Empress Elisabeth of Austria

[mariapopinska]

Hello Mini,

Some weeks ago I visited Vienna. At the moment I arrived there I felt extremely sad. In the next days I felt like I knew that place very well. When I visited the palaces and heard Sisi's life I felt that I couldn't breathe. It was like I was listening about myself as a person. I will share some facts about myself which are very similar to Sisi's personality.
I always had difficult relationship with food. When I was a kid I was disgusted by food and I was very skinny. When I grew up and started gaining weight, I was obsessed to loose weight and keep my waist very tiny. I had bulimia for 8 years and I was anorexic, luckily I realised on time with the help of my partner and family. Now I'm healthy but I am working out every day as I cannot imagine not to be fit. I am very strict with my skin care and I cannot easily accept the ageing process.
I grew up in a big house and I was going to a private school but my family had economic issues so my parents had to work abroad and I was living with great parents, after their death, with nannies and then since 13 completely by myself. (this is not a similarity but karma, as she was not close to her kids).
I have tried riding a horse and the trainer told me I was very good at it even tho I haven't even been on a horse. I didn't have the opportunity to do it often because it was expensive but it is something I adore.
I found out I was very good with guns (at games only) I cannot imagine to kill an animal tho.
Since a kid I had all kinds of issues with my teeth and I barely smile showing my teeth. Although they are fine now, I am still insecure.
I remember when I visited Budapest I had also mixed feelings. From one side I was very happy and calm and from the other side there was sadness in my heart.
I've always had the feeling that I must have kids and I see this from my natal chart, as I have many planets in my 5th house, including the North node. I also love travelling and exploring new cultures. I have a partner but I don't want to marry as I am against marriage completely. I will skip other details about similarities with Sisi but I want to say something else.
The first thing, is about the nickname-Sisi's and yours. My name is Maria but since a kid everyone is calling me Mimi.
I had a few dreams from past lives, in one of them I was with dark skin and I died in a tornado. But I had two dreams about Canada. I was in a ranch and I could see a horse. There was an older man and a blond kid around 10 y.o. The older man was with grey hair. I remember being in a forest with very tall trees. I have never even been in Canada and in my dream I was living this life. I saw that the people were wearing modern clothes, jeans and shirt, it can be the period from the 70s up to now, I can't say.
I had to tell you this. Maybe it is not possible but do you think there was a little chance that souls can live multiple lifetimes in the same timeline? Maybe for the souls there is no past or future and time is only in our minds.

 

[Ministargazer]

Hello Mini,

Some weeks ago I visited Vienna. At the moment I arrived there I felt extremely sad. In the next days I felt like I knew that place very well. When I visited the palaces and heard Sisi's life I felt that I couldn't breathe. It was like I was listening about myself as a person. I will share some facts about myself which are very similar to Sisi's personality.
I always had difficult relationship with food. When I was a kid I was disgusted by food and I was very skinny. When I grew up and started gaining weight, I was obsessed to loose weight and keep my waist very tiny. I had bulimia for 8 years and I was anorexic, luckily I realised on time with the help of my partner and family. Now I'm healthy but I am working out every day as I cannot imagine not to be fit. I am very strict with my skin care and I cannot easily accept the ageing process.
I grew up in a big house and I was going to a private school but my family had economic issues so my parents had to work abroad and I was living with great parents, after their death, with nannies and then since 13 completely by myself. (this is not a similarity but karma, as she was not close to her kids).
I have tried riding a horse and the trainer told me I was very good at it even tho I haven't even been on a horse. I didn't have the opportunity to do it often because it was expensive but it is something I adore.
I found out I was very good with guns (at games only) I cannot imagine to kill an animal tho.
Since a kid I had all kinds of issues with my teeth and I barely smile showing my teeth. Although they are fine now, I am still insecure.
I remember when I visited Budapest I had also mixed feelings. From one side I was very happy and calm and from the other side there was sadness in my heart.
I've always had the feeling that I must have kids and I see this from my natal chart, as I have many planets in my 5th house, including the North node. I also love travelling and exploring new cultures. I have a partner but I don't want to marry as I am against marriage completely. I will skip other details about similarities with Sisi but I want to say something else.
The first thing, is about the nickname-Sisi's and yours. My name is Maria but since a kid everyone is calling me Mimi.
I had a few dreams from past lives, in one of them I was with dark skin and I died in a tornado. But I had two dreams about Canada. I was in a ranch and I could see a horse. There was an older man and a blond kid around 10 y.o. The older man was with grey hair. I remember being in a forest with very tall trees. I have never even been in Canada and in my dream I was living this life. I saw that the people were wearing modern clothes, jeans and shirt, it can be the period from the 70s up to now, I can't say.
I had to tell you this. Maybe it is not possible but do you think there was a little chance that souls can live multiple lifetimes in the same timeline? Maybe for the souls there is no past or future and time is only in our minds.

