Awakening Your Inner Power: Trusting Spirit, Intuition, and the Path Within

What if the answers you've been searching for have been quietly waiting inside you all along?

In this heartfelt and empowering conversation, we explore the transformative power of intuition, spiritual connection, and personal responsibility in shaping the life we truly desire. From trusting the subtle messages of spirit to embracing free will and self-care, this episode reminds us that we are never alone on our journey.

My guest, Edward Ragosta, Psychic Medium, Animal Communicator, and Tarot Practitioner, shares over four decades of experience working with spirit and helping others reconnect with their own inner wisdom. Through his unique approach to tarot, mediumship, and animal communication, Edward guides individuals toward greater self-awareness, healing, and the confidence to create meaningful change in their lives.

Together, we discuss the sacred relationship between humans and animals, the importance of quieting the mind to hear intuitive guidance, and how true empowerment comes not from predicting the future, but from understanding that we always have the power to choose our path.

These insights are especially meaningful for spiritual seekers, animal lovers, intuitive practitioners, and anyone longing to deepen their connection with themselves and the unseen world around them.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Trusting Your Intuition:
How quieting the noise of everyday life allows your inner guidance and spiritual awareness to emerge.

The Power of Free Will:
Why psychic insight isn't about fixed outcomes, but about empowering you to make conscious choices that shape your future.

The Sacred Bond Between Humans and Animals:
How animals communicate energetically and the beautiful ways they support healing and emotional connection.

Transforming Self-Talk Through Presence:
Why the words you speak to yourself matter, and how gratitude and mindfulness can shift your entire perspective.

Self-Care as a Spiritual Practice:
How rest, nourishment, meditation, and honoring your own energy create the foundation for a more balanced and fulfilling life.

This episode is an invitation to trust yourself more deeply, embrace your own inner wisdom, and remember that the guidance you seek is always available when you slow down enough to listen.

If you've ever wondered how intuition, spirit, and personal empowerment work together, this conversation will encourage you to step forward with greater confidence, curiosity, and faith in your own journey.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

When it comes to manifesting and visualizing, the magic is in the moment, is in the present. That's why, that's why the present is a gift. Aha. But it really is we have to envision like things where we're already living it. And I just want to add a key that people often forget. We have to immerse ourselves in the things that we want to bring into our life.

SPEAKER_02 0:26

Hi, I am Donna McDein, and welcome to the Energy of Serenity podcast. Here we unleash empowerment through the power of the word. Join me and my guests as we share stories, tools, and insights to help you feel grounded and aligned. Let's dive in. Hello and welcome. This is Donna McDonne of the Energy of Serenity podcast. I have a beautiful friend here with me this evening, Edward Rogasto. And I probably just butchered your last name, Edward, and I want to welcome you to the show.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Thank you very much. Edward Regasta, but that was very close. You did very well.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

Okay, great. Bravo. So before we get underway with our beautiful conversation, I want to tell the listeners a bit about you. Edward is a psychic medium, an animal communicator, with over four decades of devoted practice, specializing in the sacred art of the Tara, guided by spirit, he has developed a distinctive system to interpret and translate collective energetic patterns, offering refined insight through his social platforms. As a soul messenger host, Edward's work is rooted in singular mission to awaken self-awareness, empower personal transformation, and support others in embodying the life their soul has come here to live. Wow. I know talk about an empowering bio. I I'm just my energy just raises reading it. So I really want to dwell into what was the pitiful moment of your life that you knew you had this innate ability to connect with spirit and to help transform other people's lives along with it.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

Okay. So first I want to say I believe everyone is psychic. Okay, it's not just for the chosen few. I I feel that people who have developed it over past lives, if one believes in that, then they're just more innate, but it still can be learned, just like you go to a gym and you work a muscle. So when I was um a wee lad in school, I would know when my classmates were lying, which did not make me popular, but I knew something was up. And being raised Catholic, I would have visitations, but I didn't understand it. I didn't really have anyone to to tell me what was going on. So this is a fun story. So I was taking taken to a priest to be blessed, which was very which was fine, you know, the cross, the holy water, fine, but I didn't have the heart to tell him that the the people who were visiting me was the same people that he was blessing me with. So so be it. So time goes on, and I met someone, this is 1985. I met someone who I feel was fated. He was into astrology, and I was always drawn to the tarot cards, the visual of the tarot cards, and I just started from there. And then in 1987, I started to do free readings and then went from there. Once I felt I was had had enough stuff, I went from there.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

That's beautiful, and I love that you didn't ri rush your process either. You took that time to really connect with the Tara and knowing that you were definitely observing life differently than your school peers, I find it absolutely fascinating that you did not allow your true path to be pushed to the side because of being different from your classmates.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Well, there was a time when I actually shut down.

