I recently had the chance to interview Safina — an online psychic, dream analyst, astrologer and tarot reader from Kasamba. Usually, she’s the one talking about other people’s relationship, career or break-up issues. This time, however, Safina opens up about her own life.
1.When did you realise you had psychic abilities?
I truly realized something was going on at the age of 27 when I heard a strong voice talking to me. At that time, I was making a heart-felt decision whether to get married or walk away from the relationship. The strong voice told me not to rush into getting married, but I didn’t listen and as a result, learned a big lesson and graduated from the ‘Saturn Karma School of Lessons Learned’.
2. What’s your background and have you always worked as a psychic?
I realized I had a gift early on, but I worked a normal job until my Second Progressed Moon Life Cycle at the age of 54-55 (the time of a new relationship — personal or professional).
I started a new career in spirituality and found my direction — that of helping others. I started working for Kasamba as a spiritual advisor and worked out of my home!
Read more about Safina’s background
3. Do you have a regular meditation practice? And if so, would you mind sharing your technique?
I use the elevator meditation to relax and release tension.
How to practise the elevator meditation
In your mind’s eye, you’ll need to travel to a busy shopping centre that is 10 storeys high. Enter the shopping centre, find the elevator and press 10. Now go up to that floor, where all the people are. You will hear lots of noise and people wandering around.
You now need to return to the elevator and press nine to go down one floor. Walk around, hear all the noise and see lots of people, then return to the elevator and press eight. Continue this process until you get down to the first floor.
When you arrive at the first floor, you’ll notice there are fewer people wandering around and the atmosphere will be much quieter. Now you’ll need to return to the elevator again and press 0, which is the basement.
When you arrive at the basement, it will be very quiet, the noise will be gone and you won’t see people wandering around.
You’ll need to start out at the 10th floor where all the noise is and go through the steps until you reach the basement to calm the noise. This meditation usually puts me to sleep in five minutes.
4. How does psychic communication work?
I had the hardest time separating my thoughts from the messages I was receiving from spirit. For example, I could be watching a movie I’m completely absorbed in, but all of a sudden — out of nowhere — I start thinking about a cookbook that was given to me by a friend. Then suddenly my friend calls!
That’s how it works for me. It took me five years to separate my thoughts from the messages I was receiving from spirit!
5. What do you say to people who think psychics are just really good cold readers?
Some people are very skeptical. They come in for a reading and say something like:
“Tell me something about myself first. If you can do that then I will start a reading with you. I want a real psychic that does not need to fish for information”.
I will explain how I work and what information I need to do the reading. If the client doesn’t like my method of reading, I will suggest a different reader.
6. What do most of your clients seek your advice on?
Love and Relationships … Will my relationship last forever? Will my ex return and when? Is my relationship really over and do I need to move on? When will I be in the right relationship and meet my soulmate?
7. What has been your most memorable or favourite experience with a client?
When one of my old clients came back to tell me that my prediction hit the nail on the head!
Her relationship ended and fell apart because her lover was still healing from the past and still looking back. His heart was closed and he told her that his heart and head were not in the right place and he was unable to give her what she needed.
I told her that he was going to return, but she was going to have a long wait. Every time I pulled cards for her, I got the King of Cups. I explained that the King of Cups didn’t have a timing in my deck because we all heal differently. I told her that he still had a long healing time and it might take another three years.
He returned to her after three years and they’re now together. He’s a different person now and he’s not looking back.
8. From your observations of people, what would you say is the number one thing that holds most people back from living the life they would like to live?
People get hurt and the mind gets sick. Even when the worst is over, there are ominous grey storm clouds hovering in the mind — which could relate to the loss of a once-fulfilling, comfortable relationship that took a turn for the worse — but the pain still lingers in the mind!
The only way to heal the mind is to change your thoughts and not allow yourself to think about the past, but that’s not easy to do when you wake up one day and everything has changed and you can’t go back!
Read Safina’s advice on what to do when you’re in a situation that is troubling you
9. Do you think anyone can become a psychic with practise? If so, do you have any tips?
I feel that we are all born with different gifts, but I would start with the Tarot — The Rider Waite Tarot Deck — and keep a journal of the cards that you pull on a daily basis. See what happens and take it slow. Learn one card a day or a week until you understand all 78 cards.
Read Safina’s guide on how to read tarot cards
10. Finally, is there anything else you’d like to say that hasn’t already been covered?
Yes, my experience with the Wolf Spirit which is related to my seven foot totem pole that is carved as the face of a wolf.
In the year of 2003, my fiancé and I went to Vancouver Island (British Columbia Canada) to visit the Indian reservation and meet the artist who was carving our totem pole.
The elders of the tribe had to approve the carving of the new totem pole because the wood that was being used for the totem pole had been sitting in The Bay of Canada for about two-hundred years and the wood was sacred to the tribe and needed to be blessed by the tribal elders.
My fiancé wanted the totem pole to be carved as a wolf because they mate for life, a reflection of how we both felt about each other. Read more
Any thoughts, opinions and information expressed in this article are solely those of Safina and do not necessarily represent the views of Thought Brick.
