Guidance: Don’t forget to strive for balance and groundedness as you continue down your path right now. There is much success and prosperity ahead, just continue to focus your alignment and thoughts on the positives.
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things to do to increase psychic abilities. these are what i personally do as a claircognizant empath to enhance my knowledge of the world around me
pull a daily tarot card, rune, or other divination device
sit down and paint something impressionistic. “but James!” you say, “I’m not an artist!!” well, bullshit. you don’t needa be artistic for this one, kiddos. i just use an index card and a small brush, then pick whatever colors im feeling that day. is it swirly? edgy? scattered? dark? light? interpret this, then reflect later to see if it was correct
think of a person you’re gonna see in the upcoming day. what outfit are they wearing? is their hair different? is there something in their teeth? write these things down, then see later if they are correct
meditate. yes yes i know, the dreaded tip. if you have adhd like me, or you just can’t sit still, do it while stretching, walking, cleaning, showering, or doing any monotonous work. even if it’s only for 3 minutes. just focus on what you hear, see, smell, feel, etc. it helps, trust me
keep a dream journal (yea i know, another dreaded tip)
write down every little thing that could maybe possibly be considered psychic. get a call from someone you were just thinking about? guessed what song would be next on shuffle? write it down
speaking of song guessing on shuffle, do it!! it’s simple and fun, even if you don’t get it right every time
spend more time with your divination tools, even if you aren’t actively using them. put them near your pillow (okay no lie this tip reeeeaaaallyyy helps), take them to work, put them next to your bath, whatever works for you
raise your vibration. and i know this can mean a lot of things for different people, and it also sounds rly hippy, but listen. what i mean is, constantly check yourself- your surroundings, your random thoughts, your emotions, etc. set an alarm to remind you to be more aware, if you gotta. if you are aware of what’s going on externally and within, you will be more prone to noticing your psychic tendencies
make your own sigils. this is one of the easiest form of magick, and can be done by anyone. make sigils for everything- “i am psychic,” “i am confident,” “i am suspected of secretly being Godzilla,” honestly everything. the point isn’t to make sigils that necessarily work, it’s just to sit down and put an intention into physical form. this is kinda like the painting one, except instead of thinking abt what could happen, you’re stating what will/is happening, which is important.
place a piece of amethyst on your forehead for a few seconds every night while laying in bed. doesn’t have to be too long, just long enough to let your muscles relax and let out all the tension from the day
and thas it! feel free to add more if you can think of something i didn’t put
now, i’ve never really been… THAT interested in dragons. however, i still thought they were extremely mesmerizing and cool. yesterday, when i was getting ready to meditate, i saw a dragon that was a little bigger than a throughoughbred. it was standing at the corner of my bed, black and scaly. i’m clairvoyant, but sometimes i still think i’m making shit up. so i ignored it and today, a way smaller version visited me. now i have no idea if it becomes giant at night but it jumped on my desk and stood there as i asked my pendulum questions.
i did some readings about him, learnt his name, age, traits, reason he’s here, if he wanted to work with me, what he wanted to learn, his element and hell yeah, i have the coolest dragon and no once can change my mind. i’ve always been interested in draconic magick, Lord and Lady also approves of him so yeah, i think i’ll start practicing this type of magick as well!! i’m excited lmao.
Do you get uneasy and nervous when you are in situations that are not comfortable? When a situation is out of your comfort zone, do you automatically want to retreat?
Start saying no, and see who stays.What am I talking about, you ask? When you say no, some people will be understanding and others will get mad and leave.
Self love is always important, especially. During a time period like this. We cannot lie, 2020 has not been kind to anyone and I wish I could tell you that things will magically get better.
It is my favorite time of year! Now, listen. I know this is pretty suspicious coming from someone who loves the Tower card, but retrograde periods can be very beneficial for us!
Every single person on the planet has psychic abilities, but most people never realize that they’re using them. As Tess Whitehurst says in her book You Are Magical, “There is almost certainly something you assume that everyone can perceive that is actually a perception that is relatively unique to you.”
For example: you may be a gifted artist. Drawing and painting come naturally to you, and you have an intuitive sense of form and color. You probably know people who claim that they “don’t have an artistic bone in their body” or “can’t even draw a stick figure,” but you can’t bring yourself to believe it. Surely, those people are just psyching themselves out, because if art comes so easily to you, everyone must be able to do it to some extent, right?
Psychic abilities are similar. You’ve probably been tapping into at least one psychic sense all your life, but it feels so normal to you that you assume everyone experiences the world this way.
Once you become aware of your innate psychic abilities, you can start to harness them. For this reason, I think it’s a good idea to become familiar with (and comfortable using!) your natural psychic gifts before you try to learn any kind of divination.
