It can sometimes be difficult to understand all the different terms and styles
associated with readings. Often, these terms can overlap in meaning or are based
on a reader's personal preference. Below you will find information regarding many
different types of readings, we hope this helps make it clearer so you can
have the best possible experience when getting a reading.
Alomancy
Read salt patterns on the floor after salt is tossed up into the air and lands on the ground, floor, or in a fire.
Angel Reading
Angels, archangels, guides, and ascended masters are all available to help us on
our life's journey.
Angel readers can connect to
these energies psychically or with
Angel cards or tools to bring in
powerful messages form these
high-vibration beings.
Animal Communication Reading
Communication with animals, living or in spirit -
providing evidential details that your loved one is
present and wished to communicate telepathically or
after crossing on. Domestic or wild animals can be read! Relaying messages between you and your animals - as to needs, behavioral issues, or fears. Linking with an animal's higher self to perform a body scan, locate a lost pet, and
the animal's job or purpose in this lifetime.
Akashic Records Reading
The Hall of the Akashic Records is a location in the Universe where all information is stored for each individual. The records can be accessed by the reader through shamanic journeying, trance, hypnosis, or through the recitation of a specific prayer. Akashic records work can be very helpful in understanding life purpose or lessons. In can be used to help understand or resolve issues at a soul-level.
Astrology Reading
Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means for divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events. The position of the stars, planets, sun and moon when one is born are believed to have affect one's personality, shape how relationships work in one's life and predict future events such as one's economic success.
Aura Reading
Aura readings involve the observation and interpretation of auras. The aura is purported to be a field of subtle,
luminous radiation surrounding a person. Psychics have offered aura readings for many years and they
have a unique ability to see or sense individual’s auras.
Candle Reading
Divination by gazing at a candle flame, dropping
wax into water and observing the shapes, or reading
the shapes made by
a melting candle.
Cartomancy Reading
Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of card. See also Tarot reading below.
Causimomancy Reading
Divination based on watching how or whether items burn in a fire.
Channeling
Channeling is often confused with mediumship (more on mediums below); however both are very different
forms of psychic communications. All channels have the gift of clairaudience, yet the channel has a unique
ability to access audio frequencies and receive information from disembodied beings such as spirit
guides or angels. The channel will convey the ‘messages’ to the client. In addition, channels will
often serve as facilitators to assist clients to access their own higher guidance.
Automatic writing is a form of channeling.
Clairaudience
Clairaudience is clear hearing. A psychic who is clairaudient will receive information through sounds.
The audio information may be either symbolic or literal. In both cases, the clairaudient is able to
interpret the meaning of the sounds to the client.
Clairsentient
Clairsentient means ‘clear feeling’. Out of all the psychic skills, clairsentience is the broadest. For many,
clairsentience is the ability to feel emotions and atmosphere around an experience, event, or individual.
For others, it is the ability to feel information by touching an object (see psychometry). Often, a
clairsentient is consulted to help heal and release past emotional traumas by helping the
client come to terms with suppressed emotions.
Clairvoyant Reading
Clairvoyant means clear seeing.
Psychics that utilize this skill have the ability to see images or visions that
are related to the individual’s life.
Clairvoyants can tap into the energy system of the client and see the past, present, and future.
The modern understanding of the
word psychic is often synonymous
for clairvoyant.
Combo Reading
This type of reading consists of a Medium Reading and a Spiritual Psychic Reading together during
one session.
The first half of this reading the medium will normally
connect with your loved ones
first and during the second half
of the reading they will connect
with their own spiritual team of guides, spiritual teachers and
the Angels, to provide you with loving messages that are intended to guide you on your
life path and promote your
spiritual growth.
However sometimes the order is reversed depending on if your loved ones decide to come through right away
or to wait till other information has been given to you first. If this is the case they come through during the
second half of the reading giving you their messages at that time.
Dowsing Reading
Dowsing has traditionally been the use of a sort of pendulum or forked stick to search for underground
water, but today, psychics use it to find all types of lost objects. If you’re trying to trace down a
cherished heirloom, dowsing may be able to help you.
E-Mail Reading
This is a perfect option when you just have a few
questions and you are looking for help right away.
The medium will tune in to your deceased loved ones, guides and angels and get the guidance for you.
You can ask up to three questions on any area
of your life. Your reading answers are then
emailed to you. A follow up with the
medium via email is provided.
Group Reading
The medium will come to your home for this reading. You can invite 4-12 of your closest family and friends in the comfort of your home and each person will receive a 10 minute reading. You will Receive messages from loved ones on the other side with the emotional support of friends and family. Price varies depending on how many people are in attendance.
