More than a hundred people arrived at Terrace Gardens on Friday February 22, to farewell Mount Isa psychic Eleanor Tomlinson in a celebration of her life. She was professionally known as Eleanor Hammond.
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Eleanor passed away in Townsville on Wednesday February 6 after a brief battle with cancer.
She was born on February 27, 1970 and married her husband Ken Tomlinson in 2012 and is survived by her children Jonathon, Alaska and Ronan.
Eleanor was known internationally for her psychic readings, and energy work.
She was also a medium, and a published author having created the world's first tarot deck with eight situational meanings on each card.
These sold worldwide because it was the easiest deck to learn to do readings.
Eleanor was a sixth-generation Romani gypsy.
The Romani people have been objects of curiosity and persecution for centuries, with the English Parliament passing a law in the 1500 that made being a gypsy a felony punishable by death.
The Romani do not follow a single faith, instead live by rules that govern cleanliness, purity, respect, honor and justice.
When Eleanor was a child, she remembered being given the Jack of Spades in a dream and was told that this “is your life purpose” and that she needed to “communicate that which is hidden”.
Since then Eleanor has followed her life’s path, performing thousands of readings, and conducting energy work of all kinds.
I got to know Eleanor when she a did reading for me in 2008 at her shop called The Mandela Tree.
Many times, we wait until a friend has died to tell the world what a wonderful person they were, but that’s not the case with Eleanor. Everyone knew what a special woman she was.
Her personal mission was to spread peace and love, and empower others, and she did that daily through online and face-to-face readings and by sharing her wisdom and life experiences.
Eleanor once said there's a birth for every death and always a death to follow every birth.
“As you grow, you'll discover an acceptance of this flow of life. The acceptance can bring contentment and true joy at each birth, and true sadness, yet joy for the life that was, and acceptance for what is," Eleanor said.
Eleanor believed energy moves in and out of form and is never ending and never beginning. She believed that it is impossible to die, and that we move into the physical form and then out of it again at the end of the physical form's lifecycle.
I remember early one morning she wrote to me saying it’s currently 6am, and she had been writing from around 3am. "I’m in a kind of semi-dream-space still, I seem to tap into something far more magical than I can in the waking hours, then sun comes out and real life enters, lunches and school runs, and appointments to keep," she told me.
It's the cycle of life.
Eleanor will always be remembered as a woman who wrapped everyone she met in love, who welcomed friends, family and strangers with good humour and warmth.
She is survived by her husband Ken and children Jonathon, Alaska and Ronan.
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