My Heritage district neighborhood had a 1st annual Antiques Hop event. While walking through a familiar store, I crossed paths with Tony. His high energy vibration caught my attention. His attire seemed to be of tribal orientation, which further peaked my interest. I made an affirming comment while passing back through in his direction.
He said “there’s something unique about you, brother”.
That he felt comfortable calling a stranger, brother, was wonderful. The only indication of tribal affiliation and ancestral background, aside from my red-toned skin-memory, was my “corporate acceptable headdress” as I comically refer to my hair style, and my 4 Directions/Races bracelet. We exited the store and I assumed that would be the end of that already nice experience. However, 2 hours later that evening, we crossed paths again in a different Antique store. We struck up a deeper conversation, focused on our Native origins. It’s a rare treat to meet someone who truly held onto our ancient Understanding.
He vaguely suggested there was something unique about me as he seemed to look around and beyond me. Unsure of himself? Lazy vision? I thought this was a bit weird at 1st, but shrugged it off, because I am also one to think and look off in the distance, while conversing. I appreciated the kind, rare affirmation of my Natural-Knowing. He offered a business card. I called him a few days later and we met impromptu in a coffee shop. This is when the life-changing experience began.
As they sat down to chat in the coffee shop, David quickly observed Tony’s distracted line of sight, focused on something behind David over his left shoulder. His antics made David a tad nervous, glancing over his own shoulder a couple of times, so as to let Tony know, he was observing Tony’s odd behavior. So David risked making him uncomfortable (so he thought) by asking Tony what he was observing. As he took a breath of courage to challenge the behavior, he felt an intense shot of energy up his spine, projecting out his finger tips, toes and top of his head (a feeling he had summoned up many times over his own lifetime).
“David, you have visitors with you today. They were with you also, that 1st day I met you.” – Tony
“What do you mean? [nervous chuckle] – David.
I have a very open mind, but I wasn’t sure where he was going in this convo.
“A women stands in front of them … she is older, approximately 70s. Frail, skinny, unsure of herself, and seemingly unconformable with you.” – Tony
“Huh!? You mean a spirit of some sort?” – David
“Yes sir. She has been with you for sometime. I’d guess a few years at least.” – Tony
“Wow!” – David.
Feeling quite puzzled, I quickly fumbled for the business card that I apparently didn’t read closely.
The upper portion of his card had illegible black ink in a blue box that said Psychic Medium, Ancestral Readings.
Feeling a bit mislead with some disbelief setting in, I probed and challenged the validity of his Reading.
“So, who do you think She is?” – David
“She’s a grand mother. I’d guess several generations back.” – Tony
“Wow! I had a feeling I have been visited and supported lately. What does she look like again?” – David.
I was deathly sick a few weeks earlier, AND 2 months after this event. Perhaps this brought her back. A figurative death of who David was taught to be Nov-Jan, and a proper return [re birth] to his Natural living/knowing in February. He was feeling a powerful new Faith and Grace in this moment.
“Salt & Pepper, mostly gray straight hair. Long. High, sharp cheek bones.
Stern look about her. Wirey frame. Shorter person. Striking, piercing eyes.” – Tony
“Hmmmm. She sounds just like my GG Mother on my Father’s Mother’s side. Wonderful! Tell me more?” – David
“She seems apprehensive … about you.” – Tony
“Hmmm. What do you mean?” – David
“She has observed your interest in your Ancestors and their Way of life.
But she questions your motives, based on how you’re currently living.” – Tony
“Wow!! I can totally understand that! I myself have not been happy in walking my current path in ‘Corporate America’.
My life doesn’t feel like my own. Feels very unnatural. I feel so alone … lost.” – David
[thinking that he may have summoned her / others, asking for guidance many times over the years]
Tony interrupts me, sounding like he’s stuttering “uh, eeh … Sue-uh, eeh” “her name is Sue?”,
I was feeling confused and disappointed, knowing no Sue in my lineage
“no, I think she is saying that … the family Journey was given to you, long ago”,
an awkward pause with darting eyes over both of my shoulders
“I sense she’s saying they hope you continue the Journey“ – Tony
With one last bit of doubt, I asked one final challenge question. “Is she wearing something specific?” – David
I was fishing for evidence of which Ancestor she was.
Certainly, a person from the past wore many things, but I had been very focused on a photo offered -2 years ago .. a pic of my Great Grandmother Eugenia.
I was forgetting her Indian name in this moment.
Fumbling with a piece of scratch paper for a minute and mumbling as he looked up and down frequently over David’s left shoulder, Tony said something so startling and accurate.
“She has a long skirt on. Hard to make that out. But her shirt has a definite look of repeating Ws or Ms. Kinda resembles a mountain range.
Perhaps the shirt is a faded yellow or orange. Does that mean something to you?” – Tony
after a shocked and amazed moment of pause … “That IS my great grand mother Eugenia!” – David.
Raw intense energy shooting up David’s spine. I wondered if saying her name aloud, was encouraging a big energetic hug from her. Tony seemed impacted by the heightened energy of that moment, pushing back in his chair, eyes opening wide.
“The only photo I’ve ever seen of her .. you’ve described perfectly!”.
That pic is only in hard copy format, so there’s no way he could have combed the Internet for it, as a con game with David.
