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December 31 2010 5 31 /12 /December /2010 13:06

New year resolutions.


It is the end of yet another fabulous year, and its’ time make those new year resolutions. It doesn’t really matter whether we stick to them or not, as long as we acknowledge the need for a change in our lives. During this time, it is important to sit down and make a quick recap on the year we are about to end.


We need to learn from life experiences it brought us, both good and bad. It is important to embrace these-both good and bad, so as to own up all our lives’ challenges. In order to move on and face the new year, we have to accept the results of our actions, be true to ourselves and stop being judgemental. As we start the new year, we need to realize our abilities and potential.


We all need to have some form of a belief system in order to grow as individuals. It is this belief system that keep us grounded and help us grow as human beings.


Yes, it is time to set some new goals and hope to achieve them. Anything is possible if you believe…

Looking back on the year 2010, I can say that I have grown so much as an individual, spiritually and otherwise. I am very grateful for the lessons I have learnt and am looking forward to a fabulous 2011.


2010 has taught me so many lessons and has opened new doors for me. Through my spiritual healing I have learnt that:

- We as human beings go through life the same way and experience more or less the same life lessons no matter what walk of life we come from.

- I have also learnt that all of our problems and setbacks in life have a lot to do with the way we relate to God and channel our prayers.

- God uses other people on earth to teach us life experiences and these are not always nice experiences. Thus its’ important to learn to forgive because people don’t always understand why they do the things they do to us.

- Its’ important to find a greater meaning to ones existence. This has a lot to do with way we relate to others and vice versa.

- When you find a greater meaning to your life that’s’ when you find your purpose in life.


2010 has made me even stronger and I am grateful for that. During 2010, I realized that I am an individual whom God has a purpose for in life. I realized that when I was created it was not a mistake but the “master” had a plan. This year I owned up to my life and accepted everything about it, good and bad.


During difficult times I realized that this was my life and nobodyelses’. I decided not to hide but to face it head on. -I thought to myself, if this is my life and its’ not a mistake, let me live it to the fullest.

- When I looked around and realized that I was by myself in the struggle of right and wrong, I didn’t despair. It became clear to me that this is my life- and mine alone.

- If I were to crumble under pressure, I knew also, that it was my own life experience- and mine alone.

- When I felt misunderstood and misquoted, I took it all in and prayed even harder for it was my life experience- and mine alone.

- When I couldn’t get through to others or make them understand what I was going through, I didn’t give up but I forgave them.

- Even when I suffered because of peoples’ stubbornness, coldheartedness and selfishness, I knew my suffering was for a greater purpose.


2010 has been a turning point in my life spiritually. It should have been difficult for me because I help people with their problems on a daily basis and yet there I was with personal problems of my own. Somehow God made me stronger and I celebrated in other peoples’ achievements. Towards the end of the year, so many people came to me to give thanks for the things I had done for them. That alone made me realize that a life can never be a mistake. When


I look back at the year we are about to end, I feel a sense of warmth in my heart. I feel a sense of fulfillment and so much joy because, this year has been a turning point in my life. My eyes are wide open because I have seen the light. I know that I have to believe in myself more that ever before. I know that God loves me and I am here on this earth to be used for a greater purpose. It doesn’t matter what people say, as long as I am grounded in my belief system, the love of God will lead me.


People can deceit and dessert you but the love of God never leave us. It is everywhere and in abundance for us to turn into all the time. It is very important to always remember that, there is a God out there. In times of hardship, tap into the sea of love and find solutions.


As we enter the new year,2011, I urge each and everyone of us to adopt a positive attitude and allow ourselves to be used by God in spreading the love.


Let us do away with bad feelings of jealousy and resentment. Let us rid this planet of all the negativity and hope for a better life for all.


Have you ever noticed that solutions to your problems do not come your way until you are calm, and gotten rid of the anger and hatred? That is the time when you see things clearly because you are now filled with love and understanding.


This year, I will pray even harder for those who are still living in darkness, with their lives being driven by bad feelings of hatred and resentment. I am going to pray that they accept the love of God and turn a new leaf to a life of joy, peace and happiness.


Happy New Year

With lots of Love

Nontobeko P Toba

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December 26 2010 7 26 /12 /December /2010 15:30

If the ancestors give you problems in your life does this mean they hate you?

This actually means the contrary- ancestors come to your life because they feel closer to you as compared to other family members. They have a strong bond with you and they want to guide and protect you but they cannot do this unless you acnowledge and embrace them in your life.

 

Why do ancestors feel the need to come back and contact the living?

This is because of the problems they encounter in their journey back to the source( to meet with our creator)

All of the ancestors who have come back and expessed their problems during most if not all of the reading that I have done, they have expresssed that their sins have held them back, they want to be cleansed and set free so they can rejoice in the kingdom of the Lord.

 

 

What else causes the ancestors to come back after death?

The spiritual powers that they had while they were still living on earth. These powers were passed on from generation to generation because the Lord allowed for some of us to be spiritual beings so that we can help one another on earth. The problems occur when this spiritual person passes on with these powers and then they have to come back and leave the powers on earth. They have expressed that the powers are no longer of use on the other side because there is peace and harmony in heaven. It is important then for the person who is still on earth to accept the powers and set their ancestors free.

 

Another reason for the ancestors or the dead to come back lies on the way they passed away- if a person dies quickly like in a car accident and the spirit is snatched away quickly before the person realises that they are dying, or if a mother passses away while giving birth and the soul doesn't want to leave because she feels the need to take care of the baby.

 

 

What can we do to set these spirits free?

Its important to accept and embrace these spirits so they can be cleansed off and accepted on the other side.

 

How can we cleanse the ancestors using muti and except God to accept them?

 

God gave people on earth the freedom and choice to use their wisdom in helping one another during times of need. God gave people the plants and the trees to use for healing. The only problem is when people use these things for the wrong reasons. There are so many herbs that are used for healing, we even use drugs to cure diseases and this is accepted worldwide. So its' important to realise that those herbs that are used to cleanse off the dead spirits are also used for a good reason and some ancestors come back to specify excatly how they ought to be cleansed off.

 

Does muti really work?

