How To Develop Your Psychic and Intuitive Abilities

This blog post was written a while ago in response to a question from a client and I’ve just updated it.

Andrea’s Question: "Do you have any recommendations about how one should go about furthering their psychic abilities? I've read tarot cards on and off, and seem to have a knack, and then of course there's my natural ability to "read" people. But not necessarily with dates & times and all that predictive stuff."

My Response: I personally like to learn experientially in a hands-on fashion, but my very earliest experiences with the intuitive realms involved private exploration of dreams and dream journaling, astrology, tarot and paganism. I began learning about these things in my early teens and have gone on to develop my natural intuitive abilities (which we all have) with the help of teachers, through group classes, workshops, lectures, books and private sessions with healers and intuitive guides.

Dreams

I started out by working with my dreams and recommend keeping a dream journal by your bed where you can record dreams when you wake up or by setting an alarm clock to wake yourself up at an odd hour to facilitate dream remembrance. Significant dreams will stay with you and resonate for years to come and you will begin to know which dreams are significant with practice. You can also work with lucid dreaming or by asking yourself a question before falling asleep and requesting that the answer come to you in a dream. Often dreams will allow you to re-connect with deceased friends or relatives and sometimes you may astro travel as well.

Update: Now that I’ve been dream journalling for so long I don’t like to request dream guidance very often because I often find that it disrupts my sleep. But sometimes on special occasions (significant moon phases/equinoxes etc) I will.

Recommended books: “Symbols for Self Understanding” by Betty Bethard

Astrology

There is much more to astrology than just your sun sign (determined by the day you were born.) Becoming involved with the study of the planets and stars will expand your awareness on a universal level connecting you with the bigger picture crossing generations and even universes. My own studies in metaphysics began with dreams, which led to astrology.

Recommended books: “The Only Way To Learn Astrology” (6 Volumes) by Marion March & Joan McEvers, “Planets in Transit” by Robert Hand, “Astrology for the Soul” by Jan Spiller, “The Liquid Light of Sex” by Barbara Hand Clow, “The Changing Sky” by Steven Forrest
Recommended magazine: “The Mountain Astrologer”
Recommended authors & teachers: Steven Forrest, Barbara Hand Clow

Tarot

Tarot decks are a whole world onto themselves and can involve you in an ancient study of images and symbols with mysterious origins. Working with tarot cards has allowed me to access the many realms depicted in the cards. By working with a Pre-Celtic Shamanistic deck called “The Greenwood Deck” I first encountered one of my main spirit guides while meditating upon the Ancestor card.

Update: I’ve self published 3 oracle decks (as of 2020). Oracle Decks also help to stimulate our intuition connecting us with universal archetypes. I prefer to create oracle decks because I can create my own system rather than working within an established system such as the Tarot.

Recommended books: “Tarot For Yourself” by Mary K. Greer

Paganism
& Goddess Worship

I became involved with the study of paganism and ancient goddess religions when I was at university taking a Women’s Studies class. On a more personal level I was first introduced to this topic by a male friend of mine who liked to dress up as Pan on Halloween. I have attended several goddess groups and pagan rituals but prefer to practice my own solitary, eclectic and personal blend of reverence for Mother Earth.

Update: Currently I work within the tradition of Third Road Celtic Faerie Shamanism and was initiated into this tradition in 2017 by Francesca De Grandis.

Recommended books:”The Language of the Goddess” by Marija Gimbutas (archaeology), “The Motherpeace Tarot” deck and book by Vicki Noble, “The Book of Goddesses & Heroines” by Patricia Monaghan, “Be A Goddess” by Francesca De Grandis.

Recommended authors, teachers & leaders: Starhawk, Szusanna Budapest, COG (Covenant of the Goddess), Francesca De Grandis

Upcoming posts will delve into: shamanism, energy healing, herbs, mediumship, crystal healing, channeling, psychic work, meditation, yoga and past life regression.

To read more posts about My Psychic Background please click here and for Psychic Development please click here.

About Kathy Crabbe

I’ve been an artist and astrologer forever and a soul reader since awakening my intuitive gifts while painting with my non-dominant left hand. I’m here on this planet to be of service. My Lefty Oracle, Elfin Ally Oracle, and Zodiac Goddess Power decks can help awaken your intuition and creativity and my readings heal and guide. I am proud to have my work featured in women-centric places such as We’Moon Datebook, Women’s Museum of California and Sage Woman Magazine. I write for Witches and Pagans, belong to Hey Grrrl Collective and teach a Divine Feminine eClass at Wise Woman University. I make my home in Southern California with two pooches and architect partner, Mark in an adobe style home we built ourselves.

Earth Day, the Nuclear Reality and Multidimensional Consciousness by Guest Astrologer, Emily Trinkaus

Next month (May, 2011) in the Creative Soul Circle I have Astrologer, Emily Trinkaus as my special guest. She will be participating in our Q & A Group so if you want to talk with her personally please sign up below. Sign up is free for the Circle, but access to the private Q&A Group is $19 a month or $144 annually, which includes my Q&A Group, a Moon Musing Group and the Awaken Your Divine Feminine Soul eClass plus lots of other goodies! Join the Creative Soul Circle.

