Surreal World

6 psychics reveal career moves


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.

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Make Retrogrades Work

Use them to your advantage

Source: California Psychics

Retrogrades are the Universe's way of giving you a "do-over," and, even more important, letting you know that one is needed. Whether it's the (three-times-a-year) chaotic mess generated by Mercury Retrograde, or the slow, deep transmutation of Pluto's (typically 6-month) backward motion, retrogrades can work to your advantage.

How is that possible, you ask? Because they are a time to go back over everything relating to the planet and its effect on your birth chart - whether you want to or not! When astrologers refer to retrogrades, they're actually talking about a change in a planet's apparent motion, so that while the planet's orbits don't actually change, how they appear to move relative to the Earth's orbit does.

Retrogrades have a general effect on daily life for everyone, on the stock market, international relations, personal relationships, the economy and so on, especially when the retrogrades form an aspect to other planets, or a new or full moon, or an eclipse.

When they really pack a punch, though, is when they move back and forth across planets, angles and points, and through houses, in your personal astrological chart. There are several stages for a retrograde's influence on your chart, and each has its own opportunity for growth and learning.

Retrograde phases
1. The first phase is when the planet moves forward across one or more of your chart points, called direct motion. Especially if it's one of the outer or transpersonal planets - Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto - its arrival can cause a bit of an uproar, presenting you with challenges specific to the nature of the planet transiting and the points and houses it affects (called aspects).

2. Next, just before starting backward, the planet will appear to stand still. This is called stationary retrograde and, if it happens close to one of your chart points, its effect can be very intense, highlighting the issues involved even more.

3. Then there's the retrograde period itself... this is your opportunity to go back over choices you made and actions you took when the transiting planet first hit your chart points. The urge to look deeply into causes and effects, and to rethink and rework actions and choices is particularly strong when the retrograde has direct contact with your planets. During the retrograde, as much as possible, stick to reexamining issues from the past rather than starting on new ones. If you take on new ones you'll just have to rethink them again later.

4. Next is stationary direct, which is much like stationary retrograde in intensity. It's a pause point - time for you to gather up your retrograde research and journals and plans and get ready to move forward with them.

5. Finally, during the new direct motion, you get to test your new theories and resolutions to see if they work better than your first reactions to the planet's presence.

When you realize that the outer planets will contact your personal chart points very few times in your life, and that each of them spends between 30-45% of the time in retrograde, it's easy to understand why a direct-retrograde-direct experience of one of them can be momentous. Those passages usually mark profound change and soul growth.

Retrograde planets
Use this thumbnail guide to know what to expect when a retrograde planet hits your chart:

Mercury - Back up your hard drive! Mercury goes retrograde three times a year, each time for three weeks. The reason people say don't sign contracts during Mercury retro is because you'll have to renegotiate later. Better to just wait. Day to day communications do pretty well, the more important it is, the more carefully you should proceed.

Venus - This planet is about far more than love and romance - and retrogrades tend to highlight this. Venus retrogrades about every 18 months for a little more than a month, and during that time she asks you to look at what you value: in yourself, in relationships, in your career, in your surroundings, in the things you buy and the places you live and work.

Mars - Mars is about ego, self-actualization and how you apply your energy. It spends a little less than 3 months of every 2 years and 2 months in retrograde motion. If you don't pay attention to the retrograde's requirement for pause and reflection before action, you can find yourself involved in accidents and arguments.

Jupiter - Retrograding about 30% of the time, Jupiter turns inward and becomes more spiritual and deeply philosophical. It's a time to re-evaluate your big plans - any kind of expansion in the affected area - root out phoniness and focus yourself on heartfelt inner reasons for your actions and decisions, rather than the drive for external success. Any kind of big spending can go awry if done thoughtlessly.

Saturn - In backward motion for about 140 days, retrograde Saturn wants you to think before saying "yes" to anything. Look at your current commitments, projects and promises and be sure they are still relevant and, if not, say "no" and move on. Keep extra responsibilities at a minimum and, remember, focus on what's in place and avoid taking on new responsibilities.

Chiron - Because of its elliptical orbit, Chiron's retrogrades are less orderly than other planets. While Chiron reaches out to heal others when direct, it looks within to apply its powers of acceptance and healing when in retrograde. Finding compassion for yourself is the task, and it offers an opportunity to find healing, or at least understanding and acceptance, for recurring personal issues.

Uranus - Watch out! During Uranus backward motion, about 42% of the time, you will probably astound friends and family with your unpredictability, and your stronger-than-usual quest to understand "why." Its urge toward freedom is more powerful when it's in retrograde, and Uranus will root out and blow up the excuses, self-deceptions and fears which keep you from being wholly authentic in the areas it affects.

Neptune - Neptune, which moves backward about 43% of the time, is one of the very best of the do-overs, because since Neptune rules denial and deception, its retrograde makes it far easier for you to spot and understand subtle signals. Your inner voice is clearer and your perspective is enhanced. The kicker is that if you don't use the time well, you can be haunted afterward by uneasiness that's hard to pinpoint.