SPEAKER_02 5:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:08

That was due to the wonderful movie, I think it was uh was Poltergeist actually. This is the 80s. Okay. Uh, and I shut down, which by the way, is very accurate. It's just that they don't show up disfigured. Who do who wants to show up disfigured? You don't show up disfigured. The movies, but every everything else about that was pretty pretty accurate. So I shut down, and then they would enter in my dreams because they knew I didn't really want to shut down. So that was like, all right. Then I gave in.

SPEAKER_02 5:40

You got you got that nudge from spirit through your dreams. Like, come on, Edward.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

Here we go. Which is a which is very fun. Dream work.

SPEAKER_02 5:52

So in your journey of learning the Tara and really listening to the messages from spirit, how did you become an animal communicator?

SPEAKER_01 6:01

Well, that's just because of my love of animals. Because basically, all I'm doing is energy reading. I'm reading the energy of people, so why not the energy of animals? And I love animals.

SPEAKER_02 6:14

Just and that's beautiful. Right. And so when a a human owner of their pet comes to you, do they come with the aspect where uh obviously they must believe in the communication with spirit, but do they get anxious during the reading as you're sensing the energy?

SPEAKER_01 6:45

Sometimes they believe, sometimes they're at their wits' end, right? Because they've tried everything else. And animals are extremely amusing, as far as I'm concerned, and they have a lot of dirt to tell about their owners going on with their animal companion is what's going on with their with their human. So it's it ends up being more of a reading for the human than than for the animal, but they mean well, so whatever gets them there to piece, you know, fine.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

To piece that all together, and and and very much so a human's relationship with their furry familiar is very much like human for human, absolutely, of really learning to pay attention to what your animal is saying, yeah, yeah, because they're just responding to our energy. Oh, they definitely do. Um, my daughter, her and her fiancé's cat, he responds to the energy so often, and he'll actually come in the room while I'm facilitating a Reiki session, and he just wants to be in the room, and he always circles the table three times, and then he goes to sit on the recliner chair in the corner of the room, and it it's just amazing to me. And then he gets up and then he just leaves the room when he he doesn't disturb anything, he just wants to be in that room and feel that beautiful healing.

SPEAKER_01 8:23

It also sounds like he's assisting you in holding space.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

Yes, he definitely does. There was one instance where he was on the chair, and I just as soon as he got up, I knew he was going to jump on the table. So I said to my client, uh, he's going to jump. And she said, That's okay. He, and of course, as agile as cats are, he landed right alongside her, stretched his body out, laid there for about maybe three, four minutes, got up, kind of nuzzled his head into her hip, hopped off the table and left the room.

SPEAKER_01 9:01

Now, was she having problems with her hip?

SPEAKER_02 9:04

Yes, she was.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

They they know it's all energy, they know vibration, they know.

SPEAKER_02 9:10

And and it's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

And they're feeling power in the in their purrs, the vibration of the purr. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

Most it it's it's simply amazing. And when people really take that time out and really realize that the different purring or the nudging up, they they know what they're doing to help you. And it's it's incredible. And I it never seems to cease to amaze me.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

I think that's wonderful that you that you do that with the with with the uh with your animal competitive.

SPEAKER_02 9:43

I really I really like it when Louie's here in the house. I know it works beautifully. So when uh when a um a human being comes with you for themselves as a sitter, when you are reading for them, um are you very intentional of how you're wording to them, the message that's coming through?

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 10:15

Yes, because could you walk us through a session?

SPEAKER_01 10:18

I don't want to scare them.

SPEAKER_02 10:20

Right.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

So what I try to try to help people help themselves so we get to whatever the root of the issue is. Go ahead, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

And I love that that you're guiding them with their reading, how they can help themselves. It gives them such empowerment. What's all about beautiful? So when someone's sitting with you and it may be their first time they've ever been read from someone, or the first time they've experienced with you, what is your process to get them to like roll off the day and to be present in the reading?

