Psychic Telephone · 33
Cheyanne
For Cheyanne, it’s literally like remembering a dream—you know how you remember a dream? Usually she’ll say that. Or remember on VHS tapes when you fast-forwarded? And you’d get just kind of flashes? You’d be like, I saw a rubber duckie. I saw a teddy bear. Sometimes she’ll explain it like that. And then it’s playing charades with the other side to puzzle it out.
Cheyanne—or Kook, everyone calls her Kook—is a medium. She’s a medium and a psychic, both, and she gets both kinds of messages. Usually she’s working with ancestors, angels, specific deities, and the client’s guides or spirits. All mediums are psychics, she says, but not all psychics channel the dead, so not all psychics are mediums. She channels the dead for a living, about a hundred clients a month. High-volume stuff. It’s pretty much a full-time gig now since she moved to New Orleans.
She would say a psychic is somebody who’s very attuned—with themselves, with their spirits, with their surroundings. And sometimes it’s a fine line between medium messages and psychic messages. She may get pains in her body that tell her how someone passed away or what was physically ailing them while they were living. But sometimes, for example, if she sits down with a client and notices her left knee is hurting, they will say, Oh, that’s me. I fell and hit my knee three days ago.
She starts every session by saying, This is teamwork. And she explains that she’ll relay to them whatever the dead are showing her. What she’s hearing, smelling, pings in her body that tell her things. Then she says that they’re going to puzzle it out together, exactly who it is on the other side. And those puzzle pieces can be anything—objects the dead person collected, foods they liked, places they worked or lived. And often she’ll get a letter, generally the first letter of a name. She says generally because that’s ninety percent of the time. Sometimes the letter’s off. So she doesn’t like anyone to get stuck on it.
Then she asks them to close their eyes, takes some deep breaths with them, and says, Let’s open up our hearts. At the same time, she’s scanning her own body so she knows what’s hers and what isn’t. Like if for some reason her foot is hurting that day, she knows not to be concerned with that when she’s in the reading. Then she calls in any loved ones who have passed, and guides, and angels, to give her any messages to share with the client.
When she says any loved ones—what she envisions quote-unquote Heaven to be is like an ancestor compound, or a hub, where all the spirits that we’re connected with meet up. They’re not there 24/7, though, just like they’re not with us 24/7. And what she can do is go into these little hubs and see things that the spirits would have had in their homes. They’ll kind of show her their happy place, or where they resided. So if your aunt collected ducks and had all red couches, she’s probably going to see that and give you those specific details. It’s just whatever comes up first, and she goes from there.
Because she’s not trying to be right or wrong, you know? She’s just being a conduit, so it flows through her. She’s not questioning anything, because literally she doesn’t know these people. She has a client facilitator who books everybody, so she doesn’t know who she’s giving a reading to until she gets into the office and sees their first name and appointment time. It’s a complete cold reading. And that’s how she has felt the most success in this gift—letting it all flow.