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161. Intuition Isn't Scary: It's Your Superpower
This week, I spoke with Hana O’Neiil, AKA The Suburban Witch, psychic divination expert and taro & astrology reader/
In this episode, Hana and I talk about:
- Navigating faith and religious trauma
- Navigating the world magically, spiritually & psychically
- Working with psychic gifts
- Ghost/spirit stories
- Hana’s introduction to witches
- The energy of New Orleans
- Breaking down psychic senses and divination
- Meditation and how it helps your psychic gifts
- Your human design cognition & environments
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Welcome to the Rochelle Christiane podcast. I'm Rochelle, your host. I'm here to help you come back to your body, take charge of your emotions and live life on your terms. This podcast is a space for raw, real conversations about what it means to trust yourself, lean to your power and create a life that feels aligned and alive. We'll explore human design, astrology and other tools to help you understand your unique energy. More importantly, though, we're going to talk about what it means to actually live and embody these aspects. So, each week, I'm going to share stories, lessons, guidance to help you navigate life's challenges and really own your magic. So if you're ready to step up, take control and show up as the most authentic version of you, let's begin. Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 1:Today I talk to Hannah O'Neill, who is a professional tarot reader, astrologer and witch who helps spiritual seekers go from feeling confused, blocked and overwhelmed to feeling confident, connected and clear in their path through a variety of mediums. Her goal is to make witchcraft fun and accessible. Hannah has almost a decade of experience working with satisfied clients from all over the world, including some celebrity clients. She was nominated for multiple witchcraft and occult media awards in 2024 for Outstanding Vlog, blog and Podcast of the Year and has been seen in Women's Day, best Life and Bustle, and this conversation was so good. We talk all about psychic senses, divination tools. We talk about religious trauma and Hannah's own experience with that. We talk about how to work with our psychic gifts, meditation, human design, witches, and how she even came into this and it was so fun. And you know one thing that you will feel, if you don't already know her the suburban witch. On most or all of her channels she brings this energy of play and lightness and fun to what she does and that really is key to a lot of these things.
Speaker 1:I think we take things so seriously and it has to look a certain way and it's like if you just kind of sometimes throw out the rules and just enjoy what you're doing, enjoy life, have fun with it, especially sometimes the more serious things when we're talking about, like you know, downloads, psychic gifts, premonitions, ghosts, like these things can be a little bit heavy sometimes, right. So it's like how can we make it a little bit lighter and funner? And that is definitely a lesson of my life, because I definitely take things super seriously with my Hades moon, my Pluto square, my moon can be really intense and you know, hannah has a Scorpio moon, so I think that depth and that intensity is definitely there as well. But again, she just has this really beautiful energy that she brings to her work and so every way that you can find her is down below this week. For myself, I feel like. So last week was a full moon, we had yesterday the Jupiter Venus conjunction and I've really been working with you know, activating my wealth consciousness, I guess, and just tapping into the energy of money and what it means and unblocking my stories. And I don't know. It's been really beautiful Because, although you know I've been doing this work, I've kind of had this moment today where I was looking back at pictures from May, which was when I really decided sort of to just go all in on you know, health, my body manifestation, basically all of the things, and just sort of like release my grip on so much and just sort of surrender.
Speaker 1:And then, when Jupiter went into cancer, I just feel like everything since then has been this opportunity to surrender in a really beautiful way. But I was looking at it before and after picture of myself and I was like, wow, like it's not, you know, like the biggest transformation you're ever going to see, but like I can see it and that feels really good because, you know, I think we get to a point in our journey, whatever it is, where it's like, you know, no transformation worth having. I guess, if that makes sense, no transformation is really going to happen overnight and like some do, in the sense that I think there has been unconscious work maybe, and maybe it's just because I'm a six line and things just take a lot longer for me. Either way, I was sort of getting to the point where I'm like okay, I've been really really heavy into the manifestation, the meditations, the, you know, cleaning up my body and working on my body. I've been like kind of heavy on that for now, I guess May, june, july, august, so it's three months and it's like all right, my external, let's say, certain things that I'm manifesting haven't really shifted, haven't really changed, things that I'm manifesting haven't really shifted, haven't really changed, but really taking inventory and noticing how much really actually has changed. And it's that belief that there's no way that I can feel this way and feel this good in my body, in my mind, in my emotions, connected to my spirit and things not manifest externally, and sometimes it's just a slower journey Again. Sometimes it just takes time. Sometimes we have to have patience, sometimes we have to surrender, sometimes we have to dig a little bit deeper to see where am.
Speaker 1:I still being held back by certain narratives and I just noticed one thing that was really kind of powerful for me today is that before I started all this, so before May, I would, every time it was, you know, my cycle, I would get my period and I would get really, really moody. The week before I would break out in acne, I would, you know, my breasts would hurt, I would, my body would sort of hurt, I would get cramps, like the whole thing right. And then day two of my period, I was just like forget it, I just want to lay in bed because it's so heavy, it's so uncomfortable. And the last two cycles I've had, I've had zero PMS, I've had like zero symptoms, my body doesn't hurt, it's so normal and my flow is just like fine, like completely manageable, not overwhelming, and I was like, wow, this is kind of amazing.
Speaker 1:So I've heard experts, you know, speak about all of these PMS symptoms that were sold on that we don't actually have to experience. It's sort of like when you're working on your body, your physical body and your health. We don't understand or we don't, we're not taught that. You know, our baseline doesn't require bloating and gas and headaches and and dehydration and like all these symptoms that we have. Right Like it's sort of like when you get to that baseline, when you understand, when you peel back all the shit and then you understand like, oh wow, this is the baseline. All the other stuff on top is just stuff that were sold as normal. And I say that and I understand that there is, I think, a baseline of normal in the West, maybe due to our diet and our lifestyle, and I want to acknowledge that a lot of these, a lot of this is taken out of our hands, and so I know that it's not easy to feel good all the time, especially given our food industry, pharmaceuticals, like all these things. There's so much wrapped up into this. I don't know, I've just been it's.
Speaker 1:It was a really, I think, really cool moment for me today to witness that shift and that change and to realize how much actually has changed in the last three months. And it might not appear dramatic, and you know my external, I might not be living in the dream house, or I might not have the dream job at the moment, right, but things are moving and I feel it, and so I can't help but know that it's going to my external, is catching up to my internal and everything that's happening inside. And just to like keep going right. So like, if you're on the journey and maybe you've struggled staying consistent in the past, keep going right. So like if you're on the journey and maybe you've struggled staying consistent in the past, keep going, keep showing up, keep doing the work, even when you don't want to.
Speaker 1:There've been a couple of mornings that I woke up and I was like I don't want to meditate this morning, I just want to snooze. And this morning I woke up and I was like I literally opened my eyes to turn my alarm off and I was like oh my gosh, I'm so tired. And then immediately I was like you know what, though? This is the coolest way to wake up, because my mind is awake and I get to wake up while my eyes are closed, while I meditate how cool. And it just like shifted everything.
Speaker 1:So it's just in these little ways like, basically, just keep going, so I won't talk too much and take up too much time here, but I just wanted to share that because I think it can get really frustrating when you're putting in the time and you're doing the work and it takes a while or you're not seeing the results. And I just want to say that I promise they're there and just keep going, keep putting one foot in front of the other, keep choosing yourself, keep setting your boundaries, keep sticking to the promises with yourself right, like stop self-abandoning and show up for yourself in whatever way that means, and have compassion and grace, and just keep going right, like stop self abandoning and show up for yourself in whatever way that means, and have compassion and grace and just keep going right. So, with all of that being said, the so there are multiple calls that I've added to my calendar so you can go down in the link below and join those calls New Moon call I'm going to do a transit call and then next month, full moon, new moon and we're doing a HD for a human design parenting call workshop. You can also so you can sign up for one-off courses, one-off calls, one-off circles, or you can join your sacred unraveling and get all of them for $22 a month. It's a membership space. You get access again to all the calls. There's resources in there, you have telegram community and we go through different themes every single month.
Speaker 1:So obviously the membership program is the best option. But if you just want to drop in and see what it's about, each call is $11. So you can join through that link. That will be down below and every way that you can work with me is down below. Every way that you can find Hannah is down below the Suburban Witchery on everything, and I hope you enjoy the show and I will speak to you soon.
Speaker 1:Welcome to the podcast. So I'm actually having a little bit of rebranding this coming Thursday, so it's like that pause to introduce the way that I used to. But welcome to the podcast. Today I have Hannah O'Neill, who is the suburban witch and a psychic divination expert, tarot and astrology reader, and we'll get into all of it. I'm really fascinated, especially when it comes to our psychic gifts. It's something I've been diving into for the last few years but I'm still a novice with it. But I will hand you the floor for you to introduce yourself, your story, anything pivotal along the way that sort of got you to where you're at today, and we'll take it from there.
