Greetings, psychic love interns!

I am starting a new online practice session for those who are busy learning Personal Prophesy from the lessons given here on the blog, from my book or other available forums.

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Blessings, all!

Because so many have emailed me asking for advice or an opinion on various holistic subjects, I will be sharing thoughts here in the future.

Chances are, you've heard of them - Kinoki Foot Pads. Advertised quite a bit these days on TV, these little pads are taped to the feet and supposedly remove toxins from the body and also stimulate reflexology points.

Claims are made that use of these pads will boost your health and help you to sleep better...give you more vitality...and even help with such conditions as high blood pressure, insomnia and weight loss.

Myself, I noticed a huge difference after the very first night with the Kinoki foot pads. I felt renewed, restored and from the spring in my step and limitless energy I seemed to have so suddenly, I honestly felt ten years younger.

And yes, I do mean the very next day!

Could it possibly be just the old "placebo effect" - a few harmless ingredients thrown together with grandiose promises of unbelievable good health?

Of course, it could...but that assertion would only further prove the belief that the mind is indeed a powerful instrument in terms of "mind over body" physical treatment.

In either case, I find the pads to work extremely well and would recommend those who are skeptical do give them a try.

You might, though, want to consider buying them from a different company, for instance, Lucky Vitamins, due to buykinoki.com's reportedly poor customer service.

Those of you who have followed the various moves and changes of the PLD work over the years know that finding a virtual world to call "Home" that fit our needs has always been a priority.

Now, we finally have one!

In January, we will be kicking off all sorts of new classes, seminars and public reading sessions (plus private ones you can arrange on the spot)from Second Life!

Until then, we are informally meeting in Second Life conducting practice sessions, open readings and friendly get-togethers.

Anyone is welcome to join us at any time. For more information and directions to help you find the Psychic Love Doctor area in Second Life, contact me, Deborah Leigh, at PsychLuvDr@aol.com

Hope to see you there!

I have conducted countless interviews over the years; what follows are questions I've been asked most often in these interviews.

Q: You have actually studied cards and read cards for the last 25-plus years?

Yes, 25 years now and counting. And yet, even after all this time, I am still learning something new about the cards and how to read them nearly every day.

Q: In what ways?

For instance, in terms of world affairs. When I first started reading cards all those years ago, there wasn't a need at that point in time for cards to depict such things as "terrorism" or "global destruction" or even, for that matter, actual "war" perpetrated on the earth in terms of readings. What I perceived most in those days concerned violations of human rights on a much smaller scale involving sexual or racial discrimination or lack of professionalism in the workplace, the "glass ceiling where vast numbers of career futures were concerned.
Global matters and certainly global terrorism and destruction hadn't come into play at that point at all.

Intuitively speaking, the world had yet to take a path toward its own potential future destruction in readings - as much as this may go against the teachings of those who profess to "know all" from the beginning of Time, leading toward our own supposed destined extinction as human beings in the coming Future. I have never perceived extinction and even now in readings that involve war, terrorism and other global matters, I still don't perceive extinction per se. The world, in my view, is destined to survive because there are enough wise, perceptive, highly astute individuals among us - and our own intense beliefs as a people in Faith and Hope - to focus that energy toward the Life Force.

Q: Life Force - as in God?

Yes, as in God - if that is your point of reference. Or as in whatever you personally manifest within yourself as the spiritual essence of "who" and "what" we are in terms of our existence, including the enormous amount of creative energy outside of ourselves encompassing the expanse of the Universe as we know it. It's a different concept for everyone and essentially has nothing to do with organized religion.

Q: What about those who deny the existence of God?

What I'm referring to when I conduct readings is the life-filled energy that comes from within and the creative energy to be embraced outside of ourselves through the Universe. The "God concept" is a personal belief interpreted by those who choose such an interpretation. What I find in card readings is much more centered on the "You Concept." As in, "you" are the center of your own universe. Whether that personal universe survives or dies has everything to do with your own ability to feel faith and hope within yourself and about the world. In the absence of both faith and hope, there is no life for the future. No energy, no - anything. Think about it. Without faith and hope, we are basically future-less beings walking the earth.