Feeling complete AWE, hungry for more info, I asked “you said them and they, hope I continue … are there others behind / with me?”
“they are not taking form, more so light and faint sound … energy patterns” – Tony
after a long pause with eyes closed and ears focusing in, Tony offered what sounded like “not mad … “
and a pause to stare at me, uncomfortably I interrupted “someone is not mad at me?” feeling concerned
“no … she is offering her name, but I can’t discern it” – Tony
(GGma Namid was returning to me! wow!!)
“she has a little girl with her … hmm, I think I hear 2 little girls …
their toddler sounds have foreign words intermingling, I’m sorry, I can’t understand” – Tony
“what do they look like?” – David
“I’m seeing 3 diamonds strung together … no faces, just intense light” – Tony
“I’m sensing curiosity, intense love and hope for you, from these energy patterns” – Tony
“I’m sorry, I wish I could hear them better. They are fading.” – Tony
a few minutes later, Tony staring higher, above me … “I’m seeing a river, twisting and turning … and … a man saying …”
pausing to try to understand “mom … mas … in a … john” with a look of embarrassment for saying that – Tony
“is this making any sense to you David? I’m really sorry … these words … I don’t understand them” – as Tony repeated it two more times.
I am feeling completely stunned at this point, suspecting that the girls are my blood Grandmother (name unknown, dying while giving birth to my mother) who has visited me in my dreams since age 4, and possibly my own mother in her child form!
“the 3rd energy pattern seems masculine … a lower tone coming through doesn’t make sense to me …
I’m hearing … Keep Me … and … we saw … gum?” – Tony
Tony conveying the voice was trying to switch to English… “pain … secret … secrets … let it out?”,
but Tony was giving up in this moment, as though he didn’t want to confuse me, possibly sensing he was delivering a painful message to me?
it didn’t make sense with me for a few minutes, but by the end of our convo, I was completely stunned, my storyline revealed and changed, forever!
The rest of the discussion is quite private and life-affirming for David’s own life mission, but in essence, Tony’s message was to…
“return to your Natural way of living. Your Ancestors want this for you and for the world. They believe in you, but need evidence of your sincerity. Make your Actions match what your heart knows and seeks.” Tony was interpreting the energies, their meaning / intent, sitting in silence with head shifting back and forth, eyes closed, as if to shake lose his own self as a blocker to the messages, trying to make it to me, through him. The colonized version of me would have missed much of this beauty, afraid of how we looked to the 8am coffee crowd over the last 30 minutes but thankfully, I returned to our Peoples Original presence, and stayed WITH Tony throughout the entire experience.
Somehow he knew that my Naming Ceremony in 2015, which reflected what GGGma said [in ~1880] would come to be, declared me a Peacemaker, with the name of “walks in Peace” or “where Peace resides”. Dohiyi. This 3rd affirmation in David’s lifetime was the final spark for overdue change. I came to realize a couple months later, that Tony was actually relaying the word Visvi (uh-ee suh-ee) which means Journey in Tsalagi (Cherokee language). My great grand mother was reminding me of my true lineage, affirming who she really was in that moment (using her AniYunWiYa trait name), and imparting a crucial reminding of why they passed along the ciphers (nvWatoHiyadv, DoHiYi, and now Visvi) to me. Wow! I asked my father if she ever uttered her trait name, and he was moved to tears to hear the word “Journey” again. He couldn’t understand what had transpired, nor would his colonized / conditioned mind accept that the message came to me in this [wise, old, Original] Way.
A couple years later, while listening to a pod cast episode between Tiokasin Ghosthorse and guest Melanie Goodchild (4/03/22, 21 minute mark), I’d come to realize that the only reference to my GGG grand father … Flowing Waters (Adeyvasgv Amayi; Tsalagi), meaning Flowing [with the] River [of Life’s current; not fighting/drowning], Tony was relaying directly from my GG Grandfather, the Ojibwe word Mamasinijiwan (resilience for quick adaptation and the need for change) for “the twisting, turning of river a-flow”! Amazing!!! And a wonderful cross-over from my origin and Understanding of the Tao since birth.
excerpt from Melanie’s think-tank and group white paper
our Way of resilience to “Flow with the Watercourse way” … the far East and our Peoples, undeniably linked in Understanding Relativity
A few years earlier I had shown dad a picture of “Little Hawk”, but now the circle was complete on this part of our lineage. Time and Symbiotic Relationship is clearly not Linear. ⭕️🙏🏽🌎💫 This is all the basis of my humble request, to be known by the Anishinaabe, as Bizaan-ayaa (resting quietly/peacefully). This is my life-pattern, back yet again, Flowing through me since I can remember.
David in tears, exited the building, with the most overwhelming sense of Love and Gratitude. Watch this video for deeper meaning of David’s family lineage, and this video for David’s GGG Grandmother’s specific story of escape from the Trail of Tears (Cherokee death march to Oklahoma). GG Mother Eugenia ~1865 to 1948 As of this Storyline’s post in 2020, this picture is now in digital form, for the 1st time. Since ~5 yrs old, David had dreams and daydreams of this W-M pattern, and drew it frequently until about age 10. 
More recently, David broke down in tears and spirit energy pulsing through his body for 20 minutes, after watching this scene from Rez Dogs…