Speaker 2:Amazing. Thank you so much for having me, rochelle. So one thing as well as the amazing witchy stuff that I do, one thing I also focus on is a lot of deconstruction content around the Christian faith, because that was my, that's my baseline. That's where this all started. I began in the Pentecostal church. It's very different, but the Christian to which pipeline is still very strong. So it is there.
Speaker 2:There are people traversing it and it's a little bit bumpier than people who maybe don't have religious trauma and things like that, because that fear that comes with religious trauma the fear, the thinking that every intuitive thought must be a demon is really hard to overcome. So that's one of my, I guess, special interests is helping people traverse that tricky path as well as people who don't have that, and you don't need to have that to work with me or understand any of the stuff that I'm talking about. But it is an interesting aspect to have both of those there and the normal pop culture generation out there also comes with some of this religious trauma, even if they didn't grow up in the church, purely because it is in things like the Exorcist we have that like religious branding of you know, if you use a Ouija board, this is going to happen to you and people come to psychic gifts, magic, all of these things, with those almost like built-in beliefs that you then have to deconstruct and pull apart. So that's one of the things I love helping people do.
Speaker 1:I love helping people, I guess, take their blinders off and see what amazingness we have in this world magically, spiritually, psych, psychically because it's really amazing and it can really truly help us in a really practical way in our everyday life to have all those skills, talents, techniques, gifts, all of that yeah, when I think, unless you were raised from like that small pocket of people that are um more spiritual inclined maybe, and even that I still think there are always like remnants of some sort of religious teaching or I don't know I, my dad, was Roman Catholic and so I went to the church every single Sunday, but for me, once I turned, I did all the things that I was supposed to do, and then I turned 16 and he was like, okay, now you can continue going or not.
Speaker 1:And I never went back Cause I was like sitting in a church and having to say like 25 Hail Marys, cause I hit my brother, just felt to me like you know. But I would love to know, if you're open to talking about it, I guess more about like your, what that looks like for you and and what it looks like for you separating from that and then coming more into this intuitive, witchy kind of practice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I've always been a very spiritual person. So even as a kid growing up, I spent my first 16 years of life in the Pentecostal church, which they're not going to. They're not going to ever admit this. But in my opinion, having seen both sides of the coin, the Pentecostal branch of Christianity is the most psychically active church. In my opinion. They have, you know, gifts of the spirit, like there are literal gifts from the Holy Spirit of essentially channeling, basically, and dream divination and prophecy Like this is this is psychic stuff, but it's okay when it's from the Holy Spirit. Anything outside of that is where they draw the line. So I was already very familiar with a lot of this magical thinking in a way. And it's funny, my brother and I had almost the exact same upbringing but he just never really clicked. He liked going to church because he could play in the youth group band and play drums and guitar and get some live music experience, but he wasn't like myself who was desperate for that spiritual connection. So I think that almost desperate spiritual seeking remained a part of me. That's just a part of who I am. I have a lot of 12th house placements. It makes sense now.
Speaker 2:At the time I didn't know that I was just like. I thought I was going to be a pastor, you know, I thought I was going to be preaching and a missionary and all of these things. And I had these psychic visions when, in the depths of prayer, like absolute surrender, at the altar of the church, on the floor, praying my heart out, trying to get something, and I would have these visions right, which have been confirmed to have been a part of my future. It was a pre-cognitive vision. I thought it came from God. The very first one that I had was so clear. It was me. You know, there were these children in front of me and they were standing on dirt floor. I could tell they were from another country. They had brown skin, these little children looking up at me. I must've been an adult in this vision, even though I was like five when I had it, and these kids had their sort of hands up to me. And I came out of this prayer meditation which now I see, I'd put myself into a trance, receptive state, and I came out, I turned to my mom and I said I'm going to be a missionary because the only possible context I had as a five-year-old in the church was the missions that we saw every week, that we're donating for and people were going to. So that was the only concept I had.
Speaker 2:When we got kicked out of the church at 16, because my parents divorced a huge worldview shift. Like what do you mean? You can be kicked out of the church? We didn't do anything wrong, like I didn't do anything wrong. What are you doing? So that forced me to confront a lot of things. But I was still spiritual. I was, I still believed everything.
Speaker 2:So that letting go of that comes, you know, takes time, similar to when someone's in a relationship and you're fully in love and then they cheat on you and you leave because you know're supposed to, or they break up with you because you know you're supposed to, but like you still love them. That's what it felt like I was still in love with the church, I was still in love with God. I'd had visions right, I'd had proof, I was certain I'd felt it. I'd felt the tingles and all of that. But in hindsight, a lot of that was just live music played at the right chord at the right time, with the air conditioning on and lots of people in a room, because it was a mega church. It was huge. So at the time I was still seeking and I still had that vision. So I'm like what on earth does this mean for me? I was supposed to be a missionary.
Speaker 2:So I tried other churches that didn't quite fit right. I didn't have that base of knowing everyone from birth and knowing what was expected right, so it was a bit harder to sort of integrate in. And so I tried, I explored, I experimented. It was hard because I was working. Parents had moved to opposite, like literally they were about five hours apart from each other and I was trying to see everyone. So church fell off the wayside for a little bit in favor of school, social and work. That vision went to the back of my mind and I thought you know what? I must have made it up. I was a kid, maybe. I literally fell asleep and had a dream Like that's probably what happened. Right, I started explaining it away, forgotten all about it. I in true me fashion was escaping from stuff that had happened in my social life, a breakup and all of that. And I said you know what? I'm going overseas, I'm moving overseas, I'm leaving. See you later. Mic drop, quite, literally at my 21st speech mic drop. I'm moving to Canada, see you guys. And on the way I was like I'm going to go to Cambodia, I'm going to volunteer there and teach English for a bit and then I'll travel Southeast Asia and go to Canada. This is just this. I need to get out and explore. Get to Canada, I start volunteering, teaching English and these beautiful little children.
Speaker 2:At one point, standing on the dirt floor that was in the school room, the classroom, looking up at me, and I just had this full body chills moment of oh my goodness, this is that vision. This is that vision, oh my gosh. And I'm standing there trying to like teach a class and also internally freaking out, thinking what do you mean? What do you mean? This is true, what does that mean? Does that mean? God's real, like what is happening to me? And I had to, and I was traveling by myself, so I had to go home to my hostel room by myself and sit there and think about the day, like what just happened. I had the vision. That was real, that was almost like a play-by-play, exactly as I remember it. But I'm not a missionary, that's not what I'm doing here. Maybe I just had a vision of the future and there was no God-given purpose behind it. So why did I get this vision?
Speaker 2:And so that plagued me for a little bit, this like wondering, and I never really toyed with the atheist sort of thinking. I was always like agnostic. There's something, there's something I don't know what it is, I don't know if that church was right for me anymore, but there's something right. So experiences, all that started to pull apart some of the indoctrination that I'd had, some of the beliefs, when I finally met my husband. So at the time he was my boyfriend, he was raised Catholic and so I was like, sweet, you're a Christian as well, this is great. And I would say stuff like oh, you know, when we're in church we did this, this and this, and he'd sort of turn around and go you did what? Say that again? What do you mean? What are you talking about? People fell on the floor. Why are they falling on the floor? And it's that shock that he had when I'm like we believe in the same thing, right, that shock that he had shocked me out of it a little bit and opened my eyes to oh, was what I was? Was it weird? Was I in a weird church? Was I in one of those strange ones yes, dear listener, I was, and you know. So that sort of started to help and he would question a lot and that would force me to come up with some sort of answer. And it wasn't until we returned home after a few years in Canada that's where I met him returned home to Australia and went on a ghost tour because at this point, like I'd always been a bit intrigued by ghosts, weren't allowed to be in the church, but I'm out now I can do that.
Speaker 2:So I went on a ghost tour of an asylum in Victoria it's called Arradale Asylum in southeast Australia, and it was like this is intense tour. This is like four hours from like 8 pm till 2 am, walking tour around like acres and acres of property. And I loved spooky. I thought it was really cool and really fun. I wasn't really scared of it, but you know, I liked the excitement and we walked into, I believe, did it. I walked into this. It looks like a house, it looks like an old house. This is like super old place.
Speaker 2:Walk in and as soon as we're going I get hit with this wave of like, the smell of like I was walking into a barn, like it was hay and straw. And I was like, oh my gosh, do they have like farm animals in here or something? And everyone in the group I was with sort of looked over at me like what are you talking about? And I'm going can't you come on? Like it smells like a barn, like that is the strongest smell of hay I've ever had in my life, almost bowled me over type of smell. And the guide will, with sort of pushes us all into this room and he said can you say that again? I'm like oh, I just the smell. How can no one else smell it? My husband's like dude, are you having a stroke? What is wrong with you? No one could smell it. And at that point I'm thinking am I Like? What do you mean? This is really intense for me and it's so physical. Our sense of smell is so physical. Anyway, the guide said it's really interesting.
