to change your future you must first understand why it was necessary that your future "didn't work out"

once you understand the benefit -- or, at a minimum, the balancing point

then you take off

as long as you wait for the "future to arrive" you are stuck

when you accept that dysfunction served a purpose, then it ends

as long as you feel it is in your way, it IS in your way

but only because you haven't learned its "lesson", nor accepted your gift

I can "predict" your future or help you define your future . . . the choice of what "works" is a reflection of you

bottom line -- everything can change, but not EVERYONE will make the changes within that will allow that to happen

and until the change happens within YOU first . . . your future is pretty much set

sorry -- that is the TRUTH

and it won't be much different than where you are now

if you want magical things "to happen", embrace your own "inner magician"

predicting the future is easier than you think; fnding why that future is pretty much inevitable

is the core first step towards people consciously changing their path

understanding why is the key; look there and your world will get better

truth

trying to "match" past lives is (for me, at least) a "hunt and peck" process . . . taking specific "clues" and trying to do searches for people who match one piece

and keep going to see if they match "more pieces"

as a result, many times (again, for me) I will think "ok, maybe this one works", only to sit with it for awhile and go "no, I am not sure; I don't think so"

I am not "psychic enough" to have the names and social security numbers just pop in my head; I watch "my movies"

and the movies are not usually "sub-titled"

I wasn't Napoleon or Joan of Arc, so my possible candidates are a little more "obscure"

yet so far, they all seem to share the "just barely left a minor trace in history (due to standing next to somebody famous); enough that if you keep looking you may find me" thang . . . so I keep on looking !!

I only have the imagery or the emotion or sometimes a "resonance" for a particular time and place (typically, a by-product of "watching the movie")

so -- it is safe to say I spend a LOT of time chasing false leads down many a fruitless rabbit hole

but in order to find a rabbit, you still have to look in the hole, anyway

could I be "more productive" doing other things? maybe :)

but I want to map the territory and, for me, this is the only way I know

My answer to a lovely email this morning from a magical (I can tell already) new client who hadn't done a psychic reading before but (due to a friend's recommendation) wanted to do a session with me and was curious as to what, exactly, I "did"

here is my answer and, in re-reading it, I think it sums up, philosophically, where I am pretty clearly in relationship to "my work" :)

. . . I believe that the best way to approach things is to look at the emotional patterns we have -- this is true for all of us, I think

as the emotions provide the fuel from which to move forward

there is no such thing as a 98 % "accurate psychic"; that is hype to "sell psychics" -- I am good (I think) at finding emotional patterns and helping people move more into "alignment" with their "true nature"

I can do no magic; the magic is within you

We talk and have a conversation because that conversation leads to (ideally) some type of epiphany over the course of the session

I want you to talk because listening to your voice is the best tool I have for "tuning in"

for me, it is kind of like walking into a movie in the middle -- after a few minutes the plotline takes shape and it makes more sense :)

if you have questions or questions come up that is fabulous

I never do any two exactly the same as people are in different "spaces" at different times

hopefully, I can help add some clarity to how you see your path moving forward

I make "predictions" but these are my "best guess" as to the trend line of where you're "heading"

I don't know everything but I don't lie :) . . . I will be as honest as I can be

and, of course, will have only a partial glimpse into your world

to move forward it is good to know what you want -- because when you want something, you go after it

when you do it because others "tell you" and it is not coming from "within you", you put forth a luke warm effort and things typically don't flow "so easily"

seeing "that" (to the extent that I do) is one of my primary "gifts", you could say

but to see that -- and have any credibility . . . it is essential I have some sense of who you are now

you will know one way or the other if I "do" and will trust me (or not) based on how our conversation flows

I am pretty zen . . . I am polite and I like people :)

but . . . I won't have all the answers

sometimes it is good, when you're on the fence a bit, to have an impartial sounding board

more than anything, that is probably who I am and what I do :)

I hope this makes sense

In doing all the "exploring" I've done with "Past Lives" over the past 35 plus years, I am inclined to believe

that we live in a universe in which the concept of Unconditional Love is the truth

and ideas about sin, karma, Hell, etc

are not -- instead I am inclined to look at these ideas (and the attitudes that come with them) as projections from deep within the psyche that have been made manifest

due to fear

much like a child in a dark room

as we turn on the lights in the bedroom and the dark stops and we can suddenly see there are no boogey men, that it is all ok, so (too) do we lose our fears as we turn on the light within us

