Frequently Asked Questions
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What is a Mystical Card Deck?

A Mystical Card Deck is a tool used to connect you with a consciousness larger than yourself. Often called your soul or your higher consciousness, it’s the aspect of you which remains in a higher vibrating, non-physical state. It’s the divine (Christ) consciousness that resides within YOU.

What is a Mystical Experience?

What is a Mystical Experience? A Mystical experience is a state of consciousness that is sacred, unexplained, and beyond the physical world. It is a profound inner knowing that cannot be fully explained by logic or ordinary perception. It’s a connection to something larger than your physical self.

How does the Mystical Card Deck work?

Each card contains original abstract art that presents different images, symbols, animals, etc. for each viewer. What presents itself is unique to the viewer. Most often you will not see what another person sees in the same painting.

How are Oracle Cards and Tarot Cards different from Mystical Cards?

Oracle cards are similar in they are intended to help the reader access inner wisdom, receive clarity, or connect with higher guidance. But unlike a Mystical Card Deck, the Oracle Deck will be based on one theme (for ex: animals, angels, chakras, etc), are meant to be used in a step-by-step process, and are guidance focused (the meaning comes from the guidebook). Tarot Card Decks on the other hand, always contain 78 cards, and have a fixed structure and meaning.

What is Pour Painting and why is it so magical?

Pour Painting is an intuitive art form where you literally pour paint on a canvas, let it flow, spill, and swirl. You choose the colors but once the paint hits the canvas, it becomes alive. It moves in ways you cannot fully control. As the colors blend and merge, the painting creates itself. It’s a process of surrender. Its creation guided by energy and intuition.

What’s special about your own Pour Painting?

When you create your own Pour Painting, the result carries your energy, your emotion, your intention, and your unique creative signature in a way no one else can replicate. As you pour the paint onto the canvas, you’re infusing the paint with your vibration. Your painting becomes a snapshot of your soul’s frequency and in that, lies a message. Your original abstract art will present images, symbols, animals, etc. specifically for you. What presents itself is your unique message. It can provide clarity, guidance, or direction for a new path. This is your inner guidance system, your intuition, speaking to you loud and clear.

What is the difference between a Psychic Reading and a Mediumship Reading?

Although both involve intuitive abilities, they tap into different sources of information and serve different purposes. A Psychic Reading focuses on your energy – your past, present, and potential future. A Psychic tunes into your aura, emotions, life path, current situations, blocks, patterns, etc. They read the energetic field around YOU. A Mediumship Reading focuses on connecting with Spirit – specifically loved ones who have passed on. A Medium raises their vibration to create a bridge of communication with those in non-physical realms.

How do distance readings work?

Distance readings work because energy is not limited by physical space. Intuition, psychic connection, and spiritual communication don’t rely on being in the same room – they rely on tuning into vibration, intention, and energetic resonance. Just as a phone can carry a voice across the world, intuitive practitioners can tune into someone’s energy from any distance. For distance readings, Diane prefers to meet over zoom or skype.

What is an Energy Clearing?

Throughout daily life, we unconsciously absorb energy from a variety of sources including stress, conflict, other people, environments, etc. An Energy Clearing is a practice that removes heavy, stagnant, or blocked energy from a person’s body. This practice washes the energetic body – your aura, chakras, emotional field, and subtle vibration. An Energy Clearing releases low vibration energy to make room for clarity, balance, and peace. This is especially helpful to those with chronic anxiety and depression.

What are chakras?

Chakras are energy centers within the body that influence your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. They are gateways where life-force energy enters, moves through, and expresses itself in your body and aura. When they’re blocked or unbalanced, you may feel stuck, drained, anxious, scattered, or disconnected. It’s important to clear blocked energy from your body and balance your chakras on a regular basis. This will allow you to feel clarity, emotional stability, aligned, connected and grounded.