Yes muti does work but I believe that we give it far too much credit. Muti works for healing but when it comes to cursing and witchcraft, I think the evil powers do most of the damage than muti. Most people are afraid of muti when in actual fact it should be the bad spirits that they are afraid of. When you go to a healer and he gives you bad muti and tells you its gonna do harm to someone, its actually not the muti that harms but his bad spirit and demons that he uses. If someone uses bad muti on you and you ignore them and just pray to God nothing bad happens to you.

 

If I have problems in my marriage, does this have anything to do with my ancestors?

Offcause all our problems revolve around the way our ancestors are living on the other side.They have a way of coming back to give us problems in the areas of our lives that we treacher the most. They can destroy all forms of relationships we have on earth, from work, family and pesonal relationships.

 

If I am unhappy and not satisfied in life, what does it mean?

This simply means that your ancestors are also going through the same thing on the other side, so you need to sort them out before you can find peace in your life.

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April 6 2010 2 06 /04 /April /2010 10:48

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May 7 2009 4 07 /05 /May /2009 22:43
Since we all have guides of our own who are with us all the time in our lives, let us now look at how they affect our communication and relationships with other people. Firstly it is important to know who your guides are and how they affect your life an individual before you even begin to interact with others. This means that you need to have a clear understanding of what type of a person you are and how you come across to others.

People talk about being introvert and extrovert, they go on to explain that there is an unconscious level of our lives that comes out in our characters and personalities. I believe that if we were to sum up all of this in the understanding of ancestors and guides, it would be much easier. Meaning we need to go to the root of the problem instead of studying and classifying it with little effect on helping the individual.

 I attended a management course once which was aimed at building people character and making us better managers at the end of the day. I enjoyed the course at the time but somehow I always felt that it is whether you have it or not when it comes to management skills. The objection of this course was to make us aware of our strengths and weakness so as to use them profitably in the work environment. They made us answer some personal question and the results would tell what kind of a manager you are and what you need to change in order to be more productive. To me it felt like it was too much effort and a waste. They did mention though that I had a very low stress level but it was no alarming at all because for some reason I had a way of dealing with it. Apparently a low stress level is not good in it’s own way. In my view no matter how much we try to change something, it is never easy unless we find the root of the problem. It is better to understand your guides, who they are, the way they are and the reasons that push them to sway your life into that direction. It is then easy to pick up on the habits that they have brought into your life and to deal with them than trying to change something you don’t understand.
The key to achieve this kind of change is to know who your guides are, set them free, embrace them into your life and allow them to lead your way. During this process, you must let them know everything about your life so that they understand your day to day activities. If your guide was a king and had no one to report to, you might want to tell them that you have a job and a boss, in that way your communication with your boss will improve outrageously. We all have seen cases where there is an employee who is unmanageable. This type of an employee will always talk back, have difficulty in taking instructions and will question everything. This kind of behavior comes as a result of a guide who has not been embraced into this person’s life. It is even worse if this guide had been a prominent person who normally would give instructions instead of being on the receiving end. It is amazing the changes that one can see once this spirit/guide has been set free properly. The change is phenomenal and in some cases the person involved May even get a better job or a position where the guide will thrive being in charge of people. The guides can also affect a relationship that is between a child and a parent.

There are a lot of scenario which come into play in this particular instance and I will mention only just a few.

There can be a case where a child has got very powerful guides but the parents are not aware of this. Powerful guides can ‘rise up’ from an early age just to let the parents know that the child has special powers and they need to raise him/her as a ‘child healer’ This means that certain rituals or prayers need to be done for the child from time to time. The prayers include thanking the gift of a child from the relevant ancestors/guides, introducing the child to all the guides in his/her family line and accepting the powers on behalf of the child. If all of this is not done properly or the parents are not aware of these powers, the child may be sickly from an early stage. The child may have constant raised temperature and feel sickly all the time but most importantly the child may not sleep at all at night. The reason for this is that the child is being visited by the ancestors and guides as they can sense the powers even though the child is still too young to understand what is going on. The reason for a raised temperature is visited by the ancestors especially during a reading the body temperature is raised, the heart beats fast or jumps a beat and one sweats a lot. If all of these things are happening to a baby she/he is bound to be upset most of the time. I do understand that science has it’s own interpretation and understanding of these things medical conditions in babies but I am only stating what I have seen happen in my practice. Once the necessary prayers are done for the child all the problems subside. If parents have “gifted children” it is important to honor and accept these guides so that they can have an enjoyable experience of raising their child, otherwise the guides will always disrupt this relationship as well.

The other type of a relationship that can be disrupted by the guides is that of a teenager and the parents. Often you hear people complain about their teenagers and blaming it all on peer pressure. As much as I agree with this, I also believe that troublesome kids are a result of dissatisfied spirits who want to disrupt the relationship between a child and a parent, once again. The guides do not all “rise up” at the same time from child to child and it is not only “gifted kids” that need prayers done for them. If a kid starts giving problems and becomes rebellious, the first to do is to pray for them, letting the spirits know that the kid is growing up entering adulthood. You must ask for the guides ‘to grow’ with the kid and help him/her to enter into adulthood smoothly and to have the wisdom needed to do the right and stay away from the wrong. It is also important to teach this child how to do their own prayers. All this is done because the spirits do not see with their eyes but they sense with the feelings so it’s important to always update them of the stages of growing up. I am sure you have seen in other families where they pray even when someone is taking a long trip or is going away from home, to a boarding school or something. This is very good because it informs the guides to leave with the child and to guide him/her in that new environment. The only problem with this could be that we seem to concentrate too much on God Almighty instead of starting with our own Angels the ancestors and guides, who are there to carry our messages on. It is not because we do not pray but it’s the way we channel our prayers that blocks our messages. In the case of a teenager, you must also understand that the spirits must grow up with the child, they must be told to enter the world of the grown ups with the child. It is at this time that the child may be taken for a reading, if this had not been done before, to determine his/her guides and to give them a recognition they deserve during all the prayers. There are a lot of cases where a parent has come with a troublesome teenager and only to find that the kid has powerful guides than those of the parents. This causes a lot of chaos in the family structures. Remember that the guides themselves do not have equal powers so if the kid has guides who were more powerful than the parents guides, it makes it hard for the kid to take instructions at home. What needs to be done in this case, is to find out who these guides are, embrace them and let them know that the child is still under the parents’ guidance. The parents must accept and acknowledge these powers on behalf of the child. In all of these relationships you can see that the cause is neglect of the guides. It is up to us to let the guides know what we are up to in our lives, to invite them to join us and help with our problems. We also need to tell them if there is a change of any sort that we are going through so that they can also adjust with us.
I have realized that the major problem that we encounter in this life has something to do with relationships, whether it’s at work, community or personal relationships. People have a tendency to only seek help when their personal relationship starts getting problems .All the problems that people bring to me are basically relationship issues e.g. someone who doesn’t get along with his/her boss, with other colleagues, with neighbors or with a lover. These are all relationship problems but they stem from the relationship that one has with his/her guides.

