In this interview, Charles Bridges of The Star Phoenix interviews popular Canadian Psychic Reader Barb Powell.

Even before I arrived at her office, Barb Powell knew I was coming.

Powell works full-time as a psychic, but I had also made an appointment.

Powell’s shoebox-size office is hidden in an out-of-the way complex near the airport. Most of the building is occupied by call centre employees answering telephones.

Inside the small room there are no Tarot cards, no crystal balls, no smoke or flashing lights; there isn’t even a sign on her door. The room is simple: A set of wicker chairs, some ornaments and inspirational messages taped to the wall. The air freshener smells like cinnamon.

Aside from the few crystals and candles on the windowsill and the books on the shelf with titles like Growing Up Psychic and One Day My Soul Opened Up, you would be hard-pressed to know you were in the presence of someone who makes a living predicting the future.

Powell is not your stereotypical psychic. She doesn’t wear a long flowing dress, or a jewel encrusted headband. She is married to a former Southern Baptist minister and has three kids. She does look more like your typical mom — often clad casually in blue jeans and a sweater — than someone who purports to read people’s minds and commune with the dead.

“As far as I know I don’t have a quarter slot on me,” she laughs.

It is this “no gimmick” approach that has gained Powell an international reputation. She has clients in Japan, Australia and New Zealand and throughout Canada and the U.S. She has consulted for TV shows like the Ghost Whisperer, The Mentalist and the latest Star Trek movie. She has helped police with missing persons cases.

Between those engagements, the long-distance telephone calls and in-person psychic sessions, Powell is a busy woman. But I did convince her to take some time to predict my future.

During our half-hour session, I was thinking about Lindsay Lohan. On the cab ride over, I had read the troubled star would be appearing in Playboy and the photos had been leaked online. I spent five minutes thinking about that Playboy shoot, just seeing if Powell would catch me. She didn’t. And, while I was a bit disappointed, I was also kind of glad.

Powell admits she was a weird, quiet kid. She grew up in a small fishing community in Nova Scotia and, as long as she can remember she could “hear and see things” other people couldn’t.

“I knew I could hear things, I knew I could see things, but it was just out of the blue,” she says.

Eventually, her mother took her to a psychiatrist, but the doctors could find nothing wrong with her. It wasn’t until her early 20s that she began “feeling pulled to the spiritual stuff.” After years of soul searching, she began working as a psychic full time seven years ago.

She sees an average of four or five clients each day. Many of them are young or middle-aged women, like Cathy White.

I meet White (she asked that her real name not be used because of privacy concerns) for the first time outside Powell’s office. White had her first session with Powell two years ago, shortly after her husband passed away. We meet at her third session with the psychic.

“The first time I went it was a gimmicky thing,” she admits.

Once inside, both of us wait patiently as Powell checks in with her assistant about her schedule — even a psychic can’t do without her BlackBerry.

As White settles in and the reading begins there are a lot of awkward silences. There are plenty of “hmms” and “hahs” as Powell scribbles in her notepad. She scribbles with the same intensity as she did during my session — it looks like some practised form of abstract doodling.

“This is strange,” she tells White. “You seem different.”

White was different from the last time Powell saw her. She switched jobs and is in a new relationship. White says the changes had a lot to do with Powell’s advice and predictions. The psychic had counselled her to move on, to get a new job and a new boyfriend and she did. Powell wields considerable power over this woman’s life.

During her session, Powell does most of the talking. The psychic doesn’t wave her hands over top of her client or do any weird chanting. She simply sits across from her, waiting for something to happen.

Powell asks a series of seemingly random questions and White’s responses are usually brief yes or no answers. More often than not, she is looking at the psychic nodding her head.

On more than one occasion, Powell looks down at her sheet and says “What the heck.” It’s as if she is trying to figure something out, trying to piece together someone’s life out of thin air.

“A lot of people don’t understand the process of mediumship,” Powell tells me later. “It’s not like sitting across from someone and having this huge discussion. It’s almost like a game of charades … it sounds like, feels like, I can get a word or two here and there and (I’m) putting it all together like a big puzzle.”

