Interview With a Tarot Reader: Maria Steele

Describe how you first found out about your psychic abilities.

Yes, it was very difficult growing up with my skills as a medium. I was five years old when I first really remember sensing spirits. In the house I grew up in there was a spirit of a man who had killed himself years ago that is one of the reasons my grandparents got the place so cheap. However my Grandparents were very religious in fact they were Jehovah Witness and to them there is no life after death and when I would tell my Grandmother what I was seeing in the home. She would say it’s just the devil coming for me because its just the devil showing me these things and I was evil.

Can you imagine telling and scaring a child like that? But she did scare me and so for years I learned how to block them out until at age 18 I could no longer block it out and yes, my family disowned me because of this spiritual work I do, It is not evil but really its a gift we all have from God and just need to develop it better. Some people it is a lot easier for and others it takes practice.

Quick Facts

Reading Types: Psychic, Tarot Card, Dream Interpretation, Medium, Love/Relationship Compatibility, Finance/Career Advice
Zodiac Sign: Gemini
Professional Since: 1999
Language Spoken: English
Country of Residence: United States

To me my gifts come naturally and what I think is so funny but makes sense why my Grandmother was so against it was because all the women on her side of the family were psychics of some kind and due to the religious persecution they grew up in the women had been deemed insane. My birth mother had learned how to do divination with a regular deck of playing cards from her Grandmother my great-grandmother but was an outcast because she had kept reading the cards but later due to being brainwashed by old fashion ideas of its evil. She gave it up and returned to the church. It’s really sad to me that we can not be ourselves and know that these gifts are a blessing and that we are all spiritual beings and a long as we have faith in the good then it’s not a sin or evil.

What have you done to develop your abilities?

Yes, I have taken Hoodoo courses and have trained with curenderas on Mexican folk magic. And I am now being trained and learning a lot on Angels. I really love Angel magick. I have been studying the occult for 20 years. I love to learn new spiritual things.

I have a certificate in the practice of La Santisima Muerte. I love her in the fact she is never an ending but always a beginning and have learned so much from her guidance.

Describe your skills.

During my readings I offer exclusive attention to the client. I also suggest that they also use their intuition as well during a reading. This is important because the more you learn to listen to your intuition and trust it the better the reading can make sense and bring out more details.
My main tool for divination is Tarot. It helps me unlock my intuition and connects me to the spirit realm even just by holding my cards. I use a certain deck as to it loves to gossip and spill the beans on everything. But it’s very blunt but very accurate.

In my home people come to me for egg cleansing and this is where I take the egg and run the egg all over the client with prayers to God and then break the egg in water and read the egg by divination into what has been plaguing them and what can be done to help the situation. I know I can not do this over the computer but I do say this is my unique gift. I would say that being a medium or a bridge between the spirit world is another gift but it is not so unique as there are a lot of great mediums out there. But I do say I love to work with ones who have passed on and to listen to the Spirits.

Can you communicate with spirits who have passed on?

Spirits are free once they pass on and I do respect that. I can not make them talk. It’s up to the spirit. Also sometimes when they communicate it is muffled and not exactly clear. I can pick up impressions of them or if they were a good person or not so nice. I get nervous when people demand that I bring this person forward because as to who ever they were when they were alive is how they still are not all spirits see the light of God and say “Oh I am all good now cause I died” Or people want to hear some kind of life changing message from this dead spirit and really a lot of times there is no life changing message except they just might want to let you know that they are ok and there is an afterlife and they love you.

Yes I have talked with family members who have passed on but my specialty is communicating with dead rock stars and this was something I was reluctant to put out there because I do not want people to say that I am saying I am some kind of expert on dead rock stars because I am not. I have no clue why they communicate with me as I did not want this gift due to negative feed back from others. Its sounds wild. Dead Rock Stars speak to me. See sounds strange or made up. But I do believe they do and I use this not as to brag or to make a profit from just what I have done since I was very young and up until now.

Are you able to turn your psychic abilities ‘on’ or ‘off’ when you want to?

I say a prayers while shuffling my cards and that helps turn my intuition way up. I also during my prayers I ask for ArchAngel Metatron to open his book of life for the client so I can get the correct and helpful guidance the client needs. I never really think I have to turn my abilities off as to me it’s like breathing and we need to breath in order to sustain life in the body and I feel my abilities are like that. It’s always needed.

Yes of course they can get in the way of a normal life but that is perfectly alright with me. Because this is my life purpose.

What is life like living with these abilities?

Actually I think it has made my life better at the beginning I did not think so due to family was and still is not excepting of this. I was disowned and I am ok with this. It saddens me that people can not be more open-minded. I mean the Saints saw spirits and they got all their information from them and they were not evil.

I am still just an ordinary human. So I have my hardships just like anyone else. Just being psychic does not make it easier actually it can complicate life because you sense and feel more and have to protect yourself but then again we all have intuition we just need to use those psychic muscles.

Do you think anyone can develop psychic skills?

Yes , oh yes everyone has intuition. Yes some people are more naturally psychic than others. But with concentration and practice anyone can enhance their intuition.

What do you like best about working with PsychicNetworkers?

I love the idea that there are chat rooms where I can talk and meet new people. Share ideas and chat. I really was excited to do web cam readings so the client can see me and the cards and really get the feel of the reading to be more personal. Yes I am shy about my appearance and just shy I am and have been giving readings for 20 years but I still get nervous. I can not help it because I really want to help all I read for get a great accurate reading!

Do you get readings for yourself?

Sometimes but rarely. I do not like to know the future for myself. Now I do divination when practicing any kind of magick. Now I think I am easy to read for because I try to be relaxed and open-minded as to anything is possible. I can read for myself when I really need to but it is nice to get a second opinion on an important matter so that is when I will go to another reader.

Is there anything else you would like to share about your abilities?

This was 15 years ago I believe but my best friend and I were using my spirit board and we came in contact with a spirit who said she was the famous singer Selena. We asked her to prove to us and she said to look over at my large picture I had of her hanging on my wall. We both looked and then we both jumped as to and I kid you not the eyes opened and shut. We both jumped at the same time. And asked did you see that?