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Your subconscious soul is a brilliant playwright, director, and producer who uses the symbols stored in your mind, and some physicists theorize, in universal awareness, to communicate complex ideas quickly and succinctly. These images spring to life in multisensory plays with plots, settings, and characters that speak to you on many levels and in ways you can understand.

No one can interpret your inner imagery better than you can, as it comes from your life experiences and their associations with specific symbols. Your psyche uses these symbols as a kind of shorthand to telegraph richly meaningful messages to you.

For example, if you are reading for someone else and see an image of a house surrounded by a picket fence, your interpretation will depend on what this image means to you. You may have lived in such a house and had an idyllic childhood—or a miserable one. What you are seeing, then, may indicate the same situation for the client as what you experienced, or it may simply mean that the next few intuitive impulses will relate to the person’s childhood.

Could it also indicate that the person is living in such a house right now? Of course it could! Such is the ambiguity of psychic symbolism. Because of this ambiguity, it’s best for the new psychic reader to merely report what arises, unless the imagery is accompanied by a distinct sense of inner certainty (and even then, the wise speaker says tentatively, “I feel” or “I get a sense”).

It’s also possible that the symbols you see and sense are not part of your inventory at all and instead mean something to the listener, since it’s his or her reading. In both cases, it’s best to allow the story to emerge, image by image, until the meaning is clear.

If the listener has no idea of the meaning and you suspect that you do, share what you know. Couch it as, “This is what I feel/suspect/guess is the meaning.” Perhaps your insights are correct or will stir comprehension in the listener.

Paying attention to your dreams will better acquaint you with your symbol system. When a minister friend of mine shows up in a dream, I know the dream refers to my spiritual life. Similarly, the appearance of the color green, coupled with pictures of outdoor scenes and a tingling feeling in my palms, tells me that the recipient of the reading is a healer (the tingling in my hands indicates that idea) or a gardener, farmer, or landscaper who works outdoors in some way.

How you give a psychic reading is entirely your own choice. As in everything else, you will learn from your mistakes. I prefer to report—at least early in the reading—only what I see, hear, feel, and even taste, touch, and smell without giving any interpretation until other images tell the full story. I might say to the listener: “I see the color green and my hands are tingling, so I sense that you either work outdoors or are a healer. Let me see what else I can get about this . . . .” Then I will be quiet again while receiving the next few clarifying images, which will explain what the reading is about and what it means. (But that’s my way!) Follow your own path, which you will discover with every step forward.