Powell often has trouble describing exactly what she is seeing and feeling when she is conducting a session with someone. Although she is religious, Powell shies away from words like Sakkara and even God when talking about her practice. She believes it is a spiritual experience, but her thoughts are scattered, her predictions seemingly random.

“Go down to Midtown Plaza and sit on the bench and close your eyes,” Powell tells me.

“All that racket — people talking on top of people talking, footsteps, bangs, cash registers — it’s like that constantly.

“But if you are sitting on the bench and start eavesdropping, then everything else disappears. That’s how I would describe it best, I suppose, being pulled in different directions.”

During White’s session, Powell offers everything from career to relationship to health advice. She talks at length about White’s connection with her mother — apparently she can be overbearing.

“Don’t listen to your mom,” Powell tells her. “She confuses things. She has good intentions, but she confuses things.”

By the end of the session, Powell has told White to dump her new boyfriend, take some online classes and get some blood work done. She simultaneously takes on the role of a therapist, career counsellor and, yes, even an auto mechanic — she told White to get her car’s brakes checked out. That conversation came up after Powell figured out White had been having car trouble.

After her session, White tells me Powell was accurate in almost everything she said — not only was her car giving her electrical trouble, but her mother had been particularly overbearing lately.

“I always walk out feeling flabbergasted. Like did that just really happen?” she tells me.

Like many of her clients, White sought out Powell as a kind of therapy. Powell is not as much gleaming new information as she is teaching her clients about themselves. Her predictions can easily become self-fulfilling prophecies: Powell hears some voice that tells her what your future holds and you do your best to make that future come true, thus proving her prediction.

“She gets at a lot of subconscious things that you don’t really know are there. She brings it to the forefront,” White said.

During my session with Powell, she did get a few things right: She told me my grandmother had glasses, that I have a good relationship with my dog, that I sometimes get frustrated with my partner and that I should quit smoking. All of these things are true, but they also would have been pretty easy to guess, (Whose grandma doesn’t wear glasses?)

She also told me that I will open my own magazine one day — part of a psychic’s job is telling you what you want to hear. According to Powell, the other part is making sure people realize their potential, making sure they aren’t sitting idly by while the world goes on around them. Powell tells me a story from her early days as psychic — before she worked professionally — during university.

“I remember someone coming up to me and saying, ‘Hey, am I going to pass this final in three weeks?’ I stopped, took a look at it and said, ‘Yeah, you’re going to pass,’ ” she tells me. “They came back four weeks later and said, ‘What the hell? I didn’t pass.’ I said, ‘Well, did you study?’ ‘Hell, no, why should I? You said I was going to pass.’ ”

If there is one thing I learned from spending time with Powell, it is that no matter how many psychic predictions she makes, it’s still up to you to make them come true. If she really is hearing the future — and I really think she believes she is — it’s only a potential future. Her predictions are more like a spiritual self-help book than religious fatalism. Which is why, even though I don’t totally believe in Powell’s psychic powers, I can still put up with them.

Article source: thestarphoenix.com

The Beloit Daily News recently sat down with Wisconsin based Psychic and Astrologer Denise Guzzardo who sees candidate Mitt Romney winning the Republican nomination, Kate Middleton revealing a pregnancy, actor Charlie Sheen settling down with a woman, and the Green Bay Packers winning Super Bowl in 2012.

Although there’s been a little buzz about the world ending due to Mayan calendar interpretations, Guzzardo’s confident time will march on. ”Call me a fool, but I think we’ll be getting up the next morning,” she said.

Politics

Mitt Romney will be the Republican candidate for President, although another contender may arrive on scene to stir things up a bit. In the end, however, she believes President Barack Obama will remain in the White House for another term.

“There’s a lot of people that carry on and say he’s the reason for the country’s troubles, but there’s also a lot of people behind the scenes afraid of going the other direction. And they haven’t provided a better alternative. He’s (Obama) going to stay,” she said.

Economy

The economy is going to keep slowly improving, although there won’t be as many new jobs for about two more years. She said the economy is on the upswing, although people have too many fears about it.
“The fears about it are crazy because our grandparents and great grandparents lived through it,” she said. “Everybody was better for it. I have great faith in the economy.”

She also said political influences may have stifled business opportunities, but it will likely shift this year.