Pluto - Since Pluto spends about half the year moving backward, it's not felt as vividly unless it hits your chart, and then it acts like a roto-rooter, thoroughly (and sometimes uncomfortably) flushing out and cleansing your inner landscape. As they say, resistance is not only futile, it will make the experience far more uncomfortable. Far better to cooperate with Pluto's agenda and spend your time reaching deep into your psyche to eliminate old patterns and beliefs that are holding you back.

So no matter what planet is in retrograde, it is up to you to use this powerful transition time to learn your lessons and strengthen your soul. Pretty soon, you'll have so many things sorted out in your life, you'll have no problem sailing gracefully through all the planetary shifts we encounter every day.

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A Marriage-Go-Round

A psychic sees the truth

Source: California Psychics

If you have a good marriage, sometimes you just need to trust the relationship, especially when the communication and listening skills between you and your partner appear to be breaking down. Partnerships can be rife with misunderstandings, but if you know from experience that yours is fundamentally strong, don't allow family, friends or acquaintances to stir the pot, Diamond ext. 9379, a fourth generation psychic strongly suggests.

Sometimes misunderstandings are really quite innocent, but without keeping up the work it takes to sustain a marriage, which often just comes down to listening, even the best of marriages can run into trouble, she warns.

There are times when callers just can't see situations clearly, reports Diamond referring to a recent new client Pilar (not her real name), a fitness instructor in her early twenties, who had been happily married to Edward (not his real name) for three blissful years… until she noticed a sudden change in her husband's behavior.

Upset, perplexed and having lost faith in her husband much too quickly, Pilar reached out to Diamond asking, "Is my husband cheating on me?" Without a moment's hesitation she continued with a litany of questions: "What's her name? Why is he doing this? Why doesn't he answer his cell phone? Why can't I get in touch with him at the office when he says he's working late? What happened to us?"

As the Medium, Clairvoyant and Clairaudient tuned into Pilar's voice and began envisioning the answers, she did not get a dishonest image of Edward with a scandoulous secret love life. Instead, she saw white lab coats, surgical scrubs and doctors with medical instruments in their hands. "He's not having an affair, he's seeing a doctor…" It was an answer Pilar would not accept.

Pilar cut Diamond off, saying that her vision was impossible.

"It's a very clear image," Diamond reiterated about the scene that seemed to be playing out in front of her as if it were on a movie screen. "In fact I see him sneaking out to see the doctor."

Pilar called Diamond back later the same week, certain that she would have a different message for her. But again, the psychic's vision was the same. Pilar then told Diamond that she had confronted her husband about the cell phone and office phones. She didn't believe anything he said, so she hired a deterctive. All of her best girlfriends were sure that Edward's sudden, unusual behavior indicated a straying husband.

"You don't need to hire a detective!" Diamond told Pilar completely sure of the truth of her visions. "He is going to tell you what he is hiding from you, and when you find out, you will be quite surprised. It's not a bad thing," Diamond tried to assure her caller. "I don't see any reason to distrust him so intently."

The following week, Pilar called Diamond again to tell her that she had confronted Edward again. He denied the affair, but gave her no further explanation for his unusual behavior. Out of sheer frustration Pilar had packed her bags and was now staying with her best friend.

"You are making a mistake. You need to work on your communication with Edward and help him understand that his mysterious ways are making you doubt the strength of your marriage. This separation did not have to happen!"

Pilar disagreed saying, "I'm getting proof. The detectives should have something for me soon! "

The following morning Diamond got a call from a man she had never spoken to before. He said his wife had just moved out on him and he didn't have a clue as to what had happened. Diamond surprised herself with an instant adamant response to the caller (who said his name was Sam)... "This separation did not have to happen!"

Sam told her that he had been planning a surprise for his wife. Diamond told him that she saw him having some sort of medical procedure. "I also see that you have an usually strong support system," the psychic revealed.

Sam responded, "Wow! Yes, it's all true. My employees have helped me keep every thing top secret. My wife doesn't have a clue... I can't believe you know all of that." He began to relax even more with Diamond and excitedly told her, "I'll be frank with you, I had an operation to reverse infertility. I don't want my wife to know because I don't want her to be disappointed if it doesn't work. We've been trying to have a baby…"

At that, Diamond spoke quickly, hoping her call with Sam wouldn't end before she could say, "You need to tell her the truth now!"

Then she heard the click of the phone.

To Diamonds great surprise and relief, Pilar and Edward contacted Diamond together just days later. "We can't believe how good you are," they chimed together happily. "I'm back home," Pilar said, "and, you won't believe what just happened. We were going over the bills together and I admitted that I had been calling California Psychics. Edward laughed and admitted that he had done the same."

Edward broke in to the conversation, saying, "Except you might remember me as Sam! How were you able to tell both of us the exact same thing?"

"I'm just the messenger," Diamond said tearfully. "I kept seeing that you had a loving, faithful union and I didn't want you to give up on that."

The couple admitted that they had learned some big lessons. And, Diamond is still in awe that the universe chose to send both callers to her.

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