A Guide to Strengthening and Using Your Psychic Powers
Developing your psychic powers can be hard, but actually strengthening and them and using them is whole other story. Actually building and developing your powers is rather simple compared to actually practicing them.
To practice your psychic powers, you must physically use them, which can be extremely difficult for someone who has never used their abilities before. However, after you become used to using your powers, it will seem natural and easy, like it was something you’ve been doing all your life, like painting, singing, or playing a sport.
And even though the mystical world of psychics seems very different from everyday things like painting, singing, or playing a sport, they are actually quite similar. Just like these things, you must train your mind and body to learn and use your psychic powers.
But the question is, how? Practicing your psychic powers isn’t something you can learn in school, and it can be difficult to find instructions for such a thing on the internet as well. You might end up getting some expensive book that turns out to be nothing but a hoax.
Fortunately, there’s a free and easy way to discover the in and outs of psychic powers, and it’s right here! Continue reading for some fun games and tips for using and strengthening your psychic powers!
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It’s important to remember that any kind of performance pressure, negative energy or nervousness will interfere with your abilities. If you haven’t already read it, check out 5 easy tips for preparing to develop your psychic powers. If have already prepared yourself for developing your psychic powers, it’s on to the next step.
Practice and explore in the spirit of play.
Psychic Games and Tests
There are some great games out there dedicated to improving your psychic powers. Below I’ve made a list including good games you can play with friends, games you can play online, and games you can play on your own.
Psychic Games to Play on Your Own
Toss a dice, and before it lands, close your eyes and try to guess what number it lands on. Use more than one dice to make it even harder!
Get a small object and place it on a table. Use your psychic powers to try to move it. Use bigger objects to make the game harder!
Psychic Games to Play with Friends
(Game requires at least 2 people) Give everyone a slip of paper and a pencil, and have all of them stand around a large blank wall. One person will try to visualize a simple shape and project it on to the wall, while the rest of the group tries to see it. Everybody will then draw on their paper what they saw. This will continue until everybody has visualized something. You get one point for every time someone gets yours correctly, and when you gets someone else’s correctly.
(Game requires 2 people) Both players will rub their hands together for at least 10 seconds. Then they will put their hands together and slowly back away. The point of this game is to see how long you can sense the other person’s energy while being separated.
Practice your powers daily. Practising daily will not only make you feel more relaxed, but your powers will skyrocket!
Don’t over practice your powers. While you should still practice daily, over practicing your powers can lead to fatigue, headaches and weakened psychic powers.
Your powers are like muscles. Overworking them will eventually exhaust them to the extent where they become too weak and stressed to function.
Meditate often, and especially before practicing and testing your psychic powers. Meditation has been proved to not only lengthen and cut down on stress in your life, but to expand and strengthen your powers as well!
Once you start to see an increase in psychic phenomena in your life, you can start to apply this toward your horoscope readings and your birth chart information to interpret this information more meaningfully.
Many people don’t experience much luck in developing their psychic abilities. This is often because our psychic energy is in conflict with the way we live our modern day to day lives.
5 easy tips to gain strength in the mind and soul
It is commonly believed that that those who have psychic powers are simply born with them and there is no way one can develop them on their own.
This is in fact, is believed to be untrue. These otherworldly powers are considered to be a natural part of us, and were heavily practiced by all once upon a time. However, after many, many years of neglect, these enchanting talents became rare and unheard of. People even doubt with they’re real.
But even though the practice of these powers has been sadly abandoned, it is thought that most people still sport a trace of them, even if very small.
Have you ever had a dream that’s mysteriously come to life, or experienced Deja Vu? Or been the subject to more than one suspicious coincidence? You are likely unknowingly exercising your psychic powers.
But how can you control and expand these ancient skills? The first step is to prepare your mind and body and psyche. With these 5 easy tips, nearly anyone take the route to becoming a master psychic!
Develop a strong relationship between your mind and body
Developing a strong relationship between your mind and body is the first and most important step towards unlocking your psychic powers, and constructing your soul and spirit.
Think of it like a building. You cannot build the second floor without building the first. It’s the same with the relationship between your mind, body, and soul.