SPEAKER_01 11:04

Well, there's there's the first time speech about free will, and though, even though I've been doing this for many moons, I will tell them, but they still can say yes or no. They never lose free will. Right.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

And that is also empowering for the individual that because of at that moment when messages are coming through from spirit for them, that that's not the definitive outcome. They can change their track by making their own decisions.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

Often I'm asked how accurate I am, and I say 75%, because I leave the other 25% for free will. That if the person changes their mind or way of thinking, that can very often change the outcome.

SPEAKER_02 12:02

Absolutely. And if the sitter doesn't take any types of steps to change the direction of their life, that's free will too. And that oftentimes, if you don't take those baby steps, those action steps, you're halting your progress. And it doesn't matter what came through at that given moment, if you don't take with what resonates with you and to move forward, then you kind of stay in that same spot.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

Yes. I try to be as specific as possible and as intentional as possible, so they actually get homework of what they need to do to accomplish what they want to accomplish. And often I will give them a meditation, a guided meditation, so you can continue the reading on your own, whatever issue.

SPEAKER_02 13:00

Right. And with the guided meditation, it really provides the opportunity for that particular individual to quiet their mind, to let go of the busyness of the day, and to go inward and start to hear their own messages coming through. So I love it that you give them action steps for them to follow through on to continue to cultivate their energy.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

Well, I feel it's important because it needs they need something concrete.

SPEAKER_02 13:32

Yes. Yeah. Because we live in such a world that do do do do do, that to provide someone a little bit of guidance that you know what, this guided meditation will be good for you. And to just really process it through. I that's beautiful because it really keeps that energy, that momentum going from the reading. So, do you have clients that come to you on a regular basis?

SPEAKER_01 14:05

I do. It's not, it's whenever, you know, um, usually people ask me when should I come back? And then I jokingly say, It's bad business for me to say, but there is no time set limit. You will know.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

Yes. And I love that, Edward, because that is very similar to the response I provide to my Reiki clients. That it's not, oh yes, I have to see you every other week, or I have to see you every week. It is up to your guidance, your intuition. You'll know when you need to be back. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 14:42

So often if someone's going through something, it would be more on a regular basis, and then when it's not needed, then I don't see them for a while, which is perfectly fine.

SPEAKER_02 14:53

Right, which is beautiful in that aspect as well, because you know that they're out there living their life and making their choices to blossom the life that they truly want to create for themselves, and in the spiritual concept, it's a win-win.

SPEAKER_01 15:10

If I help them, I help themselves. I help myself, I should say.

SPEAKER_02 15:14

Yeah. And so when you're reading for a sitter and you're providing those beautiful messages coming through, how is your energy during it? Do you find that your energy gets lifted up? I actually get high.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

I get high. Yeah because I get in that energy. I go into a different time zone. Time, like I have no concept of time. That's why I have a timer for the readings. I have no concept of time.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

Right, because it's fleeting. And that our time frame, our clock is here for Earth. Spirit doesn't have that timetable at all. No.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

Basically, I'm in the past, the present, and the future all at the same time to be able to slide wherever needed.

SPEAKER_02 16:01

Yes. And I always find that so fascinating to be able to do that, and it really amplifies the reading itself, too, as your energy is rising along with it. Um so on an energetic level, what do you feel that empowerment is for the individuals sitting across from you?

SPEAKER_01 16:30

That's a different answer for different people. Let me try to give a blanket answer to that.

SPEAKER_02 16:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

I would say if we had to do it in a nutshell, that they are actually comfortable in their own skin.

SPEAKER_02 16:44

Yes. And I and I love that because oftentimes we're not comfortable in our own skin, depending on the circumstance that we're in.

SPEAKER_01 16:55

Including myself.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

Right. And when people start to realize on that energy connection, that not every not everybody has it all together 110% of the time. We have our own self-doubts, and we have days where I got this, and other days, like, whoa, what happened today?

SPEAKER_01 17:19

Right. Well, I often I often say little things about myself just to put people at ease. And one of the things that I that I jokingly say is that I used to call myself a professional worrier without a paycheck. And now I am a professional worrier with a paycheck. And it is better. So that's one of the things that I say. I mean, it's true, but it's one of the things that I say to put people at ease.

