I’m on a mini hiatus right now because we’re doing some home renovations which are taking up quite a bit of my time. I’ll be back with a special in a few weeks, but right now I’m knee deep in picking out carpet, light fixtures, paint and ordering wood, and other building supplies.

It’s going to be worth it, but right now things are extremely hectic, so I have only minimal focus on the business aspects of things. As I’ve said before things come in fits and spurts anyway, with this sort of business, and if you do email me or order something it’s not as if I’m going to ignore you, far from it, but my blogging and things like that here are going to be a bit sparse for a while.

Every once in a while I go through a bit of email disappointment. I get to a point where it’s been a while since I’ve had any reading requests so I start getting really overly hopeful any time I get a message in my inbox, only to find out it’s a fake lotto winner email, or a viagra offer, or Fenterdren reviews, all telling me how great this thing is that I don’t really want or need.

I should know by now that this business comes in fits and spurts, and the spurts are usually right when I need it most, but I can’t help but wish some times that things were a bit more consistent.

It’s hard some times to explain when and how predictions come. Some friends took our son to the beach a few weeks ago, and when they got there found it was raining so they didn’t need their swimwear after all.

I was glad they didn’t ask me why I didn’t warn them. I’ve had friends do that in the past. You knew, didn’t you? Why didn’t you say?

But that’s the thing I don’t always know. I’m sure we’d be a lot wealthier if I did, not necessarily from getting the winning lotto numbers, but from predicting problems with the car before they got irreconcilable. I would have been able to save money before we had to move out so that it hasn’t been such a crunch; but unfortunately that doesn’t happen. Some times I have dreams that don’t make sense until after the event, some times I don’t get anything. It happens.

Predictions are predictable (ah, the irony).

I get better results when I read the tarot, definitely, but I’m not going to sit all day reading the cards trying to predict every possible event. Part of the wonder of life is the spontaneity, and seriously how long would that take? I have a son who needs me. I have work that I have to do outside of the prediction business.

(all typos are those of the original author of the quote)

how do spirits manifest pictures? I woke up one morning and in midair was a very vivid picture of a dark headed man in a hospital gown lying on his side. It scared me to death and it only lasted approx 4-5 seconds. I have contacted people who are trying to give me answers, but i would like alot of opions. why me? im not a physic or anything and this was a truly weird occurance. I dont doubt other people now when they say they have seen an image. this was in the form kinda like a projector but more clear and very colorful. I didnt reconize the man either, but before I saw it other things were happening in my home. any advice or info. thanks Kayla

Firstly, I don’t believe you have to be a “psychic” to witness spirits. There are lots of tales of people seeing ghosts who weren’t actively psychic, in the sense, of working as a medium or tarot reader. However usually if a spirit shows itself to you it has a reason. It may be that for some reason you were manifesting an unusual amount of energy that day, or that spirit may have a particular connection to you, being someone that cares about you or that you care about deeply or someone that is related to you in some way, a relative.

There’s no concrete and definitive explanation for how ghosts appear in pictures and on film, for some it’s to do with the energy that a ghost has in them, that even though they might not be visible to the naked eye for some reason that energy interferes with a picture and shows up as an orb or in some cases an outline of a person, although a lot of times those sorts of pictures ARE found to be a double-exposure on the film, however with digital cameras it’s more difficult to do a double exposure but easier to fake a picture afterwards in Photoshop, a few tricks with opacity and you can turn yourself into a ghost.

Ghosts appearing in mirrors and pictures that are already hanging on the wall, for example, that’s more again to do with psychic energy. I find it easier to catch glimpses of spirits if I’m not looking directly, it’s a bit like looking at a Magic Eye picture, you can find it when you’re not focusing, when you’re not trying as hard to see it.

