Long Island Psychic Community Reflections

Late August 2025 and I’m smelling the Fall season approaching as the temperature drops to something that is finally pleasant! Doing readings during the Fall is something that I look forward to every year. Halloween…The Season of the Witch. My favorite!

I’m typing away on my iPad after hours of reflecting on my early days with my practice. 2018 to 2019. This was all so new to me. I had no idea what I was doing except just accepting anyone who wanted a reading, driving to appointments, charging only $60, and going through a crash-course in Psychism instructed by Higher Mind.

The foundation of my work today is pretty much the same as 2018/2019. All I do is make the intention to read and then I just report on the impressions that I receive. What differs in the present-day are my knowledge, perceptions, self-esteem, boundaries, and desires.

I wanted to read everyone back in those days. I wanted to go out in the world, or should I specify just Long Island, and I wanted to help everyone. The innocence! The 0 Fool energy was necessary for me to learn and then 0 Fool travels through the rest of the Major Arcana and experiences growth, setbacks, gains, and losses.

I found myself stumbling on a site by someone who had a psychic fair that I participated back in 2018. I learned today that this person passed away. I remember the phone call in which I spoke to her and I was invited to try-out for the fair. An audition basically. I arrived at the hotel after driving an hour or so right after work. I can even recall what I wore and the thick hair that was on my head! Youth and 0 Fool. Now I’m basically bald by choice to get used to the Wheel of Time taking more and more of my hair away each day.

I remember that particular audition so clearly. I was…let’s say I was a bit cocky. This was around March or April of 2018 and Higher Mind sent me clients who were very open and easy to read. Then Higher Mind progressed me through more difficult curriculums and exposed me to varying environments to read in and vastly different clients compared to the first year.

This audition…I sat at the table with my crossed arms and just wanting to get done with it. I was awake since 4:30am because I went to the gym very early before work and all I wanted to do was to get home since the drive to the audition was nowhere close to home.

I think there were 5 readings set up. I’d say 3 out of 5 were excellent. One of the readings were more difficult because of the person I read and I was exhausted. This was definitely one of the first lessons in which I learned how my energy levels and tiredness influence my skills which makes sense since PSI talents are like any other skills and talents. The other reading that was subpar was…whatever. The person who ran the fair called me after the audition and said I passed with the required “90%” accuracy. I was also informed that the one “client” who I read that was “whatever” was a real ass hole and did not understand the Board Game and was a fucking prick to all of the readers.

I remember sitting next to an older woman who sat on my left. She had her entire table decorated with cloths and decks and crystals. She boasted about reading people all day and night until 10pm. She had a very smug look on her face every time she glanced over at me and I could tell she was judging me. Oh lord. This definitely showed me the competitiveness on Long Island and how I do not want to be a part of that culture. I was not and I am not doing this work to be in a competition. This particular fair was also like something many “psychics” wanted to read at because of the person who created and ran the fair. Politics. Celebrity. Just…I don’t give a shit about being popular. Anyhow…let’s just say that I did not see the woman who sat on my left at the fair so who knows if she “passed her audition.”

Yeah, Long Island is incredibly competitive in the psychic field. I wrote about this many times. I just have no interest or drive to be seen by everyone nor have the world validate me nor even be any form of a local celebrity. This is why I am just trying to be the grandma who reads you in her kitchen. I also essentially do read people in my kitchen since my computer desk is basically in my kitchen.

Learning of this person’s passing was sad. I remember talking to her on the phone when she informed me that I was accepted to read at the fair. I was just sharing how my skills expanded, I have no idea what I’m doing except intending to read, and I am very new to the scene. She shared that everything comes through one’s frame of reference and spoke about examples of Psychic Amnesia. She was very lovely, a tough cookie, and I will always appreciate her talking to me.

This was pretty much the last exposure I had to the Long Island psychic industry. I stopped doing psychic fairs and restaurant readings completely as 2019 ended. I may have done one or two restaurant readings post 2020. I definitely did because I remember reading outside at a restaurant in 2021.

It’s just too competitive and everyone wants that Celebrity Status. Well, I shouldn’t say everyone, but a great deal of people I was exposed to were trying to be the next Long Island Medium. Gross.

Learning of this person’s passing was a tool of reflection for me today. The 0 Fool’s journey. The travels into the unknown. How I was somewhat a little cocky bitch, a fire lit under my ass to be a part of L.I’s psychic community, and then I learned…I engaged more with my inner work…I acquired more knowledge…I changed course.