I-ching Reading
An ancient Chinese oracle that reveals spiritual based messages by tossing either coins or yarrow sticks
on a table to form a trigram. The trigram is then applied to the client’s life providing them with
additional insight into their past, present, and future.
In-Person Reading
The great thing about in-person readings
is the ability to build a relationship
with the medium face-to-face.
In-Person readings have a more
personal quality because you are sitting
in same room with each other.
Each medium gets information differently
and will give you messages via the
methods they are most comfortable with.
In-Person readings have a more personal quality because you are sitting in same room with each other. Each medium
gets their information differently and will give you messages via the methods they are most comfortable with.
In Your Home Reading
This is the same type of reading as
an in-person reading, the only difference
is the medium travels to your home to
give you your reading.
This type of reading is good if you are
unable to leave your home or if the
medium does not have location you
can meet to have your reading.
The great thing about in-person
readings is the ability to build a
relationship with the medium
face-to-face.
Lithomancy Reading
Lithomancy readings usually involve especially suitable gems or stones that are immersed in water, or tossed as a set and read by mutual proximity. Its origins are unknown, and there are numerous different methodologies used by various cultures throughout the world. A recently more common variant is crystallomancy also known as crystal gazing. Using quartz as a crystal ball it is stereotypically depicted as gypsy fortune telling.
Live Reading / Telephone Reading
From the perspective of accuracy - telephone
readings and in-person readings are equal.
Spirit will speak to us whether regardless if you
are sitting face to face with someone or
they are thousands of miles away.
Mediumship Reading
A Medium is a specific type of psychic
who specializes in communicating with
loved ones in spirit.
A medium often gives evidential
information and messages from friends
and family members who have passed.
Mediums sometimes also connect with
spirit guides, angels, ascended masters
or other beings who wish
to offer guidance.
Numerology Reading
Numerology is based on numbers having a mystical meaning. Your birthdate, your birth name and the name
you use today, all translate into a specific unique number that describes your personality and your life purpose.
Online Spiritual Reading
An online reading takes place via Skype
or similar video link. It is carried
out in real time.
It is similar to a telephone/ live reading
but with two-way visual contact. It is
much more like an in-person
.consultation.
Oracle Reading
Oracle is a catch-all term for any divination tools or cards. Many people have created decks or tools that can
be used to bring in messages for the questioner. Tools can include anything from Goddess Decks to runes,
to dowsing rods and much more. Each reader finds tools that work for them and assist them in
bringing forth healing and helpful messages.
Palmistry Reading
Palmistry is another popular method of psychic readings, involving characterization and foretelling of one's
future through the study of the lines, shapes, wrinkles and curves on the palm. Palmistry does not require
psychic ability, as it generally uses cold reading abilities and previous knowledge of the subject.
Palmistry, like astrology is one of the most scientific types of psychic readings.
Past Life Reading
Many people in the spiritual community believe that we are capable of incarnating on the Earth more
than once for the purpose of learning and growth. Some readers are able to relate information about an
individual's past lives for the purpose of understanding issues that are going on in one's current life. There
are various ways that readers may get this information, whether through psychic visions, spirit
guides, or through trance work such as Akashic Records readings.
Picture Reading
A picture reading is done from a
personal photograph that you send either
by email to the reader or via postal mail.
You will receive all information recieved
from this reading in email form.
This type of reading takes approximately 3-5
days depending on how busy the medium is.
Psychic Intuitive Reading
Almost all readers are psychic (unless they purely use cards or other tools and give only the exact
meaning associated). Psychics can receive information in many different ways, through visions (either with the
physical eyes or the mind's eye), through hearing messages from spirit guides, intuitive
knowing, empathic feeling, and other ways.
Psychics may also be mediums, but are not always. They may or may not use cards or other divination tools.
Generally, psychics can help with most personal issues (love, career, health) and give some insight into possible future events. A psychic may also be able to see energetic issues or blockages in the energy field. Each one is different.
Psychometry Reading
Psychometry is a form of psychic reading in which
the reader claims to obtain details about another
through physical contact with their possessions.
Psychometry readers often ask the subject for
their favorite and most meaningful objects, such as
wedding rings, glasses, car keys, etc., for the reading.
The belief is that objects which are in close proximity
to a person for extended periods of time hold some of
that person's 'energy'.
This method has been used in attempts
to locate missing persons.
Retrocognition
This is the flip side of predicting the future. Retrocognition takes a look into the past to read an individual’s past
lives and experiences—and the non-physical “life” between their past lives—in order to understand the
causes of their current problems. Retrocognition is a good option if you’re just trying to figure out why things
have been playing out a certain way, if you’re feeling a bit star-crossed and want to know the reasons why.
