I don't think feeling them is about the threat of tragedy at all. But I do think there are times in life when the "barriers" to you noticing/sensing them are thinner. During pregnancy/after childbirth/when your child is still young is one I can think of that was *really* noticeable for me. IMO the mechanism of being the vehicle for a baby to incarnate through means the strands in your energy field have to loosen so that the incoming spirit's energy can mesh into the physical, first by "piggybacking" through your energyfield and then later they learn incrementally to detach (very gradually, usually over the first 7 years of life). During pg a lot of women are really "emotional" and blame it on hormones, but I personally noticed a lot of heightened empathy and intuition during that time so again I think that's more about the normal 'barriers' coming down. And I think the time when our children are young is often a time of great joy, and Spirit that is connected with us through our family histories or as our or our children's guardians are able to make a strong connection with us on that frequency.