Meditation, particularly that which focuses on your breathing is the quickest and most effective route to developing a harmonious connection between your mind and body.
Relaxation exercises can also be very useful as well, since there is a direct link between the neural activity in your brain, how you feel and your body responses.
Release yourself from all negative energy
Giving yourself a positive outlook on life and acting optimistic when times are tough can drastically improve your happiness level, the length of your life, and of course, your psychic powers! Even just pretending to smile can increase your mood and make you feel happier!
However when people are feeling angry or down, there can be a certain sense of satisfaction from holding on to those bad feelings. This is why we indulge in complaining or going on “rants” about things that are bothering us. It feels like that we are somehow honouring ourselves and the injustices that we perceive have been made against us. But its not. These attitudes cloud both our perception and our perspective.
There are two ways to tackle this.
First, acknowledge that your attitudes are a position that you have chosen (even if unconsciously!). You are not powerless to negative energy. You don’t need to feel bad to prove that injustice has been made against you. You are not losing out by letting that negative energy go. You are benefiting from it in the long run. Second, you can release negative energy by seeking to understand others from a place of empathy.
Once you learn how to release negative energy you will start to feel a simultaneous detachment and connection to the world around you. The detachment means you are not so caught up and distracted by the mundane petty details life. The connection means you are in a more empathetic and tolerant place. Energy will be more attracted to you now and you will find yourself more aware and receptive to it.
Develop a healthier lifestyle
Believe it or not, making physical changes to your body can largely affect your mental health. Working out, especially low impact aerobic exercise can improve your mood and is even thought to reduce anxiety!
Eating healthy can not only give you needed energy, help you lose weight and prevent diseases, but it can also extend your life by a number of years!
But developing a healthier lifestyle is not only good for your physical health. A healthy lifestyle can sharpen your mind. Exercise can help you improve your self control; two of the major factors in developing your psychic powers!
Increase your self-control through repetitive tasks
This may not seem like a helpful tip, but practicing dull and repetitive tasks can hugely ameliorate your self control and willpower. This is an extremely important skill for those who want to grow and enhance their psychic powers.
Willpower is like a muscle. It can be worn out. This is why we are more likely to lose our tempers, or cheat on our diets in the evening. But like a muscle, science has also proven that it can be strengthened through practice, too.
Some dull and repetitive tasks are washing the dishes, folding laundry, doing math (if you’re a student at school who does not enjoy math – otherwise doing math might fit into your life for point 5!). Even volunteering to do a menial task even for an hour a week will help you. This kind of activity is not only good for increasing your psychic powers, it will serve you well in everyday situations.
Do what you love
Doing what you love with your whole heart can definitely strengthen your psychic powers, not to mention make you feeling happier. Whether it be painting, playing the piano, or simply hanging out with friends, it’s important to let loose at times and do what you want! This helps you be in tune with your purpose in life, and the more in tune you are with yourself, the more in tune you will be with the energy around you!
Some astrologers believe that your dominant planets and signs in your birth chart may have an even greater influence on you than your sun sign. Determining what your dominant planets and signs are is half the fun of reading your Birth Chart.
Most birth chart reports, including WeHoroscope’s reports, give you interpretations based on where the individual elements lie, but the interpreter needs to look beyond the report at the bigger picture to see how they all fit together.
Identifying these dominant planets and signs helps identify major themes in a person’s personality and life. (Learn about planetary aspects and astrological Houses in our article on how to interpret a birth chart.)
A planet is considered to be dominant if it lies in the sign that it rules on your birth chart.
For example, the ruling planet of Aries is Mars: if the planet Mars has an Aries background on the chart, Mars is a very powerful planet in your birth chart and would have a more powerful influence than other planets on the Birth Chart.
