My Life As A Reluctant Psychic Medium

First off all, I want to thank you for visiting my blog because to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure what I am going to talk about . Um, let's see: I'm a happily married woman living in northern California....perfectly normal life, mundane day to day existence, etc. Except for one little, unusual thing: I am a reader. "AND?" you're probably thinking. Although we seem to have an ever increasing explosion of proud "idjuts" in the country over the last 9 years, it' not yet rare to be literate. After all, most people in the western hemisphere read to some extent, perhaps with the infamous exception of the former, less than academically inclined Dubya who once boasted that he didn't read all that much, instead depending on the cabinet members to advise him of the latest headlines. (I've had a weekly headache ever since hearing him say that, BTW...Thank God for the literate Obama)

Well... I CAN read and spell too, had a whole lot of book larnin' -(something my family is forever grateful for after years of private school tuition)- but I am an intuitive reader, a Sybil, a clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient, an Oracle, a, (oh great green heavens -dare I say it?) PSYCHIC. Yes, dear reader, I am one of those folks who sees AND speaks to the dearly departed. I confess.

It would be more accurate to say that they speak to me. I've always been a bit different and I suppose that it's to be expected of an Aquarian or so I'm told. I've always had precognitive dreams and the like. So, it wasn't something that was really considered weird but about 15 years ago, I "woke up".....COMPLETELY.

I began to see a young woman walking through the house and I wasn't the only one that saw OR heard her. the most obvious thing about her is that she was dressed in the most God awful burnt orange corduroy trousers with what looked for all the world like a lumberjack's brown and rust plaid shirt. Oh and did I mention the dark brown vest. Attractive. She seemed to enjoy calling all of us by name. Yes, we had a verbose ghostie who, after a few months, decided that I was the lucky schmuck she was going to have a conversation with. Turns out, she was my sister who'd passed 21 years earlier. Raine is her name. She came to me, ( or more accurately, I was taken to her), in a dream. She was dressed in a white painsuit, YES you read it correctly, A BLOODY PANTSUIT ! Everyone else in that ethereal place were sporting caftan-like garments but not Raine. I have to say that she was quite chic. However, she didn't have shoes on; was more concerned with being comfortable... but I digress...
in this dream, she gave me information for my mother, things that only she would know. It had been quite tragic event in her life s she had always wanted to have two daughters. She was touched and full of tears as I recounted what I was told. However, every thing I told her was going to be confirmed almost verbatim.

Later on that day, we went to the local beauty supply. We were walking around the shop trying to decide on what haircolor she wanted, a woman walked up to us and began to talk. The strangest thing about this woman was that she freely identified herself as a Scottish gyspy. Considering her S-T-R-O-N-G and inescapably unmistakably Scottish brogue, I was inclined to believe her.

She carried on a light conversation and suddenly, turned to my mother and said, "She's standing right next to you, you know." Why yes,of course I was standing next to Mom. A creeping sense of worry was starting to claw it's way up my bad, cut-rate back. Suddenly and perchance, not surprisingly, I was then a bit more inclined to slowly and stealthily back away from her as I was beginning to get a bit worried that she was an escapee from the local Whispering Pines, Home for the Mentally Fragile. Just as I was about to yank Mom out of the store and drag her hair first away from this Scottish nut that I'd quickly decided wasn't wrapped too tight. She then went on to say, "The other one. She's standing on your left."

I was standing on her right and I thought in quick succession two things: "What the Heezy?" AND "Who the bejesus was she talking about?" She then told my Mom what I'd told her ALMOST VERBATIM, down to the fact that her name started with an "R".

Before she was finished, we were all snotting and sneezing, (crying for the uninitiated).....Er, uh, so to speak. She then turned to me and said, "You have been touched, (at first I wasn't sure that she meant that in the classical sense as in "touched by the hand of God" or " tetched" meaning which is a plain way of saying that one's mind is a bit, uh, tilted). Luckily, I won the sanity lottery that day and she told me what kind of reader I have since turned out to be. She told me that i would be have to careful that I didn't frighten people by letting them know what I am. I would also have to be careful that I didn't speak to the People, ( this is what I call the deceased) in public as I could find myself dragged away in my very own jacket with wrap around sleeves. You may wonder why I would voluntarily accept this "assignment". Short answer to that question: There have been many times I've wondered about that. Frankly, I think I was suckered into it. I have been declared as "haunted" and among the other readers and astrologers in this area as "CREEPY" because I seems to be able to gather great detail and I have since found what Madame Scottish Gypsy told me to be, is oh so true. I have seen men blanch and turn plaid when I tell them things I know about them that they thought noone else knew, (actually, I get a evil thrill out of seeing this and it NEVER gets old.."hee-hee)

Finally, she-of-the-haggis-born told me that she saw me marrying tall, European man. What she said about that man, came true... 8 years later.

