Types of readings, from clairvoyance to angel cards

Readers advertise a menu of gifts and formats. Here is the whole menu, translated.

The three clairs

Clairvoyance — clear seeing. The reader reports mental images: places, faces, scenes. Clairaudience — clear hearing: names, phrases, fragments of speech. Clairsentience — clear feeling: moods, pains, atmospheres, often described as picking up what a person or house feels like. Most working readers claim a blend, with one dominant. The trio is a taxonomy of experience, not evidence about its source — psychologists note the same imagery, inner speech and felt-sense are ordinary features of imagination.

Mediumship

A medium claims to relay communication from the dead. Sessions run as a chain of offered details — a name letter, a cause of death, a shared memory — with the sitter confirming or declining each. Mediumship is emotionally the heaviest format and commercially the most fraught: the customer is grieving, hope does the validating, and a hit can feel miraculous while the misses evaporate from memory. If you go, go with the price fixed and a friend's number handy.

Card systems

Tarot is the structured one: seventy-eight cards with centuries of stable meanings, laid in spreads where position changes sense. Oracle decks are free-form — any theme, any count, meanings printed on the card. Angel cards are oracle decks with an angelic frame; an angel reading is usually an oracle reading with the guidance attributed upward. The structure of tarot is why it dominates serious practice: it gives reader and sitter a shared board to think on.

Remote viewing

Borrowed from Cold War research programmes, remote viewing claims perception of distant scenes. The US government ran such a programme for two decades and closed it after review found no usable intelligence. In commercial psychic work the term mostly signals a reader who likes the laboratory register.

Choosing between them

Pick by the conversation you actually want. Decision-sorting suits tarot's structure. Comfort in grief is mediumship's territory — enter with the cautions on the front page. And for self-reflection with no third party at all, a dream journal does much of what a reading does, free.