Announcement: This Sunday, September 1, psychics and healers will be set up at the Mystic Messengers Psychic Fair. The Fair runs from
9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the DoubleTree Inn at 445 South Alvernon Way in Tucson, AZ. I will be there selling jewelry, crystals, and books. I think I’ll put the chakra-balancing jewelry on sale. This kind of jewelry is becoming quite rare.


Happiness from Difficulty

A few months ago, at the Psychic Fair, I met a wonderfully-wise woman who shared her life story with me. Then, she shared an insight and suggested a tool. Try this and see what you get.

Take a piece of paper and fold it in half, lengthwise.

On the left side, write down the most difficult lessons you have had to learn in your life. Identify the most difficult situations.

Under that, list three or four of your happiest times, maybe from age 20.

On the right side of the page, note who did what to you to make you choose that situation.

For example, on the left side of her paper, this woman listed that she had spent seven happy years in a convent. On the right side, she asked, “Why did I choose that?” She had chosen it because her father was domineering and she was scared of men. She ran away to a convent. That was a very happy time, but she couldn’t stay because it wasn’t right for her.

This exercise may help you discover that your happiest times are a response to some very unhappy, difficult, challenging situations.

As many of you know, I rarely got along with my mother. Our personalities did not mesh. However, this difficult situation led me to talk with psychics, where I discovered that we set up  challenging situations before birth so that we can grow through them. I figured out an awful lot about my mother, myself, and how life works. The situation provided years worth of craziness to discuss with psychics and Spirit Guides in order to find answers. The outcome? I learned so much!

Think about this listing exercise and let me know how it works out for you.

Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com

This is the latest installment from "Lives of the Dead." Most of the time, The Dead tell their stories to this woman and she shares their stories with us. After reflection, The Dead can see how their lives turned out and the lessons that they learned (or didn't learn). This time, Adrienne (the author) reminds us of the irony of Life and Death.

I highly recommend this blog.

 thelivesofthedead.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/important-life-lesson-addendum-2/

From the blog:

Charlotte Fox was one of the world’s most well-known mountain climbers.  (Read the obit).  And in the absolute irony of ironies,  she died not tumbling into a crevice on Everest or by any of the hundreds of other ways one might die while ascending the world’s highest peaks. No.  She died falling down the stairs at home.

Imagine all the times she came home from a treacherous climb,  grateful at having successfully conquered another ascent, her friends and family undoubtedly relieved to have her home where she was safe and no longer in mortal danger.

It certainly seems that at times the Universe/God/The Gods/Fate gets a sadistic thrill out of kicking humanity in the pants, if only to teach us that we know nothing.  This goes to the point I made in a recent post:   To think we have control over our lives is pure fantasy … so stop trying to control everything; stop obsessing about things you cannot control. Ride the wave.  See where it goes.

RIP, Ms. Fox.

I’m at that stage of life where people around me are retiring. Some are forced into retirement by health issues or workplace changes, but most are deciding that it’s time to have some fun while they are still healthy and active. I am watching most retirees blossom as they find new opportunities. However, others are struggling with their identities, finances, and health.

Our lives change all the time. We grow from infants to children to teens to adults. Then we take on the stages of adulthood, parenthood, career building, elder care, and retirement.

Spirit recently reminded us that it can be difficult for people who had occupations where they were able to say, “I was a tailor,” “I was a butler,” “I was a teacher,” etc., to let go of those identities and enjoy retirement. People tend to think that their title reflects their purpose in life. With (or without) a title, people have value.

According to Spirit, some people believe that retirement is an end. They don’t understand that retirement is the freedom from mundane responsibilities. This freedom allows them “to be.” To be. Not to do. To be. What a great honor. What a great privilege. Society says it is important to build finances, shelters, and a future. Now that those things have been accomplished, it’s time to move forward and reach the ultimate level of being.

Spirit went on, “You take a lot of things for granted when you are young. With a few years time, you have a different perspective. As you keep going in the cycle of life that you have chosen, changes continue. They become more apparent. The constant is the change.

“You are like a frog. A tadpole doesn’t know it will become a frog. A caterpillar doesn’t know it will become a butterfly. When the butterfly is encased and restricted, it thinks it will never be free. Then, it is free beyond its wildest dream. It may never crawl again.

“When you see yourselves going through the metamorphosis of your life, hanging on to the past holds you back. You will not return to the caterpillar state and need not crawl. Instead, you may receive the most glorious of wings, and fly.

“Have peace with yourselves and whatever state of development you are in. It will be greater than you know to ask. Clinging to the past, to your yesterdays, to who you were, serves no purpose. Those were merely required stepping stones which brought you to a greater awareness.

“The tadpole loses its tail, the caterpillar can’t move forward, and the baby needs to push out of the mother. These tough transitions are necessary.