SPEAKER_02 17:45

Right, because when we're humble about our own highs and lows, our difficulties, our celebrating times, people start to realize that a lot that is shown out there through social media in the news, it's a facade at times. And it's okay to have an off day. And it's it's human, it's what we're here to experience and to go through and to hopefully learn through the down times. And so when you're meeting with people, whether it's an individual or in a gallery, does the energy change from a one-on-one to a gallery type setting? And for the listeners out there, what I mean by a gallery setting, it's like 15 to more people in the room where Edward is doing readings.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

Actually, it's the same because I'm just zoning in on their energy. And I've I've learned through the years to block out everything. I've actually done readings in a disco. If I can block out, I mean, I'm aging myself, I know. But if I can do readings with that music blasting, so that was, I mean, that just you know, just happened at the time, but it was a good tool, and then I could block it, block out whatever I need to. So that's why it's the same for me.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

And when with your ability of being able to block out the other noises that are going around in the background during either a one-on-one session or a gallery session, do you find that the time goes even faster for you?

SPEAKER_01 19:32

Oh, yeah, definitely. Definitely like doing a gallery, like two hours, it seems like two minutes to me.

unknown 19:41

Right.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

You're in the zone.

SPEAKER_02 19:43

And because I've had the privilege of sitting in on one of your gallery sessions, and I'm an observer. I love watching the other people in the room as to their reaction, what information and messages you're providing to them. And it and what I love to see is that healing of someone that's sitting there that needed to hear this beautiful message from a past loved one. And when that their look changes over their face is just so enlightening, it's so heartwarming, and it's incredible how the power of those words that get delivered to the recipient, how it lightens the energy in the room. The energy elevates, but it's lighter, it's not like this heavy energy that's sitting in the room. Um, we've known each other for quite a few years now, and I know that you are very intentional on how you speak with people in a casual setting and in your professional line of work. What does the power of the word mean to you on a personal basis?

SPEAKER_01 21:03

Well, we're all a work in progress, but that also includes our inner dialogue when we're alone or when we're trying to fall asleep, and then the mind goes. That's that's when it's time to meditate if you can't fall asleep. But um, you know, that the there really is power in our words and in our thoughts.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

So I always call it slaying the inner naysayer, because the way we speak to ourselves, we would never speak to another person the way we do. We're so hard on ourselves. And I love that you brought it in that when the mind starts to race, that's the time to meditate.

SPEAKER_01 21:48

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 21:49

And to further push away.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

I often yeah, I call that the run amok.

SPEAKER_02 22:01

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 22:03

And thinks all the things that can go wrong.

SPEAKER_02 22:06

Right. And when we start to go down that rabbit hole of everything that could possibly go wrong, we forget what's going right, what is going smoothly in our life and the blessings that we have. And to really lasso those positivities and really fill ourselves with gratitude, it just calms the mind so we could sleep. Right.

SPEAKER_01 22:29

That's when we have to pull ourselves back into the present moment, think about the day, all the good things. Start with I woke up. Start there. Yeah. You can hope you can't think of anything, you know? But you can always find something. Um you know, sometimes it's easier than others, but still, if it's needed.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

And I love that you said start the day off with thanking that you woke up, because each time we wake up, it's a gift of the of the present day.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

It is a gift, and what are we going to do with that day?

SPEAKER_02 23:01

Right. And then we should not worry about what went wrong the previous day or the week before. Let's just put our best foot forward for this day that we have at this present moment. And to be present, what does that mean to you to be present in the when it comes to manifesting and visualizing the magic is in the moment, is in the present.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

That's why, that's why the present is a gift. Uh-huh. But it really is we have to envision like things where we are already living it. And I just want to add a key that people often forget we have to immerse ourselves in the things that we want to bring into our life. For instance, you want a new car, go look at the go look at the cars that you want. Go into the car, test drive it if you can. Immerse yourself in that energy and remember how you feel during that moment. Because that's the energy you want to focus on.

SPEAKER_02 24:05

And I love that that what a beautiful action step for the listeners to really grab onto that immerse yourself in what you desire, what you want to create, and make those steps towards it. Because we could sit here and say all day long, oh, I want to drive this beautiful car that I've just seen.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

And but if you don't do anything, that might work for some, but for majority, it doesn't. So that's that's that added step take us over the victory, take us over to that victory lap.

SPEAKER_02 24:43

And I I love that. Take yourself over the victory, get over that line. Because when we really start to achieve what we want to accomplish, there's no other, it's a wonderful feeling.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

It's like a moral effect, it's a momentum. If I can do that, then I can do this. It just keeps going.

SPEAKER_02 25:05

So for the listeners out there, what can they truly expect from a reading with you? I know we tapped onto it a little bit at the beginning, but I really want you to.

