Da Juana Byrd

People never cease to amaze me. Think that is why I get along so well with animals. Don’t get me wrong. I love people too but sometimes……they can be a pain. For instance, for the last few months, I have been getting calls from people saying that we have been sending our scopes by text message, which cost them money and they want it stopped. Most have been very nice but there have been some that left a lot to be desired.

Take today, for example. A man calling himself an attorney called, threatened ten ways from Sunday that if we didn’t stop sending him horoscopes on his cell phone, he would make it his life’s work to get us. When I called him back, I tried to tell him it wasn’t us, that if they were using our scopes, then I needed to find out who they are so that I can join them in his pursuit. Instead of us working together to find out who this was, because the cell phone provider had given him our name as they had numerous others, he wanted to continue to threaten me. Well, I have enough Louisiana in me that threats don’t work and finally I told him so but then reiterated that I would be glad to help him find out who was doing this for two reasons. One is the cell phone company is telling everyone it is us and the other is someone, if they are using our scopes, is getting paid for them and we are getting the upset customers. That doesn’t make me feel one bit better either. He was having none of this and hung up on me after he told me that he was not threatening but rather means to do me harm.

That made for a nice conversation because then, my husband, who listened to me trying to explain to this man and after my telling him what had happened wanted to defend my honor. I don’t know about you but I figure I can take up for myself and had to tell Claude that. Anyway, to make a long story short, I called the cell phone company to try to put a stop to their giving out our number. You know what they told me. Since we don’t have an account with them, they can’t talk with me. I said, “Oh, but you can give out my number to people when I am not charging them for anything. Then I get to pay for them calling me and being upset too.”

To that the lady said, “You need to call your provider and have them call us. I can’t help you.”

I love animals. They are so plain spoken and yet loving.

Da Juana

The other day I was listening to a tape I had just recorded. While listening to the tape, I heard a male voice say something while I was talking. He was nice enough to wait until I had said what I wanted and then he chimed in and he didn’t speak too loudly but I heard him nonetheless.

Let me tell you that I had noticed him in the room but hadn’t paid him much attention. When he spoke, I told the person running the recorder to back up, that I had heard a man talking. The tape was backed up and there he was. A few minutes later, I was talking about spirituality. And once again, I hear this man talking but this time it was loud and clear and only one word. The word was purple. For me, that is the color of spirituality and he was reminding me of that. When I first met this man, years ago while he was alive, I told him that I wanted to be around other purple people like me, meaning people who knew they were psychic or spiritual. And he gave it right back to me the other day. A voice from the grave letting me know that he, John Catchings, a talented psychic, is still around.

Here’s to you John. Thanks for the visit and the proof.

Da Juana

The other night I dreamed. Or at least, I think it was a dream. It may not have been. I may have been out-of-body. Anyway, it went like this. I was standing with two people, guides, who have worked with me before and we were looking at two doctors working on my husband, Claude. He looked to be in what I perceived to be, at the time, a dental chair, leaned back while the two doctors worked on either side at different points of his head. While these two doctors worked, I heard from my two dead friends that Claude would receive his sight back in seven or seventeen months. You would think that I would have latched onto the time but obviously I didn’t.

When I awoke the next morning I forgot to tell Claude. It wasn’t until two days later, while doing something in the kitchen, maybe getting out cutlery, that I recalled his having what I thought was a surgical procedure to help him regain his sight. It purely irked me that I couldn’t remember the time period. And the surgical procedure wasn’t invasive, as you might believe surgery would be. It was over quickly and he had regained his sight. After recalling this dream, Claude informed me that it wasn’t a dental chair that I had seen. It was a chair used by ophthalmologists. He was right but when I was in the middle of it, the only comparison I could make was to a dental chair.

Hopefully, this is precognitive whether it is a dream or out-of-body. We both really want Claude to regain his sight fully. You can’t appreciate someone really losing his or her sight until you live with someone who has. Bless his heart; I know that I still can’t fully appreciate it because I have my sight, thank God. But I really want this to happen for him.