Q: You talk about the Life Force, the Universe. What do the cards tell you that we are to learn from life?

First, that we are in command of our own self-worth and our own distinctive ability to extend ourselves lovingly and compassionately toward the greater good of mankind. We have each been blessed with uniquely special gifts - gifts which enable us to achieve higher understanding about ourselves and life in general, once we answer the call to do so.

Second, by opening ourselves to the immense possibilities the Universe truly has to offer, our own lives become transformed in incredibly powerful ways. The message I receive most often from the cards in reference to the Universe is one of the most difficult things to do: "Take the risk and leap the abyss." In other words, follow your heart, listen to the voice you hear from within and most important of all, have pure faith that you will find not only true happiness, but completeness, when you reach the other side.

Q: And this is what you share in your readings?

Absolutely. That and if you allow yourself to freely embrace the Universe, it will speak volumes to you.
Personal Prophesy card readings enable us to connect more readily with the Universe and learn more about our innermost selves.

For instance, inherently selfish people will never know what it means to be blessed by truly giving. The cards will urge them to make important sacrifices. Heartbroken or lonely people will never know what it means to be loved if they don't reach out and take the risk to give love unconditionally. The cards will guide them in that respect. The more we listen to the interpretation of inspiration readily available to us in the cards, the more we are able to live happier, more fulfilling lives as a result.

Q: Recipients of your readings are able to get all of this from just one reading?

In truth, no. This is the reason why I encourage all of the recipients who get readings from me to learn this method of intuitively perceiving the future for themselves. Each and every reading becomes more descriptive, more "zero-ed in" on our individual lives and what we need to do to change them for the better. One reading will give you an overall view...the second, a more intensive view...a third, an indepth view...etc, etc. But when you can give yourself these readings, you literally make yourself the master of your own destiny. You are able to guide your life by the intuitive interpretation of your own readings on a daily basis. That kind of insight, if you think about it, is virtually priceless.

Q: So if you read your own cards every day, you never make a mistake in judgment because of your readings, is that what you're saying?

No. The truth is, I am just as human as everybody else. As much as I should heed the intuitive messages of my own card readings, I do fall prey to basic human nature and wishful thinking some of the time and make regretful mistakes in judgment of my own in the process.

Q: For instance?

As an example, I really wanted to be a guest speaker on a semi-national radio talk show at one point in the past and even went so far as to buy an expensive ten-minute interview on a particular show called "News for the Soul."

Did I conduct a reading for myself prior to committing myself and paying for this radio interview? Yes, I did. The cards were completely negative and advised me not to do it. The cards never indicated that there was anything wrong with this radio talk show or that I would be "ripped off" for doing it - they simply advised me NOT to choose to take this path at that particular point in my work as the Psychic Love Doctor.

Still, I wanted to be on that radio talk show. I wanted so earnestly to share with listeners the countless insights and amazing sense of enlightenment the cards have shown me and my numerous clients over the years as a result of the Personal Prophesy teachings I had learned from my maternal grandmother.

The cards were emphatic in my readings from the moment the idea of buying time on this radio talk show took shape: This is not the right choice, they repeatedly advised me. You will not succeed, even though I paid the fee and pushed relentlessly to get air time on this talk show.

The cards in this instance - as they have been in so many other instances over the years - were entirely correct in their insight, but I wouldn't listen. The interview went so badly that the host of the show inevitably wouldn't give it air time. I should have listened to the message of my own cards. But I am as human as anyone else and prone to make the same mistakes in judgment where wishful thinking is concerned. Bottom line: All we can do is learn from our own mistakes.

Q: What kinds of eye-opening insights have you achieved over the years in your card readings?

Oh, there have been many. For instance, the reason why people in middle age feel an urge to sleep alot.
The cards have told me, "Sleeping a lot is the body's way of preparing for death. If you want to live a long life, get active and exercise, stop sleeping more than you should."

Or why war exists in this world. The cards have answered, "Men cannot live a complacent life. Women can, they are designed that way. Men, however, must always strive for 'more' of something. More power, more superiority, more - everything. Right and wrong aren't necessarily instrumental in the wars men engage in. Their urge is to conquer and they can't resist it."

