Category Archives: Intuitive Aura Readings

Reading Between the Lines

  February 28, 2013 - 2:04 pm | ,
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The other night I decided to watch a movie called “The Gift,” which came out in 2000, and which I had seen once before, probably about that long ago.

I remembered very little about it, except that it involved a psychic and a murder mystery.

I won’t give away too much about the movie, in case you want to watch it yourself, but the main character is a rural psychic reader who helps deal with problems brought to her by her none-too-affluent neighbors.

The psychic, played by Cate Blanchett, owns a well-worn set of cards that she constantly uses in her readings, laying them out in front of her in various random patterns.

This would all be well and good, except that for some reason the cards she uses in the film are Zener cards,  which as far as I know are just about the only form of cards that cannot be used to give readings of any kind.

Heck, you can even give readings with playing cards if you play your cards right, so to speak.  But these are solely designed to test telepathy and extrasensory perception, and that is all they do.

Period.

You can read about them at the link below, if you like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zener_cards

Evidently the producers of the film didn’t bother to do even that much research on the subject, though.

I can just picture them saying something like “Well, these look kinda psychic-y, don’t they?” and leaving it at that.

Palm Reader

I can’t imagine what kind of reading you would give with these cards, really, even if you tried.

The deck only contains five different symbols, none of which have any specific meaning whatsoever, unlike Tarot or Oracle decks.

As you can see below, there is a circle, a cross, wavy lines, a square, and a star.

And that’s it.

Zener Cards

Each deck of Zener cards contains five repetitions of these five symbols, for a total of 25 cards per deck.

The deck that Cate used in the film appeared to have about this many cards in it, but they must have been truly magical.  Because at one point someone broke into her house and used the deck to spell out the word “Satan” in letters about a foot high on the bed, with quite a number of cards left over to be scattered about dramatically.

So apparently they multiplied temporarily, just for that specific purpose.

Now THERE’S a gift!

Just as a side note, decent Zener cards are somewhat difficult to come by.  I have a couple of decks myself, which I use for my own intuitive practice exercises, and I had to do a fair bit of searching online to find some that were neither marked nor see-through.

This is because most people tend to use them for magic tricks or to fool their friends, neither of which I was interested in.

So the idea that a backwoods psychic would even own a deck of these cards is a bit far-fetched to start with.  She’d have a much easier time coming up with a standard deck of Tarot cards, which a person could actually use to give readings.

What amused me about all of this was that a central premise of the film seemed to be how misunderstood and alienated psychics tend to be, and yet the filmmakers clearly had no better understanding of how they operate than anybody else – nor did they bother to find out.

I waited anxiously throughout the movie to see how precisely the character was going to “read” with these unreadable cards, but apparently the producers didn’t know either.

The closest they got was a scene where the client said incredulously “Really?  You can see that in the cards?” and Cate waved vaguely at the top row of the square she had laid out and replied “Oh yes, especially right in through here.”

Right in through WHERE now??

And what exactly did that particular section tell you, Ms. Blanchett?

“Well, I think you’re a little bit of a square, and the future’s looking a little wavy for you right now.  But you’re going to arrive at a cross-roads soon, and everything will come full circle.  In the end you’re going to be a star!”

Yeah.  Well, maybe.

But probably in a far better movie than this one.

That much I can predict.

I Know Where You’re Coming From

  October 31, 2012 - 7:58 am | , ,
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World Globe

My boyfriend and I have very different personality types.

He’s an extravert, so he’s always asking me things about people that I can almost never answer, especially any question that begins with the word “where.”

I’m an introverted woo-woo woman, so these tangible details rarely concern me.

Here’s a typical exchange:

ME:  “I met the coolest lady online today.  We talked about all kinds of spiritual stuff.”

BF:  “You did?  So where is she from?”

ME:  “The internet.”

BF:  “Yeah, but where does she live?”

ME:  “Inside my computer.  Which part of this are you having trouble with?”

BF:  “Sigh.  Why do I bother?  Seriously.”

ME:  “That’s what I say when I pick your socks up off the floor every day.  You don’t seem to have an answer either, so I guess we’re even.  Oh, and feel free to ask me WHERE the hamper is.  Because that one I do know.”

And then we hug. And everything is fine.

Because you just can’t fail to get along when you’re hugging all the time, personality types regardless.