Yes Mimi, very strange isn't it? We continue on with our habits, talents, loves and passions - these remain constant throughout lifetimes.

 

[Ministargazer]

Most recently in 2022, training a young Quarter Horse for a friend, who had never been ridden. I am assuming, from the photo below of Sisi who has trained her horse to kneel, that she also had an interest in training.

 

[Ministargazer]

Hi Mini,

I really enjoyed this Youtube. It features the conversion of paintings to "real life" technology, allowing it to show some fairly realistic images of Sisi et al. Plus, it gives a short summary of her life and interests. I found the details of how they took her children from her to raise very sad as were many other aspects of her life after marriage. However, she is a very notable and "before her time" character, and definitely worth knowing about for someone like me (who did not know about her before you brought started writing about this lifetime).

Cordially,
S&S

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Thank you for this video information S&S. As Sisi's son was taken away from her from birth, so too did I struggle to give birth to and keep my son when all of the odds were against it. Several times my family made appointments for me to abort before birth which I refused or give my son away to adoption which I also refused. In other words, it was a struggle to bring him into this world and a struggle to be able to be with him. I chose to go into poverty and live on assistance in order to have him all to myself in his early years, cherishing every moment not knowing that Sisi also struggled to be with him when he was taken away from her. This is the boy that I believe is Rudolph in this lifetime, born with the same predispositions.

 

[Eva1942]

Mini,

I was looking through my local boutique cinema’s “Now Showing” and I found this. The plot line sounds interesting enough and I thought I’d share it with you for your thoughts on it.

This is the little blurb: “As her 40th birthday approaches, beautiful Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky Krieps) is thrown into turmoil as she anticipates being considered an old woman.”

https://palacenova.com.au/films/corsage?location=eastend (there’s a trailer down the bottom if you’re brave enough to watch it)

Eva x

 

[Ministargazer]

Mini,

I was looking through my local boutique cinema’s “Now Showing” and I found this. The plot line sounds interesting enough and I thought I’d share it with you for your thoughts on it.

This is the little blurb: “As her 40th birthday approaches, beautiful Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky Krieps) is thrown into turmoil as she anticipates being considered an old woman.”

https://palacenova.com.au/films/corsage?location=eastend (there’s a trailer down the bottom if you’re brave enough to watch it)

Eva x

Hello Eva,

Thank you so much for this link. Curiously aging for me in this lifetime seems to be something that I tend to ignore - still walking and horseback riding while keeping up with the health and beauty routines, supplements, research etc. and much like Sisi, I have adopted a Spartan diet - only certain foods and sparingly (to maintain figure and weight control of course!)

Mini,

I was looking through my local boutique cinema’s “Now Showing” and I found this. The plot line sounds interesting enough and I thought I’d share it with you for your thoughts on it.

This is the little blurb: “As her 40th birthday approaches, beautiful Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky Krieps) is thrown into turmoil as she anticipates being considered an old woman.”

https://palacenova.com.au/films/corsage?location=eastend (there’s a trailer down the bottom if you’re brave enough to watch it)

Eva x

 

[Ministargazer]

And the love of travel still lingers - here is a 2019 photo - White Rock, B.C. - Perhaps Sisi is still wandering...

 

[Ministargazer]

Recently I asked my son if he would write the name Rudolph. And of course, if I feel that I am Empress Elisabeth, then once more he could be my son. To be honest, he has no interest or knowledge of Rudolph and would not know what such a signature would look like. Bearing in mind that we are going back in time to the 1800's, and the flourish underneath missing, I still see. resemblance in comparison. Yet knowing the madness and tragedy of Rudolph's life I am thinking that it may be kinder not to bring those memories back through.

 

[SeaAndSky]

Hi Mini,

The "R" is boldly done in both, which may indicate a similarity in at least one trait related to such things--perhaps assertiveness? confidence? boldness? . . . . However, Rudolph's signature has a degree of flow and grace that is lacking in your son's signature. This could be because children are no longer taught to write in cursive in elementary school (as I was). And, even cursive had become more simplified and less elegant by the mid-20th century than it was in prior centuries. So, I would expect that Rudolph would have not only have written in cursive on a daily basis, but probably had a practiced and elegant style of writing that was far more elegant than what shows in his signature. (The latter is merely a guess as, in my experience, almost everyone's handwriting goes to "heck" when signing their own name).

Cordially,
S&S

PS--I'm no expert on handwriting, so the foregoing is just based on my initial impressions.

 

[Ministargazer]

Hi Mini,

The "R" is boldly done in both, which may indicate a similarity in at least one trait related to such things--perhaps assertiveness? confidence? boldness? . . . . However, Rudolph's signature has a degree of flow and grace that is lacking in your son's signature. This could be because children are no longer taught to write in cursive in elementary school (as I was). And, even cursive had become more simplified and less elegant by the mid-20th century than it was in prior centuries. So, I would expect that Rudolph would have not only have written in cursive on a daily basis, but probably had a practiced and elegant style of writing that was far more elegant than what shows in his signature. (The latter is merely a guess as, in my experience, almost everyone's handwriting goes to "heck" when signing their own name).