Below the Moon is considered to be a dominant planet in this chart
In this example, the Moon is considered a dominant planet because it lies in Gemini
Planets and Points in the Night Sky and their Symbols
Signs and the planet that rules them
Sign
Sign Symbol
Ruling Planet
Planet Symbol
Aries
♈
Mars (and/or Pluto)
Mars – ♂ Pluto – ♇
Taurus
♉
Venus
♀
Gemini
♊
The Moon
☽
Cancer
♋
Mercury
☿
Leo
♌
The Sun
☉
Virgo
♍
Mercury
☿
Libra
♎
Venus
♀
Scorpio
♏
Mars
♂
Sagittarius
♐
Jupiter
♃
Capricorn
♑
Saturn
♄
Aquarius
♒
Saturn (and/or Uranus)
Saturn – ♄ Uranus – ♅
Pisces
♓︎
Jupiter (and/or Neptune)
Jupiter – ♃ Neptune – ♆
2. Planets that fall on the Angular (or cardinal) houses
Astrological Houses
In astrology, the night sky is essentially divided up into 12 “houses” (starting at the “9 o’clock” position on the chart and heading counter-clockwise).
As the earth spins, the sun and other planets are in each of these houses for approximately two hours (as there are 24 hours in a day) as do other planets.
As astrology is an ancient art very grounded in our place in the universe and on earth, there are four points in the day that are considered most important and each is associated with a house:
Sunrise (Ascendent) – first house
Midday (Mid-Heaven) – fourth house
Sunset (Descendent) – seventh house
Midnight (lower-Heaven) – tenth house
These are known as Angular Houses.
In this chart, the Moon, Neptune, and Mars are considered dominant planets because they fall in angular houses. But the Moon is particularly powerful here because it also falls in Gemini, the sign it rules.
Angular Houses
Planets (each associated with their own signs) that fall on the Angular (or cardinal) houses are considered to have the greatest impact on a Birth Chart.
First House – Ascendant
You will often hear astrologers talk about Ascendants. That is because the planet that falls on the Ascendent can overshadow even the sun sign. The Ascendant often falls on the cusp of the first house on the chart. The first house influences the person’s personality and behavior.
Fourth House – Imum Coeli
Imum Coeli is often found near the cusp of the fourth house. The fourth house represents a person’s home and family. It has a strong parental aspect which also means it represents security.
Seventh House – Descendant
The Descendant is usually found near the cusp of the seventh house. It represents the kind of partners people are attracted to.
Tenth House – Mid-heaven
Mid-heaven is often near the cusp of the tenth house and refers to what we produce for the world and how we are seen by the world. This can refer to career, creative output, our vocation, etc. It can also relate to our children (since we create them).
3. Planet has a lot of aspects in relation to other planets
If a planet has a lot of significant aspects in relation to other planets, it can have a dominating influence on the Birth Chart.
Aspects
Aspects are the angles between the planets as seen from Earth (Earth being in the middle of the chart). In other words, if you map out your planets on your birth chart, you can literally create a triangle by drawing a line between them and back to Earth in the middle. This way you can give them an angle (remember geometry?) as it relates to your middle position of Earth.
So if one planet is at the 12 o’clock position, and another is at the 9 o’clock position and you draw lines between the two and also from the planets back to Earth, the degree of angle at Earth is 90 degrees (a square aspect).
How they relate to one another in your life has an impact on you and this is particularly fascinating.
Hard Aspects
Some aspects are called hard aspects, such as the square aspect, and signify challenges, conflicts, or energy blocks. These tend to be red on a birth chart.
Harmonious Aspects
Other aspects are called easy or harmonious aspects and these signify beneficial influences and potential, (although can also be taken too far if indulged too much). These are typically represented by green or blue.
It’s clear that there are areas of challenges in this person’s birth chart.
Aspect Relationships At A Glance
Often in a birth chart, you will also get a natal grid like this image below which can help you get an overview of the chart quickly.
This is just a different and less complex representation of the birth chart below. In the example below, you can quickly see the square that represents the relationship between the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Taurus. You can also quickly see which plants have more aspects than others.
Example
The difficulty between Sun and Moon is easy to see here, but this may not be as much of a difficulty as there is between the Moon and Jupiter, which is one of only two direct oppositions on this chart represented by the symbols in red in the grid.
4. Solitary in the Hemisphere
If the planet is the only planet in the hemisphere, then this can have a strong influence and therefore is considered a dominant planet in the chart.