This is my secret for relationship success.  It really is!

That, and splitting the apartment down the middle into The Monkey Menagerie vs. The Sock-and-Pet-Free Zone.

Hey, whatever works.  I’m a practical gal. :)

You Are My Sunshine

  October 22, 2012 - 2:15 pm | , ,
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Rain Hands

You know, nothing impresses me more than when a client really grabs on to the information that they receive in a reading, and uses it to truly transform his or her life.

I am endlessly astonished by the strength that so many of you demonstrate, despite the extremely difficult things that you have often been through in your lives (some of which I have no reference point even to imagine, so Spirit has to present it in symbols instead).

And yet you keep trying, one day at a time, showing compassion for yourselves and for others (often even the ones who did you harm), and I feel so incredibly blessed to have known each one of you.

Because on any given cloudy day, YOU are my silver lining.

Mill of Mysteries

  October 21, 2012 - 9:40 am | ,
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Sadly, we saw no obvious specters at our final ghost hunting class on Friday night – they were probably all scared off by my even ghostlier pallor.

But I still haven’t reviewed the evidence on my digital recorder, so who knows what might turn up?

Last week, though, I thought I “saw” a little girl and a woman on separate floors of the old mill, and they were both wearing outfits of an identical style.

It was the similarity that got my attention once I thought about it a bit, since of course I had no idea what textile factory workers wore back then.

So I decided to look it up.

Our local library houses some photos from that very mill in its online collection, and I was able to find this one, from 1925.

Mill Workers

The woman closest to the front is wearing a smock that is pretty much identical in cut and design to the ones I clairvoyantly witnessed.

The only difference is that the color of the one I saw was blue, and these are white – but then the woman and the girl looked like they might have been from an earlier era than 1925, judging by their hairstyles.

Still, it’s clear that the employees of this mill commonly wore such aprons to protect their clothing while they worked.  I saw another photo on the wall showing several more women wearing them.

You learn something new every day, am I right?

In one area of the mill a woman named Rose is reputed to walk, trailing her floral perfume around with her.  As we were standing in this room, I clearly heard a male voice say “Rose, Rose, Rose” in quick succession.

Unfortunately my digital recorder didn’t catch it, but another classmate said that she heard it as well.  So I guess we weren’t the only ones looking for her!

Below are a few photos of what the mill looks like now.  Just a little bit less sunny, eh?

It’s currently being converted into apartments and businesses, though, so the ghosts may have more comfortable accommodations pretty soon.

That should keep them in good spirits.

Mill Pillars

Mill Meters

Mill Stairwell

Mill Hallway

Coming Out of My Shell

  October 18, 2012 - 6:21 pm | ,
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Recently, I was fortunate enough to secure a spot in “An Evening With Two Intuitives,” a recorded call hosted by psychics Lindsay Curtis of The Daily Awe, and Julie Langdon Barrett of A Clear Sign.

This event invited 20 separate people to ask a single burning question of these two excellent intuitives, and to have them answered in a recorded call format.

I threw my own hat into the ring, mostly because I was curious to see how my colleagues Lindsay and Julie work.  Over the course of the recorded call, I had a chance to see their process very clearly, and I was quite impressed.

Each question was answered in considerable detail, including very specific names and information that the clients could potentially use to address their concerns.  Even I was surprised by how detailed the responses were, in fact.

The question that I chose was about how best I can use the intuitive aura readings I’m doing now to fulfill both my own spiritual goals, as well as those of my clients.

The first person who stepped through to try and answer this question was a man called Charlie, who had a humorous personality, and who laughingly informed me that I was doing this work entirely because of him, and should thank him for his contribution to it.

This information made me giggle as well, because my grandfather on my mother’s side was called Charles, and often went by Charlie. He has shown up by name in readings before, and was one of my two closest grandparents prior to his passing.

Grandpa Charlie definitely did have a humorous personality, and it would not be unlike him to say something like this.  In fact, he is literally correct, because I would not even exist at all if it were not for his contribution, so to speak.

Lindsay also mentioned that she saw the symbol of a turtle for me, although she did not feel that it was my totem animal, specifically. She felt that this referred to the fact that I would need to have patience in the development of my client base and business, at least on the financial level.

Turtle Shell

This is what I look like without my glasses on, in case you were wondering.

