Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium, and animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no bullshit, mystical advice for living your very best life.

Sandy, welcome to the podcast. What would you like a reading about? Thank you, Jessica. I will read my question.

This past year, I have watched a dear friend dive deep into spiritual work in the wake of three significant losses.

At first, the spirituality appeared helpful for his grief, but his engagement with guides and ancestors slowly progressed to belief that he was hearing them constantly. In heating their messages, he has put himself into unsafe situations, including

leaving his house in the middle of the night and driving in circles for hours while ingesting

mind-altering substances. I'm not asking a question about his care or prognosis. I find myself confused about my own beliefs and how to hold them while seeking to separate his apparent psychosis from what was a shared spirituality between us.

How can I call what I believe real while calling what he believes delusion?

Oh, God.

That's such an intense question and such an intense situation and also so

very fucking real. Because, yeah, it's a fine line with a lot of things, like with substance

use, with mental health and with spirituality. There are really fine lines between what's healthy

and what's not. This is a deep question. So we're going to get into it. Is this still an active situation? Like, is he still, okay, he's still like in it. And are the two of you super close? Close, but not in daily contact. Okay. Great. Thank you for that context. Let me pull up your chart. Let's go

straight there. Okay. Yep. You were born September 8th of 78 in Green, Bray, California,

347 a.m. Pacific. So there's like layers upon layers upon layers of this question. One part of this

question is kind of about navigating the friendship. and one part of this question is about navigating your spirituality and also mental health. Am I understanding that?

Yeah. I think the sticking point for me has been, you know, observing what appears to be psychosis or just what I

cannot believe is real, that is really happening. Yeah. But how to delineate that as different from

me believing that I hear voice, not voices, but, you know, messages from ancestors,

me believing that I get guidance from guides.

Yeah.

The nuance of how to hold them separate has me feeling kind of lost.

Yeah.

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