Celebrities

Guzzardo sees good things for Britain’s royal family. Kate Middleton is likely pregnant, and will be releasing information in March.
“I believe it’s a boy,” she said.

She said Prince William and Kate are a good match, with William being a good husband.

“I think he’s soft inside, and I think he understands women,” she said.

She said although Harry appears to be courting too many ladies, she said he’s likely involved with someone he’s been keeping under wraps, possibly because someone would have a problem with the woman.

“His romantic situation or status is going to change in the fall of next year. He’ll be a little bit more out there with it, regardless of whatever opinions his family has,” she said.

She also has positive feelings toward singer Susan Boyle, saying she will do more work in Canada, and will be meeting a good man with a teaching and publishing background. Although there is a man prowling after her for the wrong reasons, she said Boyle will be smart enough to stay away from the bad guy.

“I doubt she’ll allow that because her trust levels are so shaky,” she said.

As for the cast of characters on Jersey Shore, she said the outlook is dim, with something happening to a male connected to the friends.

“There seems to be an injury or loss connected with that cast that brings a wake-up call to some of them,” she said.

Dr. Phil’s family will bring another baby into their realm, although a family member will have a serious health scare.
“It may not become public,” she said.

Charlie Sheen is going to get into another serious relationship, and the woman may be in the limelight. However, Guzzardo predicts his lifetime battle with addiction will always be a struggle. She suspects he has either borderline personality issues or a severely bipolar condition as well. Sheen has picked his behaviors as a masking system for struggles which aren’t likely to ever end, she said.

The Planets

There was a solar eclipse in Sagittarius on Nov. 25 and a lunar eclipse on Dec. 10 in Gemini. She said 2012 is going to start out very positive, thanks to this astrologic phenomenon.

She said the last Mercury retrograde kicked off the day before Thanksgiving and ended on Dec. 12. The Mercury retrogrades are known for being wrought with mechanical problems and challenges to transportation, including the oldest form of transportation, the horse. She advises caution when traveling and restraint from making hasty decisions during the retrogrades. However, the mercury retrogrades can be positive when people are waiting for a situation to dramatically change, or a for a new idea to be accepted.

The following are dates for 2012 Mercury retrogrades: March 11-April 4, July 14-Oct. 7 and Nov. 6- Nov. 26.

Guzzardo also gave some weather precautions, noting hurricanes could be a little “meaner and bumpier” this year.

“But it’s nothing we can’t fix or rebuild,” she said.

Shift in consciousness

Although there’s been speculation of the world ending, Guzzardo said there will be an overall trend toward less materialism and more spirituality. She said for the past 10 years people have been too attached to mechanical items such as cell phones and flat screen TVs.

“There’s been a division and it’s growing. One group of people have totally lost touch with their spirituality because of material things. They are almost like sheep – whatever they are advertising on TV they have to have. A lot of other people are more in touch with spirit and are happier. They aren’t going without. I see more people aligning in that mentality by the end of the year,” she said.

Article source: beloitdailynews.com

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3 Best Psychic Reading Websites

If you are searching for the top Psychic Reading websites to visit you may be overwhelmed by the selection that you come across on the web.

Finding a reputable Psychic Website is one of the top priorities for anyone looking for the best Psychic websites on the web – you have to look out for fake Psychic Readers and other Scams – unfortunately a few bad apples like this can ruin the impression of Psychic Readers in the minds of many people who could otherwise benefit from Psychic Readings.

We have researched through hundreds of Psychic websites to come up with what we feel are the 3 Best Psychic Reading websites available today. We hope that you can use this list to provide you with valuable insight and learn more about how a Psychic Reading can help you reach your life goals.

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#2 Astrology.com
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Astrology.com is one of the most popular destinations on the web for free daily horoscopes, online tarot readings, psychic readings, Chinese astrology, Vedic Astrology, Mayan Astrology, Numerology and much more. The huge resource of thousands of articles and tons of free resources make this site an excellent destination for all Astrology enthusiasts seeking more insight into Astrological Readings.
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We hope you enjoyed our list of the 3 Best Psychic Reading websites out there.

Have you had experiences with any of our 3 Best Psychic websites? Do you have a Psychic website that you feel should be on this list? Be sure to leave a comment.