The Southern Hemisphere is actually at the top of the birth chart. Simply stated this hemisphere is characterized by extraversion. The Northern Hemisphere is at the bottom of the chart and relates to introversion and the inner world. It is concerned with the outer world.
The Eastern Hemisphere relates to identity while the WesternHemisphere relates to other people and relationships.
Dominant Sign
1. The Sun Sign
The Sun sign is obviously an important one and the one we are most familiar with. When you learn you are a Capricorn or a Gemini for example, this refers specifically to your sun sign, meaning what constellation the sun was in front of when you were born.
This is not the same as where the sun passes through the houses during the day. Rather it is more specifically related to where the earth was in terms of orbiting the sun throughout the year.
2. Signs Representing Elements and Quadruplicities Groupings
Look at the signs that are the background of your planets in your birth chart. Each sign has both an Element (Earth, Water, Air, Fire) and Quadruplicities (Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable).
Typically you can see what element a sign is by its color on a birth chart. Fire signs are red, Air signs are orange, Earth signs are green. Water signs are blue.
Map them out in a chart similar to the one below. For example, if you have two planets in Aquarius, you could put a two in Aquarius’s box.
Fire
Air
Earth
Water
Cardinal
Aries
Libra
Capricorn
Cancer
Fixed
Leo
Aquarius
Taurus
Scorpio
Mutable
Sagittarius
Gemini
Virgo
Pisces
Typically you can see what element a sign is on a birth chart by its color.
Example
For example, in the example below, the table and the birth chart show more Fire signs than the others and more Mutable signs than the others. The sign that has both these qualities, in this case, is Sagittarius. Therefore Sagittarius is a dominant sign in this chart even though they have more planets in Virgo.
Fire
Air
Earth
Water
Score
Cardinal
Aries √√
Libra √
Capricorn –
Cancer √
4
Fixed
Leo √
Aquarius √
Taurus √
Scorpio √√
5
Mutable
Sagittarius √√
Gemini –
Virgo √√√
Pisces √
6
Score
5
2
4
4
Typically you can see what element a sign is on a birth chart by its color.
3. Ascendant’s ruler
You need to know your birth time to accurately get your ascendant’s degree. The ruler of your ascendant (or your Rising Sign) is the planet that rules over your ascendant sign – both planets and sign have a significant influence that should be considered.
If you don’t know the time you were born, you could try this app to do a birth chart rectification. It will take you through possible qualities and significant moments in your life to calculate possible times you were born.
4. Several planets in a sign
If several planets appear in the same sign, this sign has a powerful influence.
In this chart, Uranus, The Moon, Pluto, and Vertex are all in Virgo. Note the red lines here: these are “hard” (difficult) aspects with Chiron, Saturn, and Lilith which are in Pisces. The green lines suggest harmony and beneficial combinations.
Unlock hidden themes in your life through your birth chart
Regardless if you think astrology is merely mythological – authorities from many disciplines agree that fundamental mythological themes and archetypes are embedded into our culture. Astrology is one way to access what might otherwise be hidden from us.
A birth chart or a natal chart is a map of where the planets of our solar system are in relation to the stars at a moment in time. Ancients believed that the planets represented gods and attributed behaviors and events in the Universe to the forces that shaped life.
Carl Jung, the famous psychologist believed that the mythical archetypes are ingrained into the collective unconscious of the human species and that only the people who could understand themselves and the archetypes could avoid the pain and challenges of living out those same myths.
Today we can use a birth chart as a tool to examine how those themes might be impacting our life, allowing us to:
Avoid hidden pitfalls and making the same mistakes over and over
Take advantage of strengths we didn’t know we had
Learn how to protect our vulnerabilities and call on our warrior selves
Shape our destiny
Power-up our life!
Your first step is learning how to read the birth chart.
How to Interpret Your Birth Chart
On the birth chart you will find four main groups of information which are combined together and interpreted to give a more in-depth reading:
Planets (the main players) that we all have in our lives
Signs (the characteristics that infleunce your particular planets)
Aspects (defines the relationships between the planets) and our areas of stregths and challenges
Houses (areas of every day life) where these play out in our lives
Our birth chart report will give you interpretations by Allen Edwall about what a certain planet in a particular sign means, along with the aspects and houses.
