Question
I was wondering how you came about working in this field? Is this something you specifically went to school for or did the knowledge of peoples lives come naturally to you?
Thanks! Sara
My dreams used to tell me what would happen the next day, which was a curiosity to me. I wrote them down and then wondered at the part of me that could receive such things.
I was in graduate school studying counseling psychology when we began discussing dreams. My supervisor told me to bring one in for our next meeting and we’d work on it together. He didn’t understand I had this connection and was expecting to have a typical lesson in translating symbols and images. The dream I had the night before our class contained information that was all about him, his current life and his past, so that’s what I took to the session. When I read my dream he blanched and became quiet. Nobody knows those things about me, he said. How could you know? He was uncomfortable and dismissed the rest of the session. I left feeling annoyed at having this consistent part of myself that did not fit into the world, and seemed to scare people. I finished one year of graduate school and left with six months to go.
Being in graduate school felt like living in a photo which was slightly out of focus. The experience was almost right but something needed to be adjusted. Not knowing how to find clear vision, I went back to the theater and joined a touring company. When I became ill, Rebecca, a fellow actress gave me my first tarot reading. This was in the early 70’s, before the internet. I had never seen the cards or heard of anyone using them and was astounded at the accuracy of her insights. I could not buy cards in Portland then, or even find a good book on the subject in the library. I had to special order a deck from Powell’s books and become my own teacher. When they arrived I mentally and emotionally digested the images, thinking of nothing else for months. They were dream-like, and spoke to me in a language without words, which I loved. The cards gave me a way to tap the guidance from my dreams and move it successfuly into this one.
I was living in a mansion at the time, in NW Portland called The Lawn, an old building which had been converted into single rooms and rented to people who made their living in the arts. When residents found out I could read their process, help free them from destructive patterns and glimpse what was coming, they knocked repeatedly on my door.
I traveled to Boston that summer with a group of street musicians, who played in Harvard Square while I did readings. People lined up to see me each evening, and because I was there all summer, I got feedback about our sessions which allowed me to trust my sight and the accuracy of my words. I left understanding that while the cards were a valuable tool, that the real help people received came from my inner core and not from anything external.
Gradually I integrated what I had learned in counseling, the performing arts and from the world of metaphysics and found a style and comfort level all my own.
I have offered intuitive training classes for decades and watched plenty of people wake up to the wise part of themselves, which is always exciting. But these classes are not something I really teach, they are an experience I guide, because our knowing sits inside, ready and waiting to be acknowledged and released, I just make space for it to come out!
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