If you have followed from My Story you will know that I was called to this work in a very awe-inspiring way. However I did not actually begin practicing professionally full time until October of 1995 with my first company "Maloney and Poe". It was a perfect arrangement, my partner was a hypno-therapist specializing in past-life regressions and behavior modification, and I got to read Tarot and a challenging assortment of Astrological chart readings. Alas, it was not fated to last long for you see anyone who spends a significant time working with me seems to change their life dramatically and swiftly. And if you think I am bragging I'm not- its actually a pain in the butt ::grinning big::. Within a year and a half my partner had created a whole new life for herself. New man, new job, new location, and a new found commitment to her writing that allowed her no time for a small business.

Enter the Banshee

So, I stayed at the new office we had just redecorated together for a few months, and then I met a woman who would change my life forever. One day I ran into an old acquaintance at the bookshop by my apartment. We had met about five years before and parted on what I will call bad terms of a "karmic" level. He was still a friend to many of my friends and I had a sudden and overwhelming urge to make amends. I spent the entire summer doing intensive psychic counseling with him helping to repair the damage I had contributed to in his life. In the past I had taken many friends on as projects, which if you have experience in this area is rarely a rewarding endeavor. This time was different. By the beginning of the fall our group of mutual friends agreed to start a psychic research group. Ultimately we only met a few times but the results were fantastic. To make a short story long through this group I met an old friend of his. She had been one of those "you have to meets." that never seem to work out right. I was sure it would be a disaster. Her name was Banshee and we had been hearing about each other for years. She was the Tarot reader at the most popular nightclub in the city at the time, our clients were always comparing us to each other and it had at the very least created an aura of competition between us. I would say, "Oh, reading in a nightclub that's real spiritual!" So on the first night the group met at his apartment I was sure the fur was going to fly. Well nothing happened other than "friends at first sight." Contrary to what I had thought, she was actually the most spiritually advanced person I had ever met.

The Queen of Wands

To say we became fast friends doesn't do it justice. I for one had had little exposure to other psychic readers. Many in my area were off-putting and the rest seemed unavailable. Also, I must admit my pride in being completely self-taught, in my mind there was no need to seek other readers out-I was learning just fine on my own by studies and experience-or so I thought. Within months I was working along side her at the nightclub, and we were creating a psychic think tank that caught fire. We created a business concept and were working on newsletters and enhancing our gifts in any moments we could spare. I learned new things on nearly every level every time we met together. At this point I would say- "enough about my psychic "love affair" with Bansh", but I really have to say it seems like there's nothing she can't do and if you are ever in the Cincinnati area you simply must make it a point to visit her shop. Which I will be linking to freely throughout my pages. Oh and I haven't even gotten to the added mega-bonus...she was also a Reiki master teacher! I had actually only read about Reiki a little in The Twelfth House by Traci Marks and at the time I thought it was a type of Rolfing LOL. Alas this too was not to last. Here I was barely over the mourning process for my former partner and history repeated itself. Through extensive spiritual work of her own, her exciting and revealing psychic work with me and through the benevolence of the Universe, Banshee's path was to lead her straight out of my world.

The Solitary Practitioner
Banshee met her soulmate. You won't believe where?you are there right now! Yup she met him in an Mirc chat room right here on the net! They had corresponded for months yet within weeks of their first meeting she packed up and moved off th Delaware to be with him. You can read her story at her site later its really neat. Any way lucky for me and one of my clients who had been working closely with us in our business plan there was time for a life altering Reiki attunement before she left. Working with my Reiki mastery with a remote teacher was difficult and sometimes scary but I am sure now my client and me wouldn't have had it any other way. We both responded very well to the relaxed and experimental training environment we created for ourselves. Self-taught seems to be the way for me even when I hate it. The Universe seems to leave me in that position. Within six months I was able to take the trip to Banshee to receive my master teacher attunement. This rocked my world even harder. It expanded my awareness, my psychic ability, and my sensitivity in inexplicably powerful ways. My rational mind still can't grasp Reiki's crazy sci-fi seeming healing power. At any rate with Banshee gone it was up to me to take over the gig at the nightclub. What a crazy two and a half-year ride! You haven't read cards 'til you have read them in a tiny smoky room in a downtown basement with two different types of music going in each ear. Where half the clients are drunk and the other half are crazy! I say this with love because so many of the people I read for there were wonderful and it was a lot of fun. Being a happily married gal who doesn't drink or drug any more there was no reason for me to be in a club other than to work there and that made it all the more fun. And most importantly it was at the club that I got my Ph.D. in Tarot as far as I'm concerned. Alas, in the last few months I felt an overwhelming need to move on. I feel called by the Goddesses to do other things like counsel people on the web among so many other things.

Banshee has recently returned to Cincinnati with a new husband and just in time to bring baby Dylan into the world. Hooray!