Da Juana

Someone asked what nature thought of us humans. When I ask the trees, and that sounds very flighty doesn’t it, they say that they have to take into account that we humans are still learning. They also tell me that most humans don’t have malicious intentions but they do what they do out of ignorance. The trees say that they have been here in one form or another since time began and that they will be here long after we humans but that they hope we learn that everything lives, not only with but off one another.

There have been times that I have actually heard a tree groan and not with the wind rustling through its branches but with honest anguish from what we humans can contrive. And there have been other times that I have heard trees speak to each other in hushed, soothing tones when they realize the other tree needs their help. Even trees can have their times where they are less than happy about someone bothering them. That includes birds but all in all, they are magnificent, tolerant personalities capable of love and everlasting understanding.

Something I have always caught myself doing, even before I prune a tree is to tell it that I am trying to help. Just realized that I have always done that a few years ago. Now I know it is because I have always heard them and that is one of the reasons that nature is so healing for me.

Da Juana

Well, you hit my hot button with the teaching thing. I love teaching. Bet you can’t tell it but I really, really do. When you watch someone who isn’t sure of their psychic ability start to understand what they are doing, the teacher, that’s me, gets the biggest rush out of the teaching. Watching them open to their own innate psychic ability is like watching a rare rose unfurl its glorious petals. Never mind the scent, the opening is magnificent. And I am lucky enough to be able to watch others come to terms with their own gifts. Having a profession that allows that is wonderful. And I am very proud.

 
On another note, you remember that I told you about my friend, Connie, who was down in the islands. And I also told you that she would probably read my blog when she came back. Well, she caught me. I don’t think I said anything too bad about her. I didn’t even say that she is way, way older than me or anything like that. Of course, she will say that she is two years younger than me but…….and she has a birthday coming up in a couple of months.

 
On a daily basis, I realize, again and again, just how lucky I am to be alive and to be able to work at something I love. I have good friends and meet good acquaintances everyday because of my abilities. Even though at times, they become very heavy, they still make me glad that I can use them. And, I know you have heard this before, without them I don’t think that I could survive. Oh, and I just learned that physicists may have learned what makes someone like me tick. They now know that there or three or four states of matter other than solids, liquids and gas. They are plasma, beam and BEC (zero state of  matter) but knowing that generally that it is the natural of universal categories to exist in sevens (a spiritual number), they think that the seventh state of matter is thought wave. If you would like to read more about this, you can at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/8/prweb420258.htm

 
I really love it.

 
Da Juana

Thank goodness, I think, that you like to listen to me. Otherwise, I am doing this blog for nothing. And so I decided today to ask you what about me interests you? People have never said that I lack for confidence but in asking you this, I might get my confidence shaken. But I still have faith that you will tell me.

 
I remember one day when I was doing readings at a psychic fair. It was right after I had come out of the psychic closet. My husband had just started fronting for me. What I mean by fronting is that he was setting my appointments and keeping me on time. I tend to go over when I am reading for others. So, I didn’t get many bathroom breaks. Also, I think that was my little power play where he was concerned in that he couldn’t keep me from going over.

 
Anyway this woman came in to the fair, walked over to my poor husband and in a very loud voice, announced, “Da Juana did a reading for me. I got two other readings around the same time. Those two psychics told me the very same thing but she told me something very different.”

 
Claude is sweating. Not only is he trying to help me in my career but he is trying to keep up with appointments too. Here this woman is yelling above the crowd that I was the psychic who didn’t go along with two others. Of course, you can see him thinking, if she is going to be talking about my wife, I wish she would be a little quieter with her disemboweling of my wife. I am behind him reading and because I am the psychic I am, I just kept on going with the person in my chair while my poor husband was taking the brunt of what he considered loud criticism, that is, until the woman continued while pointing around the room. Still using that loud voice, she broadcast, “And she was the only one that was right. I will be coming to her from now on.”

 
Bless Claude’s heart, my little marketer, I’m sure he breathed easier and the sweating stopped. 

 
But that is just a story, back to you. What would you like me to discuss in the future?

 
Da Juana

Hope you don’t mind if I answer this question I got from someone. I know I have done so in the past and you have been gracious enough to tolerate it.