Speaker 2:You say that this is the room where they used to perform lobotomies and back then they didn't have running water so they would cover the floor with hay and that would soak up the blood so they could sweep it. And everyone then, like pivots, turns around and goes, oh my God. And I was like what just happened. Oh, my goodness, now, from this is like 15 years ago, maybe 13 years, something like that. I can't do maths. It was a while ago. At the time that was like very weird, very strange. Lots of thoughts came after that. Right, it was pivotal. But looking back, I'm like that's so clever of my spirit team, my spirit guides, to do it that way, because I had witnesses so I couldn't explain it away. It wasn't also like me trying to convince other people that it happened, because there was like a group of 30 people that watched it happen. It was so visceral, so physical. I couldn't ignore it and that's what made me speak it out loud.
Speaker 2:If it had been like a flash of seeing something, I probably would have thought I don't know, push it away. I thought I was imagining or, you know, did my medication have some weird strain on it? That's causing me to hallucinate, like I would have kind of questioned it around, that If I'd heard something I would have just thought I'd heard some like workers in another room or something, like I wouldn't have really put two and two together, but the sense of smell was such a clever one. Also, being in the room that we were in, I got immediate validation with what the guide backed up in the story, and if they'd shown me blood, if I'd heard the lobotomies that would have freaked me out, I would have closed off completely by having my clear aliens is what that's called, this sense of psychic smell or a medium shibbistic in this case because of the area we were in this sense of smell get activated like that. It made me curious and intrigued and like that was something special and I can't I can't hide from that.
Speaker 2:So I think that was a really pivotal moment in retrospect that really pushed me closer to where I was supposed to be, which is what I'm doing now and you know, working with psychic gifts and what was that called? Why did that happen? Does that happen to other people? All of these things prompted very, very deep research and it just got bigger and better after that. Right, so that's my. I can't even remember what your original question was, but I kind of answered it no, that was so good.
Speaker 1:I was like that's so fascinating and I was like getting chills as you were talking about it. I've always been so fascinated with people who have had such like visceral experiences early on and like how that translates or like how they continue to practice it like into adulthood. And you know, some people have really supportive parents, some people like forget about it and then come back to it later. So the fact that you saw that vision like it came true, but like in a different context than your five-year-old mind could like wrap itself around, is just so fascinating a woman traveling on her own was not in my repertoire at five.
Speaker 1:I can't imagine. I mean, you never know. Yeah, no, but my daughter, she's seen things since she was a baby and I always like saw my, my, like. One little story for myself is like I was always so.
Speaker 1:I grew up in the middle East, so I grew up around a lot of different religions, a lot of different cultures, and so I kind of got to experience it. I went to India and Thailand and you know I've been to Australia and like just like all different places. So I've kind of like had this curiosity towards just like people and cultures anyway, and um, so I was, I think, more spiritually inclined anyway, just because I I would see the similarities between everything, right, as opposed to like seeing the differences, I guess. But, um, when my daughter first started seeing things, I just never really shut it down. I just kind of would be like okay, whatever you know, or or I just wouldn't say anything, or like little things would freak me out when she was little and I would see like all these orbs like on the baby monitor, or like she would open closets and talk to people and I'm like, oh my God, my house haunted which it was, because when I was 25, it was my.
Speaker 1:The morning of my 25th birthday was the first time I ever saw a ghost in my entire life and I just I knew it. Like it stood there, I could kind of see through it. It was all it was a military uniform and I pulled the covers over my head and I was like this is not happening. This is not happening. I was so like I was sweating so bad I couldn't even check my phone to see the time, cause it was just soaking wet. And then I pulled it back, it was still there and it just started of the bed. So I don't know if it was trying to communicate with him or I don't know.
Speaker 1:But anyway, long story short, but I after that I was equally amazed and terrified and I remember like sitting on my bed and I just sat there and I spoke out loud and I was like listen, cause I didn't feel like it was malicious. So I was like I don't, I can't help you, like I don't want to see you anymore, like I can't, and kind of I never saw anything after that. Here and there things have happened, like toys would make noise. My daughter still sees shapes and things like that. But it's just. It's fascinating to me when we're able to really, or I guess, like maybe just not having the fear towards it, like what was it for you that you walked into that situation? Like not having that fear.
Speaker 2:I think one thing that was a few years prior to that, so when I was still traveling. So I did two years in Canada and then my husband and I we were still dating, but we had plans. I was like no, dude, I have this whole thing planned out. You're not coming with me? So we just split off for a bit. He camped around the States and I was like no, I'm a slow traveler. So I went to Louisiana and Texas and I worked on farms in those areas, volunteered on farms so I could get my you know that paid for my room and board, so I could stay a little bit longer and really explore the area. And when I was in Louisiana working on a goat dairy farm, I was staying in a trailer, what Australians would call a caravan in the back, surrounded by cornfields, which look, if you've ever grown up watching signs, that was scary, just being surrounded by cornfields.
Speaker 2:I was kind of like all right, I'll deal with it. I'm a big girl, so every night I'd, you know, walk from the house in the dark it's so dark out in rural Louisiana walk out and get into my trailer and go to sleep and within the very first couple nights of being there and I had flown in, you know, gone in through New Orleans, explored New Orleans, done all the usual touristy stuff and then gone here Within the first couple nights I woke up with sleep paralysis and I had never had that before. But I was aware of it because in that exploration outside of the church I went and watched all the things I wanted to watch but hadn't been allowed to. You know, things like True Blood and Vampire Diaries and all of those sorts of fun, sort of not quite spooky but a little bit camp sort of shows that explored those elements that I was never allowed to explore. I read all of the Enright stuff. So I sort of had gone into this fantasy realm of the paranormal and what it had done has given me a lot of the vocab and the words around it, but it also sort of placed it into a that could be real. Some things definitely not like, you know that kind of area. It's a bit of exposure therapy, I guess.
Speaker 2:So when this happened I knew that usually when people have sleep paralysis they feel a weight on their chest. I know that now is called hag riding. I didn't have that. It was my arms, my hands. It felt like someone had their hands around my wrists holding me down to the bed and I was on my back and I was trying to lift. I could lift up my head, I could lift up my chest. So this didn't fit with the psychology point of view that it's just your mind dreaming and your body can't move and so you kind of freak out a little bit. Didn't fit with that, because I could move my body. My eyes were open and I couldn't see anything, but I could feel it holding me down and I was petrified. Like I don't think I'd ever really been that scared.
Speaker 2:When I was growing up my parents would tell me there were demons waiting to get me. They're whispering in my ears, they're under my bed. Like I had horrible, horrible trauma around hell and demons. That was unfortunately reinvigorated every Sunday service. But even though those were terrifying, I'd never felt like something was touching me before. Right, this was that first time. So my brain goes demon immediately, like, oh my goodness, I've obviously opened something. I've opened a portal, there's a demon and it's holding me down.
Speaker 2:So I slipped straight back into the church and I start praying, so every prayer I could think of, just consistently on repeat, and it didn't work. And this is what really scared me is that didn't work. I was always told, you know, the power of the name of Jesus would frighten any demon, but this thing wasn't going anywhere. Eventually I don't know if it got bored or whatever happened I fell back. Well, no, I didn't fall back to sleep, it left. I got up, I put on my Hillsong music, which is an Australian Christian church, put on that music, turned on all the lights in the trailer and then I don't think I slept the rest of the night.
Speaker 2:The next day I spoke to one of the girls who lived there, the granddaughter of the people who owned the farm. She was roughly my age and I just sort of very hesitantly, thinking she was going to laugh at me and call me like all sorts of things, but I just kind of brought it in like hey, um has. So you know, you know that with the trailer, has anyone ever had anything happen in there. And she just sort of looks at me and goes, ah, what did you bring back with you from New Orleans? And I was like, oh you, you believe me. Like no questions, just straight up, like obviously you brought something back and I'd never sort of experienced, I guess, that acceptance of the supernatural in that way. And she goes babe, we're in New Orleans, we're in Louisiana, like my best friend has her house haunted by a civil war ghost, like we're surrounded by some of the most haunted places in the world. Horrible shit has happened here. This is an like a natural part of living in this state.
Speaker 2:I was like, okay, so what do I do? It's just like, well, I got a friend, he's a witch, I'll get him to come over and firstly, my brain's like he's a witch. What do you mean? He's a witch, fun fact, which is a gender neutral term. I just had no concept of that at the time. So he's a witch and he was going to come over and help. And I was like, okay, well, my prayers didn't work, so let's try it, he comes in.