And in answer to my question, why don't children listen to the voice of reason? The cards answered:

"They are wildly creative beings who feel compelled to test the boundaries of the Universe. This urge has nothing to do with disobedience. It has everything to do with their own primordial tendencies to see just how far they can go within the physical world.

Also: Will an avian flu pandemic occur as the world currently fears? The cards reply is: "No, the current theoretical crisis surrounding the bird flu virus is only intended to be a dress rehearsal for a larger, far more horrific plague yet to come."

Q: Anybody who comes to your website for relationship help, needs to know - what?

A few things. First, understanding need: In terms of Personal Prophesy philosophy, need is an extremely powerful force. Need encompasses the deepest, most intense yearning of the heart to feel that sense of completeness which only one partner can provide. Women are intuitively perceived to feel "need" much more swiftly than men do, because they tend to live their lives being more in touch with their own true feelings. Men, on the other hand, tend to be slower in terms of feeling "need" because they put so much effort into denying for themselves what they consider to be emotional weakness.

Second, finding Mr or Miss Right: In all my years of experience with readings by this method, I have never perceived one particular individual as a "perfect mate" for anyone. Intuitively speaking, we all have the opportunity to enter into a multitude of relationships depending on how we choose to actually lead our lives from the emotional level.

Some of us choose a single partner for life, others may commit to two or more partners in a lifetime, and many simply choose to remain partnerless, achieving personal happiness in Life on their own. These are choices we make for ourselves as we live our lives. It doesn't always mean, however, that we will find the happiness we search for in a relationship. More times than not it's a fruitless search, for the happiness we seek is ultimately only to be found within ourselves.

Third, we will all go through our own emotional paces. This is perhaps the hardest lesson of all in terms of Personal Prophesy - allowing others to go through their own emotional paces to achieve that all-important, higher understanding they need in order to define true happiness for themselves. The best step we can ever take is strive to "let go" and allow a loved one the time he/she needs to become ready for a new start with us. In the meantime, it's important that we focus our attention on ourselves, becoming who we are intended to be in the future.

And lastly, good relationships aren't always easy: As much as I would love to tell you that, intuitively speaking, the best relationships in life are the "easy" ones, unfortunately this isn't the case. The more difficult relationships are in terms of quality, the more worthwhile they turn out to be in the long run. The more we are able to learn from them spiritually, the more we are able to become emotionally stronger as a result of them in the process.


Q: If there was one piece of advice you had to share with anyone who surfs your website in search of love, success or just being able to live a happier life, what would it be?

That's easy. I would urge that individual to learn how to read ordinary playing cards by the Personal Prophesy method so that they would never have to pay for a psychic reading from anyone again.

Once you learn how to perceive the future for yourself from an ordinary deck of playing cards, you don't have to rely on the perception of others - you can rely entirely on yourself and your own ability to perceive the future 100 percent of the time. I offer the first level of my card reading course free on my website at Click here

Accurate personal readings can be achieved from this free level of my course. More advanced levels are available at Click here

Q: I am a divorced female, brown hair and eyes. My question is simply, is there potential for a new romance in the coming year?

Deborah: My perception is that you are definitely feeling ready for a change in your life - a nice, big, positive change - which would greatly help to restore within you faith that the last few years have not been wasted.

Particularly as you've sought that elusive 'something' your heart yearns for to in order to feel truly happy and complete.

Try to remember as you embark on this dynamic new period in your life: Without having experienced the hardships of those years, you wouldn't be who you are today, the you possessing the many layers you now do in terms of your personality, your emotions, your knowledge of life and the world.

We all need to be reminded of this from time to time if only to make us realize that without the journey imposed on us by the past, we wouldn't have much opportunity - or much reason - to grow from the deepest part of ourselves, enabling us to embrace a more enriched, fulfilling future.

To answer your question for this reading, your cards strongly indicate there is wonderful potential and it will come to pass - once you fully let go of all lingering feelings of anger or resentment perceived in your cards toward the last two men in your life.

