Reta owns Abitha’s Metaphysical Shop in Albuquerque, NM. Her mother and aunt started the shop in 1988 when they could not find the supplies they needed to do rituals and ceremonies. Reta took over the shop in 2012.
In addition to owning the store, Reta is also a psychic. Occasionally, she does readings. Prior to the pandemic, several psychics provided readings at the store. Now, most of them work online or over the phone. However, Reta is planning a Psychic Fair to be held outdoors on October 24.
I asked Reta about her psychic abilities and how she taps into the unseen world. She told me that she has always been psychic. She was born this way. Her parents were not sure what to do with her, so they just let her be. As a child, she had prophetic dreams. Her Guide has been with her for her entire life. She was born with him and can’t remember a day she hasn’t spoken with him
How did Reta figure out she experienced life differently than other people? She was teased and beaten up at school for talking about things she should not have known. Because of this, she turned off her abilities so she could live a more-normal life. However, when she got older, “it” kicked down the door and said, “You will pay attention to us!”
Eventually, Reta began doing readings. She is clairaudient, so she hears words. She also sees images and smells things.
Reta said, “I used to refer to it as the Claritin commercial. It’s like there is a film there. There’s a movie playing on a screen between me and them, and I tell them what I see. I can see through the screen. I can see images.
“Sometimes, I am told ‘No.’ I’ll sit down with someone to do a reading, and they are like, ‘No. They don’t listen. We are not telling them anything anymore.’ When that happens, I can’t do the reading.
“Other times, it tends to be loud.”
“One day, we had a customer in here. I was stocking things, and I turned around and called her by a name that her great-grandmother used to call her. I reprimanded her for half a dozen things. Then I stopped and said, ‘She would like you to listen more.’
“I walked away – ‘Will you all stop highjacking me?!? It would be great if you would stop highjacking me.’ It happens.
“If people aren’t listening, I am asked to tell them to listen. I tell them: Meditate. Listen. They are trying to tell you stuff for your own good.
“That’s my life. Ta-da.”
[Laughing.]
I asked if the information came from Reta’s Guides or angels, or from the client’s Guides or angels, or directly from the client’s energy?
Reta answered, “All of the above.”
“Information comes off of their auras. I can see a little bit of the energy shield around them. I pay attention to that.
“If one of their Guides, or one of their people, try to talk to them and I don’t understand the language, my Guides translate for me. I’ll hear it through them. Some people, even though they don’t speak Spanish, have Spanish-speaking ancestors. I have to get someone to translate. Some of their ancestors, or Guides, are ancient and speak in different languages. It takes me a minute to go through my translator.”
I asked, “Are you open to this all the time, or do you need to turn it on and off?”
Reta replied, “I hear things all the time. They used to wake me up at night. I had to set business hours. I need to sleep.
“I teach people to set office hours. If you are at work and your gifts are trying to turn on and get your attention, you say, ‘No. This is my work time. You can’t interrupt. I will give you this time and this time. This is when you can talk to me.’ If you are still having problems, meditate. The more you meditate, the calmer everything will get for you.”
Reta added, “When my mother passed away, she wanted to talk to me all the time. I was like, ‘Woman, you’ve got to go to HR.’ I had to throw her a tea party to get her to cross over.
“We have customers who recently lost somebody and want to talk to them. No. You have to let them go through ‘HR.’ When they are done with that, they can come back. They have to learn to be dead.
“I refer to it as ‘HR’ because a lot of times the living don’t realize that they are dead. They have to learn that they are dead. If they don’t go through that process, they may get stuck here, then their spirit may get sick. Bad things can happen – that’s my personal opinion. I say, let them go through HR and when they are done, they can come back, talk to you, and see how things are going.
“I don’t hear from my mother that often anymore. With my husband (who passed away), I’m constantly smelling cloves because he smoked clove cigarettes. It’s too much.”
“I don’t do readings around the time of my husband’s passing. If I get into that state, I can’t function. I start crying.
“I have learned that if you are sick, if you are feeling under the weather, if you are angry, if it’s an anniversary of something traumatic to you, do not do any type of readings. Do self care. Spiritual work is the best thing for those times.