However, to get a full picture, you need to interpret the details to get an idea of the bigger picture. Determining dominant planets and signs in a birth chart will give you the major themes of your life in particular.
We all have the same planets in our birth charts that represent areas of what it means to be human. But it’s where they are when we are born and puts us in sync with the life forces in the Universe. In a chart you will how your planets are position in relation to the signs, the Houses (arena of everyday life), and to each other.
To the ancients, the planets were gods in the sky. These gods lived out great dramas that reflected real human emotions and experiences. These planets are represented by symbols on the birth chart.
Planets represent mythological archetypes in our collective unconscious
Planets represent mythological archetypes in our collective unconscious.
We tend to think our sign is most important when it really is the planets and luminaries (sun and moon). In reality, your “sign” is the sign that is in the background of the Sun on your date of birth.
If you do NOT know the time of your birth, it is possible your moon sign may be inaccurate and the moon moves into different signs every two to three days. In that case, just make your best guess. But know that your moon will feel effects from the sign next to it in any case.
Signs on a birth chart lend characteristics to the planets that are in that sign
Astrology signs actually represent constellations of stars and some of their qualities come from the meaning of how their shapes were interpreted. They represent human qualities. Over thousands of years, these qualities have become embedded in our collective unconscious.
While the earth moves in relation to the stars, the earth and planets also move in relation to each other.
On any given day a constellation of stars will be in the background of a particular planet shaping areas of our life with particular characteristics that can cause us problems or work for us.
Given that the seasons really do change life for us all and those around us, and the time when we are born can affect how well we might resist or cope with certain health concerns, it has been away for humans to forecast possibilities for centuries by looking at the patterns in the sky. A planet appearing in a constellation (sign) meant various changes were coming.
It is the dominant planets and signs in your life that point to themes in your life, and this must be interpreted by you or an astrologer to get real meaning and actionable insights from your birth chart.
While each planet and the signs they are in have an influence, some signs are more dominant than others.
Aspects describe the quality of the relationship between the planets
Aspects on a birth chart represent the kind of relationship between the planets
Aspects are described by certain angles and established distances between the planets. The aspects are plotted between planets in your birth chart and represented by colored lines drawn within the circle.
Aspects and their Meaning
Hard aspects represent challenges, difficulties, and conflicts (represented by red lines on the birth chart).
Easy aspects represent opportunities for growth and development(represented by blue lines). There are many aspects to a birth chart but these below are the ones that appear to have the most influence on a person or event.
Opposition (separated by 180 degrees) represents difficulty
Square (located 90 degrees from each other) represents tension
Conjunction (8 degrees from each other) implies internal conflict
Trine (120 degrees apart) represents harmony.
Sextiles also are seen as beneficial.
Quincunx are less important but suggest the planets have nothing to do with one another. This could describe awkwardness or discord or lack of understanding. It may also suggest a denial or the tendency to compartmentalize.
In some charts, the planets are very close to one another. In this case, the qualities of planets are blended together.
Houses on a Birth Chart represent arenas of everyday life
There are 12 houses ** that are each numbered and each house represents a different aspect of everyday life such as career or family life. This allows astrologers to determine life situations where the particular planet’s influence may be felt in your life.
The four most powerful houses are the “Angular Houses” which are the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th houses. Planets near these houses are more powerful than others.
If there are no planets in a given house, it simply means that your life themes are not naturally defined by this aspect of life.
Houses and their meaning
First House
House of Self The Self Outward behavior: What is unique about an individual’s temperament, disposition, appearance, and level of self-awareness, identity
Second House
House of Value Reveals what is important to a person, morals, attitudes towards money and possessions, how they are acquired and used, priorities, work ethics
Third House
House of Communication Perception, thinking, communication, sibling relationships, and short journeys
Fourth House
Home and Family Home, roots, emotional foundations, views on security, has a bearing on parents, particularly the mother and nurturing.
Fifth House
House of Pleasure Governs creativity, children, romance, objects of one’s affection, child-like spirit, pleasures such as the holidays, the arts, sports, and gambling.
