I could use a little help

[RowanWindsong]

Hi everyone. This might be long because I have a lot to say. Since I was little we have usually had activity going on where we live. My bed used to shake and I would see a shadow by my door. He was really creepy, loved watching me sleep and get dressed. My idiot brothers used to ghost hunt too. Anyway, we moved a couple of years ago and for me all the activity stopped. The room I moved into was full of negativity so I make sure to clean it. I painted the walls, ripped up the nasty old carpet too. I should mention that I am an empathy.

My cat (who cannot stand being around other animals, unless they are caged) shares this room with me. It is pretty big and she has the run of it. Since moving, Em, who has never been sick in her life, started getting urinary tract infections and bladder infections. She now randomly throws up. She has been the vet and had full workups performed. He blood work is normal and they are completely confused. There is no reason she should be having these issues. Which kinda leads me to the aha moment I had today.

Last night, after almost two and a half years of no activity in my room, I saw a black figure, about 2 feet high scurrying across my ceiling. It hung out in the corner of the ceiling above my bed for awhile. It actually came down and touched me, which peeved me off. I told it to get away from me, get out of my space, and to leave my cat alone. It finally went away and I got some sleep. Last night was the first time my cat didn't sleep on my bed since we moved here.

This got me thinking, could it be that Em, my familiar and best friend, has been protecting me and that is why she keeps getting sick? If so that is not right and she shouldn't be shouldering all that on her own! Secondly, what could be done to keep whatever is here at bay?

My brother, who is also empathic but has stronger abilities with spirits than I do, told me today that for the last year the activity has been getting stronger. Over the last year my brother and I have also been getting stronger. Could that have anything to do with it?

I am going to do some protection work for myself, Emma, and my room. My brother wants some help planting a grove type garden in the back yard this spring (he is a druid). We are both looking at doing what we can to prevent this. It seems as though we are the only ones being targeted at this point. My mother and my almost 90 year old grandmother also live here. Can anyone give us suggestions or ideas?

[-Dark-Moon-]

Sounds a bit like sleep paralysis, especially the ceiling thing.

I think you still need to exclude medical causes for your cats problems, ie continue to actively try and find a solution for that in the mundane world.

In the meantime I would not discount your gut feeling about the presence you feel.

Usually, simply burning sage and changing the energy of the room will do the trick. (Let more light in, add plants and crystals). A pentagram in the room or rune of protection will help you.

Other suggestions, banish, ritual baths, raise your own vibration (I hate that term but it just means stop eating junk food, being depressive, drinking too much etc or any other habits that dampen down your life force and make you susceptible to astral parasites).

If you're a confident witch, make it an offering and find out what it wants. Scrying is a good way of doing this.

If you're really worried about your cat, perhaps call in Bast to assist in protecting your kitty. I'm sure she is very precious to you.

Good luck!

[RowanWindsong]

Sleep paralysis is not even an option. I was awake and on my computer at the time. Every time Emma has an issue we take her to the vet. The vet has been doing all the tests we can afford and calls to check up on her as well. We have changed her food to fix the urinary issue, which has helped a bit. Her urinalysis is normal, except for the crystals that are found when she has another infection. Blood work normal too. She means so much to me that I worry.

Thank you for all of your suggestions. I was able to make one small smudge stick from sage and rosemary I grew in my garden this summer (it wasn't a great summer for growing things, fingers crossed that this coming summer will be better!). I will use it to smudge my room. I will also look into scrying. I'm not sure I will at this point because I have never tried it before, but I may. I want to be confident about it first.

I have a lot of crystals in my room. I have this affinity for them. I try to keep plants out except cat grass because Em eats them. I have a lot of anxiety, it has been a problem for years as well as depression, but I am working on keeping that under control. I have also been trying to eat healthier lately. I want to get rid of the rest of the weight I gained while I was in school, and then some.

I found Em in a pet store as a 12 week old kitten, about nine and a half years ago. I picked her up and couldn't put her back in the cage. I begged my mother to let me bring her home, and she agreed. When I am feeling crappy I just have to look at her and I smile. She has this "here I am, deal with it" personality.