I don't believe in an eye for an eye type of karma -- we come to learn

we don't come to "pay for our prior sins"

this is my belief

the Earth is like college . . . we come here for specific lessons but to have a chance of "understanding", we have to fulfill certain pre-requisites before being admitted

some major in the Humanities, others in Business or Engineering or Social Work . . . bur we all have certain courses in common before we can earn our degree

as we turn up the wattage on our "inner light" (to me, synonymous with embracing God in whatever way we "do"), we also come closer to seeing

that the universe is ok . . . and we are ok

and that whatever we go through, ultimately, is based in something good

and not something designed to punish

this is, also, my belief

that there is a Godly presence and this is not a God who judges

but instead a God who loves

sometimes, when I am particularly "quiet", the flashes of "memory" will come to me

they're foreign yet familiar and in that grey area of consciousness between sleep and morning, they come -- yet I am fully awake

often coming, like now, in the middle of day while doing (and thinking of) something else

but still they are so much aligned with that "state" own thinks of as dreaming -- hard to explain but many of you may know this feeling

sometimes, too, when I do readings I will describe, very clearly, what people are planning and when doing this the obvious interpretation is that my vision of their future is a confirmation

but, as I often say to them, it is "possible" that I am simply (in whatever way, however it may transpire) reading their minds

and all the disclaimers are stated out loud

. . . it is in the context of this mind reader / fortune teller "space" that these questions continually come back to me

clear pictures of places and times long ago yet seemingly at my finger tips

are they "mine"? do they "belong" to someone else ??

it is these questions and the very "real" recognition that these fantasy images are, in my world, too often "verifiable"

that make my head spin smile emoticon

these pictures -- I "see them"

can practically taste them -- they are a special secret spice in my daily stew

and when they come, it is like nothing else

a mystery, delicious but elusive

past lives ?? MY past lives ??

or are they "something else" ??

and, if so -- what ????

I constantly see the term "surrender" -- as in "oh she 'surrendered' to Spirit"

or "just give up and surrender" . . . I really dislike this term and the attitude it "suggests"

personally, I am not "surrendering" to anything or anybody

I want to be "in alignment" with whatever higher power / source one might connect with, or to . . . I want to join forces

be "in sync", sympatico

but "surrendering"? NO, I am not doing that

to surrender means I was once "at war"; I am not at war, I am on "a trip"

and even though I am riding along on a road on which they seemed to neglect to put up mile markers or road signs hahaha, still it is a "trip I chose"

I don't surrender to the highway, I ride ALONG ON the highway

to surrender means the force is both (a) outside me and (b) greater than me -- oh you're bigger, I give up

but neither is true -- the source is IN me, AROUND me, AND ABOVE me . . . all at once; there is NO separation, therefore surrender is not really "possible"

. . . quantum physics knows what I am saying 

as does every mystic on a mountain top or sitting in a cave

ALIGNMENT = YES

SURRENDER = NO

most people, I believe, see God as "other" because they see Death as "other"

when I die I go "somewhere" -- so the question of God is always rooted in this question of what is "around the corner"

what happens when the body "stops" ??

I believe that reincarnation is the way in which the cycle "loops" and, as such, there is no actual death but rather a continual "re-alignment"

I also don't see consciousness as being "housed within" the brain, hence "captured" within the physical body

consciousness is, basically, an alignment with/through a pervasive etheric energy, God and all prima materia one thing, with different flavors

seen through a prism, a holograph of which we often are ill placed to fully see

when you stop seeing Death as "going somewhere"

and realize you're both "here and there" all at once

then your world will change

and your fear of Death will stop

no one wants to Die because the party's happening here, right now

I don't want to stop -- somebody truly rockn may walk through the DOOR smile emoticon

but there is no "other" place, nor "other" state of being

life and death are in alignment no different -- simply light and dark sides of a golden moon

when you see that you have one foot in the Spirit world right now and Life / Death are tape loops not either / or

then you will feel more content more in love

more . . . everything

truth . . . there is no "there"

there

it is ALL within

my means for "making predictions" is through attempting to "discover" the emotions and "map" the resultant emotional patterns of the person I am "reading"

this works the same one on one as it would for making predictions about the economy or politics or earthquakes (the Earth has feelings, too !!)

not an exact science but it is how I "do it" and, for the most part, I am good at doing it "my way", although this doesn't allow me to be "all things"

as not everything "registers" on the emotional radar in the same way

since emotions are kinda my "thang"; it makes sense to me that in understanding one's emotions (which are, by and large, reactions to "something")

one can also begin consciously "changing" the ways in which those emotions are processed

through looking at the "inception point" that underscores how the "pattern" was "created" in the first place !!

and if the means of "processing these emotions" (created "somewhere" at some point in your history) is the vehicle driving your future -- it also makes sense that in examining the hows and whys of your emotional "patterns"

and their "birth place"

you can take charge of determining if the "emotional reaction" FITS

in other words, does the punishment fit the crime, so to speak

you can change your future; honestly you can -- because you can make your "reactions" fall more within your conscious "control"

and, taking this one step further, it makes sense to me that my "work" -- at its highest level

should be directed towards helping people baseline their emotional processing system with the ideal goal of helping them, as a result, more fully take charge of how they "feel about things"

which would lead to a different way of thinking, which leads to a different course of action . . . which leads to a different future

in the past, I made my "reputation" through predicting the future

now I am more focused on "creating the future"

and the wheels on the bus keep on keepin' on