Sometimes the answers were written long before we stepped on the scene, and can be found in our past
Remote Viewing Reading
Remote viewing is a specialized clairvoyant skill that allows the psychic to travel “psychically” to
another location to describe a scene or event. Once the psychic is in the location they can read the past,
present, and future of that location. Remote viewing is frequently used by psychic investigators to describe
crime scenes and how crimes happen. Further, it is used in past life regression sessions so that the
psychic can reveal the clients past lives to them through the images they receive.
Rune Reading
Runes are a the letters of a set of related alphabets used to write various Germanic languages before the
adoption of the Lati alphabet. There is evidence to suggest that they also had magical or divinatory uses.
In modern settings, stones or tablets with runes inscribed on them are cast on a mat or cloth to
discern future events or path a problem or issue will take.
Scrying Reading
“Mirror, Mirror on the wall, for scrying you can also use a crystal ball.” Scrying is the art of looking into an
object – typically a reflective or translucent one – in order to see the future or far off into the distance.
Scrying can be a solid way to see far down the road, to ask if a loved one will recover from an illness,
or if a long-term project at work will pay off in the end.
Spirit Animal Reading
Spirit animals are often said to be where our particular traits come from. They can symbolise your personality,
skills you might have developed over the years (or abilities that are coming to you in future), emotions you
might be facing at a particular time in your life, or they might be offering you guidance. A psychic can
tap into your spiritual animal to help you find your true path in life.
Spirit Art Reading
Some Mediums are able to draw or paint pictures of deceased loved
ones, guides or other being who make themselves known in a reading.
This can be very powerful evidence of the continuity of life
after death and also a precious keepsake of a loved one.
Spiritual Psychic Intuitive Reading
During a Spiritual Psychic Intuitive Reading the medium doesn't connect with loved ones during this time. Their
focus is on you, and your soul's journey. This information this reading provides is mostly likely to encompass a
wide area, such as, personal, spiritual events, past, present, probably future events, and information for
your soul's growth. This information may also included career, health, and relationship.
The information in the medium receives comes from the Divine source and the mediums the spiritual realm will
only provide information that is beneficial to you and promotes your highest personal and spiritual growth.
Psychics may also be mediums, but are not always. They may or may not use cards or other divination tools.
Generally, psychics can help with most personal issues (love, career, health) and give some insight into
possible future events. A psychic may also be able to see energetic issues
or blockages in the energy field. Each one is different.
Tarot Card Reading
Tarot is a specific divination tool among many. The Tarot comes in many forms and has a history dating back
to the mid-fifteenth century. The Tarot is widely popular as a divination tool because it is incredibly versatile and
can be used to assist in answering almost any question. Tarot readers often use the cards in conjunction
with psychic information to give a rich view of the questioner's situation.
Tea Leaf Readings (Tasseography)
Tea leaf reading is a divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee
grounds, or wine sediments. After a cup of tea has been poured, without using a tea strainer, the tea is drunk
or poured away. The cup should then be shaken well and any remaining liquid drained off in the saucer.
The diviner now looks at the pattern of tea leaves in the cup and allows the imagination to play around
[with] the shapes suggested by them. They might look like a letter, a heart shape, or a ring.
These shapes are then interpreted intuitively.
Telepathy Reading
A telepath is a psychic who can receive psychic transmission based on thought patterns. There are several
different types of telepathy including latent, precognitive, and emotive. Despite the difference in the labels,
each type of telepathy receives its information from thought patterns (called PSI). The Telepath can
reveal what someone’s thoughts are in the past, present, and future.
Telephone Reading / Live Reading
From the perspective of accuracy -
telephone readings and in-person
readings are equal.
Spirit will speak to us whether regardless if
you are sitting face to face with someone
or they are thousands of miles away.
A Live Reading is a reading where you
have the energy of Spirit (the messenger)
and the energy of the Person (the message recipient) together, all in one place,
all at the same time.
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A live reading is an active, three-way link between yourself, the medium and those in Spirit. The other
type of reading is a distance reading, where the messenger (Spirit) and the medium deliver the information
to the message recipient (you) after their connection is complete, these are generally used for email or
written messages to be delivered at another date, such as a book or publication.
A Live Reading is a live reading so long as all three parties are meeting at the same place, at the
same time - even if that place is a non-physical virtual place - such as a telephone or webcall. It doesn’t matter
if a Live Reading takes place in the same room, or thousands of miles away, because it is not the physical
bodies of two people that are connecting in a reading - it is the mind, hearts and Spirits of two people
who are connecting in a reading. And this, can happen anywhere.
Joann Anderson
Rev. Marilyn Gaitskell