I will now touch on the relationship that almost all of us have an interest in, which is a love relationship .The most important part of embracing our guides is to let them know what is going on in our lives, what sort of relationships are we involved in and who do we have to deal with on a daily basis so as to include them fully into our lives. It is also equally important to let them know who we are involved with in a love relationship so as to avoid conflicts. This subject is vast so bear with me as I go deep to most of the causes of conflicts and break-ups in love relationships.

Firstly if you haven’t told your guides that you are romantically involved with someone they might not know about the relationship and this offer no help especially when it needs some rescue. They may even ignore or neglect you simple because you didn’t tell them about your involvement with that certain individual. This may cause your guides to allow negative forces or third parties to disrupt the relationship. Secondly, if one person in a relationship has powerful guides, they may need to be honored by the other person before the relationship can go smoothly. By means of honoring the powerful guides one is simple saying ‘ I recognize and accept your powerful existence in this person I am involved with. I then ask for your permission to involved in this persons’ life in a romantic way. So I then ask you to take me and treat me like I am your ‘own’ child because I am involved with your ‘child’. I promise that my intentions with this person are sincere so I ask for your blessing. By so doing one is showing respect and obedience to the other persons’ guides so, they have no need to interrupt the this relationship. If this prayer and honor is not done the couple may experience problems in a relationship ranging from fights all the time about petty things, being irritable, problems in bed and a woman may even have irregular periods especially just about the same time when the man wants to spend the night. If a person with powerful guides is a woman, a man in this relationship will experience a lot of erectile problems. This is the way of the ancestors to say that’ We cannot let you have your way with our daughter, not unless you honor and accept us’. I have seen cases where a man who has powerful guides that ere not honored by the woman would end up being physically abusive towards this woman. He tends to be short tempered and outraged at times and has mood swings such that when he is happy you would swear its’ a different person altogether. It is with cases like these where you find females staying and keeping up with an abusive partner simple because even though they beat them up, but when they are nice they tend to spoil them and will always apologize saying that they don’t know what got into them. To be continued…
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April 21 2009 2 21 /04 /April /2009 16:05

 

I am not God, I’m just a spiritual medium people come to me with different  problems in their lives so when these problems get sorted out, we need to thank the Lord Almighty and our ancestors.

 

I am just a medium who makes it easy for the spirits to come through and voice out their feelings towards their loved ones who are still living.

 

I am not God. I do not control people’s lives nor their fate. I cannot bring or alter people’s luck . Yet people who come to see me have it in their minds that I can be able to bring them luck and change their lives in one way or the other. Others also believe that I can help them with their health problems, marital problems, relationship problems in general.

 

I would like to believe that people give me far too much credit in this matter or am I just being humble? After all I am just a spiritual medium. For all the work that I do, I give all the credit to God. God is everywhere allowing everything to happen the way it does.

A woman sitting in taxi, going on and on about her problems doesn’t realize that it is through God’s will that the person sitting in front of her suddenly turns back and offer to help her with her problems. The passenger suggests that she goes and sees a spiritual healer who might help put her mind at ease.

At that very moment I am not aware of the conversation but the woman takes the number, phones in and make an appointment to come see me for a reading. As she goes home that night she is beginning to have some sort of hope for all her worries. She recites a small prayer before she goes to bed hoping everything goes well during the reading.

The minute she walks into my consultation room I am somewhat happy for her because God is on her side if she has made it this far. If God didn’t allow it, she wouldn’t be sitting so anxiously in front of me right now, wanting to hear if I’m will offer to put an end to all her problems. Even though I am happy for her at that moment but I am also not aware of what her guides have in store for her.

All I can do is present myself in front of her and ask the guides to come through and give her some insight into her life. The guides will come forward and give her some messages according to her life path. They will also tell her what to do to change certain things which might be causing chaos in her life.

 

When the reading is complete, the lady leaves with all the explanations about her problems and the instructions on how to go about getting her life back in order. When all is said and done, it is clear to me that we should give praise and thanks to the Lord for allowing us to use the ancestral powers to help one another.

 

As a spiritual medium, my work is to help people connect with their loved ones who has crossed over. In doing so I only need to be there ‘in the moment’ for the connection to take place and then the spirits do the work.

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April 20 2009 1 20 /04 /April /2009 20:04

I have already mentioned that all of us have guardian angels in our lives, guarding and protecting us all the time. It doesn’t really matter who you think your guardian angel is, the fact of the matter is that we all have one or more guides in our lives.

 

When a woman gets pregnant, it is her own guides who allows for her to conceive in the first place. Her guides look after her and protect her together with the unborn baby until she gives birth. It is only at birth that the child gets his/her own guides and this depends on who is already on the ‘other side’ waiting for the child during the time of birth. Our grandparents are supposed to be our guides from the time we are born, but if they are still alive at this point, our great grand parents take up this role. As soon as our grandparents pass on they then take over from their own parents in the role of guiding us.

No one is really sure of what happens after death. The only part we know of is what ancestors and guides have come back to tell us. The reason why they tell us these things is to try and make our lives easy, here on earth so that we can avoid the transitional problems when we die. Earlier on I mentioned something about the ancestors being attached to who and what they were on earth and I have seen this playing a major role in someone being guided by such guides.

