1. Don’t use a telephone hotline psychic unless you’re OK with taking a risk

Although I personally know one trusted and reputable psychic who works on a psychic hotline, I also know that some less scrupulous phone lines employ virtually anyone. If you call one of these hotlines you could get lucky OR more likely, you’ll end up speaking to someone who has very basic intuition or worse still, a cold reader.

The safest bet is to find someone who works for themselves and who finds their own clients.

2. Get referrals from people you trust, and also trust your gut instinct

Recommendations from people you trust is a good sign that the psychic is the real deal. But above all you need to trust your own instincts and judgment.

I remember a reading I had done a while back with a guy who had been recommended by a friend whom I trusted. My friend thought this guy was a brilliant psychic. At one point, I booked a reading with him but on the morning of my appointment I did not want to go. I felt dread but I didn’t know why. I called my friend and told him I didn’t have a good feeling about it but he talked me into going, saying it was my ego’s resistance. When I arrived for my appointment at this man’s house, it was a really unpleasant experience.

Amongst other things (some of them really shocking and totally inaccurate, such as ‘you were sexually abused as a child’), he also told me that I had numerous entities who were taking me over and make me talk rubbish. I was fairly certain I wasn’t overrun by negative entities. But, if you do see me spouting any rubbish, I might still be possessed from last time

I really couldn’t understand what my friend saw in this psychic. My feeling of dread and fear before the reading was trying to keep me away from that particular person and I should have heeded that.

So, listen to your feelings in the presence (or web-presence) of a psychic you plan to get a reading with. Do you feel comfortable and safe? It’s normal to feel a bit nervous before a reading, but you should never feel negative, fearful or vulnerable. If you do, stay away.

Your feelings or intuition might also alert you to a psychic who can help you. My clients often say to me that their intuition impulsed them to get a reading with me and they were glad they did. The same thing happens to me when I get my readings – I feel drawn to certain sites and not so much to others aand I heed that to help me choose the right reader for me at that time.

3. Make sure the psychic can do what you want them to

Just because someone calls herself a psychic/intuitive doesn’t always mean that they can tell you your life purpose AND connect with your dead auntie AND predict your future.

Psychics tend to be competent in a few different areas and most good psychics will tell you upfront what their specialisms are. Some can connect with the dead, some are good at future predictions, some specialize in telling you about past lives, life purpose, relationships, etc. So when you are choosing a psychic reader, make sure you decide what you want to focus on and find someone who is good at that. If necessary, email the psychic and ask them outright – is X, Y, and Z something you could help me with?

If you don’t, then you may not get exactly what you wanted. For example, if someone books a reading with me and they just want me to make predictions about their future – for example ‘will I meet my soulmate?’ or ‘will I be rich before I’m 30?’, their spirit guides are more likely to tell me what the client REALLY wants to happen in the future and what they need to do to get there. The spirit guides I encounter tend to be more interested in the client exercising their free will and reminding the clients that the future is in their own hands.

One client may be delighted with that, but another client may just think ‘All I wanted was a prediction’.

I myself go to different psychics for different areas of my life (I don’t tend to read for myself especially when it’s an issue that’s right under my nose). If I want help making a crucial decision about my life, I’d go to empath Rose Rosetree who can measure the probable impact of future decisions on different areas of your life (by feeling empathically how your chakras respond energetically to your options.)

In the last reading I had with her, I was about to embark on giving psychic development classes in person but it didn’t feel 100% right at this time. She measured the impact of this course of action on various chakras and told me what the results would be for my finances, connection to reality, connection to spirit and even my sex life!

She warned me that although the psychic development classes were great for my spiritual connection, my connection to reality and the earth plane would weaken and it would make me feel ungrounded and imbalanced. She also told me what I would need to do to be more grounded, so I could do this work in the future without too much imbalance.

That was really helpful information for me to have and I asked Rose to teach me how to use my empathy to do the same thing for my clients. My first class with her is next week, so I should be using this technique with my clients soon.

As for the life area of relationships, Both Erin Pavlina and Slade Roberson have given me good information on relationships. Although I’m not a big fan of knowing my future, Erin in particular has given some accurate predictions. And I would go to my teacher and mentor Andrea Hess. if I wanted a reading on abundance or business.

As for my strengths, the readings of mine that tend to be really successful are in the areas of life/soul purpose, making decisions, business and in career. So, I have structured my readings around all of this. Because of my Soul Realignment training, I’m also good at seeing past lives and I get a lot of information about peoples’ issues and the negative mindsets/beliefs which hold people back. I am also skilled in answering questions about relationships.

In case you’re wondering what NOT to book me for – I suck at finding lost objects – I can’t even find my own let alone anyone else’s. I am adequate at predictions but I would not call it one of my specialisms.

I am also not a very skilled medium. From time to time I get deceased relatives coming through during a reading and I can get names and appearances, but I am not that skilled at interpreting their messages.

4. A high price does not always = quality

If you’re paying a lot of money, it should mean you’re getting a better, more accurate psychic, right?

Well, not necessarily. Most regular psychics (the ones who speak with your spirit guides) just pass on the messages you need to hear from your guides at that time. The messages don’t generally become better or more exciting if you pay more money.

I have paid between £5 and £175 for psychic readings and I have to say that the £20 reading wasn’t that much different from the £100 reading. Sometimes it can be that a cheap psychic is very good but they just have abundance issues.

A high price usually means that a psychic easily gets a long waiting list. So, in order to cope with demand, they put their prices up. Psychics can have a long waiting list for numerous reasons – they can be in high demand because they’re very good.

They can also have a long waiting list because they’re great at marketing and publicizing their work. Or they have a referral source who sends them shedloads of clients.

A low price can also mean a psychic who’s a newbie to the profession. When I started I didn’t charge that much. Although, I have gotten better over the last two years, I still got some great testimonials from clients I read for around that time, so clients seemed to be as happy with my work then as they are now.

So, a high price can mean a great psychic, but it doesn’t always. My advice is not to pay too much attention to price as an indicator of quality.

What have your experiences been with this?

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