Speaker 2:At the time I didn't have the vocab for this, so I was just in there like what the hell does he think he's doing? Watching it all in kind of a bit of awe, intrigue, but also a little bit of judgment in retrospect, I noticed. So what he did have was a pendulum and he was basically checking the area, asking questions, and he said, yes, there is an entity here. I actually can't get rid of it completely, but I can ward the trailer so you will be safe. And I was like I don't know what any of that means, but just do what you got to do. So he cleansed the space, he put up some wards.
Speaker 2:I didn't see his actual process on that, but then I went to bed that night and I was like, all right, lights on, christian music on, and I'll just sleep like that. So I'm lying in bed and I heard, and I heard like scraping on the roof of this trailer and my brain is like, trying desperately to be like it's windy. There is a tree that is branches on top of the trailer. That's what it is. I'm not going out to check, absolutely not. That's what it is. And so I convinced myself of that, fell asleep. Next morning I get up and, of course, as I like, walk out, shut the door, walking away. I was like do I turn around? Do I check? I can't remember if there's a tree close enough, do I check? Because I knew if I checked and there was a tree there, oh fine. If there wasn't, though, anyway, I turned around, had a look no tree within distance of scraping on the top, no matter how much wind there was. So I was like, oh my goodness, all right, but at least in one aspect it worked right. Whatever he did actually did something. The thing stayed outside, it couldn't get in, and so it stayed like that for the rest of the time I was there.
Speaker 2:At the end of my trip I went back to New Orleans. There's a. There was a shop called Voodoo Authentica and I got to chat with one of the Voodoo practitioners there about it and was like dude, what can you help me? I don't know what it is, don't know why it's here. And basically, I'd done this graveyard tour when I was first in New Orleans and I went through, you know, all the garden district, all these beautiful old graveyards, which a lot of them are close to the public now.
Speaker 2:I was very lucky to see them at the time and he said you know, you've got no concept of graveyard etiquette. You're wide open, you're like a big, what are you doing? And I was like I don't know what I'm doing. I just I was just absorbing everything, right. So he said you're like a little, you know flashlight for everyone to come and come and find you.
Speaker 2:So he taught me a few techniques around you know graveyard etiquette, giving offerings to spirits, walking in backwards, walking out backwards, and a few other things that I have like taken with me throughout the rest of my life. Like I will never walk forwards into a grave. His reasoning was you never came and you never left. If you walk in backwards, walk out backwards, giving an offering as you enter and an offering to any spirit's grave that you go to visit. So that was really good advice. He did some other stuff to help me out as well. Fantastic. And then that had I'd seen the stuff that helped.
Speaker 2:So the fear was like, oh, I have a way to control it. It's this witchy stuff, what can I do around that? And that sort of introduced me to things like cleansing. That was kind of a good intro Shielding, protection stuff I was already very versed in you know herbal wisdom, so you know certain teas and things that I would use, and I was like, well, maybe I could use this for a spiritual advantage as well, and maybe I could read the tea leaves.
Speaker 2:That was my very first try at divination, so I'd had all these little tiny snippets that by themselves sort of felt small enough, but altogether they were really again that exposure therapy for me as a recovering Christian, to move past that fear and experience a little bit of it and see that it worked. Or it wasn't what I feared would happen, right, wasn't what I was told would happen. And you know, buying tarot cards was another huge leap that took me literally years of it in the back of my head, like someone speaking into my brain buy a deck of cards. I was like I can't, a demon will jump out at me, a portal to hell will open up if I touch a tarot deck. Right, none of that happened. None of that happened. So now I have like 30 tarot decks. So it's just, you know, a exposure therapy be sort of pushing back on those beliefs that you were told when you're young can can really help get people through.
Speaker 1:Onto the other side, yeah, I feel like I was holding my breath the whole time. I was like what happened? I don't? I don't know what I would have done. I think I would have, like I mean, I guess, if you're in it, you're in it like there's a point where it's just what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1:I, I live in North Texas and in the summers we drive to Colorado, so we go through New Mexico and I booked an Airbnb, but it was the same thing. It was just like a trailer on a field, kind of that's the first thing I thought when you described that. And I remember I walked in and I think I was probably maybe eight hours drive still from my house and I walked into that place and it felt so wrong. I got in my car and I was like I'm just going to drive home, I'm going to eat the money. I can't do it, I can't stay here and I don't know if, like, that was just me being scared or if there was actually something there. But I've learned to. Whatever it is, I just trust it now, even though and I think that's that's part of the thing with like I mean something like you experienced where you had a smell, you didn't know, and then somebody confirmed that. I think that's very validating to that experience. But I think a lot of times it sort of doesn't make sense, right, and we're kind of just like well, I don't know, like I've, mine is clairsentience and it's feeling, and so I feel so much that it's like but what is what you know? So I've just sort of learned to kind of listen and you know, maybe I'm just in a mood, maybe it's something deeper, I don't know. I'm just going to give it the space and figure it out, but that's still a journey in itself. But yeah, it's so fascinating.
Speaker 1:And New Orleans my ex was from New Orleans and that's what they say Like people there are touched, there's just like. I love the city of new Orleans but I don't know that I could ever live there, because I feel like I would really have to have those practices to not be so open, like we would just walk down the streets and I could just feel it. I mean, you could feel the energy there. And I don't think we went through any. No, actually we did go through one cemetery, we went through. Yeah, I did not walk in backwards, I did not leave backwards, but I don't know, I think we're okay, it's one of my favourite cities in the world.
Speaker 2:It's beautiful, I love to live there, but just like short term, yeah, like it feels there's an air of danger to it and I don't know if that's just the spiritual aspect or like other aspects of that area. But I mean, even historically it's always been. You know all sorts of people thrown in there because it's this major like almost like port area right on the Mississippi. So you've always had all sorts of people there, which is a wonderful thing, and it's why it's so rich in culture. It's unlike anywhere else I've been in the States, yeah, but it has a pretty bloody history and that is like soaked into the soil in a way. So it's, it's a wonderful place absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1:Oh, the architecture, I could just. I love it, I love it. It's fascinating.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like you have a little bit yeah, I would imagine that I mean like I that was. Yeah, I would imagine that I mean like I, that was the one city. I haven't done too too much traveling in America. I've done more traveling overseas than I have here but, like, of the places I visited here, that to me feels more like Europe, like you can feel the history, whereas a lot of places that's built over it's stripped of the history and you're just kind of like like DC was closer, because I think that you, you know, with the civil war and all that kind of stuff there, and you could go to these places that still held some of those like homes and and things like that, but most places, no.
Speaker 1:But I definitely feel that with with new orleans, it's like, yeah, that history is just like inside, like this, like the bricks of that city. It's really, really interesting. I mean it's yeah, it is like architecture, wise too, I completely agree it's. It's fascinating because you have like French and then Spanish and then this. You know it's just like all mashed in but it just like works but it works.
Speaker 2:It's so good. Like Queen Anne is like underpinning a lot of them, like it's just so beautiful. It's intricate. I think that's the intricate details is what I love. It's colorful.
Speaker 1:It has a soul, it has its own soul colorful.
Speaker 2:It has a soul. It has its own soul. A hundred percent, yeah, absolutely yeah. So one thing I want to talk about is you were mentioning that clairsentience. So this is my specialty area, right psychic senses and psychic divination. So I have I have a full-blown course on this called the art of psychic divination, and one of the key things.
Speaker 2:So there's a couple of key things. Number one whenever we're developing our psychic gifts, we need to make sure that we're having fun. An element of fun and playfulness keeps you so much more open to receiving Then, as soon as you like. Okay, I'm going to focus really hard and I'm going to try and get this. That energy doesn't really work with psychic stuff. It has to be fun and open. If you try too hard, you block yourself. Doesn't really work with psychic stuff. It has to be fun and open. If you try too hard, you block yourself. The other thing is doubt. As soon as doubt or fear come up, that will block you as well. So it's just being aware of those things and often doing shadow work around them as well. Why are you trying so hard? Why do you need to get it right? Why does it matter? Right, shadow work around. That will be really helpful. Why are you scared? What do you think's what's the worst case scenario that could happen? All right, now flip it. What's the best case scenario that could happen? Let's work on that. So those sorts of prompts are like foundational base things before anyone does anything psychically.
Speaker 2:The next thing I do in this course and it's engineered this way and you mentioned it before was validation. Validation is so incredibly helpful and it's actually necessary to really develop your psychic gifts. Now, with the course, one of the big things I do is I'll have, like you know, a video or a photo and I say, okay, here is three crystals. I want you to just tune into them really quickly. Which one do you think I'm going to pick? And then you know, give it a couple of seconds and then I pick whichever one. Right.
Speaker 2:But it's not about whether people get it right or wrong. If they get it right, great. Why did you get it right? How did you get that information? Was it a feeling? Were your eyes drawn to it? Did you just like the color? Was it? Did you hear it Like? What was it that made you pick that one? That is the crucial information. I don't care if you get it right or wrong. We want to know what led you to that answer and can that be repeated.