An example can be of a child who is guided by a grandfather. You will find that the parents may always that the child reminds them of the late grandfather. If that grandfather to this child was somebody strict, straightforward and may be even loud spoken this child may also show all of these qualities. In a case where a girl-child is guided by a grandfather meaning a male guide, this child might show signs of masculinity, being tomboyish and an overachiever as though as she is trying to prove a point of some kind.

In a case where a male person is guided by a grandmother or any other female guide for that matter, you will find that this male tends to have a very soft spot especially when it comes to the fairer sex such that you will find people saying this man is in touch with his female side or even call him a ‘softie’ If you look at all the successful people and celebrities you would realize that, they all have guides who were powerful and successful while they were still alive. If your guide was somebody powerful and had some position of some sort or influence in the community, obviously this guide will come back and guide you in a way that will make push you to progress and live more like the way they did.

Let me make an example of a guide who was a soldier and a commander while he was still alive. When this person comes back to guide you, he is going to guide you in such a way that you also become prominent, forceful and in charge in whatever you are doing. This guide can never let you down or leave you to suffer with the problems of these world. With a guide like this you are bound to be energetic and formal such that people will notice these qualities in you. Even during casual conversations or day to day living, it will be obvious in you as to what sort of a guide you have. Once one has studied the world of guides and spirits, it becomes very easy to tell what sort of a guide a person has simple by spending a few minutes with them.

 

I think it is very important for everybody to be aware to be aware of their own guides as they play a major role in our lives. They make us who we are and determine the way we live our lives, whether we are aware of this or not. Once you know who your guides are, you will begin to see their traces in you and then start to live in harmony by embracing them into your life. Mostly we have more than one guide in our lives, reason being they come from both our mothers’ and fathers’ side. If you go for a reading and find out that you have guides from only one side of the family, it doesn’t mean that the ones from the other side are not there. It only means that they are there but have no problems with you at that time. When you go for a reading the guides that come through first are the ones causing problems in your life and these may not necessarily be your leading guides. The ones that have no problem at that time may not come through at all because the main reason of doing a reading is to find out which one of your guides have a problem.


The guides in our lives shape our lives and determine our future and the reasons for doing so come from our past –the ancestors lives.

As a teenager, I always felt that I didn’t live my life to the fullest. I didn’t have a chance to go to the best schools because our political situation at that time and I knew that my dream of becoming a doctor was fading away. It was even worse when I failed my matric but I refused to go back to school. I wrote privately, studied on my own and passed. When I finally got my matric my two sisters before me were already studying at tertiary level so I had to do with what we could afford at the time. I then studied clothing design but I couldn’t  get a diploma because it would have meant leaving home and going to a college which was about 700 kilometers away. Again we couldn’t afford this so I had to once again change careers into something we could afford. I then went to do a Dental nursing course at a Technikon simple because it was just a year course and in the end I would get to work in the hospital environment  and get to help people. Well, I did get a job at a hospital after finishing that course, as I worked as a dental nurse but then I had to quit after just about two years because I wasn’t satisfied. Firstly I was the only one working at a dental clinic in a small hospital at a rural area about 300 kilometers from home. They had promised to give me a certificate authorizing me to extract teeth but failed to do so for almost two years so I felt that they were abusing my services while I was not being paid enough. I also left because it was so far away from home, I couldn’t even afford to save some money and I had a baby on the way. I didn’t want to raise my child in that kind of environment. All of this made me dissatisfied with life in general. It made me feel like I wasn’t taken seriously, as if my life wasn’t catered for on this earth.

I felt like life was brushing me aside with every opportunity that could take my life forward. It was time to grow up, find the powers inside of me and fend for myself.


After some odd jobs, I managed to get a job in the service industry. I knew this was the time to prove to myself what I was capable of. It was something new to me but I enjoyed it so much and I was excited because it was at an International convention center, where I would later get a chance to serve leaders from all over the world. My highlights were serving people like Madiba, Thabo Mbeki, Fidel Castro, Jacob Zuma, and King Mswati of Swaziland just to mention a few.

Within a short while I got a supervisory position but after another year, I felt I needed a job that would pay me more so I started looking for a job. It was then that I joined the casino industry as they opened the first casino in my province. I must have been very impressive during my interview as I landed myself a supervisory position . To me, this was a milestone and I felt like I had done it once again, when everyone else had to start at an entry level I managed to come and supervise them from the word go.

I enjoyed my work so much and after a year I got myself my first car. To years later there was another casino opening so I moved on to greener pastures. Everything went well, I upgraded my car, I was on the move. A year later I was promoted to a managerial position and these were the good times. Once again I had done it, when there were people who had been supervisors for nine to eleven years but they were still supervisors, and I had only three years behind me but there I was managing them.  Things were happening in my life and once again I upgraded my car and this time I got a new one.

 

Throughout all of this time especially from my teenage hood, I knew about the ancestors and did the prayers at home but I knew nothing about my own personal guides. While I was going through all of my successes, I also did the prayers to thank the ancestors but the one thing I didn’t know was that I had powerful guides and I was supposed to be a healer. The next thing I had planned on doing was to get married. I cannot say that I was madly in love with the guy, he was just okay for me and today I thank God it didn’t work out. I had a lot of reasons to marry the guy besides love as such. The father of my child had died five years prior to that so in my mind I thought that I was never going to love anybody else or feel for anyone else the way I felt for him. So I decided to settle for what was in front of me. When my boyfriend died, my daughter was just about to turn three years old. He passed away in a freak car accident at around the time when we were planning to move in together.


I wanted to move on with life so I agreed to marry this guy. At about that time my guides decided to ‘rise up’ and let their presence. Something remarkable about the day they first made contact was that my great great grand mother came through first. This is the same gran who had powers and no one took her seriously in my family and she is believed to be a France origin. As she came through she entered my body and started voicing her feelings through me. She was very angry at my father for having not recognized her in my life. Later on I were to realize that she was also angry at all the males in my family as all the sins of the fathers has fallen upon them.