“Every time I try to muster through a sinus infection or something, to do readings, the illness gets 100 times worse. It’s because you are opening yourself up. Not only is the germ or virus attacking your physical self, now it’s attacking your spiritual self as well. You are draining your battery while you are trying to heal your physical self. It’s best to take a break.
“I found that if I tried to do readings, my cold would last longer, my sinus infection would come on heavier. I was born with ear infections. I still get them. If I feel those coming on, I don’t even make the oils. I am working on a different level and I don’t want that. You have to save your energy so that you can get better faster.
“It’s the same thing when someone is working on a ritual or a spell. I tell them to make a priority list. Focus in on what they want to accomplish first, then do that. Then we do the next one. If they have six things they want to do and they set them all up, they’ve got a little bit of energy in each one. Instead, put all the energy into the most important one.”
I asked Reta if she had had a near-death experience.
She answered, “Yes, I almost died giving birth to my last child. From everybody in the room’s standpoint, they had to keep waking me up while I was giving birth. All I remember was talking to my grandfather who had passed away when I was in middle school. We were sitting in the park, talking about things. He was reminding me to try and give my grandmother a little bit more patience. I wondered, ‘Why are you telling me this? Why can’t you tell her?’ It wasn’t registering with me until after I was in recovery. I realized, ‘Wait a minute. I am in the hospital. When did I get here?’ It was very weird.”
I asked, “Did you have a choice to come back or to stay there? Did you make a choice?”
Reta replied, “No. I don’t remember making a choice. I just remember all of the sudden I was in the hospital and I was trying to remember how I had gotten there.
“There are things we talked about that I remember, and I’m grateful I got to see him.”
Reta has two living children and one child who passed away as an infant.
Reta shared this story about her baby’s passing:
“I lived on the other side of the mountain when I had her. I was at work and she was at the babysitter. I got a call saying I had to go to the hospital. I went to that hospital and they pronounced her. My mom and her boyfriend picked me up and drove me back home. As we were driving, on the back country road, I saw all these almost-misted figures, walking the opposite direction that we were driving. I got to my house and my house was the quietest it had ever been the entire time I lived there. There was nothing. I heard nothing. My clairaudience was gone. Shut down. I had nothing for almost three months.
“Where I lived was a highly-active, spiritual-energy crossroads in the mountains. I was always picking up stuff. All I could figure was that the ones I had been talking to were leaving, to give me peace for a bit."
I asked if Reta saw psychic abilities in other family members. She told me that her aunt and her mother had abilities. She also saw them in her two living children. In most cases, it was stronger in the women than in the men, but she saw them in her creative son.
Reta added, “When my daughter was a baby learning to walk, she walked like a 90-year-old woman. Instead of wobbling, she was hunched over, step-by-step, and she would eat her weight in corn. We figured she was an ancient Native American lady who was pissed as hell. She must have died and been immediately put back.”
One of Reta’s grandsons is 7. When he was little, before he spoke English, he spoke a version of French from the 14th or 15th century. He would come to the shop, put crystals in cauldrons, and use pestles to stir the cauldrons.
Her other grandson is nearly 1. According to Reta, “He still has the connective energy from The Other Side and when I get around him, we talk about stuff. He’s not talking yet, he’s making baby sounds; but we can talk. I told my daughter that he said, ‘You won’t feed me green chili cheese fries!’ I wondered if this was his grandmother saying it. My daughter doesn’t want me feeding the infant cheese fries, so I don’t do that.” [Chuckling]
“When I was younger, I used to get teased and beaten up. Not fun. As I’ve gotten older, I like the fact that I get to use my abilities to help people.”
“I have had a few readings from other people. I’ve had two past-life readings. One time, I was in front of a firing squad. The other reader had 39 of my past lives check in with her. Nine times out of ten, I get taken out because I am ‘unholy,’ or I am ‘a witch,’ or somebody is jealous.
“I do the same thing in every life. This. Whatever this is, from the 10th century, that’s what I do. I choose to come back and do this every single time. I don’t have to. They give me a choice. I’m going to take the next cycle off – bring me my cabana boys and my drink. I’m going to take a respite. Then I’ll go back out in the field.
I wondered, “When you do readings for people, do you see their past lives?”