“Terry wrote, There has been strange activity going on in my house since I’ve lived here. Recently however I’ve been receiving strange phone calls that, because of many different things, I believe to be a ghost. The person answers many questions, all correct, about things no one should know unless they were watching me at that moment as well as throughout the day. I was wondering what I should do about this because the ghost told me that they are with other spirits and that those other spirits want to harm me and my sister. Also, is this even possible for a ghost to call my cell phone?”

Terry, ghosts can use the phone but I have never heard one tell me that other ghosts want to hurt people in the house. If I were you, I would look for the camera or person who is giving me calls. I think you have a live person who is aware of your fears and playing on them.

Da Juana

On occasion I will google my name to see what’s going on with our site. Many years ago, I found out that other people use my name. I have even seen recipes I have written be taken by others and put on their pages. Sometimes they give me credit. Sometimes they don’t. Most of the time it is something I can ignore but the other day, when I had a spare moment, I googled. And I wasn’t happy. Not only did I find my name being used by cell phone companies for horoscopes I hadn’t provided but they said I did, I found some very graphic language that I wouldn’t want anyone to have to read and they had it under the caption of my name. I am not a prude but…..if I write something like that I want it to be under my byline. This was different to say the least.

And it started me to wondering, with the advent of the web, have people become more aggressive in using others? Do you have any ideas on this?

Da Juana

A vacation is something I really haven’t had in such a long time that I have forgotten what that really is. But my friend hasn’t. The b…., I mean lovely lady, is down in the West Indies enjoying herself. I really do want her to have fun. Really!

But you know what she had the gall to do. She called on about her second night there to see how we were doing. Then she just let drop that she would be going over to Antigua to party the next morning. You know, do a little island hopping, the bi……., I mean sweet person that she is always thinking of me.

Any way, she will probably come back more tan than she usually is and more relaxed than her Libra soul can take. I notice that she hasn’t called me since. Maybe she has been too busy drinking whatever it is they drink down there and forgetting about all her troubles and listening to the waves rolling in, you know how much I love that. Did I tell you that I am a Libra too and we never, well usually never, get jealous over someone else’s good fortune.

I don’t mean to sound as if I am jealous. I’m really not. I really am glad that she is down there enjoying the wind, the waves and the scenery, oh, and did I forget to mention that she has been snorkeling, the b……, I mean my precious friend. Let me see what I can say good about her now because she will probably read this when she gets home next week and….well, you know, just because you are psychic, because she is too, doesn’t mean you can’t get your feelings hurt. That said, Connie, I really do love you and hope that you are having fun. Well, I really can say that she is smarter than me. After all, she went on a gorgeous vacation.

Da Juana

Most people would never think of me as a recluse but I am. Though I love people, love to be around them and love helping them, I generally stay close to home. Not only that but I really enjoy being alone. The reason is what you probably already know especially if you have any inkling of psychic ability and that is it is not always easy to be out in public. Not only that but new acquaintances and friends as well, if they know you are psychic, listen to every word you are saying and take it to heart.

I have learned when meeting a new person that I can’t kid and cut up with them which is really my nature. Because that person listens to every word and takes it to heart, he or she may wonder if my kidding nature is really a matter of fact. Many times I have had to reiterate that I am only kidding.

Another thing is that they wait for me to give them psychic advice, which automatically comes out of my mouth when you are around me for any amount of time. It just happens. And that can cause trouble too. An example was one night when Claude and I were going out to meet another couple that he knew better than me. We walked in, sat down and my mouth opened with the very inflammatory words that he and his wife had been speaking right before we joined them. Well, war ensued. But to my credit, I didn’t mean to start anything. My psychic mouth just happens.

Sometimes it has to do with my curiosity. For instance, one night Claude and I and another two or three people met at a restaurant. Our waitress came over as they generally do and I heard her name psychically. I heard Casey but didn’t believe that was the name but close to it so I asked her. She told me Stacey was her name and looked at me with a baffled expression because she had just heard me tell her that I thought it sounded something like Casey. Then Claude asked her if she knew who I was and gave her my name. She told him she did and then decided she liked being with us more than waiting on tables. So you see sometimes curiosity can keep you from eating.

That said, I still love being psychic and I will take the looks and questions because I do love it so much.

Da Juana