A young couple contacted me about doing a clearing on their house. They had a two year old son who had developed severe asthma and now he also was going through his second bout of pneumonia. Their son had been complaining that there was a man in his bedroom closet. The couple had also felt a presence in their home on more than one occasion. They felt that whatever it was was affecting their son's health.
I always like to do a mediation before I go to clear someone's house. I find that I can often pick up on extra little bits of information that are helpful to the clearing.
When I did my meditation I saw a tree. Not a normal tree, though. A scary tree. It had tons of branches but no leaves. It felt very dangerous and malevolent. I had never picked up on something like that before. It was weird. Was this an ancient nature spirit? Why would it be attacking a small child?
I went to see the house. It was built in the early 2000s, suburban-built on old farmland. There were no evil trees on the property that I could see. Then energy in the main part of the house felt totally fine. I went upstairs and definitely could feel some energy in the boy's room. I tuned into it and picked up an old man-a farmer. He was wearing a tattered coat with a belt around it. He had a son that had been in the airforce in WW2 and had died. He and his wife had stayed on, farming for many years. He had died, a widower, staying on the land until the end.
At first I thought that perhaps he was angry at having a child on his property but he said to me, "I'm here to protect the children." That was all that he would say. His energy felt kindly, concerned. I wondered if he was protecting the son from the 'evil tree spirit'. I brought up my vision of the tree with the couple, though I downplayed how negative it felt to me. I then started my clearing, down in the basement and working up.
It was when I was on the stairs going up to the second floor where the bedrooms were, that I saw the evil tree. It was in the bathroom, glowing like a beacon. It was a plug- in Scentsy wax warmer! The design on it was EXACTLY the tree that I had seen in my vision!
"Here's what's been giving your son asthma! I told them, "The ghost of the old farmer that you all have been feeling in the house has been making himself known so that you'd call in someone who could pick up on what was really happening."
Before I was done explaining what was going on, the husband had already gone and gotten a cardboard box and was clearing all of the Scentsy products (they had several) out of the house. He put them all out on the front steps.
I thanked the old man and told the couple to let me know if they felt him around again. As far as I know, things are still good there.
I often tell people that it's not always ghosts that cause energetic problems in homes. It can be the way that furniture is arranged, or a room that never gets any light. It's often clutter, or projects that were never finished, inner healing that needs to be done.
In this case, it was a tiny boy who was sensitive to chemicals. It took a concerned, dead farmer to get the family the help that they needed.