The Signs Your Ancestors Are Trying to Reach You With Shawn Leonard – #858

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In this episode:

Could your ancestors be trying to reach you—and would you recognize the signs? Julie Ryan sits down with Indigenous Mi’kmaq Spirit Talker and psychic medium Shawn Leonard for a fascinating conversation about ancestral guidance, deceased loved ones, spirit signs, animal totems, life after death, and how to recognize what Shawn believes may be communication from the Spirit world.

Shawn has experienced what he describes as spirit communication since childhood. At just four years old, he remembers interacting with a spirit guide named Sam. Then, at 16, a year after his father’s sudden death, Shawn experienced something that would shape the rest of his life.

He says his father appeared to him in an extraordinary visitation—first as brilliant white light and then as a recognizable apparition—with a message about Shawn’s future purpose.

Decades later, Shawn has devoted his life to helping people explore their connections with departed loved ones, ancestors, spirit guides, and the unseen world.

Julie and Shawn explore some of the biggest questions surrounding spirit communication:

Are our ancestors still connected to us?

What signs should we be watching for?

How can you ask your ancestors for guidance?

Do we all have animal totems?

Why do some spirits seem reluctant to cross over?

What do departed loved ones most want us to know?

And what actually happens when we die?

Shawn also shares the meaning behind his ceremonial name, White Eagle Spirit Talker, and how his Mi’kmaq heritage and Indigenous traditions inform his approach to mediumship and Spirit.

You’ll hear remarkable stories from Shawn’s life and work, including an unexpected polar bear claw that arrived after a ceremonial request and an encounter in which spiritual guidance became profoundly meaningful to someone experiencing a crisis.

Julie and Shawn also discuss animal totems, ancestral lineage, ceremony, grief, healing, intuition, earthbound spirits, the afterlife, and the relationship between the physical and Spirit worlds.

Near the end of their conversation, Shawn explains what he believes may happen if you simply ask your ancestors for guidance before going to sleep tonight.

Guest Biography:

Shawn Leonard is a heart-centered Indigenous Mi’kmaq Spirit Talker, psychic medium, author, teacher, and host of the APTN series Spirit Talker, with more than 25 years of professional experience connecting people with departed loved ones, spirits, and guides. His spiritual journey deepened at age 16, when, a year after his father’s death, Shawn experienced a visitation in which his father told him he would one day help bridge the physical and Spirit worlds. Since then, Shawn has helped people around the world navigate grief, healing, and their spiritual journeys through readings, live events, workshops, television, and his Spirit Talker Tribe online course. A respected Mi’kmaq Elder gifted him the name Wape’k Kitpu Aknutmajik Jijaqmijk, meaning “White Eagle Spirit Talker.” Shawn is also the Hay House author of Spirit Talker and Walking with Your Spirit Totem Animals, and creator of the Wisdom of the Elders Oracle Card Deck.

📣Shawn’s Website:

➡️https://shawn-leonard.com/

Episode Chapters:

(0:00:00) Can Your Ancestors Communicate With You?

(0:02:08) His Deceased Father Appeared to Him at 16

(0:07:29) He’s Seen Spirits Since He Was Four

(0:17:49) The Experience That Deepened His Spiritual Path

(0:20:02) Indigenous Ceremony & Spirit Communication

(0:20:54) Do We All Have Animal Totems?

(0:30:17) Are Spirits Always Trying to Reach Us?

(0:32:10) When a Message From Spirit Changes a Life

(0:37:15) Signs From Your Ancestors You May Be Missing