Psychic Telephone · 15
Phoenix
Phoenix doesn’t want to say she’s never done psychic work, but she’s never done it the way she’s doing it now. It’s hard to explain. Let’s go back to the nineties. When she was younger, twenty-five years ago, she would do tarot cards and what-have-you. She lived in Albuquerque and had a myriad of jobs just trying to be an artist. Cat sitting, dog grooming, kid watching, the whole gamut. One of the last jobs she had there, she linked up with a woman who had a psychic business. She advertised in the back of Cosmopolitan, Vogue, places like that. In the late nineties, it was very popular. Sort of the era of Call me, call me now—Miss Cleo.
Phoenix used the tarot cards from, she thinks they were called Voodoo Tarot, out of New Orleans. Up until then there had not been any ethnic cards, or cards based on a different cosmological thought process. This deck was probably one of the first that offered something from an African perspective, so a few friends of hers all had the deck and they would explore it or whatever. And she took it a little further and said, I’m gonna be a real psychic with the deck. And people would call and she would just do a spread, a reading, for them and answer whatever their questions were. All well and good.
But in addition to that, she was always getting psychic information. Seeing things. Things that she didn’t necessarily want to see. If she was walking down the street and she passed someone and she saw something—there’s nothing you can do with that information. She wasn’t going to stop the person on the street and say, By the way, you should buy oranges today. Or, Hey, watch out for the car at five o’clock. So she felt it was a bit of a burden. It was crazy. It pulls you in all kinds of directions, and it just was very unsettling for her. So yes, she’s psychic. But she didn’t like it. So she took the time to tune it out. And it took a good six or seven years to phase out the ability to see like that, and the myriad voices and communications and so forth. It interfered with the actions of her life, of her day-to-day-ness. And she didn’t want to deal with it.
So having done that, it never really crossed her mind to do it again, the psychic work, or to want to open herself to that level of information. And even now, she doesn’t want that. So in this go-round, she was reluctant. She explained to Osara that she really didn’t want to be bombarded with those messages again in life. But Osara kept assuring her that it was going to be different this time, and pretty much laid out the process by which she would be doing that.
Still, sightings or intuitive encounters don’t necessarily have a rational explanation, and in the rational world there certainly was a great deal of support for her discounting it. So she has over the years sometimes wondered, Did I make that up? Like, how do you—? Because she’s a creative person, and she’s probably known to kind of fantasize about the world. So when Osara first started communicating with her, she actually called a friend, a therapist. She was like, How do I know? If it was her? Versus just me making up some shit? But her friend was like, Had you previously had a thought to do that? And she was like, No, I hadn’t had a thought to do that. So her friend was like, Well, then you didn’t make it up. She said you’d have to have previously kind of pondered it, to then concoct this. So the friend thought it was really Osara, and she was like, You’re not going crazy. You’re fine.
And how it works in this iteration is much better. She is not bombarded with da-da-dah, thank God. She no longer has multitudes of voices informing her about people she doesn’t know. And she appreciates Osara having a methodology for the process. It just happens at the point of contact with the client. And they get from it whatever they get from it. And she enjoys it. She honestly loves doing it. But she doesn’t need to retain it. She gets to move on with her life.
[If you’re interested in knowing more about Phoenix, she can be contacted directly through her website.]