Reta answered, “Sometimes. I have a Doreen Virtue past-life deck I like to use. The cards have time periods and things like nuns, monks, professors, etc. I have the client shuffle the deck. The last time I did that, we found out the reason why the gentleman was having so many problems dating, being in a relationship, and making good money, was because he had been with the church and had taken the vow of silence, poverty, and chastity, and never released those thoughts. We set up a ritual ceremony for him to release that. Last I heard, he’s doing great.
I had to ask, “When you talk about ceremonies, are they Wiccan rituals or just regular ceremonies?”
Reta responded, “It’s a non-denominational kind of energy. I set the person up with all the things to do, then they have to do it themselves. I can’t do it for them, because I have no vested interest in it. If someone wants a house, why would I do a ritual for them to get a house? I already have a house. I give them instructions and tell them when to do it.
“I say, ‘If you start thinking about your grocery list, stop. Walk away and come back later. There is no problem with that. If you don’t want to leave your candle burning, snuff it out. Don’t blow it out because you blow away your energy and have to start all over again. If you are doing banishings, light the candle with a match. Matches have sulfur and sulfur is a banishing agent. If you are trying to bring thing something in, light it with a lighter or a lighting stick, because you don’t want to introduce sulfur to something you are trying to pull out. It pushes it away.’
I asked Reta how she knew all of this and she said, “They tell me. It comes in my head and I spew it out of my mouth. I don’t know how else to say it. Whatever downloads I get, I share.”
Reta added, “We make the oils in the shop. When they are popular, I use them for incense. I also turn them into candles which have labels. The candles are packed up with oils and herbs for particular purposes. It’s a baseline you can take with you. Then, you put your energy and intention into it to suit your purpose. With these bundles, people don’t feel so overwhelmed when they are doing a new ceremony.
“At any given point, I have somewhere between 45 and 52 candles. I also have 500 oils.
“The oil formulas have been gathered over the 33 years we have been doing this. In addition, new ones have been channeled. Some formulas have to be changed because they don’t work like it did in the 1980s.
“One day, I decided that we needed to expand our archangels section. The archangels lined up at the door, filed in one at a time, and told me what to put in the oils.”
Imagine that.
If you need supplies, or want to know more about Abithas, the shop has Tik Tok, Instagram, and Facebook accounts.
Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com
In addition to owning the store, Reta is also a psychic. Occasionally, she does readings. Prior to the pandemic, several psychics provided readings at the store. Now, most of them work online or over the phone. However, Reta is planning a Psychic Fair to be held outdoors on October 24.
I asked Reta about her psychic abilities and how she taps into the unseen world. She told me that she has always been psychic. She was born this way. Her parents were not sure what to do with her, so they just let her be. As a child, she had prophetic dreams. Her Guide has been with her for her entire life. She was born with him and can’t remember a day she hasn’t spoken with him
How did Reta figure out she experienced life differently than other people? She was teased and beaten up at school for talking about things she should not have known. Because of this, she turned off her abilities so she could live a more-normal life. However, when she got older, “it” kicked down the door and said, “You will pay attention to us!”
Eventually, Reta began doing readings. She is clairaudient, so she hears words. She also sees images and smells things.
Reta said, “I used to refer to it as the Claritin commercial. It’s like there is a film there. There’s a movie playing on a screen between me and them, and I tell them what I see. I can see through the screen. I can see images.
“Sometimes, I am told ‘No.’ I’ll sit down with someone to do a reading, and they are like, ‘No. They don’t listen. We are not telling them anything anymore.’ When that happens, I can’t do the reading.
“Other times, it tends to be loud.”
“One day, we had a customer in here. I was stocking things, and I turned around and called her by a name that her great-grandmother used to call her. I reprimanded her for half a dozen things. Then I stopped and said, ‘She would like you to listen more.’
“I walked away – ‘Will you all stop highjacking me?!? It would be great if you would stop highjacking me.’ It happens.
“If people aren’t listening, I am asked to tell them to listen. I tell them: Meditate. Listen. They are trying to tell you stuff for your own good.
“That’s my life. Ta-da.”
[Laughing.]
I asked if the information came from Reta’s Guides or angels, or from the client’s Guides or angels, or directly from the client’s energy?
Reta answered, “All of the above.”