I was confused at first because it was like she was talking about my own life, but she then explained that she was re-living her life through me so whatever she went through in life she was bringing it back in my own life. She was angry that no one accepted, recognized or had taken care of her and her powers while she was still alive. The first thing she asked was why was she taken as if she is unimportant in the family. This brought her a lot of anger and she asked for the incense to be burnt. She demanded some answers since she felt that she also played a crucial role in the family. She complained about being brushed aside all the time. The situation was intense until they burnt the incense for me, then she became greatful and told us that she was and always will be the mother of all our powers in the family.


In all of the things she mentioned, it was like she was at a story of my life. She even touched on the pains in my life including the loss of my boyfriend and all the other frustrations I had at home. I began to understand that she was with me all the time, experiencing all the things I went through in my life. On the same breath she took blame for having let me go through all of this hardship in my life.


The anger she had towards my father made me understand my own relationship with him. My father and I don’t get along very well, ever since my teenage years but during that time it became even worse. I didn’t realize it at first but looking back, it makes so much sense now. When I was younger, I wasn’t rebellious as such but I had a problem at times with the way he ran things at home. I always  felt that he wasn’t open enough with us as kids, in terms of sitting us down and letting us know where we went wrong. I didn’t like the way hw went behind us to talk to my mother about the things he didn’t like. It made me feel like he didn’t care enough. This caused a gab than began to grow in our relationship. It took me a while to notice this gap because when I was younger we use to be pretty close.


As time went on I would confront him with my problems but mostly of the time he would just listen and then maybe give the answer to my mom.

When I look back at this now, I can see that he was just being insecure and somehow intimidated by us. He is the kind of person who will leave a problem to sort itself out.  I always felt that he was holding me back in everything that I wanted to do because he would always panic and tell you to wait. Well, I am happy because today I have a better understanding of what is going on him with and our

 

When I started consulting I did a reading for him and I discover that he has a female guide leading him so this is bound to make him insecure and always feel victimized amongst females who are lead by male guardian angels. My second guide who came through during that first contact with the guides was my great great grandfather, the one who was a king. He told us that he is also leading with my grandmother but because he was a king he takes a back seat and let the others work for him. He said something to the extent of wanting to rule once again and be as powerful as he had been. He was not angry at all with my father or anybody else. He just gave instructions on how to do his work of healing people. He said that he was in charge of all the work I were to do as a healer but he would use my grandmother’s powers as it was time to fully embrace her into the family. He briefly stressed that he wanted people to  respect and worship him and that in the end he would thank us all properly if his work is done accordingly.

 

This guide made me look deep into my life and understand where I get all of my perseverance from and where I get the power to lead and guide others. He made me understand why it is easy for me to gain respect and command it where it is lacking. It also made me realize why I have so much love for all the people in the world. All of this made me realize that my father had every reason to feel insecure around me. I am sure that he somehow feels that I am trying to take his place in the family. In a way I do feel sorry for my dad about his insecurities but now that we understand so much on the subject, it should be easy to mend our ways. Well, the answer is easy, like I always advise my clients, it is only a matter of accepting one another’s guides, recognizing and embracing them in a prayer then you have a harmonious relationship.

 

There are a lot of other guides which are in my life since I am a practicing healer but I thought I mention just a few especially the leading ones. Most of my guides came through that very same day one after another, saying that they are in support of the work to heal people and they want to be included in all our prayers. Lastly I would like to mention the , most amazing guide I have, which is my brother after me, who was still born. This guide is amazing and one would think that he died at birth so he has no powers and that would be misleading. All of my guides work together but when he comes through he does wonders for me. While I was still learning to be healer he would come in my visions and help me with the training. Some of the things he has done for me are still kept under wraps but in due time, it will all be revealed. Having him in my life has explained the love I always had for kids. Ever since I was young I had always loved babies so much and I know the feeling is mutual. I remember when I had my baby, it was like a dream come true. For some reason I was terrified that may be I wasn’t going to be able to have my kids and when the doctor told me I was pregnant, I said. ‘Yes”! That was amazing.

 

So we all have guides, helping and protesting us but mostly they make us who we are. Let us all pray to our guides, embrace and accept them. The next time you say a Lords’ prayer remember your guides are there ready to take your messages through.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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March 8 2009 7 08 /03 /March /2009 12:25

 

 

 

 

When we die we move to a different world altogether, where different  rules apply. I would like to believe that the transformation from the living to the spiritual world can never be smooth and easy unless the person has fully accepted the idea of dying. The transformation from life to death should involve letting go of all the feelings and emotions relevant to the living world. These include bad feelings of hatred, anger, prejudice and being judgmental. Once the transformation is done successfully, it should be easy to exist in the spiritual world since it doesn’t have the physical aspect of living. The spirits seem to be flowing freely and easily in some form of space where there is no force of gravity or attraction. Spirits do not have the passionate feeling of love and affection but can only feel the attachment to a particular individual if they have a duty to guide and protect that person. All of these reasons makes it difficult for the spirits to communicate with the living.

If it is this difficult for the spirits to communicate with us, can you imagine how hard it is to the spirits who are in limbo, to send messages to their loved ones. Human beings also have a hard time sending messages to the spiritual world because no one is a 100% sure of how to go about doing this. There are certain individuals who have a special gift to receive and send messages to the world of the spirits. Even these individuals have varying degrees when it comes to the level of communicating with the spirits.

We need to understand that the spirits do not communicate and exchange words in a conversation like human beings do. If the spirits do come through to pass the messages, they don’t talk about the weather or the economy but they stick to the messages relevant to their situation on the ‘other side’ and offer some light in solving problems their loved ones might be experiencing.

Let us go back to the part where I said that the spirits will cause problems in our lives so that we can go to the healers for help. They do this because ordinary people cannot communicate direct with the dead so its’ easy when there is medium relaying the messages. People go to the healers for different reasons, others go there to gain luck in their lives, while others go when they are experiencing a lot of hardship and stress. In the traditional way, it is a norm to go to the healers from time to time just to get the guidance on how to perform certain rituals or get some protection from the evil spirits. When you go to a healer/sangoma, your guides will come through and tell the healer what it is that has gone wrong in your life and how you can bring back luck and harmony in your life.