Read over the following list of common psychic senses. Does one or more of them sound familiar? Once you recognize which of these you resonate with, focus on strengthening that gift over the next couple of weeks. You’ll be amazed by how easily you’re able to tap into it once you know how!
Clairvoyance: Clear Seeing
Contrary to popular opinion, the word “clairvoyance” does not describe any and all psychic abilities. Someone with clairvoyance receives psychic messages through their sense of sight. They may see these messages with their physical eyes, or see images in their mind’s eye. Seeing auras is an example of clairvoyance in action.
You may be clairvoyant if…
You often see flashes of light, blurred figures, or other visual phenomena that others do not see. [Note: This is NOT the same as visual hallucinations. Clairvoyants typically see things with their mind’s eye, not their physical eyes, and can differentiate between their visions and what is physically in front of them.]
You often experience random mental images that seem to have nothing to do with what’s going on around you.
Your meditations are primarily visual — for example, if you meditate on the element of water, you may see a bubbling fountain in your mind’s eye.
You are a visual learner.
Ways to Strengthen Clairvoyance
Keep a journal of the mental images you receive “out of nowhere.” Do these images mean anything to you? Do individual visions fit into a larger pattern?
Meditate on your chakras, and visualize each chakra in your mind’s eye, starting from the root and working up to the crown. What do your chakras look like? Are the colors bright and clear, or more faded and muddy? Are some spinning faster or slower than others? How does their appearance correspond to your life? For example, a muddy or faded sacral chakra may indicate issues around sexuality.
Do research into auras and what the different aura colors mean. Do you always seem to see or think of a certain color when you’re around a certain person? How does that color represent that person’s energy and personality? Write down your findings.
Clairaudience: Clear Hearing
Someone with clairaudience receives psychic messages through their sense of hearing. They may hear messages with their physical ears or “hear” them in their mind. A medium who hears spirits is an example of someone using clairaudience.
You may be clairaudient if…
You sometimes “hear” things in your mind, as if someone else was talking to you from inside your head. [Note: This is NOT the same as “hearing voices” or auditory hallucinations. Clairaudients usually “hear” messages with their mind, not their physical ears, and they can distinguish between psychic messages and physical, “real world” sounds.]
Sometimes, when you listen to music or watch a movie, a specific lyric or line of dialogue seems to jump out at you, as if it were a special message.
Your meditations are primarily auditory — for example, if you meditate on the element of water, you may hear a babbling brook.
You are an auditory learner.
Ways to Strengthen Clairaudience
Keep a journal of the messages you “hear” out of nowhere. Are they consistent, forming a larger pattern? Do they all seem to be “in the same voice,” or coming from the same source? (If so, this could be a deity or spirit guide reaching out to you.)
Do a meditation with the intention of holding a conversation with a helpful spirit guide. (If you are not comfortable working with spirits, you can set the intention of speaking to your inner self.) What does their voice sound like? Is it different from or similar to your own? Do they speak with an accent or have a unique inflection? Write down your thoughts.
Experiment with shufflemancy. This is a modern form of divination where you put a playlist on shuffle and receive a psychic message from the song that plays first. (You can find playlists specifically made for shufflemancy online, or make your own.) How does the song make you feel? Are there certain lyrics that jump out to you? Write down your thoughts.
Clairsentience: Clear Feeling
Someone with clairsentience feels psychic messages, either through their body or through their emotions. They may feel physical sensations, like an upset stomach, or may be very sensitive to emotional energies. Intuitively picking up on someone’s emotions without needing to ask is an example of clairsentience.
You may be clairsentient if…
You often feel physical sensations, like a hot flash or a cold chill, out of nowhere.
You are able to feel other people’s emotions — you can always tell when someone has had a bad day, even if they’re trying to hide it.
You can sense the “vibe” of a room as soon as you walk in. Do certain buildings feel “angry” or “sad” to you? Can you always tell the energy of a party even if you just arrived?
Your meditations primarily focus on tactile sensations — for example, if you meditate on the element of water, you may feel waves lapping at your feet.
Ways to Strengthen Clairsentience
Pay attention to your “gut feelings.” Do you feel a sinking sensation when thinking about something, only for it to go badly later? Do you feel a warm, fuzzy sensation thinking about something, only for it to go really well? Write down your experiences — and be honest. It’s okay if your gut feeling doesn’t always match the outcome.
Do a pathworking meditation (this is just a type of meditation that focuses on taking a mental journey) to a forest, or a beach, or some other location that appeals to you. Try to feel as many tactile sensations as possible, as if you were really there. Feel the grass or sand under your feet, feel the wind in your hair, feel the sun on your skin. Write down your experience.
Practice feeling the energy of a plant or crystal. Reach out and touch the plant/crystal, and try to feel it out. Does it have a calm, stable energy, or is it more bright and zingy? Try feeling a different plant/crystal and see how it feels different. Write down your experience.