Neither has made circumstances especially easy for you over the course of time, but I do feel there will come a day when you actually feel thankful to both of them for inadvertently propelling you in this new direction, the right direction for the future as a result of their actions in the past.

Before you meet the man I perceive in this reading to be a long-term, committed partner for you, your reading indicates you will make meaningful contact quite soon (within the next few weeks) with an older, green-eyed man. The placement of the Seven of Clubs between you tells me the magnetism will be more sexually-charged than emotional in nature.

Be cautious in your dealings with him. My perception is that he brings only a temporary flirtation your way and while you might indulge yourself by sharing some highly pleasurable moments with him, he is definitely not seen to be future "mate material" for you.

Rather, your future mate comes through your cards as a man darker in complexion, one who is far more loving and ready for "picking" than any of the men you've encountered yet.

I'm projecting the month of May of next year for the two of you to actually find each other (in the emotional sense); however, I feel he is already in your life, someone you see from time to time as you go about your business. He appears in your reading to genuinely worship you "from afar".

This man shows all the right indications to be a good husband and father, a man who will eventually gather enough courage to approach you and ultimately suggest getting together for a date.

When he does, despite your immediate hesitancy to accept, that first date is perceived to snowball into a beautiful new romantic beginning for both of you!

Blessings,
Deborah

Q: I am a gay, single male in my late 20's. I am involved in a high-caliber career field with an enormous amount of public exposure.

I am wondering how 'coming out' as a gay man would publically affect my career and will I be viewed as a positive and influencial role model?

Deborah: As I conduct your reading, I feel compelled to urge you to hold back from coming out in favor of a more appropriate time in terms of your career. As I inquire of your cards whether it would be a positive step for you to take at this time, connected to the Nine of Hearts, I find the Two of Spades and the Nine of Spades, indicating that no, now would not be an appropriate time.

Serious setbacks are clearly indicated, considering that those who hold power over your future success at this point are looking at you, assessing your performance and in the professional sense, focused on capitalizing on your mass-market male-to-female sex appeal.

These individuals are perceived to be so focused on this type of 'sex appeal' that to openly acknowledge your own private sexual orientation before you have achieved your most cherished ambitions would be, in essence, the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot.

Wait - and the right time will come. I feel in viewing your cards that time is approximately two years from now. Then you will have the opportunity to be 'who' and 'what' you are without hindering your own professional future in the process.

To put it another way, society will have advanced enough by then for you to actually be the kind of positive and influential role model you would like most to be.

Blessings,
Deborah

Q: I thought everything was going well between an Indian man and myself, and then tonight he has informed me that he will go through with his parents' wishes for an arranged marriage.

He said that he has to because they have had too much grief in their life and choosing his bride will be the one joy that they will have.

Needless to say I am upset and hurt. I really thought that he might stand up to his parents. I really thought that choosing him over any other man would have made my life much better but it seems that I am always in this same boat. I keep waiting for this breakthrough but it never happens.

Why am I always getting hurt? Are things really over for him and I? I can't help it but I see this Indian woman as one who will cause his family a lot more heartache. I told him this. He said if that happens then they will see that an Indian woman is not for him. It's OK because then he will be able to remarry who he wants.

I am so tired of the constant sadness in my life. Even my daughter wants me to get married and children of single parents are usually possessive of their parent but not my daughter. My health is worse and there doesn't seem to be any breakthroughs for me. Well, thanks for listening and your time.

Deborah: Giving your situation much thought, I simply cannot shake my own intuitive instinct as I view your cards and continue to contemplate your letter that in terms of your relationship with this man you are, in fact, exactly where you should be at this point in your life.

My perception is that the only way this man will ever be able to resolve himself of his obligation to his parents' wishes and his culture in general is through accepting his duty to both; at present, by marrying this woman.

You are precisely right, hon - he will not be happy in this arranged marriage. Nor will this woman please his family as you also quite capably perceive.

Still, you really must try your best to encourage him to see this quest to please his family through. After all, what is monumentally important in terms of the future you and he can one day share together is that he take the path his family asks of him and for him to inevitably achieve a tremendous amount of wisdom from such negatively-imposed experience.