During a consultation, the spirits communicate to a healer in different ways depending on the specialty of a healer. Some healers hear words spoken in their ears by the ancestors while others see visions in front of them. There are also healers who are sangomas that use bones  to look into the future and talk to the ancestors. Just like there are others who read the palms or burn the scent, the scope is wide but all of them have powers to tap into the world of the ancestors. I went to a lady once who uses tea leaves to do her reading. She would make you some tea and the use the remains in the cup to tell your future.

 

I can talk about how other people conduct their readings but I can never be too sure of what happens in their bodies while they do the readings. So, let me tell you a bit about how I do a reading for my clients.

People who come to me have some sort of problems they need sorted out, by communicating with they guides and finding the solutions. My part is to determine which guide/s are disrupting this persons life. During a reading I sit on the floor, facing my client and I burn the scent to invite the spirits to come through. Sometimes I don’t need to burn the scent if the spirits are already there and their vibrations are strong and clear. Off course this depends on how the spirits feel towards their loved one, sitting in front of me. If they are angry, they may refuse to bring through the messages, in which case we have to pray and speak to the scent so that they can come through.

There are cases where the spirits are not angry and  they just come through on their own without the scent having been burnt.  Since the guides exist in the spiritual world they have to use my body in order to make their feelings known. The guides move like a cloud of smoke and they enter my body and begin to communicate with my client. This makes my body feels like it has been taken over by another soul and I am not in total control. The spirits  then relay messages and they start by letting me know whether they are male or female. They then continue to tell me whether they come from the mother’s or the father’s side of the family of my client. The third set of messages usually relate to their emotional state, which can be anything from anger, heartache, shock, relief, happiness or a feeling of betrayal. Remember that these feelings have a lot to do with the state this spirit was in, during the time of death and the spirit concerned has come back to sort that out before it can be cleansed and released to the light.


The spirit use my body to voice out all of these feelings, so if the spirit is a male and has a hoarse voice, that’s the way my voice will come out. Even when the spirits are upset and they want to cry, they will use my body to shed the tears. While all of this is happening my body feels like it is trapped in the spiritual world and for me to get it back and gain total control of it, I have to pass through all the messages as they come to me. The spirits don’t go away until they feel like all of their messages or concerns have been voiced out. It is usually a problem with the angry spirit because they always feel like I don’t show or explain exactly how angry they are. Usually they stay longer and quote some of the bad things they have done to my clients’ life as a result of their state of anger.

 

When I do the reading, I can’t say that the guides concentrate much on fortune telling but they deal mostly with the reasons why my client is experiencing problems in his/her life. These reasons vary from things like, the neglect of the ancestors as other people just don’t want to believe in them at all. Another reason could be that the proper prayers for the individual are not done and the ancestors/guides feel left out so they cannot involve themselves in helping him/her with the problems. There are a lot of reasons that may cause these problems, some of them are mentioned under’ What holds up back after death’.

If the client is sick medically, and has body pains, the spirits will make me feel the same kind of pains. Even though the pain may not be that painful to me but in my mind the spirits will let me know just how excruciating the pain is. I remember once I had a lady who had a backbone problem that was very painful.

The spirits made me feel the pain and also told me that she had some metal bracelets put on her backbone to try and remedy the situation. Another sad story I remember was of a baby that was still born but swooped at birth and given to the wrong woman. Surprisingly the baby created a bond with the wrong woman but she made it clear that she was not her biological mother. This baby even went on to affect this woman’s son in his life because she had created a bond with his mother.

When the spirits pick up some ailments or body pains from my clients during a reading, they usually cure those illnesses but it is always important for the clients to follow instructions given by their guides. Sometimes the guides instruct my clients on how to do certain prayers or to change their lifestyles altogether. I do believe that my body does get possessed by the spirits during a reading but I also know that it is all for the good reasons and if I want to stop at any stage I can always do so. The spirits can possess and control us at times but at the end of the day, we have the final say in the whole process. Which is why you find that other people refuse to accept the calling and get away with it, reason being even though the spirits can possess us, it is only to a certain degree since they do not have the physical aspect to fulfill the purpose of living.


As far as I am concerned, the ancestors/guides, when they approach you can only control up to 40% of your life and the 60% belongs to us. I give them forty because if they want they can bring about events in your life that can totally destroy and devastate you. The 60% we have, give us the ability to have the final say in the matter, since we are the ones with the physical bodies that the spirits need to set them free.

Yes the spirits are all around us guiding each and everyone of us but they do not worry about what we do with our bodies, since they don’t exist in the physical and affectionate world. The world of spirits have nothing physical so the next time you take a bath do not worry about the spirits that might be creeping in all around you. Some people have removed their prayer places( umsamo) from their bedrooms, claiming that it is disrespectful to the ancestors. I think it is the other way around and its’ a shame to even think that the ancestors have got time to around looking for people getting undressed. The thought in itself is synical to me. Besides, these are the people who brought you into this world naked, so what is the problem if they were to see you in your birthday suit.

 

We need to clear our minds and think about how the spirits exist before we make things too complicated in this world.

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March 8 2009 7 08 /03 /March /2009 12:20

 

 

When one goes and trains to become a healer, they get a trainer who teaches them everything about the ancestors and healing. This was not the case with me as I didn’t go for that sort of training which is called “ukuthwasa”.

 

I was lucky though that my ancestors came to me and offered to teach me themselves while I was at my home, carrying on with life. They use to come to me in dreams, visions and during consultations with my clients. Each time they came through they had a message about how I was going to do their work. They even answered some of the questions I had about the practice.

 

One of the questions I had was: “Why do spirits come back after death?” I had realized that all the people who came to me for help had spirits with them who were stuck and experiencing difficulties on their journey back to the Lord. All these spirits would complain that they cannot move forward and cannot see the light. They needed to be released so that they can do their work of looking after their loved ones who are still on earth.

 

Here are some of the reasons why the spirits get stuck:

 

These are some of the reasons that the spirits would generally give as to why they are stuck and need some help. We must understand that when a spirit is stuck it creates problems for the loved ones concerned thus prompting them to go for a reading.