So, I have no answer really as to how or why a ghost might be able to show up in a picture just that they apparently can. I’ve taken shots of orbs myself, and seen orbs in other people’s pictures. Some orbs I’ve seen are clearly reflections of something else that was caught in the picture, but others they have no explanation. Other than somehow the energy that a spirit generates by remaining on this plane too long is picked up in the camera, or by you only as a reflection and can then be processed by your brain in a way that it wouldn’t normally be able to be.

If you have a question about the paranormal, tarot, supernatural, hypnosis or anything like that just Ask Catriona.

It’s difficult some times, just like having an office would be difficult, but difficult in different ways. With an office there would be the problem of daycare, working at home there’s the problem of “what to do with the child” some times.
It’s not so hard for me to do tarot readings from home because I can do them via email or over the phone, but the hypnotherapy is a different matter. That means meeting people, and having them either come here or going to them. Some times I can schedule things around my husband so that he can watch the baby, well, he’s really not a baby any more. Time was I could just stick him in a Bugaboo stroller and he would entertain himself or sleep while I worked with someone, but he’s at that age where he’s into everything. I’m wondering if I should just hold off doing any extensive hypnosis work outside of friends and family who understand until he’s in school. It’s only…two years?
Seems like forever!

It’s true, but despite that I haven’t got enough things nor enough willpower to go completely raw, especially when I’d have to be making separate meals for my husband and son, and there are days I’m hard pressed to cook just one depending on how I feel, so I know my husband would be mixing ramen and things in the mean time, which isn’t raw.

I do want to get healthier without resorting to diet pills, but we have to take the steps necessary to improve the diet overall, instead of trying to take short cuts which set is up for failure, or relapse.

My Mum and husband were joking with me the other day because I had watched an episode of “Ghost Whisperer“. My husband said it was a poorly acted and poorly made show, and my Mum was saying that her main confusion with it from the few episodes that she’d seen is that if she’s been seeing ghosts since she was that young why was she always freaking out when they showed up and screaming about it.

I’ve watched seven episodes of the first season now and to be completely honest I’m finding the show hilarious, just the way everyone deals with things. On the one hand I’m glad that the main character, Melinda, has actually told her husband and her friend about what she can do and isn’t sneaking around with it like so many main characters do, but at the same time I think that certain things about the show are kind of ridiculous, like the fact that EVERYONE she meets accuses her outright of being a con artist and a scammer, or that she goes so out of her way for all these ghosts, but then I guess without that she wouldn’t have a show.

I suppose it’s that I don’t have it in me to travel all over everywhere doing things like that, and then again I’m not “graced” with the Hollywood style ghost who is crystal clear and looks just like they did in life, and speaks clearly and makes their demands known.

I can speak on the “shocked every time” because even though I’ve been seeing and interact with spirits more clearly for at least ten years now, given my clarity and acceptance of these things came around in college…but even so I tend to be perturbed if I feel a spirit around because it is unexpected. It’s more common for me not to see them than to see them. No matter what “Ghost Whisperer” shows they don’t wander around all over the place, that I’ve seen, or maybe they don’t always choose to show themselves to me because they hear my ground rules.

Plus from what I’ve seen in my experience a lot of ghosts are content with just offers to cross them over, they don’t want huge complicated errands.

I hope this doesn’t mean I get a rash of them trying to prove me wrong. o.O

As of right now the $15 Tarot Special is no more. It will doubtless come back again later on but for right now it is done. I’ve edited the specials page accordingly. Remember I always offer free three-card readings, and those are available via the special page or on the store page, along with my other readings.

I have a variety that I offer daily: the Celtic Cross, or general reading which highlights a major event going on with you and offers insight into the events surrounding it, how you’re affecting things going on and how they’re affecting you; the Q&A spread, which will offer insight into a specific question and a possible solution; the Past Life spread, which elaborates on the events surrounding a past life that you are interested in, how things affected you emotionally, financially, spiritually and physically and what ties that may have to your current life.

If you don’t think you see anything that matches up with what you’re looking for don’t hesitate to ask me chances are I know a way to talk to the cards to find out what you’re wanting to know