Five Things You Should Never Do as a Psychic, Medium or Fortuneteller (And Five Things You shouldn't Expect as a Client)
We’re living at a very interesting time in human history. The system is broken. Our air, food and water are being poisoned. The school systems are cutting up our minds and limiting our ability to develop true vision. Our medical system is killing us while bankrupting us for the privilege of doing so. Dysfunctional relationships are being held up as an ideal to strive for. We are being conditioned to consume well beyond our means and needs. Our so-called ‘leaders” are dividing us: turning us against each other while they pillage our planet for their own profits. We have been trained to value money over all else and even the religions have aligned to this philosophy.
People are facing a great deal of cognitive dissonance: what they believe is right and what they are being told is right are very different things and it is creating confusion within them. People are working in careers that produce nothing, that give nothing and make nothing and being told this is noble. So many are stuck on the lower rungs of ‘Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs’ that actualization of humanity is completely impossible.
A huge portion of our planet has never been able to successful make the transition from childhood to adulthood and that has left people confused, hurt and bitter. We are not seeing life happen for us the way it did for our grandparents and parents. Victimhood is being held up as the human ideal while heroism and power are looked at as evil things.
It is a very confusing time indeed, and very interesting time to be a soothsayer, oracle, fortuneteller, psychic or medium. Traditionally these people held a role outside of society and they warned people of dangers coming or of what hazards could befall a person if they invested their energy in superficial values. It was never so easy to get to an oracle as it is now. In the past, the seeker would have to get out of their comfort just to make the journey to one. Once there, they would have to pay a price commensurate with the information they sought. Often they had to prove themselves worthy and the information came wrapped in a riddle that they had to unravel; that process itself being part of the solution to their problem. These days oracles are a dime a dozen, their advice as ubiquitous as fast food and often, equally as nourishing. Gone are the days of lineage, of studying with a master and of the understanding the true nature of the human mind and of exactly what price such oracular information comes at.
Because of this the advice is rarely valued by the clients of modern soothsayers because the seeker did no real work get it. They simply put down a 20 dollar bill they way they would for a movie, or a gin and tonic or a funnel cake at a carnival and treat the experience exactly as they would the other three: as a cheap affirmation of the ego and a balm to temporarily ease their insecurity about themselves.
For those of you who are professional fortunetellers, psychic, mediums or even hypnotists, doctors, massage/physical therapists, and counselors for that matter: it is a strange time indeed. People who have spent a lifetime building bad habits approach us demanding immediate gratification: immortality, healing, fulfillment and enlightenment in 30 minutes or less and, “Oh by the way I’d like a coupon for a discount…”
What makes it even more challenging is that people pay us to tell them how to succeed within a system that had been designed to make the majority fail so a “privileged few” can profit from it. It’s a strange time because when you throw the cards you often hear warnings for a client such as: “Don’t get involved in this situation”; “Perhaps you should back off from this relationship”; “Maybe this career isn’t going to make you happy, nor is the next one because that’s not what is making you miserable: the fact that you are alienated from your natural self is”; “ There is nothing you can study in a system like this that will liberate you because the values of this system and the things that it is teaching are morally bankrupt and designed to get you to be at war with yourself.”
So, what do when you see the way that people are confused and hurting and want advice but have been conditioned to expect it to be handed to them like an order of French fries?
Here are five things to remember when you are doing readings for clients or others, that will keep you from going crazy under the current conditions:
You, as an oracle, are not there to solve the clients’ problems. Your job is not to “fix” things for them. You are there to tap into extrasensory perception in a way they cannot and provide a mirror for their past, present and future so that they can recognize their own habits and behaviors and decide how they might want to change them or not change them. I have asserted in my blog, my videos and in my Facebook groups repeatedly that all of this psychic phenomena is about ESP: connecting to and understanding the human mind. If the mind is unbalanced, the body will be unbalanced; the relationships will be unbalanced; the career will be unbalanced; the whole life will be unbalanced. So, remember this: just because you can throw cards, or tap into the situation or hear spirits or read a person’s subconscious and present them with a mirror-reflection, it doesn’t mean you have the power (or right for that matter) to “fix’ it. Remember always: no one has the power to fix a person’s life but them.
