Psychic abilities are weird. Sometimes you get information so clearly, and with such detail it's downright scary. Other times all you get are symbolism and hints about something, just enough to let you know you're on the right track, but often just enough to be truly frustrating.
Years ago, my husband and I had a coworker who didn't show up for work one day when I was off. He was usually early, so it was quite out of character, and my husband called and asked me to take a look to see if I could figure out why. I flipped some tarot cards and among them was the sun, which I had always seen as a happy card, a sign of success or happy endings. We knew this man was prone to depression, but the sun made me think maybe he had decided to elope and just blew off work, thinking he'd get a suspension for a few days and it wouldn't be a big deal. Something nagged at us both, though, and I posed the question to a tarot group I frequented at the time.
A friend immediately let me know she had often seen the sun as a sudden death. This chilled me, as I had talked this man out of a suicide attempt a few weeks before, and we were all under the impression he was doing better and his relationship was going well. As it turned out, he had committed suicide the night before.
That has always stuck with me for those times when my psychic radar is a bit 'off.' It's frustrating having abilities, because there are times when they just won't work for you, usually when you're emotionally invested in a situation or under stress. The most reliable information I get comes spontaneously, or when I couldn't care less about the outcome. I'll read for friends, but it's much more difficult because I want to see good things and I question what I see and feel because of it.
Anyway, I flip cards when I see crimes in the news, to test myself, and because I like to see the bad guys get caught. The night before Sandra Cantu's body was found I was watching the news, flipping cards and right before I got the sun I started crying because I felt so strongly that she was dead, then the following morning the first thing I saw on my PC was the Yahoo News link to the article stating that she had been found. There's a missing girl in Missouri right now, Kara Kopetsky. I don't feel this one as strongly, but I've pulled cards several times and I am fairly certain she is also dead. I feel she was tricked by someone which makes me think the killer will turn out to be someone she knew. I believe someone invited her to go somewhere where there was supposed to be alcohol or drugs, because I keep pulling the 3 of cups and temperance, which are my 'party' cards, and I've also pulled the sun for her.
At various times in my life I've felt seriously bad vibes that were so strong I literally would not walk into a place of business or a person's house, but at other times it's just a minor passing thought, sometimes that I don't even pay attention to. One afternoon I met a friend at a local resort for a drink, and I was feeling safe since my husband was going to come pick us both up in a couple of hours and we were planning to pace ourselves carefully. We ordered our first drinks and right after we got them another bartender came from the other side of the bar with duplicate drinks. I got a little twinge but I discounted it, since we had someone coming to pick us up.
Huge mistake. The second drink was drugged. At one point I looked at my friend and said 'we have to get out of here right now.' We staggered to a more public part of the resort and got violently ill, then passed out for hours. People ignored us and wrote us off as drunken tourists because a lot of people come here, get drunk, and hang out in the resorts. Generally people just look the other way. We were treated like we were a couple of drunks who didn't know our own limits, which is ridiculous considering I was a bartender for many years and the weekend before was out for dinner and had some drinks without experiencing anything like this. I had several more drinks that evening and didn't get sick, pass out, or lose hours of my day.
We insisted on calling the police and they did not do a toxicology lab. In fact, they acted like all they wanted to do was keep us from doing anything to try to prove anything happened to us. The only thing that saved us from whatever was planned for us was realizing our mistake and moving to a more public area of the resort where whoever did this was not able to keep us where we would have been easy to drag into a nearby restroom or one of the many dark corners. The place where we were sitting was set up to look like caves and we were sitting within feet of the restrooms, so there were multiple places where we could have been hidden from view within seconds if we had not moved to the more exposed area of the resort when we did.
We lost several hours, and I found out later any date-rape drugs usually leave the system by the time the victim wakes up so it's very hard to prove. In our case, we were hindered by unnecessary delays as the hotel management and security asked us questions for 2 hours before the police arrived. It was 8 hours after we were drugged when we arrived at an emergency room and the police didn't even accompany us, so the chain of evidence was broken even if there had been anything left in our systems by then. I came away from the whole thing feeling like it had happened there before and they were very practiced at keeping the tourists from hearing about it, or at the very least from being able to sue them over it.
Less than a month later, a man was arrested in another local hotel for drugging a guest's drink and sexually assaulting her. I also found out the resort where we were drugged had hosted a police seminar on dating violence, including a section on date-rape drugs the month before our incident happened. We had attorneys from the resort contacting us threatening to sue us for slander because we contacted the police and said we were drugged, even though we said we had no idea who did it since the drugs affect memory and the details of our day were so fuzzy we couldn't even describe the people who were around us. How do you slander someone you can't name or identify? I'm still profoundly pissed that the resort appeared to be aware this had happened before and was only interested in protecting their tourist income instead of their guests' safety, and that the local police were complicit in allowing it to happen.
But...the whole thing could have been avoided had I listened to that little voice in my head that said 'don't take those drinks.'
Needless to say, no matter how faint the vibe is, when I get one of those feelings now....I listen, even if it seems silly.
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