Your breakthrough is still coming, there is no doubt in my mind about that. While I can tell you about it and urge you to have faith in its impending arrival, the bottom line is that it will not arrive until you are fully ready to receive it.

My perception is that this breakthrough will take shape as it one day dawns on you that you are not "always getting hurt" as you expressed in your letter to me. We have a tendency to choose to allow ourselves to be victimized by pain when we could just as easily choose to rise above it with strength and conviction, focusing instead on the crucial life lessons we are meant to learn from these struggles, rather than leaving ourself helplessly at their mercy.

Please take care ~ I definitely see better days coming for you, particularly in the coming year. Your health, your entire point of view, your relationship with this man are perceived to improve dramatically as long as you remain strong in your own faith that you have travelled this path and stand precisely where you are at this moment for an important purpose...to learn to love yourself, first. Please take care.

Blessings,
Deborah

Q: I thought everything was going well between an Indian man and myself, and then tonight he has informed me that he will go through with his parents' wishes for an arranged marriage.

He said that he has to because they have had too much grief in their life and choosing his bride will be the one joy that they will have.

Needless to say I am upset and hurt. I really thought that he might stand up to his parents. I really thought that choosing him over any other man would have made my life much better but it seems that I am always in this same boat. I keep waiting for this breakthrough but it never happens.

Why am I always getting hurt? Are things really over for him and I? I can't help it but I see this Indian woman as one who will cause his family a lot more heartache. I told him this. He said if that happens then they will see that an Indian woman is not for him. It's OK because then he will be able to remarry who he wants.

I am so tired of the constant sadness in my life. Even my daughter wants me to get married and children of single parents are usually possessive of their parent but not my daughter. My health is worse and there doesn't seem to be any breakthroughs for me. Well, thanks for listening and your time.

Deborah: Giving your situation much thought, I simply cannot shake my own intuitive instinct as I view your cards and continue to contemplate your letter that in terms of your relationship with this man you are, in fact, exactly where you should be at this point in your life.

My perception is that the only way this man will ever be able to resolve himself of his obligation to his parents' wishes and his culture in general is through accepting his duty to both; at present, by marrying this woman.

You are precisely right, hon - he will not be happy in this arranged marriage. Nor will this woman please his family as you also quite capably perceive.

Still, you really must try your best to encourage him to see this quest to please his family through. After all, what is monumentally important in terms of the future you and he can one day share together is that he take the path his family asks of him and for him to inevitably achieve a tremendous amount of wisdom from such negatively-imposed experience.

Your breakthrough is still coming, there is no doubt in my mind about that. While I can tell you about it and urge you to have faith in its impending arrival, the bottom line is that it will not arrive until you are fully ready to receive it.

My perception is that this breakthrough will take shape as it one day dawns on you that you are not "always getting hurt" as you expressed in your letter to me. We have a tendency to choose to allow ourselves to be victimized by pain when we could just as easily choose to rise above it with strength and conviction, focusing instead on the crucial life lessons we are meant to learn from these struggles, rather than leaving ourself helplessly at their mercy.

Please take care ~ I definitely see better days coming for you, particularly in the coming year. Your health, your entire point of view, your relationship with this man are perceived to improve dramatically as long as you remain strong in your own faith that you have travelled this path and stand precisely where you are at this moment for an important purpose...to learn to love yourself, first. Please take care.

Blessings,
Deborah

Q: I'm currently in a very happy relationship with my boyfriend. He treats me absolutely wonderfully and is totally devoted to me. This part is not in question at all.

The problem is me and my ex.

My ex is not dating anyone. I still have feelings for him and am in the process of truly letting go. After we broke up he made it seem that he wanted nothing to do with me and now that I am trying to move on, he has been quite vocal about wanting to get back together with me and since I haven't resolved what I still feel for him, the offer is tempting. I love him but I do not love my current boyfriend.

My intuition tells me that I can have both men and my intuition tells me which one is probably better suited to satisfy my deeper needs: my current boyfriend. I know you can't make up my mind for me but I need to know everything you see with regards to this situation so I can make a wiser decision in the long run. Thank you.

