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Becca Segovia, una talentosa diseñadora gráfica, retrató a la hermosa monja del siglo XIV Catherine de Auvernia, una cliente astral del vidente holandés-español Martien Verstraaten

El artículo original se publicará próximamente en una traducción al español. In search of the portrait of Catherine of Auvergne… It’s late in the evening and I am getting ready to turn in for the night. Just for a second, I glance at a piece of paper where earlier that day I had jotted down the name Becca Saladin (currently known as Becca Segovia). A friendly board member of a museum had tipped me to approach Dallas graphic designer Becca Segovia for a historical portrait reconstruction of one of the main characters of my new book about past lives, Spanish Queen Isabel la Católica. The plan was to have a historical reconstruction, a recreation, made of her appearance, her face and attire of her incarnation, a past life, as Catherine of Auvergne, a promiscuous beautiful 14th-century French nun. Before being in Morpheus’ arms, I opened Royalty Now on Instagram and was thunderstruck to see the multifold of recreations of historical figures. This was what I had been looking for. I had meticulously described the life of the lesbian nun Catherine of Auvergne, who was one of the protagonists in my new book about past lives and had seen her face many times at my extrasensory screen. However, I had to request, and if possible, instruct Becca Segovia to work historically in reverse. Not a trip from the past to a present existence with which she was quit familiar with, but a journey from a foregone era, the 15th century, to a more distant past, the 14th century, a complete retrograde movement. In addition, the almost longing and passionate energy with which she poured into the portraits in large numbers appealed to me. What an enormous hunger this designer must have had, an insatiable appetite for shape and colour, obviously originating from one or more significant past lives. That’s how I saw art historically, how I knew parapsychologically, as well as how I also felt energetically as a passionate salsa dancer. My eyes, my mind´s eye or third eye and related antennae were trained to recognise quality. This allowed me to suitably judge thousands of drawings, and paintings worldwide as a professor of art at several universities and as member of the board of the Dutch Groninger Museum, an internationally renowned museum of modern art. Segovia Travel Graphic designer Becca Segovia travels historically, witness her diptychs, beautiful double portraits, from the past to the present. We can see what Napoleon Bonaparte, Henry VIII or Simon Bolivar would look like in our time. From Dallas, Texas, where she currently resides, to Hawaii, and from Brussels to St. Petersburg, hosts of followers can check out her latest creations on her Instagram account, Royalty Now (@royalty_now_). Her art-historical approach, linking the past to the present, seems fictional, symbolic, even hypothetical. Her question; What might Julius Caesar look like in the present is not as fictitious as it seems from a historical-reincarnative point of view. Edgar Cayce (Hopkinsville, KY 1877 – Virginia Beach, VA 1945), the Sleeping Prophet, one of the most accomplished mediums of all time, reported in one of the 14,306 readings that an entity for whom a reading was requested, a 12-year-old boy living in Bellefontaine, Ohio, in a previous incarnation went through life as Roman Senator Marcus Brutus, infamously known as one of the conspirators in the deadly attack on Julius Caesar. Brutus later went on to make a fortune as governor of Cyprus by borrowing money at high rates, and later committed suicide. The readings revealed that for unknown reasons many children were born in Bellefontaine, appeared to have had incarnations during the time of the Roman Empire. He was referring not only to people (entities) who were of high socially standing at the time, such as Brutus, Caesar or Nero, but also to people in ancient Rome who had rubbed shoulders with these Roman royals. During reading no. 5366-1, held on 19th of July 1944, related to the health of a Mrs. referred to as (F 53), also from or near Bellefontaine, who had been in her past life an associate of the Roman emperor Nero, Cayce exclaimed: “My! Some very interesting characters born near Bellefontaine!” So, it is not unreasonable to imagen royals from bygone eras today with contemporary faces attired in jeans, perhaps sporting a lip piercing while taking in Miami Beach. So, in a reincarnative and parapsychological sense, the portraits of Segovia are indirectly based on the truth. Segovia’s continued success subsequently led to the Gods seemingly having new challenges in store for her: a historical reverse journey, an artistic experiment, to travel from the past to an even more distant past. The messenger sent by the spirits or Gods for this experiment was yours truly Martien Verstraaten, mediumistic journalist, ghost-writer for deceased historical persons and therapist for historical regressions to past lives. A reverse trip for Becca Segovia? From present to past would mean, what would current royals and VIPs like Barack Obama, (the late) Diana, Princess of Wales, Sir Elton John, Stephen Hawking, or Oprah Winfrey have looked like in the past, for example in a past life? – and for Segovia the experiment could represent a new artistic development. By portraying the Spanish Queen Isabel la Católica as the elegant and promiscuous nun Catherine of Auvergne, a previous incarnation, fate took a first historical step in this direction. Her artistic historical journeys from past to present unmistakably testify to (unconscious) great mediumistic gifts, I must say professionally. Neptune, the planet for psychics, imagination like dreaming endlessly of other times, even unconsciously dwell daily in past lives, makes a dynamic (paranormal) aspect with the Moon in one of the Venus signs, Libra (the arts, and like Taurus, predilection for beautifully ‘painted’ mouths). As the holder of an almost identical aspect in my chart, I know that a Neptune-Moon aspect can direct emotionally the images from the past into the present. Her Neptune, conjunct Uranus, trines beautifully with Jupiter, like all her contemporaries do. …