Apr. 2026 Musing on Practice

April Muse: Practice

Animal communication is a practice. Just like any skill, the more you practice the better you can become.  In the process of practice, I become more focused and skilled at receiving information and sharing with accuracy. I notice where there are gaps and pursue continuing education in those areas. 

There are subtle differences among skills that are lumped into the category of intuitive arts. This post is my best effort to articulate the nuances.  

The foundation of my work is telepathic communication, which is serving as a bridge between living beings. I specialize in animal communication. It is most comparable to a human translator who acts as a bridge for folks who don’t share a common language. These skills also apply to my work with oracle cards. The cards are simply a tool for sharing elements in your energy field that you may or may not have the practice to access and consider.

My daily practice also includes mediumship. This is a conversation where I serve as a conduit between worlds for people who have animal friends across the rainbow bridge. In addition to daily practice, I have formal training and continuing education specific to telepathy and mediumship.

 The third distinction is Psychic, which is outside my scope of practice. I’ll say more about that at the end of this post.

Communicators, Mediums and Psychics share overlapping foundational skills. I believe all humans have receptive skills in the form of intuition. Some choose to focus and expand on their intuition to develop specific skills, sometimes called the “clairs.” Clairsentient, clairaudient, clairvoyant are examples of different sensory channels to receive information. Each of them can be nurtured and practiced to expand awareness and be receptive to information.

The next level of overlapping skills is the ability to work from a clear and un-interrupted energetic space. Intuitive practitioners must learn and practice the art of silencing the ego and analytical mind. The clearer the conduit, the more volume of information can travel through.

The next level of practice, and the start of differentiation, is developing skills to receive, identify and sort the information coming through. What is the information? Can I differentiate the frequency and resonance? How do I verify that the message I am receiving, and is it intended for the person seeking information?

As practitioners develop and understand the nature of their own receptivity, they can focus and expand their skills in daily practice with clients. In addition to the actual skills that create a clear conduit, there is a level of fitness that layers into the mix. I practiced and verified animal communication for a full year before I actually started charging for sessions. I had to have some core fitness to manage the energy and to stay focused and clear between conversations. This is for the accuracy of the conversation and for my own wellbeing to have a sustainable practice. 

It is a very deliberate process to practice, reflect and understand how many conversations I can facilitate in a particular block of time. I can not predict what will come up in conversation. Energy might come through the channel like a random shower of sparkly bits, a laser beam or a flame thrower.  I have to have to maintain a level of fitness to receive and translate whatever shows up.  Then,  I have to clear space and enter into the next appointment with a clear and open invitation. This type of fitness develops with practice.

Working with people who have lost an animal companion is a flamethrower experience for me. The person seeking their animal is stressed. The animal may be lost, injured or confused and is probably also stressed. There are likely a number of good Samaritans who are out looking and reporting potential sightings. There could be an entire community online sending energy into the situation. The animal is sharing significant landmarks or moments in their experience. These notes require an element of time to make sense in context.  Time is a construct of our current reality and less relevant in telepathic and medium energy spaces. It requires a very high level of fitness, practice and specific skillset to receive, sort, focus, report and ask the best questions that will contribute to the search and rescue efforts to recover a lost animal companion.

My daily practice as an animal communicator is like staying fit and competitive as a sprinter or relay runner. Lost animal work is more like a cross-country marathon. It is still a type of running, but requires a different set of skills and level of fitness to cover the variations in terrain and distance to the finish line.

So, back to the nuance among the titles for individuals in the intuitive arts. My distinction is how each specialist will verify and validate in a session. With telepathic communication, validation is relatively concrete in lived experience. With mediumship there is a sense of connection or familiarity that contributes to validation based on information shared in the conversation. Finally in the realm of psychic exchanges, there may be a delay or processing or additional connection that must happen to make sense of, or validate the information, especially if there are any predictions made in the process of the exchange.

Psychic seems to be the umbrella term for intuitive professionals.  I prefer to be more specific. Practitioners are likely to have a scope of practice built around their specific aptitude and skills they develop and practice. Be sure to understand they type of information you are seeking and don’t hesitate to ask the practitioner about their area of expertise or scope of practice.

Power Animal: Owl

Owl is the undisputed specialist of intuitive development and meditative stillness. A master observer and receiver, Owl medicine is for listening, receiving and honoring inner wisdom related to the information being considered.

Owls fly silently. Silence creates space for stillness to observe lessons and gather insight. Silence can be a teacher and a lesson. Sometimes the most profound insights don’t arrive with force or analysis, they land like an owl, without any sound at all.