Mediumship and Tarot - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 6/11/23

we cross that threshold ourselves. And I even kind of wonder if we will ever fully get the you know, I have a feeling there's even more mysteries that will.

gets pretty empowering to get over that that fear. Some of the drawbacks can be not having good you know, if you don't have good boundaries, if you you know, because it's it's kind of like even with living folks, right, Like we will invite people maybe into our home, but most folks we want them to eventually go back to their own home. Or we don't want them with us around, you know, we don't want people necessarily maybe joining us

in the bathroom. Or I'm always amazed by how many folks will be like spirits will come and visit me in the shower. Shower dough seems to be like a common thing. You want boundaries when you're in the shop, right, right, and so, and also I think sometimes folks don't are just a little fool There are some folks who are a little foolhardy, I think with who they tried. Like if you are somebody who's like, I want to go out and contact this person that maybe did terrible things.

Like every time I hear about somebody who's like, I want to go and like, you know, try to communicate with somebody that was like a you know, serial killer or something like that, I'm just like, do you not see how that could end poorly?

twenty minutes outside of Denver. But she had been living in this little house that she thought was built in around nineteen twenty, and she just and she's definitely, you know, really sensitive. She studied mediumship with me and just kept She's like, I just don't feel like I'm alone here, and I don't feel like this house is meant to be mine, and would you be willing to come and

just check it out? And so I did, and we we've been I brought out combination of like you know, mediumship stuff, but also like bringing out some like you know, spirit boxes and things like that. I'm a big fan of, like dowsing rods. I always find that those are really helpful for kind of pointing me in the direction of like where a spirit is kind of hanging out. And there were a couple of folks that we were able

to make contact with. One was this really nice guy that seemed to be more connected with a building that was this had been there were like several buildings that were all rentals, but they had once upon a time been all together on kind of like a like a

bigger plot of land. He seemed to be more connected with one of the other old buildings, but he was more like a handyman, and so he would kind of come in and he was really focused on the kitchen, which had been recently renovated, and there were some things that just weren't working quite right, and so lights would kind of come. She'd feel this presence, and sometimes the

lights would kind of like strengthen and then dim. But in her front room, which was the oldest part of the house, she just felt like like there was a presence that wasn't super welcoming. And so I tapped into the spirit of this older woman and it was very I got this strong feeling that she had lived there and you know, spent a good chunk of her life there, and she liked to sit in a chair that was by this certain window. And I kept getting the word the name May, and I was like, I feel like

this woman's name is May. I think that she just really wants to be able to sit in this spot by the window. She would prefer it if maybe there was like a chair here that was kind of like her chair. You know, maybe you could give that a world just you know, it's gonna be a little weird having a chair that only that nobody really sits in, but maybe see if that helps things to feel better.

And I also asked my friend if she sometimes felt like if there was like a ghost cat, because I kept seeing this little like darting small shadow that was like it was small. And she said, yep, sometimes my cat will be sleeping right next to me, but I'll hear the sound of like little kitty nails in the night.

So those were all really interesting. But then later on, it was probably a few months later, she sent me a message saying that she had told her landlord about all of this, and it turned out that the house was much older than she originally sought, and he had found some old original windows in one of these outbuildings, and there was a name and a date that was etched into one of them, and it was from the late eighteen hundreds. And this woman's name was Martha, but

she went by May. And so that was like that's always gold. When you see this stuff and you can get verifiable information, that always feels really good.

land or the house itself. But then I also there's like the earth spirits or like the elemental type spirits, and that's like and that's like rooted, that's rooted well beyond the existence of the structure. And sometimes I wonder, do you have any theories on why what it is that makes your mom's house so powerful.

approach haunted situation. Spirit encounters was kind of with diplomacy first, and so with a situation like this, probably one of the first things I'd want to do is just you know, have a conversation with like, you know, hey, it seems like there's someone here who's making it really difficult for us to be able to leave the house. We don't like that and we need that to change. But is

there something that you need? Is there a reason? And yeah, he I kind of had always had come at these situations with more of a like you need to leave. And it's one of those balances too, where we have the we are the living beings, this physical plane belongs to us. We have a right to feel safe in our homes. We have a right to leave our houses

whenever we want. And at the same time, sometimes like if you I've approaching things with diplomacy sometimes like smooth things out a lot easier than kind of like coming at it of like I will clear you out of this house, because then it sometimes can I've seen a lot of situations where it can escalate things unnecessarily. But you know, so clearing out a house, though, let's like let's say the diplomacy doesn't work.

in the home. In senses, there's definitely in sense blends that I've I've been taught that are particularly good at like pushing out and clearing out tricksters and negative type spirits or spirits with a negative influence, but also kind of feeding and bolstering any positive spirit that you know, you maybe want hanging around you kind of stay in their lane and they're you know, they help to keep

an eye on things. There's also like once your house is clean, you know, you can put up protections and wards to make sure that nothing else can come back in. There's different you know, kind of every every haunting has its own unique like they're there. I mean, every spirit is unique, right, and so sometimes which you need to push something out or to smooth things over and and you know, make things better, it all, it all depends.

But if you are wanting to keep something out, there's something you see in a lot of traditions or like witsch bottles us their bottles filled with like you know,

sharp pokey objects and either ammonia or urine. If you want to go old school, and those can be you know, placed at different specific points in the home entry points to the home, lines of salt or scorched flax seeds to uh with with the dedication that you know, no spirit can enter, like with the with flax seeds unless they can cause those seats to sprout, which obviously they can't.

You see in a lot of traditions like putting a ring of salt around us around a home or at the entrances of like doorways or windows, and with the directive that no spirit shall patch or pass or like in Europe I think it was no witch shall be able to pass unless they have counted all of the grains of salt. That's so that's the old classic there too.

But yeah, there's a lot of different like cleaning and pushing things out and then protecting and putting words over your house is one of the that's kind of a standard. That's a classic, and a lot of traditions that's great.

floor to bottom floor, if that's applicable. If you live in a fully carpeted place, you can get a room or a broom that is I don't know if it's pronounced beesome or bessom, but it's like a basically a witch broom.

the room that you're clearing. You know you're you're working in, because if you want something to leave your house, it has to have an exit point in the way that I always think about it.

You know, that's another It's a cologne technically, but it's got like, you know, one hundred and thirty years of people using it for magical purposes, and it's like a blessing, protection and cleansing, so it kind of covers all your bases.

is kind of like the standard cologne. I mean literally it's just Colonne and uh, but there's just it's been like there there's like a whole host of like colognes and waters that have been used for different like magical purposes,

like another one that still here. Folks use particularly in like more like you know American you know, root work kind of communities is like hoit's cologne that's like something you use for gambling, luck or like to feel power powerful and get like a really like solid like boost. Florida water though has like it's got citrus, it has rows in orange orange blossom, it's got a really pretty pretty smell. And there's folks you can make your own.

There's really wonderful makers out Like there's all kinds of like you know, handmade Florida waters that you use. But for whatever reason, over time it just has and spent and a lot of it is like due to like the botanicals, which I don't think Marine Lanham probably has any botanicals. I think it's probably artificial fragrance at this point. But it's been used for so long for these purposes that it has, it's like it's almost like there'sn't been an aggregre created around that.