  • If a person dies while there are unresolved issues in the family, and the person who dies is probably the cause of the problem, this person can get stuck on the ‘other side’. This means that during the time of death this person had a lot of unresolved issues in his/her life which might have resulted in him/her becoming an angry person. All these feelings of anger and resentment become a burden on this persons' soul. When we are born the soul is in its purest form as it comes from the Almighty but during the period of living on earth we pick up all sorts of negative feelings mostly associated with the physical part of our lives.

By the time of death, we all need to have resolved all the conflicts and burdens that hinder the soul in its’ journey as it has to reach the Lord in its’ purest form like the way it was before the birth of a human being. Well this is not always the case and usually the spirit will come back to do right by the loved ones before it can be able to continue in its’ way.

 

At a later stage, I will discuss the problems that are usually experienced by the loved ones of a spirit that is stuck.

  • If a person usually a woman dies and leaves an infant, her soul may find it hard to accept death thus becoming a cloud of darkness over the child’s life. Some of the spirits have come back to explain that, accepting death was hard so they hung on to life and continued to ‘mother’ the child which in  itself is a problem to the child. This child usually has problems because the leading guide in his/her life, firstly is a parent and secondly this guide still regards him/her as a  baby and may never allow him/he to grow up and do what adults do. Remember that the spirit is stuck but it still wants to help and protect this child. A person in this situation may complain that even though they get basically everything that they want, the serious things of adulthood are just not happening in their lives. I will let your imagination run on this one and mention just a few things like, not being able to be in a serious and committed relationship, nobody takes them serious as people always brush them off and opportunities pass them by. There are other serious problems which may even be medical  and in some cases you find that a person does not reach adulthood or a woman cannot have children etc.
  • In the case of males, a man who rejects his child from the beginning, refuses to maintain them and dies having not accepted the child as one of his own. When this child is grown up and is experiencing problems, people will tell him/her that the spirit of the late father is asking for forgiveness thus creating problems to get his/her attention. Children are a gift from God, we are supposed to take care of them and nurture them. When we die we have to report  on the other side as to how our kids are doing and if we didn’t do right by them it creates problems ,then the spirit wanders about to go ask for forgiveness.
  • Another spirit that will always come back is that of someone who refuses to accept the calling and dies having not honored the ancestors. In the case of a ‘calling’ we must remember that there are powerful spirits that want the powers to be used on earth before their souls can be released properly. If someone refuses to accept and use the powers from the ancestors it becomes a problem because the powers don’t go away and have to be used up on earth before the soul can be released. When this person dies he/she has to answer as to why they are still carrying the unused powers and having not handed it over their kids in due time. For the people who are meant to be healers/sangomas they need to accept the powers from their ancestors, use them through healing others and finally pass the gift over to their children. This process carries on from generation to generation until such time that the purpose of the powers is fulfilled. Some people refuse to accept the calling while others are just not aware of this, but either way when one dies they still have to answer as to why the powers are not used up. When these spirits come back they always make it clear that there is no longer any use of the powers that they carry in the world of the spirits. They then plead with the loved ones to accept the powers that have become a burden on their soul.
  • A person who dies violently and/or quickly, in an accident can always come back for some clarity. People who died quickly and violently have come back to claim that they are in ‘limbo’ as to whether they are dead or alive. Earlier on, I explained that when we die we take the role of being guides to those who are still living, so the ones who are in ‘limbo’  are obviously going to create problems in this whole system. They then come back and haunt their loved ones by creating problems in their lives. They may interfere in their daily lives or bring them nightmares when they sleep. The spirits in limbo are not sure how to use their powers. They may try to use their physical part thinking they are still alive and when they fail they might resort to the emotional aspect used by all the spirits through feelings. It is important for the loved ones of these spirits to set them free by praying for them allowing them to accept death and their new responsibilities.
  • If a child dies at a very young age and the proper prayers are not done to set the spirit free, this spirit can also cause problems. Traditionally, when people are doing prayers to the ancestors they do not include those who die at the young age, not unless they are told by the sangomas. This is the reason why people need to know who their leading guides are. It doesn’t matter how young the child was when it passed away, even those who were miscarried need to be acknowledged since they are a gift from God and a soul had already been assigned to them even though they were not born yet. I believe that the soul is assigned to a human being during the time of conception. In such cases, there are prayers which can be done to accept and recognize the existence of this soul so that it can fulfill its purpose of being a guide to someone. These are just a few of the reasons, the list is endless. The one thing for sure though, is that we all need to do the right thing while we have a chance here on earth before it becomes a problem to everyone else involved once we die. We also need to be humble and rid ourselves of all the feelings of resentment and selfishness. All the bad things we do come back to haunt us on the ‘other side’.  In my case there were so many different reasons for all my different guides and ancestors, which made them to come back so they can be cleansed. What I know is that, my great, great grandfather, who was a king had a very big household and a lot of things happened during the time of his reign both in the family and amongst his people in the clan. As a king he takes all the responsibility and the blame for everything his people were involved with. He also lived during the time of primitive wars where people would go out and kill each other during the wars. He was a brave man and he use to go out and lead his warriors at war and as a result he must have killed a lot of people. This in itself is good enough a reason for his spirit to come back and ask to be cleansed. I also know that my second powerful guide is my great grand mother who is known to be of French origin, who came to marry into my family during or just after the reign of my leading guide. Apparently she had healing powers but her father had put shame upon her because of this and when she came to my family they also disregarded her powers altogether. So she had a whole lot of issues that made her unhappy in the end and all of this became a burden to my first guide since he was in charge and responsible for the chiefdom.

 

When people are dead we always say ‘may your soul rest in peace’ and I hope the next time you say this you will have a broader meaning of what it really means.


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March 5 2009 4 05 /03 /March /2009 21:19

These are the signs that confirm that a person has powers and is being aproached by the ancestors, to accept the 'calling'

 When someone has a calling ,there are signs that happen in his/her life that serves as a confirmation that the ancestors want that person to become a healer. A person might experience problems, or a feeling of loss and a sense of hopelessness. In most cases a person feels like his/her luck is blocked in everything he/she does.