‘Pam’ (Actress Jenna Fischer) from The Office is a former Telephone Psychic Reader

It has been recently reported by the Times of India that Actress Jenna Fischer – or whom most of you would know as ‘Pam’ form the hit TV show “The Office” used to work as a Telephone Psychic Reader before finally getting her big break.

Actress Jenna Fischer has revealed that she worked as a telephone psychic before getting her break in movies.

The “Hall Pass” star was desperate for work when she first arrived in Hollywood and answered an ad in a newspaper to provide callers with psychic advice, reports imdb.com.

“I had a couple of girls call, and they were like, ‘What colour shirt am I wearing right now?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know.’ And they’re like, ‘You’re not a psychic,’” she said.

“I said, ‘I have a feeling you’re calling me for another reason, that one of you has a boy that you like, and you want to know if he likes you.’ She’s like, ‘Oh my God.’ So that was it.”

Recently okmagazine.com, also reported on Psychic Jenna Fischer’s Telephone Psychic Reading abilities.

Before Jenna Fischer was working on The Office, she was at home pretending to be a psychic!

Jenna joined a round table discussion with other comedic actresses where they talked about the odd jobs they held before they were stars, for The Hollywood Reporter (via New York Magazine).

Jenna’s was by far the oddest.

The star of The Office used to answer phones for a psychic hotline!

“You would dial in and stay on for as many hours as you want to work and then dial out,” Jenna explained of her job. “I went to the bookstore and bought a book on astrology and tarot card reading.”

But she did have an incident when a couple young girls questioned her predictive abilities!

Psychic Sally Morgan Feels Sorry For Skeptic Derren Brown.

Recently reported by digitalspy.com, British Psychic Medium Sally Morgan feels sorry for Skeptic Derren Brown.

Sky Living star Psychic Sally Morgan has claimed that she “feels sorry” for psychic cynics like Derren Brown.

The TV star said that she accepted she would always face criticism for her career choice “until the day I die”, but argued that high-profile acts such as Brown should be able to appreciate that she is good at what she does.

“I don’t know what he calls himself. He’s a magician or something. That’s his bag and he has to try and do that,” Morgan told Digital Spy. “Derren Brown is not a spiritual person and the work I do has a big spiritual side. I totally understand why he would poo poo it.

“But we are really lucky we have freedom of speech in this country and that’s brilliant. I think Derren is fantastic at what he does. The fact he can’t say I’m fantastic at what I’m dong, I find that very sad.

“I am good at what I do – I’m at the pinnacle. I work very hard and I just feel sorry for people who feel the need to put down other people to feel that what they do outshines another person.”

She added: “There is a section of the community that go under the guise of being a sceptic, but they are just plain rude and ignorant and not very nice people. To those people, I would say prove to me there isn’t a spirit world. Not only do that, but then show me what I’m doing, because I don’t know. Tell me what I’m doing then. That’s what I say to them.”

Sally Morgan’s latest series will feature celebrity guests Mark Wright & Lauren Goodger, Alesha Dixon and Sinitta having mini-readings about their futures.

Psychic Sally: On The Road is viewable on British TV’s Sky Living.

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Robert De Niro as World-Renowned Psychic in ‘Red Lights’

The Psychic movie Red Lights is an upcoming thriller movie directed by Rodrigo Cortes. The story follows a psychologist, and her assistant, whose study of paranormal activity leads them to investigate a world-renowned Psychic Reader. The cast includes Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, and Elizabeth Olsen.

A recent overview of the film by firstshowing.net, Robert De Niro as World-Renowned Psychic in ‘Red Lights’ might just be one of his better roles.

After enjoying Buried enough to throw it on my list of the Best Films of 2010, you can bet that I’m definitely looking forward to director Rodrigo Rodrigo Cortés’ next film Red Lights. If you haven’t been keeping up, the film tells the story of a psychologist (Sigourney Weaver), and her assistant (Elizabeth Olsen) whose study of paranormal activity leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic (Robert De Niro). Though the film won’t see release until 2012, we now have our first look at De Niro in the film looking simultaneously ominous and cliché as he stands in front of a curtain wearing all black and sunglasses.