“You have not reached this point in life just to fill up space. You requested this time of manifestation before you appeared as a single cell. Trust that your Higher Self knew why, and live anticipatorily, knowing that gifts are unfolding greater than you know. But no, they are not gifts to hold on to. They are gifts that you will, again, pass through to even more. That is your divine purpose in life. That is the lesson we would like to share.

“It’s all changing. Enjoy it now. Tomorrow it will be different. Maybe more enjoyable. Maybe uncomfortable. The guarantee is that it will be different. Ultimately, it is all for the greatest good. You are evolving.”

Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com

                Quote from a Psychic - Haunted Tucson

I went on a ghost tour of downtown Tucson. I didn’t realize that Tucson had a lot of haunted places. I think we are going to see more of that in Tucson.

In the old part of downtown, behind the Art Museum, a little girl is haunting that area. I also saw ghosts in an area where iron gates are currently being made.

The Pioneer Hotel had a fire years ago. At night, you can still see people falling out of the windows. I heard them screaming. From right in front of the library, we could see people jumping out of the Pioneer Hotel windows. They have covered some of the stairwells in that building and I felt that other people were trapped behind the new walls.

I also saw ghosts around Hotel Congress and the Historic Train Depot. The cathedral has people buried beneath the church. That is also supposed to be haunted. I have lived here my whole life and I never knew we had ghosts downtown. We started the tour in La Placita where there is a haunted restaurant.

                                                                           Marianne Patyk
                                                                      mfpatyk@gmail.com

This blog post has two huge assumptions I hear throughout the spiritual world: (1) Everything happens according to Divine Will and, (2) Prayer works. If everything is happening in Divine Order, can we use prayer to change the course of events? If someone is ill because that’s the experience they signed up for, or because of Divine Will, will prayer help that person?

I was privy to an interesting discussion regarding this topic.

One psychic felt that prayer meant sending good will. She believed in the power of energy, of thought, and of the united energy of a group praying together. The power of that good will could be reinforced or decreased. Someone coming from a higher part of themself could increase the power. Someone being snippy could decrease the love energy. To her, prayer encompassed energy, thoughts, words, feelings, and emotions.

Another person countered that she didn’t pray for anything because whatever happens is happening according to Divine Will. Whatever happens is what is supposed to happen.

However, when pressed, she re-thought her answer. If it was HER child in a car accident, she would put a lot of energy into wanting that child to live.

The first psychic noted her life agreement with the Divine was, “My life gets better and better every day.” If she didn’t like what was going on, she “picked up the red phone.”

She asked, “Aren’t you a co-creator with the Divine? You don’t just ride it.”

We are co-creators with the Divine.

Prayer for ourself, communicating with the Divine, is one tool we can use to create lives we love. There are many other tools too.

We can also pray for other people. We don’t know what the Divine Will is for that person. Maybe they were supposed to get sick, then recover? Maybe our prayers for them gave them the boost of energy they needed to recover more quickly?

You can think of prayer as providing a boost of healing energy to assist people in whichever direction they are going. Of course, they have to be willing to accept that energy – free will in all things.

What do you think? Have you ever wondered how Divine Will interplays with our contracts for this life, with our free will, and/or with prayer? Such an interesting thing to ponder. I would love to hear your take on this. You can send an e-mail to me at gail@MyPsychicSearch.com or post a comment below the blog.

Gail

 Quote from a Psychic - Psychic since Childhood

"I was psychic from childhood. I knew what other people felt and thought and what was going on with them. My Mom said that I was only about a year old when I began showing empathy. I was very precocious as a child and I think it is because I remember a lot of my past lives.  Sometimes that is good, but in second grade I started recalling my past life in WWII and I didn’t want to get out of bed. I stayed home for a week, under the covers, reliving the whole experience with all of its details. It was very traumatic."

                                       Leah Taylor

What we Know vs. What we Feel

The good news? It’s the 11th anniversary of this blog! Wow. Eleven years of my listening, writing, and sharing. Eleven years of you reading. Thank you!  

The bad news? Additional mass shootings. I’m still reeling from the weekend. I’m starting to think I should write one soulful blog and post it after each shooting. It would save me a lot of time. Sounds callous, eh? It’s not how I am – each shooting spree touches my heart in a unique way. No one-size-fits-all blog.

Here we go with today’s response . . .

Thoughts and prayers. It feels good to be in that emotional energy where our hearts are open and we send love to those who need comfort. Thoughts and prayers are a wonderful starting place. To make a bigger difference, they need to be followed with action. Somehow, we need to move forward with solutions which curtail violence and allow each of us to feel safe, wherever we are.