It is not your job to tell someone what their profession should be. Years ago, I remember catching one of those really bad daytime talk shows that had one of those very famous “psychics” on it. A person stood up in the audience and asked the woman what career she should go into. Without missing a beat the psychic said: “nursing”. I was teaching at Universities at the time and was aware that they were no longer pushing computer degrees to potential students. The markets were saturated and they needed to start a new saturation campaign. They were starting to push nursing along with a few other degree programs on potential students now. This psychic was a regular guest on the show and I checked out some of her other predictions for people who wanted career advice and I noticed a pattern. She always pushed them towards the “hot” university degrees. Coincidence? Maybe. That said, consider this too: a job doesn’t necessarily equate with happiness or fulfillment. Some people have talents that are not welcomed by, nor will they thrive in, our current social structure. Perhaps the very thing that will make a client happy and whole is not even available to them in this system. What is a fortuneteller or psychic or medium, etc. to tell them then? Remember, it is not your role to tell them what their job will be and if it will make them happy. Happiness, despite what we have been conditioned to believe from our schools, career counselors and religions, is something that comes from the inside and moves outward; not something that is told to someone and then magically takes root in their life. Recognition of someone else’s life purpose is not something anyone should provide for another. In fact, it’s quite arrogant for anyone to think they are entitled to tell another who they “should be” and rob that person of their own self discovery.
Relationships are really toxic right now and dysfunctional. As a hypnotist, I use story as a way to help create change in people. Knowing how stories are one of the most powerful tools to show the human mind how to grow and adapt, I am shocked to see how relationships are currently presented to people in their stories. Daily, I see new stories in movies, television, books and even marketing platforms that hold up toxic and abusive and victim-inducing relationships as a goal. People don’t have good patterns now for relationships, nor do they realize that relationships are really contracts/agreements and that everything happens because of both parties, not just one. Another point to remember is that some people are actually in toxic and abusive relationships because that is what they crave and what they wish to feed on and quite often they come to other people for sympathy rather than solutions. Remember: you can in the cards see whether a relationship is headed for a breakup , abuse, cheating or reconciliation and they are going to hobble and limp along. You can also see those rare jewels that are really suited to each other and headed for success. Just because you can see that someone has picked a relationship that will not help them flourish doesn’t mean that it’s your job to fix that for them. Many people, despite what they say, don’t want to fix a broken relationship. They are in it because it is giving them exactly what they want.
When people ask you for health advice, remember that they are operating in a health care system that gets richer and fatter the sicker they are. When someone comes to you, expecting you, as a psychic, to tell them what treatment they should undergo in a system that is, for the most part, designed to make them sick, remember this: it is a losing game. And if you convince yourself otherwise, you may be actually working against your own intuition. So, if you get information in a health reading that tells you: “I’ve got a bad feeling about all of this!” That may be all you can tell them and it’s up to them to decide whether or not they find value in your assessment of the situation. It’s also up to them to decide next what course of treatment they want. To assume that you, because you are psychic, will have the right answer to which poison will make them whole is a horrible assumption, and a horrible place to put you in.
When someone asks you what they are supposed to study or what schooling they are “supposed” to get to make them happy, remember that the school system is designed to make people compliant, not independent. As someone who spent eight years as a college professor, I will tell you that the individuals teaching at the top are not people interested in making students flourish and healthy and adventurous. Those people are there usually because they are afraid of life and they are very good at taking orders and doing what they are told without question. School isn’t about becoming free or discovering new knowledge. It’s about molding students into becoming the guy or gal who isn’t going to question any of the other societal garbage that’s being sold to them as gold.
Remember these things when you do a reading for someone. It’s a very difficult time for the oracle or soothsayer because we are daily put in awkward positions where the information we get many do not want to hear. Right now, the truth is being looked at as lies and lies are held up as truth and you must negotiate these waters carefully and with great patience and a sincere desire to help people take steps to get back to their natural selves.
When you tell people “The system is broke,” it means that humanity has to, at this time, rise up and find alternatives that are completely different from anything we have seen in our lives. Not in pushing people further into a broken system with platitudes and false positivity and then hoping for the best. To do so results in Stockholm Syndrome, which simply put, means: people are embracing victimhood and lauding and defending the very things, leaders and ‘isms” that are causing them so much pain and suffering.
I do not want to leave this on a negative note. I want you to realize as someone who can read the signs and oracles, that you are in a very unique position to be able to use an oracle to help people see what sorts of actions will help them one step at a time. Armed with insight and wisdom you can see what is likely to come and do your best to prepare people in their minds. Encourage change. Show people they do have choices and they can change their lives by changing what they value. Show them that experience is wisdom and they don’t have to accept the values that are being forced on them. Encourage people to ask, “Why?” Confirm their suspicions and help them to trust their own intuition. Show them they have power to influence their space and how that is quite a bit to start with.
Show them that power isn’t a dirty word. To usurp a quote from the classic British comedy, Blackadder: “Power isn’t a dirty word, Blackadder. Crevice is a dirty word, but power isn’t.”