OUR DESTINY'S CHILD?
Every mother believes their child is special, but yours could be one of a generation of super-intuitive psychic kids.
'Holly's strange comments about Nana made me wonder if what the reading said was true. Could my daughter be one of these indigo children?'
copyright Spirit and Destiny March 2006
Yasemin Turan-Stephens heart froze when she came back to the family's room in Center Parcs and saw the note pinned to the door.'Please call home ugently,' it read.She knew it must be her Mum-she'd been ill for years with multiple sclerosis and was confined to a wheelchair. Yasemin grabbed her mobile phone, but there was no reception.'I'll cycle out to the edge of the woods and call from there,' said her husband John. She sat and waited, thankful that her two little girls-Holly, two, and baby Josie-were in bed. When John returned, she only had to look at his face to know that her mum had died. The next morning, Holly seemed to know something was wrong. She kept looking at Yasemin in concern.'Is something wrong with Nana?' she asked. Amazed at her timy daighter's inutuition, Yasemin said gently that Nana had passed away, and cuddled Holly tightly. She and her Gran had been very close.
After her mother's body was cremated, Yasemin put the ashes in a pot in the garden and planted a peace rose in it. Holly loved to water the plant and would often sit by it. One day, Yasemin heard Holly chattering away and looked out into the garden to watch. The little girl talked about how her day had been, then fell silent. After a moment she burst out laughing. It was as though she was having a conversation. Yasemin caught her breath in shock as she heard Holly say: 'I'd better go back in now, Nana, it's getting cold-but I'll just give you a bit more water.'Yasemin put Holly's quirky comments down to childish imagination. Then, when Holly was four, she was in a dance show at the local theatre. On the way she turned to Yasemin and said: 'I'm glad Nana's coming too.'
Yasemin smiled indulgently at her daughter. 'Oh, is she?' she replied. Holly frowned. 'Well, I think she is........Is tonight called the opening night? She said she was coming then.'
Shivers ran down Yasemin's spine. Her mum had had a thing about getting to the opening night of a show- and Holly had never heard a phrase like that before. Afterwards, Holly was so excited. 'Nana was cheering and clapping the loudest. I couldn't see her but I heard her. She shouted, "Well done Holly!"
A memory flashed into Yasemin's mind. When Holly was two, she kept getting a rash around her mouth when she ate crisps and ketchup. Yasemin had taken her daughter to see a homeopath, Mary English, who gave her a remedy, which solved the problem. But a few months later, Mary had contacted her again.
'I've been studying Holly's astrological birth chart-I think she's an indigo child,' Mary said. It meant nothing to Yasemin at the time, but Mary said Holly's chart suggested she was one of a new generation of expeically sensitive, intuitive children. Yasemin had dismissed it, but now, with Holly's comments about her nana, she wondered if there was something in it. Could Holly be one of these indigo children?
Some people believe that indigos are a new gneration who have been coming into the world in recent years. Sensitive, creative and intuitive, it's thought the indigo children could represent the next stage in human evolution. And now they're starting to capture the world's attention, with books, websites and even a film, The Indigo Evolution , devoted to them. Channel 4 is also planning to screen a documentary about the phenomenon. And World Indigo Day is on 29th January.
Indigos were identified over 30 years ago, when American teacher, counsellor and psychic Nancy Tappe noticed that a few children seemed to have more enhanced personality traits. They were often more intelligent and intuitive than other children, but less likely to respond well to authority and to conventional schooling. Nancy's psychic abilities allowed her to tune into people's auras (energy fields), and she noticed these children all had purlish-blue auras-hence the name 'indigo children'.
But why are they here? Many people believe that the world is in crisis and that the indigo children are on a mission to show us a better way to live. As author and angel expert Doreen Virtue says.'Many indigo children are natural-born philosophers who think about the meaning of life and how to save the planet.'
Now that she's nine, Holly's indigo traits are really flourishing. 'She reads a dictionary in bed, and is so imaginative and creative.' says Yasemin. 'People often say she has an old head on young shoulders, and she's incredibly intuitive-she knows instinctively when I'm upset and will come and give me a cuddle. She's so sensitive it drives me to distraction. When her sister Josie fell down the stairs, Josie cried for a couple of minutes, but three hours later Holly was still inconsolable.'
Holly's also very driven. When London won the Olympic bid, she announced that she was going to go to it. But when Yasemin asked what she wanted to see, she replied; 'I'm not going to be watching-I'm going to be in it.' Ar school sports trials she was picked for a reply race above girls three years older than her, and the local athletics club have promised they'll take her when she's old enough.
'Holly's never been quite like other children her age, but now I think that being different can be a very god thing,' says Yasemin. 'I used to be sceptical about spirits and life after death, but I'm much more open minded these days. One thing I know for sure is that my Holly is very special.'