Cordially,
S&S

PS--I'm no expert on handwriting, so the foregoing is just based on my initial impressions.

Thanks for taking the time to comment Sea And Sky. Yes, we must take into consideration the time gap and methods of teaching. Today penmanship has lost its importance which is a shame as technology has taken over.

 

[SeaAndSky]

Thanks for taking the time to comment Sea And Sky. Yes, we must take into consideration the time gap and methods of teaching. Today penmanship has lost its importance which is a shame as technology has taken over.

Hi Mini,

I agree in terms of penmanship. Part of the problem is the invention of the typewriter, which already lessened the value of good handwriting. However, the quietus was dealt by the omnipresent computer keyboard. But, I have found that after incorporating the new one often returns to reevalute and find a place for the old, minor though it may be. So, I wouldn't be surprised by some degree or form of revival in due course, if only as a craft or hobby. (As a homeschooler I can attest to the fact that handwriting and caligraphy tended to be popular studies in that circle while I was a homeschool father).

Interestingly, I recently listened to a news program lamenting the fact that the vast majority of people today not only cannot write in cursive, they also cannot read it. This has led to problems in understanding documents from earlier times. There was a call for people who could still read cursive to volunteer time to the project involved, which related to the "translation" of documents related to the Revolutionary War period and thereafter for historical purposes. Truthfully, it seems to me that AI could eventually be trained to do most of this work with some words just marked as "illegible"--but the call for volunteers does serve as an indication that cursive readers and writers are becoming increasingly rare.

Cordially,
S&S

 

[Ocean]

Interestingly, I recently listened to a news program lamenting the fact that the vast majority of people today not only cannot write in cursive, they also cannot read it. This has led to problems in understanding documents from earlier times. There was a call for people who could still read cursive to volunteer time to the project involved, which related to the "translation" of documents related to the Revolutionary War period and thereafter for historical purposes.

Hi S&S,

that's funny! In the German language we have this kind of problem all along, because German cursive has changed a lot during history. Prior to the 1940's it was the so called Sütterlin Script which was taught in schools and used for handwriting in German, and prior to the 20th century it was the Kurrent Script. Today this old cursive handwriting is illegible to most native German speakers like myself. Only some of the elderly people can still read it. This makes basically all old documents written in German mostly illegible to the average people today. This starts with letters written by my grandparents during their youth, for example. You either have to ask someone who is capable of reading the old cursive or you have to learn it by yourself.
From the 1940's onward the old German cursive was then replaced by the "normal" cursive which is also used for English and other languages.
So, in the 1800's in German speaking countries like Austria it would depend on the language which cursive was used: Kurrent for German, and the "normal" cursive, called Latin cursive, for all other languages like French and English.

In Rudolf's signature, you can see how the letter "d" is very different than how it is written today. The "o" is also very angular, which is typical for Kurrent and Sütterlin.

I learned to read and write the old German cursive by myself because I wanted to be able to read old letters and documents. But reading it is painfully slow for me, and it get's more difficult the older the document is. Sütterlin is actually a simplification of the older Kurrent, so it's a bit easier. It's fun to do as a hobby, but I really need to read and write it regularly, otherwise I quickly forget.

Best regards

 

[SeaAndSky]

Hi Ocean,

Thanks for commenting. I had not realized that this type of thing was also a problem elsewhere. Also, though there are many differences between the cursive I was taught and the two styles you linked, I was surprised to find that many letters were similar or the same.

Cordially,
S&S

PS--I miss the days of recognition for good "penmanship"--most young people today (to my observation) are not really very comfortable or adept at writing things out by hand. However, I must admit that they tend to be lightning fast at typing (even on those tiny cell phone keys they use for texting).

 

[Ministargazer]

I feel that I must record a strange and rare dream that I have just had because it was very unusual. In the dream I was standing outside the childhood home of Sisi's Schloss Possenhofen dressed in a white blouse and a full flowing skirt. My hair was twisted in a braid around my head and I was young (possibly early twenties). It seems that there were several exterior doors as entranceways to the castle besides the main door. (I have never been there so I don't know and have never read about this). I was talking to someone else - possibly my mother in this lifetime? I remember saying to her, "It's so nice to be home again!" I went up to one of the exterior doors that would seem to need a key (there were several located at various positions around the building) and pressed on the handle a certain way. It yielded to me and I entered, running down one of the narrow hallways, overcome with happiness.

 

[Ministargazer]

Empress Elisabeth of Austria was denied a close relationship with Crown Prince Rudolph by family and circumstances and it was a long and troubled path that they followed. It stands to reason that she would want to rectify this in the next lifetime.