Source: California Psychics
Can you imagine growing up psychic in a family where an outing to buy a first deck of Tarot cards is a rite of passage? Or, being the only child of intellectual parents who were frightened of their infant's natural ability to do things that defied logic? What would it be like to wake up morning after morning knowing that your uncomfortable vivid dreams, or even your nightmares, could come true?
Six of the latest professional psychics to join the California Psychics team have given us a poignant look at the awakening of their psychic gifts in their early years and the decisive moments when they understood that it was their fate to use their gifts professionally for the common good.
When psychic gifts are somehow incorporated into your DNA and your immediate family members acknowledge your gifts, childhood can run a lot more smoothly for a born psychic than if your gifts scare your parents - or nobody seems to understand you.
When psychic Catherine ext. 5116 was very young she could see spirits in her room that would sometimes speak to her. She had memories of who she had been in past lives and even recognized people from previous earthly experiences. "I learned to keep these things to myself as there wasn't anyone around me who accepted my experiences. Finally, as a young adult I began to meet others who were open about their gifts… and I learned from them."
Catherine studied the Tarot and experienced a tremendous growth in her work as she became very aware of her guides and angels. Eventually, knowledge and the understanding that her gift could strongly benefit others who also felt alone over their own issues in life, moved her towards a career of psychic guidance.
Samantha ext. 5138 was born to parents a bit frightened by the fact that they had conceived an unusual child. Her family lore tells the story of an event that occurred when she was only three weeks old. "One night, as my father went to check on me in my crib, he let out a bloodcurdling scream. My mother ran to my room sure something horrible had happened. She found my father pale, shaky, sweaty… as if he had seen a ghost. 'This kid got in my head. She knows everything I think and feel! I was just holding her and I felt it...' My mother replied casually, 'I can't believe it took you this long to notice!'
Samantha was subsequently nicknamed "The Spook" by her father. Her mother who later studied astrology, came home from her first class with exciting news. The teacher had analyzed Samantha's birth chart during the class and announced that there was no doubt in her mind that it was the chart of a future professional psychic.
Even with that prediction in the back of her mind, Samantha went on to work in a recording studio in Los Angeles - a job she loved. When she was let go, she began doing readings out of necessity. But the many years of being called "a spook" took its toll on her confidence. She still wasn't sure if the voices she heard were spirit guides, or as she describes with a sense of humor, a sign that she was just plain "koo koo."
"I decided to go home to sort it out. On the train from Los Angeles to Chicago I began doing readings that amazed me! I walked on for a five day ride with $6 in my pocket and before long people were literally throwing money at me, picking up my meals - and I still didn't get it!" Soon, a Chicago bookstore reading led to reading at parties and private clients. "That did it," Samantha recalls. "I was booked solid and I finally realized that there was a plan for me."
Even our psychics who understood that their gifts were inherited sometimes fell into their destined career path randomly. When Annunciata ext. 5128 was 14, she began having predictive dreams that scared her. She reached out to her mother who explained that the dreams were a gift… then she took Annunciata shopping for her first pack of Tarot cards.
Years later, she quit her job as a mechanical design engineer to do readings at psychic fairs. But, it wasn't until after both grandfathers had passed that her father revealed the family secret. It was the piece of her psychic puzzle that helped her realize her path. Her great grandmother had been a professional psychic and healer!
Shamira ext. 5125 and her cousin pooled their psychic talents to do parties and fairs together. Her cousin looked into a crystal ball while Shamira read the Tarot. "I just thought this was the best!" After the young psychic lost her cousin to cancer, she decided to lay her cards down one last time professionally. "I will never forget what happened next. One client folded my cards and asked if I could talk to the dead. She had just lost her brother and I was able to give her messages! It was a sign that I was to continue on my own."
Other intuitives had great teachers who not only helped them to develop their talents, but also ushered them towards their professional destinies. As a member of a Scottish family with a long lineage of psychic ability, as a teen, Teva ext. 5141 used her psychic gifts to help her friends with their love lives. "These readings were fun for awhile, but as I studied and grew psychically, my teachers encouraged me to follow my heart and be of help to a much wider audience."
The doors to the future of Judianne ext. 5129 were opened with a dramatic welcome by a renowned psychic she had been advised to see. As Judianne was welcomed into her home, the older woman announced, "Oh my God, you are so psychic you should be reading me!" She became one of her teachers at a spiritualist center where she developed her gifts for the next six years.
Choosing a career path is rarely a direct route from talent to professional journey. It requires the study, confidence, leap of faith and passion that all career dreams require to come true.
