How to Get the Best Psychic Reading: A Medium’s Insider Guide for Clients
About to see a psychic medium or tarot reader, or curious how to get the very best reading for your money? Read this to the end and you’ll walk into your session knowing exactly how to get the ultimate psychic or tarot reading experience as a client. Some readers charge premium rates with no guarantee of what comes through or the caliber of their communication, so this guide exists entirely for your benefit.
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How Do You Choose the Right Psychic Medium?
Reviews first, king’s ransom never.
Start with the reviews of any psychic medium or tarot reader you’re considering. Client testimonials are everything, and the more the better, because real experiences give you a well-rounded picture of what to expect. What style of reading do they provide? Do specific details come through? Can they offer true evidential mediumship: names, dates, causes of death? If they read tarot, do they go beyond card meanings with clairvoyance, or will you simply hear a story that loosely pertains to your current juncture?
Match those experiences against your own needs, and get clear on what your needs actually are. Hoping to connect with a deceased loved one? Feeling lost and uncertain about where you are in life? Different readers excel at different things, and the honest ones will tell you which is which.
Researchers at the Windbridge Research Center offer a useful primer on what mediums actually do, which makes a handy benchmark while you compare.
Due diligence costs nothing. Skipping it can cost a king’s ransom, paid to find out the hard way. Check out my client reviews here to see what this looks like in practice.
What Should You Tell a Psychic Before Your Reading?
Nothing. Beautifully, powerfully, nothing.
You’ve found your ideal psychic through reviews and word of mouth. Now protect the quality of your session with one golden rule: tell the psychic nothing about yourself or your situation. Nothing. You’re paying to be read, and the less we know, the better the evidence. Treat it like a blind study in parapsychology, and even if nerves run high, enter the session with as much emotional neutrality as you can gather. One psychic’s guide to avoiding fake psychics and scam artists makes the same point from the professional side of the table.
Fun story: as a psychic medium myself, I recently booked a reading on a whim. The reader opened by asking what I do for work. “I’m a cultural arts liaison for Spain,” I cheekily replied. “Hmm, interesting, I see you work in the arts. What about your father, do you have a good relationship with him?” “Couldn’t be better. Every relationship takes work, but we communicate well and there’s an abundance of love!” She looked perplexed, not entirely dissimilar to a child losing the first round of go-fish. “That’s not what I picked up. Was there a time when you did not get along with your father?” My eyes rolled so hard I let out an audible sigh.
I lovingly call these readers sham-wows. They’ll soak up as much information as they can before wringing you out to dry.
What Is the Best Way to Prepare for an Evidential Mediumship Reading?
The bedside-paper trick your spirit guides will thank you for.
Want maximum validation from your session? Here is the single best preparation technique I can offer any client:
- Write out 3 to 5 questions on a piece of paper.
- Leave the paper face up (questions up) by your bedside for a minimum of 24 hours.
- Do not audibly ask these questions during the reading.
- Let the psychic answer them intuitively.
This exercise delivers maximum validation of life beyond death and your life path. The mechanism: your spirit guides communicate more effectively with the psychic’s spirit guides when given time to do so. Psychics receive messages clairvoyantly, as quick flashes of high-speed imagery we must catch, decipher, and convey, a process remarkably close to playing charades. Blinded research on anomalous information reception suggests real information can arrive this way without a single verbal cue.
Feel free to tell your reader the questions exist, just never voice them. The technique works best in readings of 30 minutes or more, since slipping into a receptive state takes time. Need inspiration? Here’s my list of the best questions to ask a psychic.
How Do You Spot a Fake or Fear-Based Psychic?
If they mention a curse, grab your wallet and run.
Are you a starseed child? Do you feel like you never fit into this world? Have you been cursed? Has your family been cursed? Is a demon controlling your life? Did your past life cause this lifetime’s misfortune? Are you out of union with your twin flame? Is your ex thinking of you, and can they help you win them back?
Hear any of these from someone claiming to be a psychic medium or tarot reader? RUN. Give them no money, and if you already did, cut your losses and block all communication. The only control you’re under is the dark influence of fear from a sham-wow. Fear tactics manipulate potential clients into vulnerability so the “reader” can establish dominance and keep you paying. Consumer watchdogs at AARP document exactly how these psychic scams escalate from cheap readings into thousands of dollars in “curse removal.”
More guidance on finding the real thing lives in this roundup of tips for finding the best psychic mediums.
What Should a Great Psychic Reading Leave You With?
You’re a powerful entity having a human experience.
Every moment on earth is a miracle, and you are a living, breathing one. This physical realm is a gift to experience. Your family, even those no longer in your immediate life, are part of a soul-contract to learn lessons of love while here. Demons and dark entities live within egotistical thoughts and selfish emotions, nowhere else. Curses may exist, but the only power they hold over you is the power you hand them. Starseeds and twin flames are the vocabulary of low-vibration manipulation; you belong here, and you are unique. You chose this world of physical form to learn the depth of love.
We are all one being of light fractioned into countless forms. Help your fellow earthlings and you heal yourself. Give selflessly, love unconditionally, truly listen, sit in stillness, and breathe in a blinding white light around you.
A great psychic reading should empower you with some or all of the following: gentle, unconditional love; clarity about your life path; an immediate sense of tranquility; specific details as evidence of life beyond death; lifted spirits; a reminder of who you truly are; and a sense of real strength you carry out the door.
Two final words of advice. First, don’t inquire about the lives of others; peering into someone’s life without consent is unethical, and your reading is about you. Second, there’s no such thing as a psychic emergency. Clairvoyance isn’t on tap like cheap beer; it takes dedicated preparation to enter a state of mental and emotional reception. You’re ultimately paying for a reader’s time, and no one can guarantee what comes through. If we could, we’d all be lottery winners.
Ready to experience an evidential reading done right? Book a Tarot Medium reading with me here. For a bonus perspective, enjoy this video from world-renowned Australian psychic medium Denise Litchfield.
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Chris Bennett is an internationally recognized psychic medium and tarot reader, widely considered one of the best in the world. Through The Tarot Medium, he reads exclusively online for clients across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, with more than 200 published articles and hundreds of five-star reviews to his name. His work blends evidential mediumship with the grounded symbolism of Tarot, always as a supplement to good therapy rather than a replacement for it.