Speaker 2:So we do this test in multiple different ways throughout different stages of the course. Now, if people get it wrong, that's actually better, because then that tells us more information. So if someone gets it wrong, usually there's two responses to that. Damn it. I knew it was that one right, which means they had the answer and they ignored it and they chose something else. So that's usually intuition came in first and then they talked themselves out of it and rationalised into something else and then made just a guess. So that is useful information. Then we know the next time we do a little test what is that very first one.
Speaker 2:And oftentimes, when we do like live ones, like on a live call, I'll, you know, say right in the comment when I do the thing right in first. I heard this, but then I thought that because for some people it is the second one, it's not the first one. They guess first ones. They guess the second one's intuition. So it just depends the speed of it coming through for you personally, and we repeat this over and over so you can see the patterns. And the other time is if people are like, oh, I had no idea, it wasn't like I got it so wrong. I didn't have any clue it was going to be that.
Speaker 2:One and again it's usually were you waiting to hear something? How quickly did you wait until you guessed? Like, what was it? How did you tune in? Every now and then people pick the wrong one because that's a crystal they probably need to work with at the time. So it's right for them. But that wasn't the point of the question. So there's a few little things engineered like that that help people start to tune in. And when we do these over and over, we start to notice people going oh, I feel this and I feel that. And guess what Clear sentence is your most you know strongest sense that you're using because you're feeling everything, or you know, oh, I saw this, or it made me think of that, or whatever it is is going to relate to a different psychic sense. We have access to all of them. We usually preference one or two rather strongly, but they can all work together and it depends on the type of information we're trying to get through.
Speaker 2:I've done, when I've been doing a mediumship reading before and I felt like all this saliva in my mouth, quite literally saliva filling my mouth, and I was like why? There's obviously a focus here on my mouth, right, something here peels and I was doing all the mouth things. I was like what is it? I'm like it's kind of like smoking, but that would. I would smell smoke.
Speaker 2:So there's a reason. It's coming through a different sense. Chewing tobacco and the person was like, yeah, my grandpa used to chew tobacco all the time and I was like, oh, I've never chewed tobacco so I wouldn't know the taste or the feeling or anything, but it came through really physically in the mouth. So that's kind of almost a blend of this Claire sentience, because it's a feeling, but also Claire gustance, which is that sort of taste. There was an element of it there, almost like the ghost of the taste alongside the physical feeling of the saliva in my mouth. So there's a reason. Certain ones are used at certain times for certain bits of information to come through and you know we just sort of have to trust that and figure it out from there. But the first thing is opening up to it coming in, knowing how it comes in, how it can come in, knowing which to trust, and then you can go into well, how do we interpret that? What do we do with that? That's the next half to, or how?
Speaker 1:do we interpret that? What do we do with that? That's the next half. Yeah, yeah, and as you were speaking, I know when I was really first exploring it, I would like sit and meditate. I made it very serious. I sat in meditation, I like cleared my chakras, I would sit and I would focus and I would just like, oh, I like, I want to like experience it. I don't know, like, as you were asking those questions, I had quickly going through my head of why did I feel the need to grasp it? And I guess, yeah, it's interesting. I guess everybody has a different reasoning for it. So you gave me something to just journal on later of why. And then my second question was going to be if we all have all of it, and you answered that because that's really interesting. I mean, I know we have, I know we have primarily like a couple right that we can like sort of laid into easier than others. Would you mind maybe just like really short, like just overviewing each one so people are aware of what different kinds are?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to, I will. I'm just going to segue with a little tiny story that I think will be helpful as well, because one thing that I'm so passionate about and I get actually get a lot of pushback on this we are all psychic. Every single person is psychic. We will have. Some people are naturally gifted at one specific part of being psychic. Like you know, they might be more gifted at this part and not that part, but we all have the ability and everyone's like no, that's not the case.
Speaker 2:I get whenever I say this, people are like I absolutely reject that. No, but let me back it up. I think A some people close themselves off quite purposefully, whether that's subconsciously or consciously. B if you're completely skeptical, even if you do get something psychic, you're just going to think it's your own idea, like if it's not an option to you, you will never give credit to that unless it hits you in the face, like it did with me with the smell of hate, right, and I was already kind of looking and searching for something spiritual. So the people who were like really scientific, really, you know, spock, if Spock had a psychic vision, he would not think it was a psychic vision, it would be anything but that that would be the absolute last resort, right. So you have people like that. I do believe they're still psychic. They just either don't recognize it for what it is, don't give credit to what it is and think it's something else, or x, y and z. Now the other thing is a lot of us have the wrong words for it, and this is why, in course, it's one of the biggest part of it is understanding how these things can come through. I cannot tell you how many of my students have been like you know. Oh my God, I thought everyone could do that and it's so normal for them. And I'm here going. No, that's your gift.
Speaker 2:So one of the things was when I was probably about eight. I remember being on the beach with my family and my another family. I was with one of my good friends and we're building a sandcastle and as we're building it, I got this crystal clear vision, like in front of my vision, right. So I could see it happening, even though my eyes were open. It was almost like a little movie screen in front of me and I got this image of our brothers, our younger brothers, running and jumping onto our castle and I just sort of went, the boys are gonna, and just before I said jump on it, they ran over and jumped on it. So I had like a split second of knowing it before it happened, that split second of precognition. And so I went.
Speaker 2:I was like mom, mom, she's like I know I'll go tell them off. I was like no, no, no, I saw it happen. She's like I know he was sitting right there. I'm like, no, you don't understand. I saw it before it happened. I saw what they were going to do. And she goes, yeah, that's just deja vu, honey, everyone gets that. Now, I know that was just deja vu, honey, everyone gets that. Now, I know that was not deja vu, but that's what she told me. She gave me a word for it. Everyone gets that that's deja vu. And I went, oh, oh, that's deja vu. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:So then every time someone else said, oh, I just had deja vu, I'm like, yeah, I get that too. It's weird, right, thinking it was the thing. And then every time I got a precognitive vision, even a split second one, I go, ooh, I just had, I just had deja vu. Everyone's like, oh, yeah, I get that. But I was having precognitive, like what I was having was different to deja vu, like they should have been. Like oh my God, that's really cool. How did you get that Right? That's a clear, a clairvoyant vision of the future, but it just became a normalized thing. Everyone does that. That's nothing special. So it took a long time to unlearn that one tiny sentence that's just deja vu. Everyone does that and I promise you, every one of you, everyone listening, will have something like that that you think everyone can do, that you just think is normal. So there's that element to it as well that we have to unlearn With the psychic senses there are, there's a few, so we start with the main ones which is clairvoyance.
Speaker 2:That means clear seeing. That can be literally in front of your eyes, like I see a vision like a little movie screen and I'm physically looking at it with my eyes. But it can also be a dream. A dream is clairvoyance, it's a vision, it's a visual image that we see. Right, it could be.
Speaker 2:I looked at this card. I'm pulling tarot cards. I looked at this card. My eyes are really drawn to this color or this symbol or this, that that your eyes are giving you what you need. Right, it's giving you the focal point. It can also be a mind's eye image.
Speaker 2:This also works if people have something called aphantasia, which I have and a lot of people don't think they have it, but they do have it. And this is if you say to someone and there's a little graphic, if you Google aphantasia, you'll see this little graphic. Usually it's like stars or an apple or something like that. And if I say Google aphantasia, you'll see this little graphic. Usually it's like stars or an apple or something like that.
Speaker 2:And if I say, imagine a red star, so close your eyes, imagine what a red star looks like, and then it gives you little visual options. Did it look like this, a literal red star? Did it look like maybe a black and white star? You got the shape, but you can't really see the red color. Or maybe you just saw the red blur but you didn't really get the shape. Or is it, you know, just sort of a red something, but there's no shape to it at all, it's just a bit of a blur. Or do you just see black? In my mind's eye? I just see black, but I can still get clairvoyant images. Similar.
Speaker 2:The way I describe it is if you're reading a novel or something and your eyes are open and you're reading it and you're like you know there was a pink hill with a purple sky and you know what that looks like, even though you're not physically seeing it in your brain, your imagination still works, regardless of physically seeing the image in your mind.
Speaker 2:That's how I describe something that we call noirvoyance. Noir means dark or black, clair means clear. So the clairvoyance is when you literally see the vision like a movie Noirvoyance. I describe it almost like when you're watching a film, like old-fashioned films when they were, you know it would flick through the images. It's almost like you're seeing that negative in between, when the screen is black. But you know what's there because you just sort of there's like like a flash of it. That's how it feels to me when I'm doing mediumship and I'm tuning into someone, whether that's digitally or in person I almost get this noir voyance image of the people standing behind them. Right, I'm not physically seeing them with my eyes, but they're there, right, I can still sort of see the essence of them. So that is one way that clairvoyance or that aspect around the eyes can come through.
