Visitation from Deceased?

My friend is having a rough time. Her grandma recently passed away from a series of strokes. On the day her grandma was found unresponsive - before she knew anything happened - she started seeing a shadowy figure walking outside past the windows, and after her grandma’s death, she continued to see the figure inside her house, just on the edge of her periphery. She asked me if a Tarot reading could help, and I said while I wasn’t sure, we could give it a go. She didn’t get back to me yet, but I was curious so I pulled three cards after thinking about her situation.

My first impressions are that it could well be a visitation, but her house has always had “odd activity,” so who knows what the heck is going on.

The Empress Rv: This is normally the card of motherhood, a nurturing person, fertility, and feminine power. In reverse, she is blocked or thwarted. Some emptiness or rejection is spoiling the ideal familial relationships.

4 of Pentacles: This can represent an over-protectiveness of material things, trying to have your cake and eat it, too. Fear of letting go.

Knight of Pentacles Rv: Upright, this card represents being prepared, taking appropriate precautions. In Reverse, he’s caught off guard and not prepared for what’s going on.

Viewing this through the lens of my friend’s grandma, it could be The Empress in reverse represents her being unable to fulfill her role anymore, but still hanging onto her life in the material world. If the shadow figure my friend is seeing around her home is her grandma, it seems that she was not prepared to die and let go of this life and her family just yet.

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