So You Think You Might Be Psychic

It doesn’t happen too often, but it happens - there’s something you just know. You don’t know how you know, but you know. Maybe it’s this gut feeling or a nagging voice in the back of your head, but you know exactly how a situation is going to pan out. Maybe it’s something as simple as thinking about a person right before they send you a text or getting a song stuck in your head and then hearing it play on the radio or over some speakers. Maybe it was something bigger like knowing you’re getting accepted into a certain program before you got the email or taking a different route to work, only to learn that there was an accident right where you would’ve been, had you gone the regular way. Maybe you even knew when or how someone was going to die.

These sorts of occurrences are often explained away or rationalized by circumstance - a lucky break, a good guess, or mere coincidence. They can be those and often are. More often than not, there’s a perfectly valid explanation for why you knew something before it happened. Context clues, previous experiences, and just having a good head on your shoulders goes a long way. But there are some things that just can’t be explained, no matter how hard you try. Those experiences could leave you wondering to yourself “am I psychic?” Maybe you’re reading this, looking for a list of qualities in psychics and the experiences they have so you can confirm or deny your suspicions. The answer is actually much simpler than that.

You are.

Allow me to explain. Everyone is psychic, just not in the way you might think. No one can predict the future with pinpoint accuracy every single time. Anyone who tells you they can is lying, trying to sell you something, or both. But, every single person on this planet has a built-in connection to The Universe and its inner workings - some can just see them better than others or interpret them in ways that are more relevant. We do this with our intuition.

So What Does This All Mean?

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the definition of “psychic” is “relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance” or for short, “relating to the soul or mind.” Many psychics believe, myself mostly included, that we are souls piloting our bodies for this lifetime before we return home to the other side - what the “other side” is exactly is constantly up for debate and far too complicated to get into in this post. The point is we can see the inner workings of The Universe because we are The Universe - part of it, anyway. Though we as humans experience time in a linear fashion, that’s not what time truly is. Every single event - past, present, and future - is all happening right now at the very same time. Being psychic and using your intuition is, in a way, The Universe giving you a glimpse of what’s already happening - your body just hasn’t caught up yet.

This doesn’t mean that there’s one set direction for the future to go. That’s one of the biggest misconceptions about psychic abilities. The future is never set in stone. Anything and everything can change in an instant, depending on your choices and the choices of the people around you. Psychics, the good ones anyway, can show you the most likely outcome if nothing changes. This is much more useful than you might think. If you’re stuck between two choices, a psychic can show you the most likely result of each of those two choices if you make them exactly as you are in this moment.

For example, you might be thinking about grad school, but a psychic’s tarot cards say you won’t get in. So you, determined to prove the hack psychic wrong, study extra hard, apply for scholarships, and get into the school of your choice. Was the psychic wrong? Maybe, but maybe not. The psychic could’ve shown you the most likely outcome from where you were when you met them. Maybe at that time you weren’t studying hard enough or were shouldering some other responsibilities and grad school fell down the priority list. The point is, you made a change so your future changed. We can never know for sure what the outcome would’ve been had nothing changed, but you were still able to take the future into your own hands and spit in the face of fate. As someone who hates the concept of fate and destiny, that’s always a win in my book.

So Now What?

Now, it’s up to you. If you’re content with keeping some mysteries unsolved, there’s not much you need to do. Most people go through life only having a few psychic experiences and are perfectly content. But if you want to hone your intuition, maybe even use it to read for others, you’re certainly not alone.

My primary advice would be to start small. One of my favorite intuition exercises is to put a bunch of marbles in a bag and try to guess which color I’ll pull out just by intuition alone. It’s not a foolproof method and will probably feel like pure guesswork the first few times, but it’ll help exercise the muscle. If you have a tarot deck, you can do the same thing by pulling a card and guessing what suit it will be, whether it’s major or minor arcana, if it’s upright or reversed, etc. It’s important to keep your intuition active. It’ll get you used to listening for it. That way, when you’re getting a message, you’ll know what it feels like and you can pay closer attention.

Write down your readings. Write down any gut feelings you get. Write down any strange phenomena you come across. Write it down, write it down, write it down. Do I follow my own advice? Not always. Is it still incredibly helpful and will it make you more alert? Absolutely. Sometimes, I like to pull a random card with no intention of doing a reading for anyone and just write a quick story based on the images in the card. Maybe there’s a big battle and we’re getting a close up of a scrap in the middle of it all. Maybe The Emperor is overseeing his court and doing some sentencing that day. It’ll help you take it all less seriously for a moment and ease the stress of it all. Your readings won’t come out accurate if you’re stressed - you’ll be looking for answers instead of letting them come to you. You might even see that card come up in a later reading and use your story to draw up some new interpretations.

Above all, remember that you can be wrong. You can interpret something completely incorrectly. Multiple times. Every single day. Don’t let it discourage you. You don’t walk into a gym and expect to run a marathon on the treadmill on Day 1. Embrace being wrong. Figure out what was wrong about it - and whether or not you were actually wrong. Maybe your insight influenced you to make some changes and that changed the outcome. Maybe the overall theme was still true, but the specifics were off. Don’t be afraid to be wrong. Hold on tightly, let go lightly.

Overall, psychic abilities are both an art and a science. There are rules and steps to follow, but it’s largely up to interpretation. At the end of the day, no single blog post or reader or teacher can make you more psychic. They can just give you some tools and tricks of the trade. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.