Speaker 1:There's clear confidence.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, go on. I was like I've never heard of that before, but I really resonate with that, especially when you're talking about like reading a book. There's so many times that I'm like, yeah, I can see it, I have my eyes open, I'm reading. Or like you get like flashes of of I can see it, I have my eyes open, I'm reading. Or like you get like flashes of an image of something, even though you're just like walking through your normal day, but it's not like I don't know, like a vision. That's interesting.
Speaker 2:Yes. So it's just a different way, because when people say, you know they're clairvoyant, they're psychic, they get visions, they get a concept of what that must mean, but they don't get the actual like.
Speaker 2:no, it can be like this, and that's what my job is trying to do, to be like whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's actually tell you what it really is, let's get practical. So we break it down, then we go to clear cognizance and that is clear knowing. Now, this is the hardest one for people because it's the fastest and it doesn't really have a source. You're not seeing it. You're not seeing it, you're not hearing it, you're not smelling it, you're not feeling it. It just is there. The information is there, so that one can be a little bit tricky to develop, because it's kind of one of those ones you have to just innately have.
Speaker 2:If people talk about things like channeling, often that, I say, is clear confidence. So it's just that you know it's just coming through quite quickly. People who do things like light language or speaking in tongues, which I say is quite similar, that kind of relates in with that. For me, when I'm looking at spiritual gifts and things like that, they have this little bit of a link. When people are painting or drawing or singing and they're in the flow of that information coming through, I say that's related to that clear cognizance and we have clear sentience, which is a clear feeling, right, and that is sometimes a very physical sensation like, oh, I feel really like my stomach is twisting and a knot. This person is lying to me, what they're telling me is not right. So that can be like a symptom, a sign of clairsentience, right. But it can also be similar to that, like noir voyance, almost like the ghost of a feeling. Like I might be, like oh, like I feel, like my knee feels it doesn't literally feel painful, but it's like the twinge of something that could have been a pain once, like the ghost of a pain, something about knees is your knee hurting? And then, you know, going from there, like that's part of that clairsentience, that feeling it can be walking into a room and going oh, vibes are off in here, right, like what you did with the trailer. Yeah, that's that you pick up physically in your body the energy around you.
Speaker 2:So that's some aspects of of Claire sentience with Claire audience that's hearing. So that can be the song on the radio you think you know. I wonder how so-and-so is doing. And then a song that you guys have as your song comes on the radio, or perhaps you're again thinking of a loved one who's passed away and a song comes on that has. You know the answer to the question you were just thinking about in the lyrics. Or the presenter says something like oh, you were thinking of me, like you know, in response to what you were just thinking, you're like what? Those are some signs of this. Clear audience is clear hearing, right, anything that comes in audio wise, but there's also again that almost like internal ones. So this one can be tricky.
Speaker 2:And this is where meditation really does help, because when we meditate, the goal is not to clear your mind. The goal is to notice what your brain does normally, so that when you do get an intuitive thought that's dropped in, you can recognize it and go huh, that's not what my brain normally does, that's that's come from somewhere else. And then you can start to recognize when these intuitive thoughts come in. Rather than I didn't actually think that up, that's not how I. I don't usually think I need to call Sarah today, so maybe I should call Sarah, because that's an intuitive thought, right Like that's where meditation can be really, really helpful.
Speaker 2:So that's the clairaudience. Then there's the clairalience, as we've already talked about the smell. There is clairgustance, which is taste. So clairgustance, I find it's a secondary sense. It's not going to be able to give you a lot of information. But I have had one student who was their main psychic sense. She would tune into a card I'd be holding up a card backwards and say what's on the other side of this? And she'd go this side of my tongue is tingling. That's usually where like sour. So I'm going to say like sour, like citrus sort of thing, but I'm also getting this sweetness, like tart, almost like an apple. I feel like it's very fruity, and then we turn it around there's like apples and lemons on it and you're like what, right? So she'd get this really interesting information through her sense of taste and like tongue mapping and starting to have this almost like symbol library for when it does this and means this. So I can trust that for next time. So that's really cool.
Speaker 2:Then there is clear tangency.
Speaker 2:That's kind of related to clear sentience, because it's about clear touch, but with this one it might be. Let's say you are trying to pick a tarot card and you wave your hands over it and that it feels warm somewhere. I'd say that's more clear tangency than it is clairsentience, right, and that's why you pick that card. Or perhaps you're, you know, an energy worker or someone who works with like massage, reiki, anything like that. Perhaps you've got your hands over someone and it feels spiky, or it feels this and that's going to tell you something, right? So those sorts of sensations coming through the hands and through touch psychometry is related to this one as well. That's where we put something in the hand and we read the energy of the item. So that's interpreting through the hand, so that in a way relates in with Claire Tangency, even though it might, tuning into that, might bring on a vision or a sound or a thought or something else as well. So they all work together. Some are stronger than others, but yes, I think that's all of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I would well, even as you were describing them, I could notice or have memories of times in my life where those like kind of even the smaller ones, like I've never really I don't know that smell or taste have really been a big one, but like the you talk about, like the palms, I've definitely done Like it's really interesting to be able to like see how many of these that we have.
Speaker 1:And I think that a lot of people will be like, oh, just trust your gut, or I just knew, and you know, yeah, we, we talk, we, we like brush it off Like it's nothing Right, or but it's like, yeah, that's amazing, though, like wait, what did it feel like to you? You know, like it's really, really fascinated. I have like sort of two questions wrapped up in one, but like have you noticed in somebody's like astrology chart like where this would be or if it relates to a specific, like Claire? And then the second half of that is I don't know if you work with human design a lot or just are familiar with it, but like, if like authority or cognition or anything ties into that as well, if you've noticed any like correlation, so with astrology.
Speaker 2:Yes, I do notice that people that are on the Cancer Capricorn axis basically that polarity between the two, very strong clairsentience, very strong clairsentience. They're the ones that know when you're lying to them. Don't lie to a cancer, don't lie to a capricorn. That's people with those major placements, right? So the big three generally, uh, or if they have a stellium in one of those areas, so, or something like that, like a big area of energy there. So that is very tangible there. Virgo, anyone with Virgo placements, I swear, drawn to the tarot. It's a system, it has rules, it is logical. This means that this, plus this means that, like so many, Virgos are drawn to the tarot as a tool for their psychic gifts. Right, and that's what divination is. It's a tool through accessing those. There's many different types of divination, but definitely cartomancy can be a really great one for people who have ergo. I mean, pisces is always going to be the one that people are like oh, this one's, you know, pisces are going to be the sidekick one, but they're probably the one that's going to be doing the tea leaf reading or the scrying. You, you know, scorpio is probably going to do a black mirror scrying, right, but pisces might be scrying on like clouds right, they're reading the clouds or the dreams definitely dreams, like dream divination, right? So there's a bunch of different divination types or psychic abilities that could be coming through, different signs and, depending on how it's made up, and sometimes that does form part of like, when I'm doing an astrology reading for someone, if they're curious about psychic abilities, I'll be like, okay, we've got heavy, you know, look at elements, earth, air, fire that's going to tell you a lot as well. Heavy air elements, we might be getting more of that clear audience, right that coming through mentally or the claircognizance, even right, whereas the earth elements might be a little bit more tactile, a little bit more systems-based. So there's really interesting ways we can work with it when it comes to human design.
Speaker 2:So in terms of like things, like being a manifestor or manifesting generator or any of those, I haven't really noticed a correlation so much in terms of psychic abilities or anything. I mean there's only five types. There's not a lot of nuance in that specifically, perhaps in more like the yes I have in. I can't remember what it's called. Is it authority? Maybe it's not a system I use a lot of, but the one that has, like the emotional solar plexus.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that, for example, that's going to be people that need to use a slower form of divination or something like a pendulum will work really well for them, because they often don't trust the information that they get through or it takes a little bit slower to come through, so all they can say can guess themselves a lot. So having like a way to get into the body a little bit more like pendulum works with your body. It your intuition knows, your body knows before you know sometimes. So that could be related in there. I am oh, my goodness this, I get two of them mixed up. There's sacral and there is another one, splenic, which is the one.
Speaker 1:I'm pulling up your chart right now well done.
Speaker 2:If I'm splenic, that's the one that's like, really, really fast information and it's very intuitive.
Speaker 1:It's, it is the like center for intuition.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, gut instinct, um, just trusting that very first thing that comes out right. Yeah, so that is, you know, gut instinct, like you feel it, or you, um, you clear cognizance can come through as well and you just trust it straight away. The other one, which is the sacral, that's the one where I tell people to pay close attention to what their mouth says. So, for example, my, my son and my brother both have this, and if I say something like, hey, do you want to go to the park, that tells me that's no, and then they might, might go. Oh, all right, I'm like no, no, you said no. Or you know like they'll give, like these little grunts.
