Is reincarnation real?

For some, no proof is possible.

For others, a “know” is all they need.

In 2005, my horse friend, Echo, extended part of her consciousness into the body of a kitten.

He told me in advance that he would come to be a cat with me.

The day the kitten was born, he telepathically announced himself to the Siamese breeder and said, “Echo, I’m coming.”

That same morning, I heard Echo tell me, “I’m blind.” “Kittens are born with their eyes closed,” I told him.

“I have toes,” he murmured with curious delight as he wiggled them.

Horse feet are actually a single toe, anatomically speaking.

Echo had told me a few weeks before that the kitten would be a Siamese, female, and would arrive at the same cattery where Violet, my other Siamese, had been born.

The breeder was able to easily identify the kitten as Echo. Some friends picked her up for me when she was 9 weeks old.

For the last 5 years, I have delighted in Starlight.

I also discovered what I personally consider “evidence” of Echo’s presence as Starlight.

Clearly, a cat body and a horse body are different. Some of the similarities described here have been adapted to differences in size, structure, and species.

In each instance of, I observed the essence of the individual.

1. Starlight arrived with her lower back very tight and slightly out of alignment just above her sacrum. This exactly matched an injury Echo had in the last year of her life that we never fully resolved. Since then he has been treated with chiropractic and settled in Starlight.
2. Starlight’s rear end is more typical of an equine build than a feline one. My chiropractic vet pointed it out to me.
3. Starlight instantly recognized a song that she used to sing to Echo while riding her. It was “You Are My Shining Star,” which is, Echo tells me, where the name Starlight comes from. She hadn’t made the connection to the song until Starlight was already with me. I played it one day on the computer while she was in my arms, and her eyes lit up with recognition.
4. Echo loved jumping cavaletti and logs and even thin branches lying on a trail. My TV tables have a bar between the legs that look a lot like cavaletti, and Starlight, when he was a little kitty, would run and jump on them just for fun.
5. Starlight is very compassionate, sweet, and full of joy, just like Echo. Like Echo, she is very gentle, loving, kind, and spiritually advanced.
6. Starlight is a lot of fun, especially when she’s playing. She is the only cat I have seen that, like a cartoon character, she can start running in one place before taking off. Echo also had a sense of humor and liked to outwit me and other people.
7. Starlight hates conflict and will walk away, rather than fight or defend herself. Echo was at the bottom of the equine pecking order and avoided conflict by leaving situations where they were conflictive. She would take care of another horse that was injured instead of trying to get them out of the herd.
8. Echo had big, solid legs for a horse her size. Horses’ feet are actually a single toe. Starlight has unusually large toes. When she was a kitten, it was very difficult to find her tiny claws to cut them off. They’re easier to find now, but her toes are still impressive for her size.
9. Echo had large, soft, gentle brown eyes. Starlight has big, soft, blue eyes, with love coming out of them.
10. Echo used to shed almost year-round, which is unusual for horses, which usually only shed in the spring and fall. Starlight also appears to shed year-round, which is just as unusual for a cat.
11. Starlight likes to groom me by licking my hair, like one cat grooming another. Echo used to move her muzzle on the back of my head and in my hair, like she was a horse.
12. Echo was a gray horse, a horse born of a darker color that has no gray. Starlight is a blue point Siamese, her predominant color being grey. This may be a coincidence, but since Starlight kept changing colors for many months before settling on this one, I believe she chose it, and the breeder confirmed that some kittens “choose” the color they want to be after trying different shades of Siamese. .
13. When Echo told me she was coming as Starlight, she said, “now you can take me.” One of Starlight’s favorite games is getting into a tote bag so she can carry it upstairs from the basement.
14. When Violet and Sakhara were alive, Starlight always let them eat first, even though she had her own plate of food. Echo did the same when she fed with other horses, always coming last in the pecking order. Starlight still does this with Melissa, who is 3 years younger than Starlight.
15. Echo, and horses in general, prefer jumping up to jumping down. Starlight doesn’t mind jumping on top of things, but jumping down is difficult for her if she’s more than 3 or 4 feet up, like in the fridge. And Starlight can barely conceive of jumping to heights that Melissa thinks are ordinary, like 5 feet or more, because she can’t imagine how she’d get down.
16. Echo was always very careful to only put her feet on solid ground, as horses don’t like unsteady steps. Starlight is also careful with her feet. Unlike most cats who love cushions and fluffy pillows, she won’t step on anything that moves under her feet.

As you can see, there is a very long list of features that Starlight and Echo share. While this may not constitute “proof” to anyone, to me it is evidence supporting my original experience, ie Echo telling me that she would come back to me as a Siamese cat.

Of course, I don’t need any external proof at all. I can FEEL that they are the same being. And that’s all I need, personally speaking.

My horse came back as a cat, and my internal center of “truth evidence” confirms it.

After all, I’m telepathic with animals, and if you don’t think so, well, that’s your choice. Our experiences and beliefs may differ.

I’m not out to prove anything here. I just want to share my experience.

Namaste.