Shawna didn’t know that she was psychic until she was nine years old, when she realized that she could see auras or, in nine year old terms, “colorful lights around people’s heads”. She knew she was different and was gifted with the ability to “see”, but she didn’t fully develop this gift until she was in her mid thirties, and her life turned upside down.

In her early thirties, Shawna had a nine month old baby and was pregnant with her second, when she became a single mom. At this point she worked as an accountant, and in her spare time, did psychic readings for friends and family. In lieu of a fee, Shawna asked for feedback, so that she herself could learn from the readings.

Eventually she quit accounting and was able to support her family with the money she made from psychic readings. People come to Shawna from all over the world — from Japan and Switzerland and Norway, mostly with questions about relationships, finance, health and spiritual wellness. Some want to connect with family and friends who have passed on, and for Shawna, it doesn’t matter what the question is, the ultimate goal is the same — to help guide her clients to find their peace and truth. She makes a CD recording for her clients during their appointment, so that they can really spend the time to understand and absorb the message they have been given. Shawna offers appointments by phone or in person.

It doesn’t matter what your religion is, Shawna has a strong love for all religious beliefs and aspects, and believes that religion is not a barrier. The point is to make a connection with truth that enables you to live your best possible life.

Shawna has spent a lifetime devoted to helping people find the healing and peace that they seek.
She has been serving as a professional Psychic for over 21 years now. Along with being a Gifted Intuitive, she is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Spiritual Counselor and Feng Shui Practitioner.

Shawna is celebrating a new office and is offering her services for ½ off the usual price to all new clients in the month of March.

You may be skeptical, but when you find yourself with questions that you cannot fathom or answer, or if you feel like you need help with connecting to a source of wisdom, Shawna will give you strong support and a valuable second opinion. Shawna says “Always trust your intuition and for a back-up plan…Call Shawna.”

She is easy to contact via website (www.divineknowing.com) or shawna.psychic@roadrunner.com
Calls can be made to (800) 566-9464.

What’s a typical day like?
I begin my day with meditation and yoga to align my body, mind and spirit to become one. After the morning meditation, I am ready to be a psychic and a healer. It’s actually something I do every day whether I’m on the job or not. On the job, I return calls and set appointments with local and international clients. These people call mainly to book appointments for the readings. Most of my readings are done over the phone. Before the psychic appointment or reading, I enter into meditation. Clients can ask questions on any subject or time frame they are curious about. The usual questions I get are related to health, romance, family, career, business investments and important life decisions of past present and future. People are concerned that telephone readings aren’t as accurate as in person. It is as accurate either way. Local clients find it convenient, but the international clients have no choice but to do it over the phone. Some would come to me because they want to experience the session in person.

However, hypnotherapy and healing are done only in person. With hypnotherapy, clients can look into an illness and gain clarity as to why they may be having difficulty healing. For the clients’ comfort and safety, I would never hypnotize anybody long distance. In my spare time, I write articles for By The Numbers, a metaphysical magazine in Issaquah, Wash. I also have appeared on KVMT radio station in Vail, Colo., to do readings. Presently, I am working on getting on a radio station in Orange County.

SEEING THE LIGHT: ‘I really didn’t choose this kind of work at first’ psychic consultant and healer Shawna Casteel said. ‘It chose me.’

How many hours a week do you work?
Five to ten hours per week. My hours vary greatly. I set my hours around my family life. I have clients who call me on a regular basis. How did you get your job? What’s your background? I really didn’t choose this kind or work at first. It chose me. Professionally, I started five years ago. Ever since I was a child, I thought everybody could see the pretty lights commonly referred to as “the human aura.” By the age of 9 , I became aware that not everybody can see what I can. Although I was familiar with intuition since childhood. I had a couple of remarkable experiences as a child and then again as an adult which helped me realize my gifts. I began to know things for others and feel their illness or their pain.

When I became aware of my gifts, I was extremely excited to further my studies and  practice. I am a licensed minister. I have a Reiki Masters Degree, which is a form of hands-on healing. I have studied Barbara Brennan’s healing method. Brennon is the author of “Hands of Light” and “Light Emerging”. What do you like most about your job? I like to help people find greater peace, happiness and prosperity. I enjoy being good in what I do.

What would you change about your job if you could?
Nothing. How can you improve on a job that’s heaven sent?

What’s the most amusing or embarrassing thing that’s ever happened on the job?
One of my most frequent clients is an old boyfriend who called me regarding his romantic relationship. It’s just amusing to do a romantic reading on someone that you used to have a romantic relationship with. I am constantly amazed by how psychic activity works, especially when clients have something told to them that they may think is impossible and later call me to relate the accuracy of the reading. It also amazes me when I witness the healing process.

What advice would you give to someone who wants a job like yours?
I am thankful and blessed to be born with this psychic ability. I believe everyone is born with some gift of intuition. Through study it can be cultivated just like playing the violin. Talk to other professionals in the field. Take classes from a reputable teacher. I do offer classes in Orange County.

What’s been the biggest hurdle you faced on the job and how did you overcome it?
Getting past my desire for clients to receive answers to what they want rather than the correct information. Through Years of practice I have overcome this desire. Another hurdle is the language barrier with my foreign clients.

Shawna Casteel remembers the exact moment her life changed. She was 9 years old, and she was listening to some of her family talking excitedly about Kirlian photography (the photographing of auras), a new technology that was just being developed.

“Some people can even see the aura.” They said in wonder. Casteel thought “I’m ‘Some People’ – really?”

To make sure, she asked her uncle if an aura was like the yellow light she saw around his head. The entire family greeted this discovery with excitement. Little Shawna could see auras!

The girl’s reaction was quite the contrary. “Oh, no” she thought, “I’m different.”