*Every month in our Circle I will be featuring a new guest; in June I’ll be featuring Susan Rodio, Mystical Artist. You can view the entire year’s line up of special guests here. Earth Day, the Nuclear Reality and Multidimensional Consciousness by Emily Trinkaus, Astrologer

"Our suggestion is to not be frightened by these changes that are upon you, but recognize them as breaks in the walls of a prison that have been erected around you. Step through the cracks into your freedom. You are creator gods and goddesses." - Tom Kenyon/the Hathors, Increasing Intensity of the Chaotic Node

Just over a year ago, the BP oil catastrophe and subsequent dumping of toxic "dispersants" in the Gulf of Mexico was named the worst eco-disaster of our lifetimes. Now, as we celebrate another Earth Day, and are still just beginning to understand the effects of oil and Corexit in the Gulf and beyond (See Dahr Jamail's BP Anniversary), we're faced with an escalating nuclear crisis, birthed in Japan but quickly becoming a global issue.

Radiation is flooding into the atmosphere, into the ocean, into our bodies -- invisible, uncontainable and deadly. Long-time anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott, in a recent press conference on Fukishima, basically says that the plutonium being released is enough to poison the entire planet (thank you, Robert Phoenix, for this link).

Echoing the US government's cover-up of the environmental impact in the Gulf, the Japanese government has ordered their media not to report the reality of radiation dangers in order to "avoid panic." The EU and US have responded by upping the "safe" radiation levels permitted in food and water (see Radiation Spreads Worldwide).

Denial, although a popular choice among world "leaders," is probably not the most productive response. Radiation is the new reality on planet Earth, and we are going to have to adapt and learn how to respond to it very quickly. The nuclear war we grew up fearing (we who grew up in the 80s, that is) is happening, we're in it, and while the Japanese are on the front lines (again), no one is immune.

Uranus in Aries (as of March 11th) signifies rapidly changing and chaotic times in which we have to activate our Warrior natures in order to survive, and to be effective agents of transformation.

I'm just now really starting to get what Barbara Hand Clow means when she says, "Our ability to access multidimensional consciousness will be a basic survival skill as we approach the mysterious end-date of the Mayan calendar" (Alchemy of Nine Dimensions).

As long as we respond to the nuclear crisis solely from a third-dimensional perspective -- that of material reality, linear space and time -- the situation is hopeless. In this mindset, it's easy to fall into unconsciousness, escapism, depression, self-pity, addiction and denial -- the shadow expression of Neptune in Pisces.

But the higher potential of Neptune in Pisces is increased access to the invisible realm of spirits and ancestors, the dreamtime, multidimensional consciousness. From this expanded awareness, new possibilities open up, new approaches to seemingly impossible situations.

The Hathors (via Tom Kenyon) say: "However bleak a situation may appear to you, we wish to convey clearly this message: you are the co-creator of your reality. Move upward in consciousness, even if those around you move downward.... [Y]ou will have to find the center path, the narrow passage that leads upward." (Increasing Intensity)

In their latest message, Medicines of Light, they address the radiation crisis, and give directions for making your own "medicines of light," stressing that this is something that anybody can do -- no special powers needed. They say, "Even if you are left with nothing but the tools of your own consciousness, you can protect and heal yourself."

Some of the people I consider authentic and useful leaders in this time have helped me understand what multidimensional consciousness is, and how to move into this new reality. Many can be found on the amazing Conscious Media Network: Eric Pearl on the Reconnection, Barbara Marciniak on the Pleiadians, Bruce Lipton on Spontaneous Evolution, David Icke on the Moon Matrix, and Christine Page on 2012 and the Galactic Center. (CMN has a free 3-day trial subscription, FYI).

Accessing higher dimensions is not about floating up out of our bodies and off the planet. The higher dimensions can only be effectively navigated if we are grounded in our bodies and rooted to the Earth.

We just entered the Taurus season on April 20th -- in the Northern Hemisphere, this is the lushness of spring, Mother Earth in her full flowering of fertility, sensuality and abundance. This is a time for renewing our love, appreciation and gratitude for the planet and for our own bodies.

Also on April 20th, Venus -- Taurus's ruler and therefore this season's presiding deity -- moved into Aries the Warrior. The entry point to embodiment and Earth connection is the heart. Venus in Aries is the warrior of the heart, courageously opening to the world with vulnerability, authenticity and compassion.

As Sacred Activist Andrew Harvey writes in Heart Yoga: "Only intense and deep mystical love, strength, and passion, combined with a commitment to sustained transformative action, can now preserve the planet. This fusion of body and soul enables people to find the luminous energy, calm, and power that they will need in order to become Sacred Activists and give birth to a new world."

More About Emily

http://virgomagic.com http://virgomagic.wordpress.com/

I fell in love with astrology when I was 13 and read Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs. Suddenly the world made sense! I’ve been a passionate student of the cosmic science ever since. The more I learn, the more I’m humbled by its elegance, power and profound mystery. I started giving readings professionally in 1999.

I also have a background in creative arts – writing, painting and movement – and founded Portland Women Writers. I love working with other artists and writers to offer support for breaking through blocks and increasing access to the creative flow.