He turned out to be a tall man of European descent. Bohemian Czech from Deepinthaharta, Texas. The fact that he's European probably stood out in her impression because I am not European descent, at least not completely. Let's just say that I have a permanent caramel tan and no tan lines....EVER!

I have gone on to become a professional reader and VERY well regarded. I hope to enlighten you, dear reader and explain what I do and how I do what I do...I think. Please feel free to ask me anything in regards to intuition, What I know about the spirit world or whatever you feel you always wanted to know. Hell, Im a great cook and will dispense recipes in a pinch. I am just a very normal, down to earth person and guess what? I am a Christian too. Not perfect but doing the best that I can. Am I God" Good grief no! We'd be in a world of hurt if I were God... as Imperfect as I am . I am NOT always right because if I were, Jesus would be out of a job. I am not here to promulgate anything or to try to convert anyone to believing me or anything else.

Outside of the intuition, I am just perfectly, normal everyday, albeit avant garde Aquarian type who is happily married and living in the Somewhere between the Sierras and the coastal range and I look forward to introducing myself and getting to know you. [Does anyone hear the soundtrack of "The Sound of Music"?] And oh yeah----if you have questions about your life, love or otherwise, finances,( a VERY important question in a lot of other people's lives---and understandably), or anything else at all, Visit me @ ThePsychicGuild.com and let's chat!!

Lotsa light and lots more laughs,
Ecumeniste
Ecumeniste & Associates Psychic Guild @ THEPSYCHICGUILD.com

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Back in 1998, I was contacted by a friend who wanted to ask me for a favor. The favor was that he wanted me to work with the local police because they were investigating the murders behind the discovery of skeletonised remains of children throughout the foothills near my home.
I hesitated because I'm knew that I would become VERY emotionally upset and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the police.....at least not directly.
I hate to say this but police are notorious skeptics and I didn't feel like having to deal with the suffering of innocent children, while at the same time, having to struggle with jaded law enforcement while trying to help them.

I thought about it for a couple of days and agreed to help with one BIG CAVEAT...I would NOT work directly with the cops but through an intermediary. Thank God I decided to do it that way. It turned out to be a miserable and painful thing. Among the things that I told the liason, this would be hard to solve completely because there were MANY twisted adults and among the adults involved were law enforcement officials.

He scoffed at me and actually told me that that was impossible because law enforcement would be protective of the vulnerable, (yeah, I know, this person was a friend of Tinkerbelle, the Tooth fairy and believed the OJ couldn't have murdered his wife because he made a commercial for Hertz-that last one is 1000% true; this nut told me that...).

After 3 months of consultation with the police, I withdrew. I couldn't take it anymore because I was getting calls in the wee hours of the night and I couldn't take constantly reliving the torture those sweet babies had gone through. Later on that summer, there was a HUGE local news story about one of the assistant D.A.'s who computer was taken in for repairs. Turns out, he was arrested when the computer tech reported finding HUNDREDS images of EXTREMELY graphic, VIOLENT child porn on his computer.

The person that I had been giving information to give to the police called me and was amazed and shocked that a someone in the district attorney's office had been caught with in a child porn situation. I had told him about high ranking law enforcement being involved 3 months earlier.

However, I paid a HIGH PRICE on a personal level from working with this tragic case....On August 7th 1998, I bled out from an ulcer I didn't know I had. I will always believe that it was the trauma from seeing what happened to these sweet babies, feeling their fear ....it was too much. I don't know that I would ever deal with a case like that ever again.

I was very close to my mother Margie Marie Ewey Garland. She was funny and hardworking. She was also a bit prissy about all things outdoorsy. We laughed about it alot.

She has P.A.D. and it was never treated the way it should have been . It didn't help that she smoked but whatever the surrounding reasons, 1995 turned out to be a turning point, for the worse. It was a week before the Oklahoma Bombing and my mother came home from the half way she put in at work. She didn't look right, although we couldn't on it at the time.

I wanted to announce my two radio shows on the ASK1RADIO Network. Psychic Soup for the Soul With Ecumeniste broadcasts every Thursday evening @ 8 pm pacific/ 11 pm eastern. Call in and get a 100% free reading or just tune in to listen. Beginning this Wednesday @ 4 pm pacific / 7 pm eastern, Conversations w/Ecumeniste & Friends will debut. This show also features free readings BUT this one with feature a different reader from my site, ThePsychicGuild.com. One week may feature an astrologer, the next, Tarot card reader and the next may showcase a medium.

They both are live broadcast live on the nights that they are scheduled and if you miss the the live broadcast, you can listen to rebroadcasts on ASK1Radio.com You can also listen to the archived shows on Itunes. Simply go to the category "TALK AND THE SPOKEN WORD". Once there, click on the ASK1RADIO and then look for my shows: Psychic Soup For theSoul w/ Ecumeniste and Conversations with Ecumeniste.