It was many years before she accepted this “difference.”  As she was growing up, she sometimes just knew things for no reason at all, or she had visions that told her things that otherwise she could not know. Her mother told her that was her intuition.

“Use it and respect it, and it’ll always be there for you.” She told her daughter.

The girl grew up to be a spiritual woman. Raised as a Methodist, she was devoted to her church. She married and had a son. But it was later, when she became pregnant with her daughter, that Casteel really became understood the extent of her abilities.

I would look at someone and feel an illness in my body (where he had an illness), or feel an emotional pain (like the one he was feeling).”

Though it didn’t really bother her to know that this was a gift not everyone has, neither was she comfortable with the experience. She felt, she says, as if she were eaves-dropping.

“I’d be standing in line at the grocery store, and know what someone’s marriage was like, what their kids were like.”  It was overwhelming. After praying for guidance, she decided that she would meditate for people when they wanted her to, and tell them what she saw and heard and felt, and at other times, she would just switch her ability off and stop the flow of information.

“It’s about boundaries.” She said. “I don’t just go up to people and say, “I’m kind of intuitive…Are you thinking about getting a new car?

The Tustin resident has been working as a professional psychic for about seven years now but the transition from accountant to psychic and single mother wasn’t easy. While other psychics lay out cards, or read palms, Casteel says she goes into a trance. She tunes into her client, and relays what Spirit (what she refers to as God) has to say. The trance  itself is induced by meditative prayer.

When she first started doing readings for clients she too used cards. That is, she always brought out a pack of cards she planned to lay on the table but then she would slip into a trance with the cards still folded in prayer. “I’d start talking, and didn’t ever lay the cards out” she recalls. “The information just began to flow through me” She describes a trance as dream-like, noting that she recalls some parts of the dream if she wants to discuss them with the client after the reading, but that when the client leaves, the dream leaves with him.

In her meditative prayer, she asks for information that will be for the client’s “highest and best good,” but occasionally she does have to tell the client something he won’t want to hear; he won’t get the job, his marriage is indeed failing, or a car accident appears. But, explains, she always adds advice to help change the negative outcome to something positive. In the forest, she notes, wherever a poisonous plant grows, its antidote grows just a few feet away. “Even our fate can be affected by our faith,” she says. If she feels that a car accident is imminent, she recommends using a different car for a few days or weeks. Just that small change can be enough to change the timing and avoid the accident, she says. “That’s what my readings really specialize in.” she declares.

It took her a long time to completely trust her intuition, however. Sometimes she received information that she didn’t understand, and it sounded so off-the-wall that she didn’t want to tell her client. Eventually she did, and she relates that the client often replied, “That makes so much sense.” Information that came through while she was in trance led her to further research. She read up on Aromatherapy, for instance. When information received in trance seemed to recommend certain plant essence oils to a client. In this way, by  fits and starts, her abilities and knowledge have expanded into different areas.

Casteel is a member of the Feng Shui Guild and acts as a consultant in the Chinese art of furniture arranging to maintain a positive energy flow. She is a Reiki Master as well as a teacher of Reiki, a Japanese practice with roots dating back to pre-World War II. The term means “universal life force energy.” And is a system of channeling energy for the purpose of healing. (Both of Casteel’s children study Reiki as well.)

She has been a member of the Orange County Society for Psychic research for four years, and founded the National Association of Psychic Professionals and the American Association of Psychic Professionals and the American Association of Hands on healers. She is also an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church. “I studied everything I could get my hands on. I wanted to Just understand,” she explains. Casteel emphasizes that she does not believe she is unique In having such abilities, only in her fuller use of them than most people make.

That is because, she explains, she is more likely to act on her intuition than many others are. “In order to be a good psychic, you have to stick your neck out,” she says simply. She has clients as far away as Norway and Japan, but it is a U.S. client whose story has stayed with her. The woman’s son had been clipping a hedge in the yard when he suddenly ran to the door of the house, toward his mother, and fell down dead. The autopsy showed nothing unusual, and the cause of his death remained a mystery. The mother called Casteel to find out if her son had wanted to tell her something.

Casteel saw a vision of a box on the second shelf down from the top left corner of the shelves in his room. She described the box and its location, and told the woman that there she would find everything he wanted her to know. The woman went to her son’s room and, after some searching, found the box. Inside was a poem he had written for her, perhaps for Mother’s Day. “That was what he wanted her to know,”

Again if you are questioning fidelity in your relationship, there is a reason.

Has he been unfaithful in the past?

It would be a good idea to ask yourself if this is a trust issue within you, or if something is creating clues and causing doubt?

More questions are not what you want but it is very important to look at the source of your doubt. My last question to you would be…Are you truly ready to know the truth?

You probably know the answer in your heart already.

“Always trust your intuition…for a backup plan…call Shawna”

1-800-KNOWING

To attract love keep these things in mind.

♥ Just two decorative pillows on the bed please. This represents two of you. More pillows indicates either no room for a guest if your single or an unwanted third person if you are in a committed relationship.
♥ Always treat both sides of the bed equally. Even if no one is presently using your bed with you it must be inviting. Make sure it is easy to access the other side of the bed. No clutter and not up against the wall. Make sure both sides of the bed have a night stand.
♥ Avoid pictures of kids and others in this sacred sensual room.
♥ Please no gym equipment or office space, unless romance is not your focus.
♥ To attract love into your life, think in terms of twos, pairs of any item. You might choose two red candles for attracting something hot and steamy or white if you are marriage minded. It really matters what it symbolizes to you.
♥ If you find love is getting a bit dull here are a couple of hints. Two sparklers in a vase (yes the kind you light up on the 4th of July).

‘always trust your intuition… for a backup plan…call Shawna’

1-800-KNOWING