This story is so hard to believe, but it really happened!

2016-

Once I started my spiritual journey, I started to question what was my spirit animal or spirit animal guide. I had many dreams with owls and big cats, but I didn’t take it seriously, in terms of how it related to shamanism. At the time I was just playing the, “what’s my spirit animal?” game with my friends. As time went on and I began to do more energy healing work, I progressed quickly and unknowingly or unconsciously began to inherently do shamanic work, that’s when I think I initiated my spirit animal. I remember several accounts while working on someone energetically and spiritually, I would look down and see black paws circling my client and myself in my healing space. I wasn’t sure if what I was seeing was true or not, and I didn’t know why I couldn’t see the whole animal. Even though I was seeing huge black paws around me, while doing the work, I hadn’t really acknowledged the significance of it until years later when I met an African medicine man from Zimbabwe.

How I met this man is what’s unbelievable. I have never met him in person and we were not exactly introduced to each other. I met him through a group chat on WhatsApp a few years ago, where my bf added me to partake in their African spiritual topics. I wasn’t very involved in their discussions, as there were too many people who participated in the chat, however, from time to time, I would check what the topics were about.

One night, I had astral travelled… I remember vividly that I was flying across an endless ocean. I was swooping down happily, touching the sea water, and I even recall being greeted by sea creatures who were very glad to see me. These sea creatures, are not like the ocean creatures that are known to us, on this physical planet, they might be inter-dimensional creatures, not sure… anyways, as I was flying further across the ocean, I had complained about the gloomy weather. I remember literally saying out-loud, “Why TF is it so gloomy today?!”

Upon yelling that out, a dark entity came at me, from the sky, it looked like Harry Potters “dementors”, it had no face, which by the way, I have encountered them before. This dementor-like entity was holding me back, it didn’t want me to go further past where I was. In fact, it was trying to push me back into my body, to wake me up. I fought it though, I felt a compelling need to cross the ocean, even though I had no idea where I was going. The entity didn’t hurt me, it did scare me though, not because it was a dark entity but because its face was space, if that makes sense. it was a hooded entity without a face but there was space where the head should have been. When I describe it as “space”, I mean it feels like eternity… a vacuous space with intense energy. I had encountered this “eternity” sensation before, which I will share that story too, at some point, as it traumatized me for life! Which is why the entities vacuous faceless face, scared me. I was pushed back into my body, in which I felt myself enter my physical body and woke up. I had shared this story immediately with my bf and some close friends.

A week later or so, I had opened up the African spiritual group chat and read a paragraph that inspired me to contact the author. Now, mind you, on whatsApp chats, you cannot see peoples names unless you add them to your contacts, so, all I could see was a number. I sent a message acknowledging the persons wisdom. Shortly thereafter, he replied and mentioned that we had met before. I thought he confused me with someone else, I told him he must be mistaken. He continued, saying he knows I am in Canada, (obviously, my number is Canadian.) He further explains to me that a spirit had told him that he would meet a medicine woman who lives in Canada, and that I was that very woman. I was skeptical at first, that is, until he mentioned casually that I am an astral traveller! I asked him how he would know something so private. He said that we met in the astral realms last week. He laughed while quoting me on my complaint about the gloomy weather! I was shook! Shook I tell you!! I took a long moment to digest what he told me. He furthered his evidence and told me he saw me fight the “entity”, and explained that the dementor-like entity is called, a “gatekeeper”, and that I have no reason to be afraid of them. He taught me that the gatekeepers protect certain lands, so, that particular gatekeeper was protecting Africa. So, I asked him, “Why am I not allowed to enter Africa?”,

He answers, “It’s because you have untamed magic, you have yet to learn to control it”

Needless to say, we had an interesting, and very long chat that lead us to connect as friends. He is so special, so connected to his spirituality that he channels the Lion spirit! Also interesting, is that my bf’s late grandmother on his mother’s side, also channeled the Lion spirit back in Zimbabwe.

He sent me an audio, and for the first time I got to hear the channeled Lion spirit! His voice was amazing! I felt the ancient vibration of his voice and growl. The Lion spirit was speaking mainly in an ancient form of an African language, which had to be translated by an elder, but he also spoke to me in English, his first words in the audio was referring me to as “The woman who walks with the Black Jaguar”.

A lot more was said in the audio, and yes, I kept the audio, however, my friend asked me not to share it, in honour of the Lion spirit. I only shared it with my bf, the elder who translated it, and very very close family members.

I particularly enjoyed listening to the Lion spirit’s voice, it had so many layers and dimensions to its vocals, growls.. that it sent shivers down my spine, and the Lion spirit’s wisdom was so ancient and just so extraordinary. Him calling me the Black Jaguar woman, intrigued me, it felt like home for me… finally , I was able to identify myself in the world, always being strange, mystical and living at night. I am nocturnal like the cat. Essentially, This traditional shaman from Zimbabwe, has helped to validate me, my spiritual experiences, and my calling on this natural world. He is part of my soul’s journey…