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Rose Rooney

usetawuz said:
I am in the same situation, BriarRose, with a single exception. Also to have some vague memories of dying badly at the hands of the Union tends to confuse the issues a little!
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Do you know the location and date? I'm sure both sides had it hard :/ You are most welcome btw :)
 
Rose, and her issues, seem to be a big part of who I am now, although I have had subsequent life times. I think she never had a home, so making one has been very important to me. She never had children, so I wanted them badly, and have three. kMatjhwy, I have never been able to find a picture of her, or a death certificate. I would love to see if there is a resemblance. I understand her feisty temperament, and her need to be useful, and "mother" everything that breathes. I have always felt that I am at my best in a crisis, and can easily see myself taking care of the wounded. In this life, I always yearned to be a "Southern lady", but could never quite achieve that. Rose must have looked at their frocks, and carriages, and fine houses, and wanted to be like them. At around age 54, before I "remembered" Rose, I had a yearning to move back to New Orleans. Oddly, her life ended on Moss Street in New Orleans, and I live on a different Moss Street now. The patterns of repetition in these lives is really odd.
 
Twilight said:
Do you know the location and date? I'm sure both sides had it hard :/ You are most welcome btw :)
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Savannah, GA in 1864. I was 21 and had a small dirt farm fifteen miles inland, a wife and two small children. She never knew what happened to me. I was shot in the stomach and died during the night after the battle.


And thank you!
 
usetawuz said:
Savannah, GA in 1864. I was 21 and had a small dirt farm fifteen miles inland, a wife and two small children. She never knew what happened to me. I was shot in the stomach and died during the night after the battle.
And thank you!
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Looks like this correlates to a town history of a conflict, Sherman's March to the Sea 11/64-12/64. Although it could be anywhere outside, the army seems to have invaded the area after capturing Atlanta. ;)
 
This is interesting on the pattern of repetition you have in your present life compared to this past life. Now I find all of that interesting.
 
Thank you, k. I think a lot of people have those patterns, and they aren't aware, because they don't remember past lives. I think they go beyond coincidence. Some people think our energy is drawn into certain circumstances, because "like attracts like". I don't know if that is true, or if we make choices subconsciously that echo the patterns. What do other people think causes this repetition?
 
BriarRose said:
Thank you, k. I think a lot of people have those patterns, and they aren't aware, because they don't remember past lives. I think they go beyond coincidence. Some people think our energy is drawn into certain circumstances, because "like attracts like". I don't know if that is true, or if we make choices subconsciously that echo the patterns. What do other people think causes this repetition?
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I believe the repetition is caused by each of those items you've mentioned. I once read someone's comment that "Sure, I believe in coincidence...I've just never seen one!"...likewise, I don't believe in them either, so any other explanation is a better one for me. Your "echoing of patterns" is similar to "soul habit" which I am familiar with from trying to get beyond their negative effects.
 
I think it's good you've made decisions subconsciously based on Rose's life as you've obviously learnt the lessons from that one. :D


I have to admit to finding many similarities & opposites in my own lives also.
 
I met a shaman the other day. He came to my house at 8:30 A.M. to install a satellite box. We had a "soul level" conversation, and he told me that the things I came into this life to learn have been accomplished. It was such a profound relief, like heavy weights being lifted off. I obviously have far to go, on a soul level, but that will happen next life time.
 
BriarRose said:
I met a shaman the other day. He came to my house at 8:30 A.M. to install a satellite box. We had a "soul level" conversation, and he told me that the things I came into this life to learn have been accomplished. It was such a profound relief, like heavy weights being lifted off. I obviously have far to go, on a soul level, but that will happen next life time.
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All in good time. We have all eternity. There's no rush. :)
 
I love that movie, shadows. I'm glad I have eternity to learn my lessons, Tanguerra. It might take that long. :laugh:
 
I think the pain I feel when I watch it is caused by anxiety. I don't know if it's from the yell itself, the setting, or seeing some of those people again.
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I think clearly you identify strongly with some aspect of it. Being that close to soldiers though, I wager to think that the yelling was a source of pride and identity for you. Like how a flag or team jersey may serve for others. I think many, if not all of us, have had this exact same experience, but I think the source of it is grief and not anxiety. Although anxiety and other negative emotions are certainly possibly given the right negative stimulus. I had a very negative experience one looking at an authentic Japanese battle flag. But for you, if that was the life you wanted to life, I think that the source is grief as the process is sort of like remembering someone you had forgotten. It can really leave you feeling trapped between worlds so to speak.

My 1st husband, then boyfriend, was very conservative, and would just say no, I couldn't. I think he was the drunken Rooney who was Rose's husband. Did he come back with the determination not to go down that path again, and to protect me from it?
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Quite possibly. I think that's the interesting thing sometimes. We may blame or pity ourselves for a poor decision or something that happened outside of our control, but how do we know that we didn't set that up a head of time for a purpose? I think it's important to look at it from both sides.