Sixth House
House of Health Work and health, service to the community, attitudes towards subordinates, health
Seventh House
House of Partnerships Feelings towards close relationships, marriages, not only emotional pairings but work relationships, drive for connection.
Eighth House
House of Death and Sex Life processes, including sex, conception, birth, and death. Also governs money or investment in others, as well as the inheritance of possessions or traditions. Can also represent the act of letting go, de-cluttering, letting go of the old to make way for the new.
Ninth House
House of Philosophy The search for meaning. Religion and philosophies, rules extensive journeys of the mind, body, and spirit and desire to explore outside of one’s own culture, Governs higher education, language, and law. Reflects the drive to organize information into systems.
Tenth House
House of Social Status Ambitions and the desire for a standing in our communities, the roles in our family and workplaces. Governs the parents, particularly the father and his relation to work.
Eleventh House
House of Friendships Friends, hopes, and wishes. Influences a person’s creativity in social situations and social awareness. It represents connection, selflessness, appreciation, empathy and trust, tolerance of others, and gratitude. It may also represent the ability to be one’s self.
Twelfth House
House of Self-Undoing Unconscious desires, secrets, gossip, fear, lies, envy, anger, feelings of helplessness, or trapped. Includes the denial of responsibility, personal power. Self-sacrifice, service to others, and the need for seclusion. It encompasses all kinds of confinement both in the world, and internally; including the privacy and unconscious, dreams, hidden problems, and. secret enemies.
** On the Birth Chart below, you will need to enter the time of your birth to determine what planets fall in which houses.
However, if you do not know your birth time, you can still use the chart; but you will miss out on some key information. All the aspects, planets, and the signs that are in the background will probably be correct, with a possibility of the moon and moon aspects being off, as the moon changes sign every two to three days.
Alternatively, if you don’t know the time you were born, you could try this app to do a birth chart rectification. It will take you through possible qualities and significant moments in your life to calculate possible times you were born.
Combining all the many elements of the birth chart to power-up your life
In life, we continue to make the same mistakes, get stuck in ruts, practice the same bad habits, or feel like something is missing. Our birth charts show us why that might be.
Interpreting how all of the elements together is an important part of the astrologer’s job, but you can do it as well.
Imagine that the planet Saturn was found in Aries in the first house. But it was the opposite (opposition aspect) to Mars in the seventh house of Libra. Astrologers might interpret this as a defining aspect of this birth chart. This interpretation might include a strong conflict between the desire to be alone and self-contained and the aggressive pursuit of others.
If you were to learn that this is part of a major theme in your life, you can take steps to ensure you get just the right amount of alone time or the right kind of experiences with people. Communicating this conflict may help significant people in your life understand you better and avoid taking your conflict personally creating more harmonious relationships.
Depending on the houses these conflicts fall in, instead of just letting fate direct people into your life, you can take steps to choose activities or career paths that you can excel at, like sales, leadership, therapy provider, politics leading to more abundance and success in life. Or you might take a more or less proactive role in your family life or love life leading to deeper more fulfilling relationships. It may even be affected by the thoughts and experiences you let yourself have in your mind, the kind of movies or books that satisfy you, or the kind of education that will excite you and ultimately lead you towards giving your life more meaning.
If you find that you are not interested in dealing with people or you are lonely despite this being in your chart, it might be because the balance is off, you likely need more alone time to become your best self, or need a different set of people in your life. Often it means we struggle to embrace both of these qualities and there may be other areas of the chart that suggest why this might be.
It is a good practice to refer back to our birth charts and reinterpret them based on our current circumstances for new insights whenever you are looking for answers.
Accepting these conflicts and nurturing these areas in your life is part of the path toward living a more authentic life.
In areas where there are harmonious and beneficial aspects, you can combine areas of your life to become more super-charged in areas, to become more clear on what your life mission is, what your vocations might be, and how to make the most of your life for you and for others.
Take advantage of these aspects to develop more effective coping strategies and manage stress; facilitate growth to be your best self, impress and attract others and create a fulfilling life with abundance in every form.
Developing your psychic powers can be hard, but actually strengthening and them and using them is whole other story. Actually building and developing your powers is rather simple compared to actually practicing them. 