This is relevant to me as well, because I am definitely at the early stages of my business, and working hard to develop it. I do wonder how long that process might take, but I love the work, so I’m more than willing to stick with it and see it through. It is definitely that important to me.

It is the sort of thing that I would happily do for free, if I did not really need to make a living at something, which naturally I do.

But the symbol of the turtle is of particular significance to me, because one of the most memorable blog posts I’ve read in the past few years was written by Angela Artemis of Powered by Intuition.

In this post (which you can find here), Angela wrote that it is okay to be a tortoise rather than a hare – meaning that even if your goals take longer than you expect to accomplish, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and that making steady and determined progress is more important than rushing forward willy-nilly, or stressing yourself out so much that you don’t enjoy what you’re doing.

This post had a great impact on me at the time, and has influenced the way I do things ever since.  Now I am far more likely to allow things to unfold at the natural pace that the Universe has designed, trusting in its guidance, instead of trying to exert too much of my own control over things.

Lindsay also noted that the turtle is associated with the use of color, and of course that is the central focus of my readings and my work, so this is very relevant as well.

Next I was specifically advised that I might be doing more local readings, in addition to the online work that I already do, and that I should print out some business cards to distribute around town.

This piece of information was particularly interesting on two levels. One because over the past day or two I have in fact been redoing my business cards, since I changed my name and URL recently. I was planning to reorder them today, in fact.

Secondly, although I did not think it was really up my alley, I have found myself giving little impromptu readings to people that I meet in public who show an interest in my work.

I gave a little off-the-cuff reading to one of the car salesmen we worked with when my boyfriend was looking for a new vehicle, for example, and another to my hairdresser and her daughter (the latter from a photo that was tacked up on the mirror).

I gave brief readings to a few of my classmates at my ghost hunting class, and will sometimes read for people I meet online, if I feel there’s any way in which I might be helpful to them.

These readings are more quick and spontaneous then the kind I do for paid clients, and I did not expect to be doing them at all, in fact.  And yet I find them to be every bit as accurate as the kind I spend a lot more time on, which is encouraging to me, as it means that I may  be able to help more people in the hours I have available.

I also find that I’m often able to determine a person’s Myers-Briggs personality type from their aura profile, and to give them guidance on that basis.  I was able to help my hairdresser understand her daughter’s behavior from that point of view, for example.

Now that’s a pretty specific skill, you have to admit!

I may end up being “The Long Island Aura Reader” eventually, although that may still be a way off!  I really do like to put a good bit of time and effort into reading and following up with each client, because I find that the outcome is ultimately more profound that way.

Besides, I find that I just can’t stop really caring about all you wonderful people! 

So for now, I’ll keep on being a turtle that carries business cards, and I’ll just let the road unwind before me at its own pace and see where it leads.

I do find that I tend to let my heart guide me in terms of who are read for, when, and where, and this seems to have served me just fine so far.  My primary goal is to help people who need my services, and there isn’t much that I will allow to stand in the way of that.

So thank you for the useful advice and encouragement, Lindsay and Julie, and I plan to take it to heart, as well as to the print shop! I really enjoyed your event, and I hope that everyone will run over and book an appointment with both of you, just as soon as possible.

I daresay they won’t be sorry!

I know I wasn’t.

Colors in the Dark

  October 10, 2012 - 4:53 pm | ,
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In chatting with one of my intuitive colleagues today, the wonderful Lindsay Curtis, I was reminded of something that happened to me last week which seemed interesting from an energetic point of view.

My boyfriend and I have been taking a ghost hunting class at the local community center on Fridays lately, mostly just for fun and to get out of the house.

Poor boyfriend is the only male in this class, which seems a bit odd to me, since most of the well-known ghost hunters on TV do seem to be men.

But that is neither here nor there.

At one point we were down in the basement of the community center (built in 1888) which is reportedly haunted by the spirit of a janitor who used to work there.

Broom Basement

Different basement, same creep factor.

I felt that I was able to see his spirit clairvoyantly – he was wearing an odd kind of striped uniform, and I believed that he was standing in a small room in the rear of the basement – the same place I had sensed him the previous week as well.

As it turned out, this is the only place where we picked up any audio activity during that week’s class. At one point, it sounded as though a male voice responded to one of the instructor’s questions with a very faint “Okay.”

Another one of my classmates independently sensed energy in that location, and came to stand next to me while we were doing an EVP session.

