By Peggy River Singer
About twenty years ago, my cat Melissa was dying of kidney disease. I was desperate to save her, not ready to let her go. Finally, I decided to find out what she wanted to do. I needed to hear her tell me that it was time for her to leave, so I wouldn’t drown in my own guilt by having her put to sleep.
A veterinary assistant gave me the name of a local psychic. This was after closing the door to our exam room so we wouldn’t be overheard. Clearly, that sort of woo-woo New Age hippy nonsense was not welcome in this modern veterinary hospital.
The psychic told me Melissa was holding on for my sake. Hearing that gave me the courage to request euthanasia, and I held her in my arms as she drifted away.
Naturally enough, I very much wanted to be able to do what the psychic did so effortlessly. I took classes from her and Judy Ramsey in Chelsea, among other teachers. At first, I used pendulums to get answers from animals. It was a long time before I could hear animals’ voices, and I think that was because I embodied such deep levels of trauma from a difficult childhood. As I gradually cleared and released that trauma, it became easier for animals to connect with me, and everything developed from there.
My first real conversation was when I started talking to a squirrel one day to practice my new skills. He interrupted with, “Don’t just waltz in here and start talking, that’s rude! Be. Become. Then ask if someone wants to talk.” He flicked his tail and departed, and I saw the name Tuu-Liss in my mind.
Animals live in a world of energy, and I’ve learned how important it is to be aware of my own energy during communication sessions. When Tuu-Liss told me to “be” and “become” that day, he meant that I should settle my energy until it became comfortably compatible with the peaceful energy of that moment in that place, as well as his own energy, before I went any further; and I’m still following his advice today.
When I connect with an animal, it’s like when you plug in a cord and feel it settle into the socket. The animal’s voice in my head sounds like my own voice; so, I need to be constantly alert to whether I’m hearing the animal’s words, or my own thoughts. Departed animals do tend to have more “sparkle” in their energies; otherwise, it feels just like talking with living animals.
When I introduce myself to wild animals, I use the name River (a name animals can connect with). Years ago, I said “good morning!” to a Marsh Hawk perched on a telephone pole on West Stadium in Ann Arbor. What I heard back was alien-sounding noises; then the hawk figured out how to match its energies to mine and began to speak in English. We had a pleasant conversation about what a beautiful morning it was, and she told me that she was sunning herself before hunting for her breakfast.
I often call on an animal’s Higher Self or their personal angel during readings. This worked beautifully for an elderly dog with advanced dementia; and for a ram who had become dangerous because he was no longer sane. Several departed animals also help me with readings; recently, some gnomes and fairies offered to help with wild animals.
COMMON SITUATIONS I WORK WITH
Lots of animal behavioral and health issues are rooted in their humans’ unacknowledged traumas, fears, and anxieties. One cat repeatedly tore up the carpet in a closet: she was sending the message that Mom needed to look into a “dark corner” of her memories to heal an issue that was holding her back from being her best self. Another cat was unable to urinate. She had trained her body to be unable to release old toxic energies to express that concept to her mom. It’s also common for animals to take in illnesses from their humans and process those illnesses in their own bodies, as several of my own animals have done.
Domestic animals live their lives according to choices made by humans, which is necessary for the animal’s welfare but doesn’t allow them full autonomy of expression on every level of their being-ness. I consider animals to be sentient beings with free will, who can make their own decisions. I tell new animal clients their human will hear everything we talk about, and that if the animal isn’t interested in finding solutions to problems, I’ll cancel the session. Giving them the freedom to choose usually dissolves barriers and changes lives. And just like for humans, an opportunity to express griefs and grievances can result in tremendous healing.
Anxious animals can be empowered by learning to approach their fears in a new way. Cuba the cat was terrified of plastic bags, so I suggested he look at those plastic bags objectively and acknowledge that they were part of everyday life with humans, and they couldn’t hurt him. I encouraged him to practice what he would do the next time he was startled by a bag’s rustling sound or unexpected movement: “Oh, that’s just one of those bags and it startled me, that’s perfectly okay.” This new outlook resulted in a very happy message from Cuba’s Mom about her calmer and more confident cat!
Another client asked me to try to stop her dog from stealing food at family picnics. The dog told me how much fun it was when people chased him. I said, “Okay, but it probably took a long time to make that food, and your family was looking forward to eating it. When you steal the food, the whole meal is ruined, and everyone is very disappointed.”
The dog told me he was bored and just wanted to liven things up. I shared his point of view with his owners and asked them to help the dog get much more exercise, including something like a backyard agility course to challenge both mind and body.
I had a session with a very fearful cat recently that will give you an idea of some of the extraordinary things I’ve heard from animal clients. I asked the cat if anything had happened in her life that was so frightening that it’s still bothering her.
She responded, “I see your idea, not in this life but in several recent lifetimes. It seems that I have chosen and planned these experiences so that my different human families can help me with them. Each of those lifetimes has offered a step forward toward a more balanced life. This is the last lifetime where I will need this kind of help, which will be offered by you at the request of my humans. Picture this process as a great big circle with different families along the way, and today the two ends of the circle unite, and the cycle is complete. There are no coincidences, you see.”
CAN ANYBODY DO ANIMAL COMMUNICATION?
I’m convinced that all humans have natural psychic abilities, but those abilities are often squashed during childhood so kids will fit in and “act normal.” I started reading science fiction at 11-years-old (A Wrinkle in Time) and I’ve been eagerly open-minded to all kinds of wonders and mysteries my whole life, which has definitely been helpful. But I don’t remember anything like psychic abilities until I got into animal communication in my 60s, and that’s okay. Everyone develops their abilities at the pace that’s right for them.
Do you need to take classes and read books and work hard to connect with animals? Classes and books are great, but the harder you try to connect with an animal the less success you’ll probably have because the energy of your wanting and trying can feel like taking or capturing to an animal. Center yourself, calm your energies, breathe, open your heart until it fills with sunshine and love, introduce yourself to that squirrel raiding your bird feeder and see what happens. And the first time you connect I hope you’ll feel that thrill of awe and wonder, as I still do even after all these years!
Peggy River Singer is a Pleiadian Starseed, Lightworker, all-beings communicator, faerie ally, and lifelong writer. More of her articles and channelings are posted on angelsfairiesandlife.wordpress.com. To ask about a reading, please call 734-548-0194.
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