“Information comes off of their auras. I can see a little bit of the energy shield around them. I pay attention to that.
“If one of their Guides, or one of their people, try to talk to them and I don’t understand the language, my Guides translate for me. I’ll hear it through them. Some people, even though they don’t speak Spanish, have Spanish-speaking ancestors. I have to get someone to translate. Some of their ancestors, or Guides, are ancient and speak in different languages. It takes me a minute to go through my translator.”
I asked, “Are you open to this all the time, or do you need to turn it on and off?”
Reta replied, “I hear things all the time. They used to wake me up at night. I had to set business hours. I need to sleep.
“I teach people to set office hours. If you are at work and your gifts are trying to turn on and get your attention, you say, ‘No. This is my work time. You can’t interrupt. I will give you this time and this time. This is when you can talk to me.’ If you are still having problems, meditate. The more you meditate, the calmer everything will get for you.”
Reta added, “When my mother passed away, she wanted to talk to me all the time. I was like, ‘Woman, you’ve got to go to HR.’ I had to throw her a tea party to get her to cross over.
“We have customers who recently lost somebody and want to talk to them. No. You have to let them go through ‘HR.’ When they are done with that, they can come back. They have to learn to be dead.
“I refer to it as ‘HR’ because a lot of times the living don’t realize that they are dead. They have to learn that they are dead. If they don’t go through that process, they may get stuck here, then their spirit may get sick. Bad things can happen – that’s my personal opinion. I say, let them go through HR and when they are done, they can come back, talk to you, and see how things are going.
“I don’t hear from my mother that often anymore. With my husband (who passed away), I’m constantly smelling cloves because he smoked clove cigarettes. It’s too much.”
“I don’t do readings around the time of my husband’s passing. If I get into that state, I can’t function. I start crying.
“I have learned that if you are sick, if you are feeling under the weather, if you are angry, if it’s an anniversary of something traumatic to you, do not do any type of readings. Do self care. Spiritual work is the best thing for those times.
“Every time I try to muster through a sinus infection or something, to do readings, the illness gets 100 times worse. It’s because you are opening yourself up. Not only is the germ or virus attacking your physical self, now it’s attacking your spiritual self as well. You are draining your battery while you are trying to heal your physical self. It’s best to take a break.
“I found that if I tried to do readings, my cold would last longer, my sinus infection would come on heavier. I was born with ear infections. I still get them. If I feel those coming on, I don’t even make the oils. I am working on a different level and I don’t want that. You have to save your energy so that you can get better faster.
“It’s the same thing when someone is working on a ritual or a spell. I tell them to make a priority list. Focus in on what they want to accomplish first, then do that. Then we do the next one. If they have six things they want to do and they set them all up, they’ve got a little bit of energy in each one. Instead, put all the energy into the most important one.”
I asked Reta if she had had a near-death experience.
She answered, “Yes, I almost died giving birth to my last child. From everybody in the room’s standpoint, they had to keep waking me up while I was giving birth. All I remember was talking to my grandfather who had passed away when I was in middle school. We were sitting in the park, talking about things. He was reminding me to try and give my grandmother a little bit more patience. I wondered, ‘Why are you telling me this? Why can’t you tell her?’ It wasn’t registering with me until after I was in recovery. I realized, ‘Wait a minute. I am in the hospital. When did I get here?’ It was very weird.”
I asked, “Did you have a choice to come back or to stay there? Did you make a choice?”
Reta replied, “No. I don’t remember making a choice. I just remember all of the sudden I was in the hospital and I was trying to remember how I had gotten there.
“There are things we talked about that I remember, and I’m grateful I got to see him.”
Reta has two living children and one child who passed away as an infant.
Reta shared this story about her baby’s passing:
“I lived on the other side of the mountain when I had her. I was at work and she was at the babysitter. I got a call saying I had to go to the hospital. I went to that hospital and they pronounced her. My mom and her boyfriend picked me up and drove me back home. As we were driving, on the back country road, I saw all these almost-misted figures, walking the opposite direction that we were driving. I got to my house and my house was the quietest it had ever been the entire time I lived there. There was nothing. I heard nothing. My clairaudience was gone. Shut down. I had nothing for almost three months.