This session went on for quite a while, during which time we were expected to be perfectly still and quiet, so I began to get a little bored and restless.

Now, ordinarily, I make a point of NOT reading people who have not asked to be read.

This only seems polite, as aura reading is something of the equivalent of using x-ray glasses, except at an even deeper level.

In fact, I typically employ some psychic protection techniques when out in public, to avoid being drained by the proximity of so many different energies (some of these techniques I learned from one of my other intuitive peeps, the delightful Julie Langdon Barrett).

I don’t usually even like making eye contact with strangers – not out of shyness, mind you, but because the eyes really are the windows of the soul, and I don’t necessarily want to peek through other people’s windows unbidden.

But sometimes, certain people’s energies are so strong that they impress themselves upon me anyway, and this was one of those occasions.

Besides, it was dark and very quiet, and I had little else to listen to aside from the energy of the person standing directly next to me.

And as I stood there, I gradually became aware that I could intuitively “see” her colors, even in the dark. 

They were almost visually glowing around her, in fact, and they felt remarkably like my own energetic profile.

Colored Lights

This surprised me, because my own personality type is very rare, especially for a female. And I had spent virtually no time with this lady the previous week, so I had no logical reason to presume anything about her at all.

She and I seemed simpatico in other ways as well – we kept looking in the same directions as the energy around us changed, for example, and had identical ideas about where it was currently located.

I found this to be notable too, and it got my attention.

After the session ended and we could speak again, I began asking her questions about the colors I had seen and my interpretations of them (which I will not share here, as they are of course personal).

As it turned out, they fit her perfectly in every detail.

It quickly became clear that she and I do share exactly the same Myers-Briggs personality type, and are similar in a lot of other ways as well, including a recently awakened sense of intuition.

I probably creeped the poor girl out substantially, and because I had mentioned in passing that I was an aura reader, she admitted that she had been standing there in the gloom thinking “Ack, I hope she isn’t reading me right now.”

Which of course I totally was.

Naughty me.

I hadn’t looked any deeper than her aura color profile, naturally, but the fact that it delivered to me her personality type seemed like something to think about.

This is not the first time that this has happened, and in fact it is occurring with some frequency now. I was not expecting this development at all, and it’s very interesting to me from a scientific point of view to discover that the two kinds of energetic profiles are apparently linked, and can sometimes be determined one from the other.

The other fascinating point is that I do encounter people who share my own rare personality type with some frequency doing this work, and certain other uncommon types as well.

The reason for this is simply that these particular types tend to be more interested in spiritual topics or self-discovery, so they are more likely to be looking for my services.

If you are one such person (and if you’ve arrived at this blog, you might be), then I would be happy to read for you too, and I promise you don’t have to stand next to me in a haunted basement to do it!

A photo and your open-mindedness are all that are required.

Just click this link for guidelines on ordering a reading, and we can get started very soon!

Right on Target

  October 9, 2012 - 12:44 pm | ,
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Here’s a funny little psychic story for you.

More than once over the past couple of days, I had the oddest urge to visit my local Target store to go shopping.

Target DogEvery time this impulse sprang to mind I noticed it, because although Target is a perfectly nice store, it’s not our habit to shop there very often, and I had no earthly reason to go there this weekend.

I was finding it rather perplexing, actually.

Then yesterday, my mother called to tell me that she had discovered a wonderful Target in her new hometown (which is all the way across the country from me), and had a really successful shopping trip there this weekend.

She had obviously been thinking about it a lot, and so had I!

I’m not sure why I’m even paying for a cell phone anymore, to be honest.

Who needs it, when we have the Universal Hotline, free of charge?

Reach out and touch someone, indeed.

Soul Music

  September 16, 2012 - 10:49 pm | , ,
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Soul Music

My boyfriend was astonished tonight to discover that I had never heard of a singer who is apparently extremely popular and well-known.

Yes, I’m sure you’ve heard of her.  I really am that out of it.  I admit it.

I don’t listen to the radio, watch TV, or roam around on my computer much, so I’m sure there’s a lot I miss.

But I really don’t miss what I miss.

The truth is, there are only so many waking hours, and I can choose to spend them keeping up with pop stars, or I can spend them listening to the music of people I’ve never met (and likely never will), often half a world away.