SPEAKER_01 25:18

When I when I start a reading, I always ask the person what they would like to find out. Because it's one of my pet peeves to have a reading, which I have, and never got to what I wanted to find out. So that's how I start the reading. So it immediately makes people think I am over the moon thrilled when people actually come with a list of questions, because then I attack it. Yeah. I just attack it. We just go right down the line. And if there's an issue, usually there's overlapping issues, then we attack that.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

So, listeners out there, uh, when you connect with Edward, make sure you bring your lists because it's it's to me, it's very similar to you have your concerns when you go to your doctor, but you don't write it down, and then you leave your doctor's appointment, you're like, oh my gosh, I didn't ask him this, this, and this. And because you're so excited to be in this reading, to be sitting across from Edward, and our lives are busy, so to be focused with that good old list that comes out, it your reading will be that much more jubilant because you really hit on what your deepest questions are.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

Now, sometimes people are going through something, so of course they know that. And I can do a reading where they just say, I just want to see what comes up, which is fine with me because I could talk a bird out of a bush, so that's no problem for me.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

I love that visual. So before we conclude with our lovely chat that we've had, is there anything else you want to share with the listeners and where can they connect with you online?

SPEAKER_01 27:07

Oh, sure. So uh Facebook, Instagram, my website, which I just started to do short videos under three minutes.

SPEAKER_02 27:20

Nice for the for very good for time or attend. And then do you do all your readings online or are you available in person as well?

SPEAKER_01 27:31

Telephone, online, zoom, and then in person at Light Club Curiosity Shop in Warwick, New York, most Saturdays and Sundays.

SPEAKER_02 27:42

Beautiful. And for the listeners out there, Edward's handles for social media and his website will be in the show notes, so you'll be able to connect with him that way. Um, Edward, our time together has just flown by.

SPEAKER_01 27:58

Can I just say one quick thing? I just want to give a preview into the the year that we're coming into because it's actually very exciting. So the system that I utilize was given to me through Spirit and it utilizes the tarot because I just love the whole system of the tarot. So we go we personally go through cycles of seasons, just like uh Mother Nature does. So on April 17th, we start with the Aries New Moon every new year, every year. We start a new year, it launches, and we start anew. So then it's spring. Even for those on the southern hemisphere, even though they're experiencing autumn season, it's still so it's so spring is a time to plant your energetic seeds. Summer is a time to when things start to bloom. Autumn is when we harvest, make that make that dough, make that money. And then winter we reflect, we rest and get ready for the next year. So we were in a year that was very reflective of what was Virgo. And a lot of people woke up to their life purpose, soul purpose mission. We're going into a year of faded movement. So this is very exciting. So we have to pace ourselves because this will be a fast-paced year. Pace yourself, make sure you're getting enough rest, relaxation, downtime. There's not gonna be there's no lack of activity this this this coming year. So I'm actually very excited about that.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

That's beautiful. And listeners, pay attention to that too, of your self-care, of the proper rest and nutrients and hydration.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

And build into your schedule rest, downtime, de stressing, whatever works for you. Just build into your school.

SPEAKER_02 29:57

That's so important.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

Because we don't want to burn out.

SPEAKER_02 30:00

Beautiful. No, because then if we do, then we just kind of get depleted and we push everything that we've been trying to strive for to the side because we're just not taking care of ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

I just want to say one more thing. It's all based on our because it's based on the energy that we're working with for the new year. It's based on our comfort zone. So what we allow. So we have to let those walls of resistance down so the universe can give us what we deserve. I say, bring it, universe, bring it.

SPEAKER_02 30:36

Beautiful. I love that. Bring it on. Bring it on. Oh my goodness. So, listeners out there, in the show notes, you'll be able to see all Edward's contact information, and that he's at the Light Club Curiosity Shop in Warwick, New York on most Saturdays and Sundays, correct? Fabulous, absolutely beautiful, Edward. And I love this empowering conversation, especially of the free will and really setting the tone of empowerment for people that you have the power to change your life with your deepest desires and your action steps.

SPEAKER_01 31:18

And we're never alone, phenomenal. Not in a creepy way, but we're never alone. Even though we think we are.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

Yeah, and it's true, we are never alone. We just have to quiet our mind down to do that connection. Yeah.

unknown 31:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:32

So beautiful, Edward. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'm looking forward to staying connected and have a beautiful, beautiful rest of the day. Me too.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_02 31:43

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