The Hospital Room Smelled Like Roses — Then She Met Joey Over A Dum Dum Sucker | Astrology Ride of the Day

Michelle's father passed in 1996. In the room when he took his last breath, everyone smelled roses. No flowers anywhere. Her older brother, who lost his sense of smell in an accident years earlier, didn't smell anything, but he heard a voice say "it's time to come home, Richard." That moment sent Michelle straight into the Catholic Church looking for answers, the Blessed Mother, apparitions, full devotion, the gift of tears. It held for years until one sermon, a priest preaching about not changing your appearance while sporting brand new LASIK eyes, cracked something open and sent her down a different path entirely. She and Joey became Universal Life Church pastors instead, stepping outside structured religion. And the way they actually met, working at Southwest Airlines, training in opposite corners of the same room, Michelle walking over with a bowl of Dum Dum suckers and getting a look like she had five heads. Awkward, funny, and the start of everything. Know thyself. Balance your energy.TAKEAWAYSAt her father's death in 1996, everyone in the hospital room smelled roses with no flowers present, an experience that sent Michelle deep into Catholic devotion searching for answers.Her brother, who had lost his sense of smell in an accident, didn't smell the roses but audibly heard a voice tell him it was time to come home.A single contradictory sermon, a priest preaching against vanity while having visibly just gotten LASIK surgery, was the moment that redirected Michelle away from structured Catholicism toward a more personal spirituality.Both Michelle and Joey eventually became pastors through the Universal Life Church rather than returning to traditional organized religion.Michelle and Joey actually met while training at Southwest Airlines, in an awkward first encounter involving a bowl of Dum Dum suckers that neither expected would lead anywhere.Links referenced in this episode:iamastrologyreadings.comCompanies mentioned in this episode:IamastrologyreadingsPayPalVenmoCash AppSupport the mythic classroom: https://i-am-astrology-readings.captivate.fm/supportBook a Reading: https://i-am-astrology-readings.captivate.fm/book-reading#astrologyrideoftheday