Deborah: Intuitively speaking, you are essentially dealing with an outright conflict between your own heart and mind. On the one hand, your heart knows who you genuinely love in terms of these two men - your ex. On the other hand, your mind urges you to feel satisfied with the man currently in your life, due to how well he treats you and his obvious devotion to you.

In reality, the bottom line in resolving this conflict is precisely what you expressed in your letter to me, "I haven't resolved what I still feel for him (your ex)." My perception is that until you actually do process these feelings and bring your relationship with him to full completion, you will never know true happiness for yourself with your current boyfriend - or any man, for that matter, who enters your life for quite some time to come.

Your ex, strongly evident in your reading, comes through your cards as suffering deep remorse over his breakup with you. He would sincerely like very much to attempt a new beginning with you. While I realize you are terribly afraid of getting hurt again, I urge you to remember that seeking refuge in a comfortable relationship as the man currently in your life offers you, really isn't living. Settling for "comfortable" only fosters a temporary, superficial feeling of security. My perception is that, as time passes, your feelings of loss and emptiness will merely intensify, and in the end, you will find you cannot embrace a rich, full life with someone else due to the emotional yearnings you still feel for your ex.

The fact is, you still love him. I do believe from what I see in your reading, he loves you just as much. This breakup is seen in your reading as having made him realize just how much you actually do mean to him and the loss has been tremendous to him. As a result, he is now sincerely ready to change his ways and commit himself completely to you.

Should you give him a second chance to prove himself to you? I personally feel that you should. You owe it to yourself, if nothing else, to see this relationship through to full closure before investing more effort trying to make your relationship with your current boyfriend work when your heart is clearly not in it.

Blessings,
Deborah

Q: I want a relationship leading to marriage very much and have identified the man I would like this marriage with; a man with whom I share tremendous sexual chemistry.

He is drawn but keeps backing off and has decided that we should go back to being "friends". He cares for me but says he feels more comfortable emotionally with that type of relationship.

I am 38, single, female with dark brown hair and dark chocolate eyes. He is 39, single, male, strawberry blond hair and pale blue eyes. Will this relationship progress positively toward commitment? Your take on this, please!

Deborah: Yes, it will - but not in the immediate future. Realize that while the two of you mesh beautifully in many significant ways, the heart of the problem between you is perceived to be that you are each currently operating on two different levels emotionally.

While you are emotionally mature enough and fully ready to commit yourself to a future shared with this man, he is perceived to be extremely hesitant to proceed as a result of his own past experience, risking not only allowing his life to become entangled with that of a long-term partner (financially and otherwise) but also putting his heart at risk of possibly getting hurt again.

As I perceive the future you hold the potential to share with him, I suggest the following to you as a way to emotionally "motivate" him to resolve these deep-seated fears and become the emotionally-mature partner you need him to become for you:

1. Agree to simply "be friends" as he requests but discontinue any further intimate relations with him. As difficult as this may be for you, bear in mind that genuine sexual/passionate desire when left ungratified only intensifies in and of itself in the long run.

The less gratified he is, the more he will long for that gratification he has known with you in days to come. You also create by taking this route a deeply-felt need in him to be with you, which he will emotionally process as love as the future unfolds.

2. Actively begin dating other men and make him aware that you are doing so. Your cards indicate that he will experience strong feelings of jealousy, knowing your time and attention is now being focused on men other than himself.

3. Refuse to allow your own emotions to get the better of you in conversations with him. I see potential in your cards for the two of you to engage in heated disagreements within the next several weeks, essentially due to the hesitancy on his part to be more forthcoming in terms of his affections for you.

Such arguments are seen in your cards as being highly negative and destructive to the future of this relationship. The more you can give him his space and show your emotional independence at this time, the more inclined he will feel to give in to his attraction and desire for you in the future.

It won't happen overnight, dear; in fact, it could take a good six months before this man come arounds in his way of thinking and feels emotionally ready to commit himself to this relationship and a future involving the serious probability of marriage.

I do feel in viewing your cards that it will happen, if you follow these intuitive guidelines, allowing him the time he needs to mature in terms of his feelings for you.

Blessings,
Deborah