Note: Some (but not all) clairsentients are also empaths, people who take on the emotions of others as if they were their own. All empaths are clairsentient, but not all clairsentient people are empaths. You may be an empath if you often find yourself matching the emotions of the people you’re around — you cry when they cry, laugh when they laugh, etc.
Claircognizance: Clear Knowing
Claircognizence is the gift of psychic knowing — people with this ability often “just know” things, even if they should have no way of knowing. They may know what someone is about to say before they say it, or know personal information about someone they just met.
You may be claircognizant if…
You “just know” what’s going on with your friends and family, even if they haven’t told you. For example, you may suddenly feel like you need to call your sister, only to find out after you call that she just broke up with her boyfriend.
You always know who a text is from as soon as your phone dings, or always know what song is going to play next on shuffle.
You often know things about new people as soon as you meet them, only for them to confirm it later. Did you know your friend was a vegetarian before he told you, even though you’d never shared a meal with him?
Your meditations often include “downloads” of information, where you feel like the answer to your question or some other revelation has just been dropped into your brain.
Ways to Strengthen Claircognizance
Every time your phone goes off, try to guess who the message is from. Keep a tally of how often you’re right vs. wrong.
Do a meditation with the intention of receiving the answer to a specific question. Retreat to a place of stillness and focus on your breath until the answer to the question “just comes to you.” Write down your experience.
This is a game I used to play with my sister before I knew what claircognizance was: have a friend show you a picture of someone they know, but whom you have never met before. Focus on the picture, and see if you get any info about the person — are they a jock? Do they like rock music? What’s their personality like? Get your friend to confirm or deny the info you got from the picture, and keep a tally of how often you’re right vs. wrong.
The Other Clairs
There are two other “clair” senses that are less common, so I’m not going to talk about them at length here. Clairalience, or “clear smelling,” refers to receiving psychic messages through smell. (If you smell roses out of nowhere, with no roses in sight, you may be using clairalience.) Clairgustance, or “clear tasting,” refers to receiving psychic messages through taste. (If you taste chocolate out of nowhere, you may be using claigustance.)
In my experience, these psychic senses are less common than the ones listed above. Most people I know who have clairalience or clairgustance seem to use it as a secondary sense, in addition to a primary sense like clairvoyance or clairsentience.
Conclusion
You are probably using at least one of these psychic senses every day, without even knowing it. Most people have two to three “main” psychic senses, but some may regularly and easily use all of them. For example, my primary psychic senses are clairsentience and claircognizance, but I also find myself receiving messages through clairaudience fairly often. It’s rare for me to receive clairvoyant messages, but it has happened.
Once you’ve identified the psychic senses that you naturally lean towards, you can begin to develop and strengthen them.
Resources:
You Are Magical by Tess Whitehurst [Specifically the chapter, “Reading the Signs.”]
The Fat Feminist Witch Podcast, Episode 68: “Clear Knowing”
The Angel Code by Chantel Lysette [Specifically the section on the psychic senses.]
This is an important key to unlock, to further develop psychic abilities/senses. If you want to explore your psychic self fully, your shadow self is worth illuminating and working on. Why? Because the nature of psychic abilities. This is the ability to perceive, process, and bring to light incredible information from realms that are usually in the dark. This is considered “abnormal” to the majority, and while we are in this human body, on this earth, that darkness involves the shadow-self, and the subconscious mind. Often times psychics and those with strong connection to the spirit realm/divine/ ethers/ whatever you want to call it, *have* been through darkness and explored it themselves. This is not to say there aren’t psychics there who have had perfect lives, this is pointing out how the two coincide with one another. The unhealed shadow acts as a blockage. The Shadow Self is a part of you that resides in the deep state of your subconscious. This is a part of your psyche that has awaiting untapped power and knowledge. Where all our trauma, shame, deepest desires, potentially forbidden, hidden/suppressed emotions, most fragile and intense part of ourselves lie in. But the more we suppress, the more it bleeds into our life. The reason most never willingly embrace their shadow is because in our current society, we are taught to look down on our own darkness and anything that can make us “imperfect”. We are fed fear from a young age, we are met with societal expectations and pressure in every direction we look. The shadow can and should be transmuted and empowered to induce the psychic senses in a way that is healthy and certain.
finding yourself in your natal chart: psychic abilities, spiritual experiences etc. - part one
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“Astrology offers us a portal to explore another dimension of ourselves. By studying the placements and aspects in our natal charts, we can decode our personal strengths, weaknesses, and reappearing themes in our lives.”
p.s.: not everyone with these placements can actually be like that, either because of other points in the natal chart conflict, or because they have a personality that prevents them from developing and focusing on developing their psychic abilities. on the other hand, the more water signs and houses are present, the more the native can actually be psychic.
p.s.: if you don’t have any of these aspects / placements this doesn’t mean you aren’t psychic. our intuition can be always worked on to become active/highlighted.