I hear their symphonies of color, and which strings have been lost or broken, and how they’ve somehow managed to stay in tune regardless – with a strength I can’t hope to possess, but never fail to admire.

So to be honest, it isn’t even a close call.

Because you all just sound so beautiful.

And if I know no other music, still my days are filled with song.

Watch Yourself!

  August 24, 2012 - 1:32 pm | ,
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I’ve discovered that any success that I ever have with anything comes from the willingness to constantly and honestly observe my own thoughts, habits, and natural tendencies, almost as though someone else were watching me from the outside.

Then I adjust the way I do things to take into consideration my own strengths and weaknesses, but never, ever to condone them.

In short, the question I’m always asking myself is the following:

“What sort of person am I, and how can I work around it?”

Binoculars

Lately I’ve been trying hard to adjust my daily schedule in a way that accommodates the ebb and flow of my natural energy levels, rather than trying to overcome them.

I always do chores in the morning, for example.  This includes making the bed, cooking breakfast, doing dishes, cleaning the kitchen and the bathroom, folding laundry, feeding and cleaning up after two birds and a rabbit, vacuuming the floors, exercising, catching up on emails and Facebook, and taking a shower (if I have time for something that trivial).

Then I have maybe an hour to work on the computer and do a little intuitive practice before El Boyfriendo comes home for lunch, at which point I need to take care of the zoo and the housework yet again.

And all of this is on blood sugar that is still running low from the night before.

But none of it is skippable or negotiable, and I definitely wouldn’t want to do double duty the next day anyway!  Because I find that when that happens, it really adds up to more like triple duty.  I’m not quite sure why, since math was never my strong point, but there it is.

So I just try to keep up.

After all of that, though, needless to say, I’m usually a little tired, and really, really need to meditate.  Or simply lose consciousness.

So I move my cute little orange canary Cricket into the back room to play with her buddy, our green-cheeked conure Mr. Stupid, and then I have a few hours of blissful peace and quiet to work before boyfriend comes home again, and it’s time for dinner, more house chores, more pet care, and some contracted work for my former employer.

During this precious space in the afternoon I work on my aura readings, because it’s a great time to meditate and get involved in more spiritual pursuits, as well as take a break from the hustle and bustle of our little menagerie.

I’ve started doing my readings in my studio recently, which I refer to as “The Sanctuary,” because it’s very soothing and dim and quiet in there, and there’s plenty of room to spread out my cards and other spiritual tools.  It’s nice to have a space to dedicate to that activity, because it gives it a feeling of priority and sanctity.

IncenseI can even burn some lovely Shoyeido incense, while the canary is out of the room.  My favorite is Golden Pavilion.

The deep meditation that I do as part of this work is very restful and refreshing to me.

I tend to think of it as “rebooting” my brain and my body, which by that point in the day I desperately need.

I find this approach is working really well, and that my days are far more productive than they used to be, and much less stressful.

But as I said, it’s all based on my own personal energy levels and habits.

Yours are probably quite different from mine!

So what sort of person are you, and what one step can you take today to get closer to being the person you’d like to be? 

I’d love to hear about it, or even help you out if I can – so drop me a comment below, or book an aura reading with me, and we can work on it together!

P.S. My Dragon Naturally Speaking dictation program interpreted that last line as “book a beating with me.”  While I suppose this might appeal to some, it just isn’t possible via e-mail, so please don’t ask.

I don’t think I have the strength for it anyway.

Personality Link Love

  July 24, 2012 - 4:46 pm |
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For those who were brave enough to do a bit of metaphorical navel-gazing following my previous post (and I hope you were, because the information you get from it can be terribly useful), I suspect that a little more detail on what your results mean might be helpful in applying them to your life.

To that end, I offer three of my favorite personality resources
(presented in size-descending order, as is only proper for the slightly OCD INTJ).

Link Cloud

http://www.personalitypage.com/html/portraits.html

This one is my top favorite, and the first one I always hand out to my victims clients.  There is a great deal of information on here about careers and relationships for the various types, in addition to the general descriptions.

http://www.keirsey.com/default.aspx

There are more detailed Myers-Briggs sorters on this site, as well as descriptions and lists of famous people who might share your type.

http://personalityjunkie.com/

Good descriptions, and more famous people.  Find out what kind of company you’ve been keeping, without even knowing it!

I would love to hear more results from everyone!  The more the merrier!