“Where I lived was a highly-active, spiritual-energy crossroads in the mountains. I was always picking up stuff. All I could figure was that the ones I had been talking to were leaving, to give me peace for a bit."
I asked if Reta saw psychic abilities in other family members. She told me that her aunt and her mother had abilities. She also saw them in her two living children. In most cases, it was stronger in the women than in the men, but she saw them in her creative son.
Reta added, “When my daughter was a baby learning to walk, she walked like a 90-year-old woman. Instead of wobbling, she was hunched over, step-by-step, and she would eat her weight in corn. We figured she was an ancient Native American lady who was pissed as hell. She must have died and been immediately put back.”
One of Reta’s grandsons is 7. When he was little, before he spoke English, he spoke a version of French from the 14th or 15th century. He would come to the shop, put crystals in cauldrons, and use pestles to stir the cauldrons.
Her other grandson is nearly 1. According to Reta, “He still has the connective energy from The Other Side and when I get around him, we talk about stuff. He’s not talking yet, he’s making baby sounds; but we can talk. I told my daughter that he said, ‘You won’t feed me green chili cheese fries!’ I wondered if this was his grandmother saying it. My daughter doesn’t want me feeding the infant cheese fries, so I don’t do that.” [Chuckling]
“When I was younger, I used to get teased and beaten up. Not fun. As I’ve gotten older, I like the fact that I get to use my abilities to help people.”
“I have had a few readings from other people. I’ve had two past-life readings. One time, I was in front of a firing squad. The other reader had 39 of my past lives check in with her. Nine times out of ten, I get taken out because I am ‘unholy,’ or I am ‘a witch,’ or somebody is jealous.
“I do the same thing in every life. This. Whatever this is, from the 10th century, that’s what I do. I choose to come back and do this every single time. I don’t have to. They give me a choice. I’m going to take the next cycle off – bring me my cabana boys and my drink. I’m going to take a respite. Then I’ll go back out in the field.
I wondered, “When you do readings for people, do you see their past lives?”
Reta answered, “Sometimes. I have a Doreen Virtue past-life deck I like to use. The cards have time periods and things like nuns, monks, professors, etc. I have the client shuffle the deck. The last time I did that, we found out the reason why the gentleman was having so many problems dating, being in a relationship, and making good money, was because he had been with the church and had taken the vow of silence, poverty, and chastity, and never released those thoughts. We set up a ritual ceremony for him to release that. Last I heard, he’s doing great.
I had to ask, “When you talk about ceremonies, are they Wiccan rituals or just regular ceremonies?”
Reta responded, “It’s a non-denominational kind of energy. I set the person up with all the things to do, then they have to do it themselves. I can’t do it for them, because I have no vested interest in it. If someone wants a house, why would I do a ritual for them to get a house? I already have a house. I give them instructions and tell them when to do it.
“I say, ‘If you start thinking about your grocery list, stop. Walk away and come back later. There is no problem with that. If you don’t want to leave your candle burning, snuff it out. Don’t blow it out because you blow away your energy and have to start all over again. If you are doing banishings, light the candle with a match. Matches have sulfur and sulfur is a banishing agent. If you are trying to bring thing something in, light it with a lighter or a lighting stick, because you don’t want to introduce sulfur to something you are trying to pull out. It pushes it away.’
I asked Reta how she knew all of this and she said, “They tell me. It comes in my head and I spew it out of my mouth. I don’t know how else to say it. Whatever downloads I get, I share.”
Reta added, “We make the oils in the shop. When they are popular, I use them for incense. I also turn them into candles which have labels. The candles are packed up with oils and herbs for particular purposes. It’s a baseline you can take with you. Then, you put your energy and intention into it to suit your purpose. With these bundles, people don’t feel so overwhelmed when they are doing a new ceremony.
“At any given point, I have somewhere between 45 and 52 candles. I also have 500 oils.
“The oil formulas have been gathered over the 33 years we have been doing this. In addition, new ones have been channeled. Some formulas have to be changed because they don’t work like it did in the 1980s.
“One day, I decided that we needed to expand our archangels section. The archangels lined up at the door, filed in one at a time, and told me what to put in the oils.”
Imagine that.
If you need supplies, or want to know more about Abithas, the shop has Tik Tok, Instagram, and Facebook accounts.
Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com
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