Some people think our energy is drawn into certain circumstances, because "like attracts like". I don't know if that is true, or if we make choices subconsciously that echo the patterns. What do other people think causes this repetition?
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I think it's both conscious and subconscious. Personality and our current emotional state and maturity all factor into choices we make as "input" gets feed up to the conscious from the subconscious. Although I think most of it is harmless and we don't even realize we are doing it, much you living near or on Moss street, was it? I've seen that bit quite a few times and I think it's the playful aspect of our souls acting much like we might buy something because we had one when we were a kid or our Grandma or something had one.


But then again, it's the negative, roadblock type stuff that tends to stand out the most. And quite frankly, I think that's why we have past life recall. It's to help us dig it up and move past it.
 
Thank you for reading all of this, Totoro. I appreciate your input, and I agree with what you said. I think whatever blocks I have are no longer coming from Rose. My task now is to identify which lives my remaining blocks are coming from. I love Rose,and who she was, and that's part of loving myself. Wise people say that you have to love yourself, before you can really love anyone else.
 
Hi BriarRose


I think you have the makings of a book there ... and something was pushing me to tell you ... I couldn't get to the end of the thread fast enough to tell you ...


Ok. Message delivered, LOL.


Happy 2014 :)
 
Thank you for sharing your story. That must have been quite the revelation for you! Any more memories of Rose Rooney since posting this?
 
Thank you, Mama, and Zeon. I really think you are right about the book. I had the same idea. Rose is such a tiny footnote to history, and she deserves to have her story told. I've searched the New Orleans records for descendants. My feeling is that she came to New Orleans with family, as there were other Rooneys on the ship. Of course, that's a common name. I remember a nephew, Michael, that she cared about. She left no children, so she really is just "lost". I haven't remembered anything new, but have been reading a book about regressions of Civil War reenacters. The thing that struck me was how boring war really was. March, eat, sleep, wait! The only regression story that struck me was one about a soldier that had been at Appomattox. Rose surrendered there, with the remnant of "her" unit, and any kind of depiction of that brings me to the verge of tears. Lee was such a fine man, and a fine soldier. That the Union took his estate always seemed to me a miscarriage of justice. However, I don't think the General would mind that the Union used the land for Arlington. He would be proud to have the valiant dead sleeping on his land.
 
It's called "Echoes From the Battlefield: First-Person Accounts of Past Lives", by Barbara Lane. It's a rather scholarly, thus rather "dry", account. The author made every effort to be fair, and to take into account that reenacters would come into a regression experience with a bias. She also wrote "Echoes From Medieval Halls: Past Life Memories From the Middle Ages". I will probably read that next. Both books are available as ebooks, but used paperbacks might exist.
 
BriarRose said:
It's a rather scholarly, thus rather "dry", account. The author made every effort to be fair, and to take into account that reenacters would come into a regression experience with a bias.
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She's taking the Ian Stevenson approach to minimize attacks from skeptics.
 
Well, she was reasonable, and fair. Most of her subjects didn't initially believe in the possibility of reincarnation. They just had a very strong attraction to the Civil War Era. Only one subject was a female, and she regressed to a male life. Some of the subjects were rigorous about doing historically accurate reenactments, but they were still surprised by the authenticity of their regression experiences. The only think that I found troubling, was that they had difficulty remembering their names. She did link each subject with several possible identities, but we have had stronger cases on the forum. I think this book, and the Medieval work, are worth reading, for those who have an interest in PLs of those periods.
 
Briar, a lot if what you said has rang true to me. I think a book is a wonderful idea if you have enough to go on! I have my own Civil War story on the Confederate side to tell, which I will do here in a bit.
 
As you've encouraged me, I encourage you to get writing, even more so as your story here encompasses such a large event in american history. You have the potential to reach a very wide audience.
 
One thing I have learned in writing my book is that it is very much a healing process. Even if you change names and other things around still just writing it all down helps in so many ways.


Good luck!
 
Totoro, and Mama, you guys are so awesome! Thank you for the encouragement. There isn't enough known about Rose to write a factual book, so I think it would have to be novelized. I'm reading Nell Gavin's book, "Threads", about Anne Boleyne. Gavin is a believer in reincarnation, and that's the mechanism she uses to weave Anne's story together. It's inspiring to see what can be done with that format.
 
The saga of Rose Rooney continues. My first husband, though not very old, is dying from a myriad of health problems. He is having strokes, and the MRIs indicate that he has shrapnel in his brain. He is an Air Force veteran, but never saw combat. This is puzzling, unless it's a PL phenomenon. I googled shrapnel, and wounds from it were common during the Civil War. The latest development is that he has gotten gangrene, and will have to undergo amputation. Rose assisted with amputations during the War. I'm beginning to think I knew him in that life, and as his body breaks down, it is mimicking past life war wounds. I know that current life ailments can be carry-overs from other lives, but has anyone heard of delayed war wounds developing? He is in his 60's, and was fine until three years ago.
 
That is awful Rose. My heart really goes out to you. I hope the doctors can find out what is wrong with him. Do you think he was a Soldier that you worked on and knew in that life? I wonder if you are meant to be with him again in the same capacity in this life?
 
I think he probably was a soldier that I knew and worked on as you suggested, Zeon. We were married for 17 years. The divorce was in bad circumstances, so I can't go there, so I just pray for his "greatest good".
 
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