Speaker 2:It's so funny when you notice these little like glimmers into what they're actually thinking before their brain takes over. So, again, pay attention to that. So that's coming through that throat, that throat again, that's almost like that. It's quite instant, it's quite quick, but then their brain takes over and then they choose something else. So I do think that can be related to that. Clairsentience meets claircognizance, makes clairaudience, almost all working together as a little hive function. So that's really interesting. I can't remember what the other ones are off the top of my head because it's not a system I work with a lot, but I have noticed those correlations in there yeah, and there's like a layer to human design.
Speaker 1:It's a little bit deeper into it, but it's called cognition, which is sort of like as you're talking about these it just reminded me of it but there it's smell, taste, touch, inner vision, outer vision, feeling, yeah, so for me mine is feeling, which makes sense, that clear sentience yours is actually touch, so it's like that tactile which even like tarot cards and crystals, right, like things like that.
Speaker 2:So I like having a divination method which is a physical thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it makes sense, and you were talking about smell before, so that's why I like kind of wanted to check. So maybe it's smell, smell. But I've noticed like, yeah, people, there is an element of that to whatever, I guess like gift that they would have Because that's what they call it Like that specific part of your human design, it's like your superpower. If you can't decide or you're just kind of feeling like whatever, it's something that you can sort of lean into Like smell. If you are looking for a house or you're buying a house, like really noticing you're like you're going to smell something nobody else will. If it smells bad, you can't cover that up, like it's always going to smell bad for you and that's kind of like your way of knowing that it's not for you. But yeah, it's really fascinating.
Speaker 2:You should, you should. Actually, you would probably laugh if you ever watched me walk through a shop. My husband picks on me all the time because I'll walk through and touch everything. He's like, can you keep your hands to yourself? And I'm like, no, I can't. What do you mean? But I'm very sensitive to like fabrics and how things feel, and you know it is a tactile experience in that regard. But also to the point like if something is sticky hell. No, like revulsion, type of thing type of.
Speaker 2:Thing so yes, I think that would relate a little bit with that.
Speaker 1:And then using things like cards.
Speaker 1:They've got to have a good feel to them yeah, both my you know, this one feels right yeah, both my kids have touch cognition and I've learned to not say, like you know, when you're in the store, like don't touch that, I'll just. I'll be like please don't break it, just put it back, don't break. Or if we're going to go into like a crystal shop, we're just not going to go. Well, I'll go alone. They can't help it. They're always. It's like the minute you take your eyes off them they're like I have to touch. Yeah, but my son I noticed him he'll literally like like he'll make that noise. I'm like, okay, but he's a sick girl too.
Speaker 2:It's funny. Another funny one with the environments in human design. I found that really really interesting. So my husband is mountains, right, and I'm caves and I'm like, oh cute, like caves are in mountains, like that's cute, we fit together, right. But he's mountains and I know that means, you know, getting a higher perspective. He literally works in planes. He's in the plane every day, like he is high up in the clouds, right. So that's really interesting. He absolutely adores it. I can't think of anything worse. No, thank you, the plane is to get me to another country, but I am not, I'm not in that, I don't like that. Yeah, so that's been really interesting. I don't know if you can. You probably can't see much where I am right now.
Speaker 2:This is essentially my cave. It is it everyone that walks and goes, oh, like I've got this like study space, that it is earthy, it's there is like wood everywhere there is, like it feels like there's a. I've got a big light on when I do my calls like this, but you know this dim lighting and it just feels very cave. Like I go into a big light on when I do my calls like this, but you know this dim lighting and it just feels very cave like I go into my little hovel and I work away in here and I absolutely adore it. It's where I feel safe to do things.
Speaker 2:But also when we look historically at people who have been the, the priest or the shaman, or the, the psychic or the witch or the person that you go to for that you know the oracle, they have been in a cave or they go to a cave to take their hallucinogens, to have their visions from god and bring it back to the community. So I'm like no wonder I feel drawn to doing, you know, having stuff like this and being in this like cozy, safe space in order to then give the world what you know the talents that I have to share with.
Speaker 2:So I think that's really interesting in human design. But I also love all the um the lines. I can't remember what they're called. I think they're just called lines. I think they're really fun. Oh, like the line quality.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, one. It's interesting too because you're a one three, right. So that first line, I mean it's it. It is like that it is associated with caves, but it's also makes sense that you would need that safety and security, like whatever the environment would be to like. Yeah, because my daughter she's a first line, she's a one three, but she's mountains and we go to colorado in the summer. She's like the only one that has no issue, like everybody else is like winded a little bit, or like my parents get it real bad. They have to like take oxygen and stuff like that, and I'm like fine, but her she's just like what's the problem you?
Speaker 2:know I've had altitude sickness before.
Speaker 1:I wonder that's interesting.
Speaker 2:Wouldn't it be cool to look at people that had that like what is your environment?
Speaker 1:yeah, well raw. So environment actually turns on at your Saturn return, which is sort of like you'll always like be more inclined towards it. But it's that Saturn return that you're actually cause. That's sort of the time, I think, that when you I mean traditionally you've you're kind of making your, your name and your career, or you're finding what you're going to do Right, so that that puts you in that environment to succeed in life, right, but like if you're a kid and you're sick or something like that, like you can be put to that environment and you'll still feel some benefit from being in it. But it really doesn't kind of turn on until that point but raw.
Speaker 1:The man who downloaded it, he said that he like he shores environment and he's always lived on an Island and one point in his life they moved to like the mountains and somewhere I don't know like New Mexico or something like that. And he said, like he almost died, like he got so sick because he had never been in that sort of environment. He just his body couldn't like take it. But it is really really fascinating and I know every time, like I just like always pick out these little keywords I'm like huh, I wonder, you know but yeah, I also think it's interesting with that one three, from what I know of it.
Speaker 2:The one is kind of like needing all of the knowledge, or like the information, yeah. And then the three is also like the I call it like the learning the hard way. You got to experience it first in order to then, you know, teach about it or share about it, and that explains my life so perfectly. I've experienced all these things and that is what allows me to then, or gives me the prompt to, dive deep and learn everything I can possibly know about it and then bring it back to everyone. So it's really interesting seeing how that comes out in my life at least.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's really fascinating. Did you ever have like a point where cause like that first line it is very like fact-finding and you know, needs a foundation and things like that but it does hold a lot of like insecurity? And so I always feel like with especially with that third line, and where I think people get tripped up a lot with the third line, is because we've been taught like failure is bad and right. So it's like we're constantly failing. And then there's this part like depending, like three, five. I feel like has it, because that fifth line is like it's like the savior archetype, right. So a lot of people who have that three five have a lot of issues because they're just failing, but yet they want to be the savior because people come to them like how do we help, right, so right.
Speaker 1:So I find that dynamic a little with that one three as well. But I know that my daughter's 14 and she has the one three and I just see so much insecurity and so I try and support her, empower her to find her way, and it's not a bad thing if you fail. You have to keep trying. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think I don't know. I have a very stubborn strength and my mom growing up would say things like you know, don't do that, because this will happen. And I'd turn around and say, let me figure it out for myself. That was kind of that. If I'm going to do it wrong, I will learn. That way, mum, like I, I already understood that about myself. I already knew that if I mess up, that's how I learn the best and that's part of when I'm teaching any class, any course. A big part of it is I want you to get it wrong. That tells you so much more than if you get it right all the time. If you get it right all the time, you'll just coast through and you'll never actually learn it. You need to get it wrong. So I think that's a bit of a perspective shift on the constant failure, and it's why I try to teach my kids as well. Like the outcome is not what I want from you. I want to see that you're growing and that you're trying and you know all of those sorts of things. So failure is what I want to see. Failure that shows me that you actually have to try right. It's a good thing.
Speaker 2:That could be how it comes through Insecurity-wise. I mean, I was in the church, right, it breeds insecurity. So I think I've always put that down into the religious trauma aspect of how that all manifests in a lot of particularly people who were assigned female at birth and how it really. It breeds insecurity. It breeds not trusting yourself, not trusting your inner voice, not knowing who you are, because you become a carbon copy of everybody else because that's what you're told you have to be. So you know, the amount of girls that I knew in youth group that also had eating disorders was way higher than it ever should have been because of that. And you've got to be this good girl all the time, you've got to be perfect. So yes, there was that. Whether that was nature versus nurture, you know there's that aspect to it too.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But I'm not insecure now, yeah.
Speaker 1:I think there's. You know, that's kind of a beautiful part of aging too, and I think, especially when you I mean you don't have to like get into this work, but I think that this is empowering in a really beautiful way and like cause I, I was insecure for so much of my life and then I've just the older I get, the like less I care. So I'm like you just have to, you can't, you can't live your life like worrying about what people think. You know, and that's I don't know. Everyone's on their own path.