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2) Add a Credit or Debit card

3) Once your card is registered , Click "Call Now"

4) Your reading will begin with the reader of your choice.

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How To Get Accurate Tarot Card Readings

With tarot cards, it's not always the easiest thing in the world to find accurate readings. There are a lot of readers out there who don't really care about the art, but rather, see a hot market to get into and want to make some quick cash on their fly by night operation. Just because tarot is largely intuitive doesn't mean that just anyone can do it without proper education. Here are some tips for getting the most accurate tarot card readings...

Get Referred

All that really matters is results, right? Then it stands to reason that the best readers will be the ones getting the best results. This means that you should be able to find referrals, either from friends or online, as to who the best tarot card readers are. Check some customer reviews online and try to find a reader who you can really trust who comes highly recommended.

Interpret

Because of the intuitive nature of tarot readings, you need to have a sense for interpretation yourself. Remember that a tarot reader isn't necessarily a psychic so much as an advisor, a therapist of sorts, who uses the cards as a series of symbols, as a sort of psychological and spiritual divining rod. The readings will always be sort of broad, as it's about symbols, not specifics. Therefore, while your reader will be able to guide you along through the reading, they can't give you all the answers. They lead you to your own answers.

Don't Expect Instantaneous Results

Again, the whole point of tarot is not to answer your problems for you, but to lead you towards your own answers. This means that you will be taking some time to reflect upon the reading, to consider what it really means, and then find the answers after some serious soul searching. You don't go into a tarot reader's office and come out with all of your life's problem's solved. Rather, you go in, and you come out with a fresh, new perspective on things and how to handle the problems and decisions face.

Be Honest

If you want the best guidance from your reader you need to be completely honest with them. Again, it's a sort of therapy. You wouldn't beat around the bush with your therapist, so give your tarot reader the same respect. This will help them to get you to the answers and directions you seek much more quickly than if you just leave them to figure everything out for themselves.

Know Symbolism

Read up on Jungian and Freudian psychology, read some works by Joseph Campbell. Tarot is all about symbolism, and as such, it's one of the few types of guidance in this category that are just as valid whether or not you're a spiritual person. A belief in psychology and dream symbolism is enough to validate card readings. This means that a little bit of study on your own time as to what all these symbols mean will help you quite a bit when it comes time to sit down and reflect upon the reading and what's going on in your life at this point in time.

Genuine Psychic Readings - Myth Or Reality?

For many, genuine psychic readings bring memories of circus tents and carnivals with glass balls and dim lights as a gypsy lady held your hand and read your palm. Although these attractions were mainly for entertainment, some believers swear they found answers to their questions and promises for their future.

How real are these sittings? Many people are avid believers, and not only believe, they live by these readings. Even former first ladies would have their personal psychics come to the White House to discuss everything from their husbands' political future to details for a formal tea party. Details as mundane as wardrobes and the best time for travel were considered equally important fodder when these meetings were held.

Even though the scientific community can't quite admit or agree on whether psychic abilities exist, there is no disputing the facts that some "readings" are right on target. Whether these self proclaimed psychics and mediums are just lucky guessers, or they have a real ability most of us don't, crimes are solved, missing persons are located, and alleged spirits of the dead are able to pass on information to the living using the talents of these individuals.

Psychics have come to the forefront of entertainment over the past decade. Television shows with hosts who claim to communicate with dead relatives of audience members were popular for a few years. Then the reality shows began where ghost hunters would investigate haunted sites, frequently bringing famed psychics along in order to communicate with spirits who might be there.

Individuals who believe in these abilities frequently seek out and use the services of psychics. There are many "real" psychics who will arrange for private sittings, usually at some very steep costs. However, what is a "real" psychic and how does one go about discerning the genuine from the frauds? There's no one particular method; it's simply a buyer beware caveat.

Although some people say they can perform readings online or by phone, this probably isn't the way to go to begin with. Yes, a few of these people are seen on these reality paranormal shows, and they probably have some very intense abilities. However, for the average person who just wants to know when he can expect to find a job, the prices for a sitting with the likes of these professionals would be prohibitive for the average Joe.

Keep in mind that fame and publicity don't necessarily authenticate anyone's credentials. Nor should obscurity or notoriety negate their abilities.

Before deciding on where to get a reading, ask for referrals. Chances are you aren't the only person in your circle of friends who has ever had an interest in this. It's no longer considered crazy or embarrassing to have gone this route to discuss problems and look for answers. There is a large number of people who find it comforting to seek consults with psychics rather than social workers or psychologists.

Look in the Yellow Pages for paranormal research teams. Call local groups and ask if they work with a psychic they could refer you to or use the net to go to the places like Keen.com, Liveperson.com and Whispy.com. These sites allow clients to post the\ir ratings of each psychic and even a short written review.