you choose for your stick as long as they cover the spectrum and feel right to you. Nana bought the stick out when me and Jon (my partner) went to visit recently, I remember hazily that she read my ribbons when I was a child but that is all, so I was very excited to see what it was.Nana passed the stick to Jon and asked him to select the three colours which stood out most to him at the moment and to flip those 3 ribbons over the back of the stick when he’d chosen.Jon did this and passed the stick back to Nana. Then Nana selected one of the 3 which she felt drawn to first and slowly traced her finger and thumb down the ribbon, feeling all the way downit’s length. She did this a few times before words and images started to come to her, Nana then told Jon what she was seeing, she mentioned his need to work, to keep his mind and hands busy, to always have projects on the go and to try new business ideas, the next ribbon was about family, it was about how he’d made the decision at some point in his life to separate his path from that of his family and their expectations, on this ribbon, Nana also received a message from Jon, as she was tracing her fingers down the ribbon she relayed a message from Jon’s grandmother who had passed away 7 years ago, saying that she was proud of a decision and a change in lifestyle that he’d made recently, she also went into some details about the lady and Jon later confirmed all these details were accurate. I don’t remember the other ribbon but all the information that my Nana ‘received’ and relayed from the ribbon was very insightful and helpful to Jon.Nana read my ribbons next, I chose an orange ribbon, an electric blue ribbon and a green ribbon. Nana went to the blue ribbon first, she said she felt nails roughly hammered in all up the ribbon like obstacles that I’d had to climb up and overcome, and that no one but me knew the difficulties I’d overcome to get to this point in my life but that now I’m here I’ll never go back, she said that it was about my souls struggle and the strength it took to make it this far. Next she was drawn to the orange ribbon, as she traced her fingers down the ribbon and along the edges she said she felt this one described the cloak I place around myself to allow others to find me approachable, like a sociable friendly glow of orange that I surround myself in to let everyone know I’m safe to talk to and fun to be around so that they won’t feel threatened by me. Finally she chose the green ribbon and this one signified my love of music and painting and how while my soul had been struggling to get to where it is and to help me find my life’s purpose, music and painting and the freedom I felt as I painted and listened to music was a way that I’d found to tap into the underlying freedom that my soul remembered. She then put her hand up in the air and said, this is significant as it’s how you touch that flow of life. I think she was referring to when I go dancing, I love dancing, I just let myself go into the flow of the music, forget myself put my hands up in the air and just feel how happy everyone around me is and send out my own happiness to mix with it. Nana finished my reading by telling me that I had a lot of love to give and that sometimes it’s overwhelming How much I can love. Which made me feel very special and blessed.Next Nana offered me and Jon a try, Jon refused, and I was about to, when I thought to myself, what am I afraid of? I’m afraid of looking stupid, so I said, yes I’ll have a go! (feel the fear and do it anyway!)I asked Nana to choose three ribbons, she chose and passed me the stick, I traced my fingers down each ribbon and instead of the very precise and insightful images and words that Nana passed on, I saw very basic pictures , almost like a child’s book, I saw a sea of mud with bits sticking in it, then watery mud, then water, then a stream then a stream with pebbles in it, then back to mud, it was as though the ribbon was a timeline and the story of this mud ran down the length of the ribbon, Nana and Bill said that perhaps it was a metaphor for experience, the bits stuck in the mud are the experience in life and things get clearer with age? another ribbon put an image of a jam sandwich in my head and Nana was the jam between two pieces of white bread, I thought this was silly but said it out loud anyway, nana thought this may be because she is a medium sandwiched between people in this life and those in the next. The third ribbon was the weirdest, as I traced my fingers down I felt little blocks in the flow of the ribbon, almost like little bumps, but there were no bumps in the ribbon, and towards the end of the ribbon I got an overwhelming sense of being tired and very sad, it was exhausting in an instant, just feeling how sad that place in the ribbon felt, Nana said it was to do with all the people who come visit her in the kitchen and tell her their problems, I think by people she meant spirits that have passed. I also got a sense in the last bit of the ribbon that Nana didn’t mind all the sadness. I think this is because she gives so much of herself in service to others who are upset or in need of help. Why not make your own ribbon stick and practice on yourself and your friends.Â
Take a big stick about 70cm long, and tie ribbons to it in spectrum (rainbow) order i.e. nana’s stick has 31 colours starting with black then 2 shades of grey (a dark and a light grey) then a red, then 9 shades of pink and peach, then a bright orange, then yellow, then 4 shades of green, then 4 shades of blue and 2 purples, 4 shades of white a silver and a gold.