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highly intuitive: Sun in Pisces, Sun in 12th house, Moon in Pisces, Sun in Cancer, Mercury in Pisces, Mercury in Cancer.
sensitive: Moon in Libra, Lilith in Libra.
astral projection: Uranus in 12th house, Jupiter in 8th house can bring an expansive astral projection experience.
interested in the occult: Mercury in Scorpio, Mercury in 8th house, Uranus in 8th house.
a deep connection to humanity and the universe: Venus in Pisces, Sun in Pisces, Moon in Pisces, Neptune in 12th house, Uranus in 12th house, Uranus in 9th house.
energy medicine: Lilith in Virgo / Lilith in 6th house, Chiron in Virgo, Chiron in 6th house aspected to Neptune.
healing abilities: Pluto in 6th house, Chiron in Virgo aspected to Neptune.
attraction of spirits and astral beings: the 8th house is the one that makes this possible when it is very present on the chart. 8th house stellium, Neptune in 8th house, Lilith in Scorpio, Lilith in 8th house, Moon in Scorpio, Moon in 8th house, Uranus in 8th house.
being an empath: 12th house stellium, Pluto in 12th house, South Node in Pisces, South Node in 12th house, Lilith in Pisces, Nars in Pisces, Mars in 12th house, Lilith in Llibra. a strong 12th house and/or Pisces or Libra presence in the chart on personal planets or points/asteroids denoting some sort of excess energy (such as Lilith, South Node).
can almost read the thoughts of others through intuition: Mercury in 12th house, Mercury trine Neptune (innate trait); Mercury sextile Neptune (characteristic to be developed, which has high potential).
clairvoyance: a strong presence of the 8th and 12th houses, especially in the following positions: Pluto in 8th house, Lilith in Scorpio, Lilith in 8th house.
psychic: Moon in 8th house, Sun in 8th house, Jupiter in 8th house aspected to Uranus or Neptune, Uranus square Pluto.
maybe you were a healer on your past life: South Node in Pisces, South Node in 12th house.
telepathy abilities: Uranus in 9th house, Neptune in 3rd house, Lilith in Gemini or in 3rd house well aspected to Neptune or Uranus.
prophetic dreams: Neptune in 9th house, Moon in 12th house, Moon in Pisces/12th house conjunction/trine/sextile/square/opposite Neptune.
connection between conscious and unconscious mind: Neptune in Pisces, Neptune in 12th house, Mercury in Pisces. Uranus in 12th house.
reiki: Neptune in 6th house.
healing abilities: South Node conjunct Neptune in 6th house.
strong & vivid dreams: Moon in Pisces or in 12th house, Neptune quintile Moon.
precognitive dreams: Moon in Pisces/12th house trine sextile or conjunct Neptune.
clairsentience: Moon in Pisces in 2nd house sextile/trine/square Neptune in 2nd house; Moon in Pisces in 2nd house trine/square Neptune; Moon in Taurus square Neptune; Midheaven in Pisces conjunction Neptune; Pisces rising conjunct/trine/sextile/square Neptune; Cancer rising sextile/trine/square Neptune.
claircognizance: Mercury in Pisces conj Neptune in 3rd house; Mercury in Pisces trine Neptune in 6th. Uranus in 9th house in aspect to Neptune.
p.s.: the difference between aspects is in energy, and in the way native will express and feel this. for example, people with squares also have possibility to express psychic abilities, i see square as a large energy concentration that needs to be put out, but finds barriers and locks.
The “Clairs” represent how intuition can manifest:
“Clairsentience is the ability to feel psychically the feelings of other people that are present with you or in the distance.
Clairvoyance is the ability to see objects that resonate with the fourth dimension and beyond it.
Claircognizance is the aptitude to know something without knowing how or why. It’s the psychic gift of "knowing”. It’s the intuition that allows the person to have consciousness and the knowledge of something that is occurring.“
My aunt lived several states away with her own family, and we would visit each other a few times a year. In 1999 I was 8 years old and they visited us for a week. That particular day we went out in the evening to eat at a German restaurant that started a fart war between my dad and uncle. I laughed a lot. But when we got home, I noticed a smell I had never smelled before.
It was like sweet gasoline mixed with rusty pennies. Very potent, but no one else in the house smelled it. I am so grateful for my mom, who remembered that I am special, and while the men were making fun of our concern, mom forced everyone out of the house and called the fire department, thinking it may be a natural gas leak. They found high levels of carbon monoxide in the home due to a malfunctioning heater, and said if we had stayed in the house that night we all would have died.
People like to remind me that it is impossible to smell CO, but I don’t listen to them. This was only the FIRST time I saved my family’s lives with this ability to smell CO, so if I ever smell that sweet sticky scent, I pitch a fit until the problem is found. It has ALWAYS been carbon monoxide.