Most people with the calling dream of the sea almost everyday during the early stages of the calling. At first the sea may be cool and calm but as the time goes on and the ancestors become persistent, the sea turns to be aggressive. In some cases a person may dream of ancestors telling him/her to go and bathe in the sea water. Remember that becoming a healer is a calling by powers that are beyond human understanding, so only the chosen people may go along this route. When you are the chosen on, you have to accept the calling and then listen to the instructions your ancestors give you. If one decides not to accept the calling, they can continue with their lives but may experience a lot of difficulties until such time that the calling comes back to the next generation.
I believe that refusing the calling means that one can never know the full potential of their existence in this life. In the case where one accepts the calling ,it is important to follow the instructions from your guides and to help people with your gift in the most honest and humble way. Following the instructions simple means to live your life the way the ancestors tell you to, in order for the gift of healing to work successfully.

Like everybody else, I also had these signs especially the dreams about the sea. The only problem was that even though I was open minded and accepting about this whole thing, I had never in a million years thought that I could one day become a healer. So when it happened, it took quiet a while for me to accept the reality of what was happening to me. The one thing I have come to understand though about the ancestors/guides is that, they are very possessive and persistent. Once they have chosen you, they will keep on coming until you have accepted the calling. They are also very much attached to who and what they were during their time on earth. In my knowledge, the ancestors will only follow or guide people of their own family( blood relatives). I am in no way trying to despute the fact that, other people have guides from a person they had never even met, people from across the globe and from other nationalities altogether. This, I have only heard of, and had never experienced it in my practice.

One of the very strong signs I had was the feeling that I wasn’t living up to my maximum potential. I always felt that there was something inside of me that was driving me to do more, achieve more and break all the rules and boundaries made by mankind to hinder my performance. I felt that people shouldn’t judge me by my looks because I always had a lot to offer. All these qualities made me a people’s person and from an early age I became very good at counseling others. I still remember the time I talked my cousin out of committing suicide. All of his friends had tried to talk him out with no success but I only sat him down once and the next day he came back smiling and had carried on with his life ever since.
My ancestors/guides come from both my mothers and my fathers side. Both sides are equally powerful and possessive but the ones who came through first were the ones from my father’s side. The guides are always with us but when they want to work through an individual, they ‘rise up’ and make their presence known. It is at about this time that one gets the ‘signs’. When they rise up, they try to re-live their lives through you. For me it was at this stage that I realized I wasn’t living my life just for myself. I also realized that the prominent guide in my life was a male spirit who had been very powerful during the he lived on earth. When I looked at myself, I could see all the signs of dominance, possessiveness, controlling and the fearless nature. At a later stage I were to discover that this spirit was that of my great,grest, great grand father who lived hundreds of years ago and had been a king in his clan somewhere in Mozambique. All of these signs were there in my own life but it took me quiet some convincing for me to believe that I was really becoming a healer.

 I said that the ancestors can be very persistent and possessive, so let me explain this in detail. Ancestors are possessive in that when they have chosen you, they expect you to accept and obey their calling before you can carry on with your life. Which is why you hear people say, ‘my life has hit a dead end, its’ going nowhere’, this is because they need to accept the ancestors presence first before they can carry on with their lives. You can also see this possessiveness where someone with a calling is a woman. Traditionally when a woman gets married she changes everything and accepts or changes to her husband’s surname and culture. It is at this crucial point that the ancestors conflict with the proceedings. The ancestors will not let a woman with whom they have strong ties to go and get married without honoring them first. She needs to honor and accept the ancestors at her home first and then ask them to lead her way as she goes to join her husbands’ family. In this way the ancestors get the attention and praise which is due to them, so they then release the woman and bless her. In some cases where this procedure is not followed properly or ignored you find that the woman might experience problems in making her marriage work.
 These problems may range from something like, infertility, miscarriages, fights with the in-laws and the marriage breakdown. These are just some of the signs that one can experience at any stage in their lives and it’s always wise to be aware of them so as not to blame others and end up having enemies for no reason at all. While we are on the possessiveness of the ancestors, let me explain it further concentrating on the case where a female has to become a healer and practice in the name of the ancestors. It is very important for this person to do all the honoring of the ancestors before she goes to get married and changes her surname. When a healer/sangoma is practicing, all the praise is given to her ancestors and if she has married and changed her surname people might give praise to the wrong guides by mentioning her husbands surname when in actual fact her gift of healing comes from her maiden name.
This has created a lot of problems in the past with practicing healers/sangoma who confused the spiritual with the cultural way of doing things. Yes, off course, it is very important to make a distinction between the cultural and spiritual way of doing things because the two go hand in hand but the spiritual way is more powerful as it dictates the culture in a lot of instances.

 In my case, I had done it all in a very short space of time and my future was looking bright as I was getting ready to go and get married. Unfortunately for me the one thing I hadn’t done was to honor and give praise to the guides. They were the force behind all of my achievements but I wasn’t doing enough for them. Actually, I wasn’t even aware of the calling so I thought that I was just going to go and get married but it didn’t happen.
 Within a period of five years, I had managed to go from being unemployed to getting a good job and a promotion, I was driving a good car and my child’s future was secured. We had set a date for my fiancée to come and discuss lobola with my family but this also didn’t happen. Nothing materialized and after the negotiations were postponed for the third time, I then realized that something beyond my control was working against my going to get married. The first two dates didn’t work out because the people who were coming had some last minute engagements but the last one was the last straw. On this particular day my fiancée got very sick and had to be admitted to a hospital where he spent two months and suffered a stroke.
While he was in the hospital I took some time to do my own introspection. I had to find out what the whole experience was telling me. It was then that I realized that, there were these powers that were trying to send me a message but it was difficult because I was so involved in my own life, trying to make things happen, that I didn’t even see the signs right there in front of me.
I then decided to dedicated my life to the spirits and wanted to find out more about their world. I accepted the calling, listened to the instructions and started helping people.

I knew I had to make a decision and resign from my work but it wasn’t an easy one. How do you resign from the job you have worked hard and had dedicated all your time and effort to be where you are.

 I continued to work as a shift manager at a casino and would consult with my clients at home on my off days.



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