Becoming a Professional Psychic Reader

Julie Ballantyne Brown
7 min readDec 30, 2023

How I learned to let go of fear and embrace who I am.

Photo by Ksenia Yakovleva on Unsplash

Time to come out of the spiritual cabinet…

I’ve been working as a professional tarot/palmist/psychic reader, in addition to my day job, for about nine months now. This may come as a shock to many people I know (or not) but that’s okay. I’m fairly open about what I do even thought I don’t broadcast it to the world on my regular social media or in casual conversation.

Until now, actually.

This is a pretty public space and this is a big scary step, but it’s time.

Why am I doing this now? I want to live authentically and not hide who I am or what I do. The end of one year into the beginning of the next seemed like a good time.

Why did it take so long for this to come out? To put it simply: Fear.

Fear of losing respect. Fear of being criticized. Fear of the hate. Fear of being labeled an imposter. Fear of being called a fake, a liar, or a phony. Fear of being sneered at. Fear of being mocked. Fear of being thought of as a scammer. A lot of fear.

It’s scary to have been able to do something your whole life or what you’ve experienced and listen to people cut it down, call it evil or weird or fake. It’s easier, for short periods of time, to shove it away…

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Julie Ballantyne Brown

Future London resident. Follow Julie on Twitter: @BrownBallantyne or on FB and Instagram: @JulieBallantyneBrown