Producer Adrian Guerra previously described the film, “Red Lights follows the steps of Buried in allowing us to make a highly commercial, bold and compelling film with great production values and Hollywood stars but keeping the creative control from Spain.” Cortés also wrote the script himself, and in addition to Weaver, De Niro and Olsen, the cast also feature Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins, 28 Days Later) and Toby Jones (Infamous, Frost/Nixon).

There’s no official release date yet, but we may hope a release in 2012.

Watch this great radio show video where Allison DuBois calls in to the Tim and Willy Show to talk about The Infamous Dinner Party on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

The Tim and Willy Show claim:

Alison DuBois claims evil editing made her look bad at the Real Housewives of Beverly dinner party. She gives us her side of the story.

Psychic Sorcerer Ali Sabat (Left)

If you have followed the story of the Psychic Sorcerer in Saudi Arabia, you will be glad to hear that the Lebanese psychic sorcerer’s execution has been reprieved.

The lebanese television psychic Ali Sabat, was convicted of practicing witchcraft in a case that has outraged international human rights groups.

The Psychic Line News has followed this story and written previously about the case in “Psychic Sorcerer Condemned to Death” and “Saudis Will Not Behead Lebanese Psychic“.

Recently reported by The Associated Press.

Ali Sibat with his wife, Samira Rahmoon, in an undated photo. Saudi Arabia’s high court threw out his death sentence.
A three-judge panel said in its ruling Thursday that there was not enough evidence that Ali Sibat’s actions harmed others. The judges ordered the case to be retried in a Medina court and recommended that the sentence be commuted and that Sibat be deported.

The charges in Sibat’s case seem to center on a call-in talk show he hosted on a Lebanese satellite TV station where he would tell fortunes and give advice. His supporters point out that the show was aired from Lebanon, not Saudi Arabia.

He was arrested in May 2008 by the Saudi religious police during a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina and sentenced to death in November 2009.

In Lebanon, Sibat’s wife, Samira Rahmoon, welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision but said she won’t rest until Sibat is back home with her and their five children.

“Of course I was very happy. A house without a man is worth nothing; we are borrowing money every month just to get bread to eat,” she said. “But I am still scared. Unless I see him at Beirut airport with my own eyes, I will always be scared for him.”

The Saudi justice system, which is based on Islamic law, does not clearly define the charge of witchcraft.

Sibat is one of scores of people reported arrested every year in the kingdom for practicing sorcery, witchcraft, black magic and fortune telling. The deeply religious authorities in Saudi Arabia consider these practices polytheism.

According to Amnesty International, the last known execution on a witchcraft conviction was the 2007 beheading of an Egyptian pharmacist, Mustafa Ibrahim, who was found guilty of casting spells in an attempt to separate a married couple.

The charges are often vague — covering anything from fortunetelling to astrology to making charms and talismans believed to bring love, health or pregnancy. Saudi judges cite Quranic verses forbidding witchcraft, but such practices remain popular as a folk tradition.

In January, an appeals court in Mecca agreed to review Sibat’s death sentence, but in March another set of judges in Medina upheld the sentence, saying he practiced sorcery publicly on a TV show and that made him an infidel.

Sibat’s Lebanese lawyer, May al-Khansa, said she believed the Saudi Supreme Court’s decision meant he will soon be released.

“There is no reason for a retrial; either he’s guilty and they have evidence, or they don’t,” she said. “The fact that the court rejected the death sentence means that he’s innocent and the next step is closing the case and deporting him to Lebanon.”

In related news, Amnesty International says a Sudanese man, Abdul-Hamid al-Fakki, has also been convicted of sorcery and is still believed to be at risk of execution.

This is Part 2 of an older, but very interesting video where Denise Lescano is speaking to a workshop in NYC on “The Spirit Side of Life”.

Denise Lescano is a Professional Psychic Medium – Spirit Medium, Medical Intuitive, Intuitive Consultant & Reiki Master – and author of the popular psychic book “The Medium”.

From her website bio.

As a Professional Psychic & Spirit Medium, her work includes working with several very well known and widely respected main stream organizations for many years. Although the majority of her work is as a Medium for the purpose of reuniting loved ones, she also offers very accurate and insightful “Psychic Readings” and Professional Intuitive Consulting Services for Business, Personal & Health issues.