Speaker 2:but Every time I have worried about what people think it gets ripped out from underneath me. So I will have a habit and I have a Scorpio moon, so this does happen A habit of being a little bit secretive about things I'm doing or like, for example, the fact that I am a professional witch and astrologer. I hid from most of my family and friends for most of the time that I was doing it because my family a lot of them were still very Christian, still in the church didn't want to hurt my grandparents. You know all of that. They found out, they found my social media and that rug got ripped out from under me before I was ready for it and it caused this huge, like, huge family drama, like.
Speaker 2:I'm talking mammoth scale level family drama, and in the end, what it did was it made me go. You know what? I don't even care what you guys think, because I'm so much happy doing this. I could never go back, and so that was a huge learning moment for me. I was like why was I even hiding it? Why bother? Right, I was trying to protect them, and then it ended up hurting me and that was not worth it. So why with that anymore? So anytime I've tried to hide a part of myself, it gets revealed in a very dramatic way. That then transforms me to a level of self-acceptance that I didn't have prior to that.
Speaker 1:so, yes, yeah good thing in the end, but, yeah, forcing it out. Well, what do you like for anybody that's kind of like navigating this or or exploring this? How can they, or what advice, I guess, would you have for them, as they're just sort of like coming into it?
Speaker 2:if they're just coming into it. I think a lot of people try and jump ahead too quickly and they ignore the foundations in, for example, in my course. I refuse to teach anyone any form of psychic work or divination or energy work before they've done the basics. And the basics are grounding. Make sure you are like you can ground as second nature. It's so easy. You understand it, you know why we do it, you know how to do it, you know alternative methods to do it. If I say ground yourself, you're like oh done, grounded, right, like that's what it needs to be. It needs to be second nature. If you do not learn that skill, it is going to be rough riding for you as soon as you start turning on all of those psychic abilities no-transcript only, unethical, but it's going to drain you very, very quickly. So grounding, very, very important, shielding, very, very important right. So understanding that. So understanding that. Meditation really useful skill. I have raging adhd.
Speaker 2:That is not an excuse for not being able to meditate. You can train your brain to do it, but you just have been doing it the wrong way because everyone thinks you got to sit there and tell your mind to shut up. That is never going to happen. Instead, what you do is you find a form of active meditation right. So instead of trying to sit quietly in a corner with your hands on your knees, you sit down and do some adult coloring in. If you aim to do some adult coloring in, you know, one sheet of it once a week is good. Twice a week is great. Three times a week is probably the best. If you do that every week for a couple of weeks, you have already trained your brain to get into the right brainwave states for meditation. Without realizing it, you're doing something active. So your brain's kind of focused on this color and this line and get it in there. It will naturally be easier then for you to do a short two-minute meditation where you're sitting still than it ever was before.
Speaker 2:You can slip into it, right. You can be coloring and then just stop for a minute and then color again. You could put timers on, you could gamify it. That's a really great way to get through it, and it doesn't have to be adult coloring, it can be weeding. Weeding is a really great way to both ground and active meditate at the same time. Running forms a part of active meditation. Pottery is fantastic. Pottery is really good on a pottery wheel, right. But again, super grounding, super tactile. So there's all these like methods you can do to work yourself up and to build that muscle, to train that meditation muscle. Once you are doing that, you are so much better primed for receiving the information, accessing that information when you want to develop your skills right. Then you go into the next levels up. So you've got to really focus on those foundations. Not as exciting, I understand, but you'll have far easier time of it when you get down the road.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so do you wake up in like ground and shield just like consistently every single day? Is that just like kind of turns on for you at this point, or?
Speaker 2:no, I don't consciously go. Oh, I'm awake, I better ground, um, but it's especially because mornings are not my nights are my strong suit. Yeah, mornings, uh, but I mean most of the time I'm woken up by a kid being like go like mum, the TV fellow, like something crazy, right, and you're like like straight into life. Yeah, so usually what I do if I notice that I'm ungrounded in any way, depending on the scenario, right, if I'm just going about my day, then I'll be like okay, I'm just going outside for a minute, I'm getting sunshine on my skin, I'm feeling the air. It's more of a like sensory grounding aspect. If I'm, you know, really, really ungrounded, then I will do an actual like grounding, visualization, the roots coming down, going into the earth, et cetera. If I'm doing any form of energy work, I'm grounding before I do that.
Speaker 2:For example, my daughter was having a real hard time yesterday, really really hard time, meltdown era hard time and I asked her to lie down. We're going to do some crystal healing if she wanted to. Yeah, she's a Pisces, she loves that stuff. Almost immediately she was like energy shift, just giving her something else to do Lies down, I placed crystals on her and around her and then it was doing some energy clearing for her. She, her energy shifted. But before I did any of that, before I picked the crystals, I did a very quick visualization to ground myself and I knew that the more grounded I was, the more grounded she was she would be feeding off my energy. So that's kind of like I'll do it situationally as well, as if I'm doing readings for people, if I have to do a quick one, if I'm doing like 20 readings in a row, which I do on my group calls, I will sit down, put my feet on the ground. I imagine little hooks just into the carpet and boom, my energy is suddenly at my feet which shoots the energy down. If I'm doing lots of readings, I can feel the energy rising, like my face gets hot. It's like it's coming up out of me. That's when I'm like, nope, little hooks under my feet, they're hooked into the carpet and it just like shoots it down. It shoots my awareness down to my feet.
Speaker 2:People who are Pisces get ungrounded a lot, a lot of Pisces energy. So giving yourself a foot massage or something like that, pisces rules the feet, but it also is super, super grounding. Clearing energy as well is big Cleansing. Those sorts of things form part of those foundational aspects understanding how to do that right, how to do it the right way. That can be very helpful, because sometimes we encounter people, things, that we don't want to stick around on us, so we need to know how to get rid of it before we open up that. Yeah, in a non-scary way. That door is just if you don't know it and if you don't know what to do about it, then it feels scary. Yeah, if you've got the tools, you're like oh, this isn't easy, right, so building those skills is really, really important yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you so much. This has been fascinating. I mean, like your stories, I'm just like I was so glued to it. It's so interesting how can people find you and then, and how can they work with you, how can they take your class, your course.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so at suburbanwitcherycom super easy, and I am suburban witchery on pretty much all of the social media platforms as well. I have a YouTube channel tons and tons of content there that people can access. If you want to explore your tarot skills, there's a playlist of all my tarot videos of, like you know, tarot spreads for beginners. You know frequently asked questions about tarot, all of that Like. There's tons of free, helpful stuff and I even have a class on my website that's free and it's called Tarot for Protection. So if you want to learn how to protect yourself better and those protective skills, those witchy skills, and use the tarot to do it, that is an excellent class to take. My course, the Art of Psychic Divination that one is also accessed on my website.
Speaker 2:There's a little section that says courses so people can just quickly click on that and it'll take you through there and that one. It's all set up so there's like an app. It's through Kajabi, so you get the Kajabi app and it only releases the modules on a drip basis so you cannot speed through it. I don't want anyone speeding through it. I am forcibly slowing you down so you have time to absorb the information. And then it also works for people with ADHD, because you kind of forget about it. And then it's like oh, new video. You're like, oh, this is new and you know you can jump into it again. And if anyone takes the course for every module that you finish, I plant a tree on your behalf. So it's like, and you get a little badge. So it's like working with those dopamine levels as well. So I've tried to cover all bases with it and it will take you through all the psychic senses similar today but way deeper. Also, we do all sorts of divinations.
Speaker 1:So astrology, palmistry, scrying, tea leaf reading, reading all the things are super I love it, yeah, and even just like going through your instagram and your youtube page like you make it. You make it fun, right? You like make it. Like you bring, yeah, you bring that energy into it, which is nice, because a lot of it can be very serious, like we talked about before. It's like I must do this, yeah.
Speaker 2:I always get surprised. There's a lot of witches out there, especially the ones that come across as very aesthetic, and I watch that. I'm like it's so serious and like it takes all the fun out of it if you have to set up everything for that little clip Like I don't know. Just my little videos are sometimes just. My cat is sitting on my desk, which is so real life, whilst I'm editing a podcast episode and I pretend that you know. If you have any complaints, you can come and see my cat about it, like it's just silly and real life, stuff because I don't have time to make it all aesthetic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's just the kind of person I am, like silly, it's accessible, it's fun. I don't want people to feel scared the way I used to feel scared, because it's really not scary.
Speaker 1:It's amazing the stuff that we can access and find out about. Yeah, well, definitely everyone listening go check it out, because I know that is a huge. I mean, even that, even in my journey, right, that fear has been something I've really had to overcome and it, you know, I think it's a part of it, but it also doesn't have to be so big. But, yeah, thank you so much. This has been such a good conversation. Thank you for having me Welcome.