In the grand scheme of things, I’ve heard that before coming into life, people know whether they will exit in a mass shooting. It’s an adventure on the long list of things we can choose to experience. Sounds like a fine, non-emotional, theory of life. However, we are human too and when we see mass shootings, we feel devastated for the victims, their friends, and their families. Although we may have a glimpse of the workings of life, death, and the universe, when we lose someone we love, it stings. It’s a tragic loss.

I remember asking a Medium something like, “If someone has passed, yet you know they are okay, you know they live on and, as a Medium, you know you can contact them, why does it feel so terrible?” She answered, “I would miss their touch, their voice, the joy of conversation.” The soul would be fine, but those still here suffer a tremendous loss.

Yes, we can communicate with the deceased. The purpose of Mediumship is healing. It is a tool which allows people in bodies to know that their loved ones, no longer in bodies, live on and are okay.

However, keep in mind that if you try to communicate with the recently deceased, they may not be ready to chat. In the case of something like a shooting, the shock of how they were killed means that some souls may need time a time of isolation, healing, and adjustment on The Other Side before garnering the energy to communicate with people here. Other souls will be immediately available for communication. It all depends on the soul.

My heart goes out to the families and friends of the shooting victims in El Paso and Dayton. My heart goes out to people all over the world who are in hospitals and whose families are praying for them.

Thoughts and prayers. After your thoughts and prayers, do something. Write to your Congressional Representative and ask them to vote for steps which minimize violence. Call the White House and leave a message. Join a pro-active group. Send a financial contribution to a cause you believe in.

There must be avenues we can take to create a safer America.

Let me know what you think.

Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com

I asked, “When you do readings, are you able to tell people ‘bad news’? How do you handle that?”

I don’t get bad news. Everything that comes to us in our lives is our soul calling to us. These things come to us as a lesson to learn so it’s all about our soul unfolding and our growth. There is no such thing as bad news. If someone asks me about a personal relationship with their boyfriend and I see that coming to a close, I don’t see that as bad news. I remind people that within every loss, there is a gift and to look at it that way. Another door is going to open for them and something better is going to come into their life. They should look at the lessons they have learned from that relationship. How can there be bad news?

                                                             Melody Krafft
                                              www.melodykrafftartist.com/

Growing up during the Depression, my mother learned to stretch a penny. When she started her own family, the frugality continued. Being the youngest cousin, my childhood was full of hand-me-down clothes and toys. We had enough money to manage, as long as we watched those pennies.

After my mother’s death in 2018, I inherited nearly 30 photo albums, along with my grandmother’s diamond wedding ring.

I was surprised that when I showed the ring to a psychic, she told me, “There was money there” and “There was a lot of love in that ring.” There was money there? Not that I knew about. However, my mother hadn’t told me much about her youth. All I knew was that she was one of four siblings who lived modestly.

A couple of months after that discussion, I showed the wedding ring to a different psychic and he contacted my deceased mother. He told me that she had enjoyed a formal lifestyle — “You invite me to dinner and I will take you to the country club.” I listened to more of the messages, but the second time he mentioned the country club, I countered, “My mother wasn’t the formal country club type. My parents never belonged to a country club.”

Messages counter to what I thought I knew, prompted me to pull out my mother’s photo albums. For the last two weeks, I’ve been sorting through the albums and organizing the photos. I focused on the family photos from 1911 to 1990. What did I find? Pictures of my mother’s family strolling the streets of Brooklyn in lovely coats and beautiful hats. I found photos of weekends in the country and at the beach. I found photos of big parties and striking outfits. This was the Depression?

The mother I knew never went to a country club. The woman in the photos went to country clubs and Catskill resorts. She had tons of friends and several boyfriends. I never knew this woman. I knew the woman who had a long marriage to my father and who lived frugally, but still managed to travel the world. I haven’t put much time into those photos -- my parents’ trips to Portugal and Africa and Egypt. Riding camels, going on safaris. None of those photos were part of my life. I was not invited on those expeditions. That’s okay. I had my own life.

Talking to the psychics opened my eyes to the truth, as shown in the photos, of my mother’s youth. These hints, confirmed by the photos, have reframed my understanding of her life. I appreciate the psychics’ clues and the hard evidence.

In some way, as I review these pictures, I feel like I am part of my mother’s Life Review on The Other Side; like I am helping her organize her thoughts. I review. She reviews. We complete this together.  

Back to this reality. I have another question: Where did all those photos come from? My mother didn’t take pictures. There are hundreds of photos from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Weren’t photos expensive back then? Who gave all these pictures to my mother? On my father’s side, I have a photo of him as a child, a snapshot from his 20s, and a portrait of him in the Army. That’s all.

Anyone else had this kind of experience? Do you have hundreds of photos of someone else’s life? These photos tell stories, but they are not my stories. They can only be told by someone who is now on The Other Side.

Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com