The Inner Child and Inner Sage

As you all know we have psychic readers here every day of the week. While it is not a major portion of our business it certainly is a significant part. One that always seems to be in demand. The scheduling of appointments is always somewhat of a challenge. Not that scheduling an appointment is anything complicated. It’s just the mechanics of taking the appointment, (usually over the phone), taking the payment, making sure the psychics stay on tract time-wise and that they get their needed breaks requires a lot of attention to detail. This is all going on while we are waiting on other customers, answering the phone, scheduling classes and taking care of business at hand.

We have decided, after much discussion, that we now have to revert back to an earlier policy where psychic appointments must be paid at the time of scheduling. We had gotten a little slack and were allowing people to make an appointment and pay later at the time of the reading. Unfortunately, with everything that is going on we’ve found it was complicating things too much and in some cases hurting the psychics financially should someone not show up for a reserved time.

Some people have been a little annoyed with the change and especially if it means they might not be able to see a psychic that exact day.

Actually, I have found that such delays can oftentimes be a wonderful and powerful thing. I can remember many years ago when I had a particular teacher I used to see fairly regularly. She was a profoundly intuitive and caring teacher and guide. The problem was I could never see her when I felt I needed her.

I went to her for years on the average of once a month or so for spiritual guidance, support and direction. Because she was so popular the only time you could get an appointment to see her was a week or so from the time you called. If I ever thought it was an emergency and needed to see her right away she always responded the same way - very lovingly but firmly, “David, my next available time is a week from (some day). I will see you then and we can talk about it.”

I have to admit that pretty much without fail by the time I did get to see her the 'crisis’ had passed and we were able to work on the situation from a calmer perspective. What I found was that because she was unavailable I had no choice but to simply be with my stuff. In that quietness and over time with her and other’s help I found that I really had the answers inside if I would take the time to really listen. Over the years the process changed from “This is what’s is going on. Help me through it.” to “This is what happened, this is how I’ve processed it, and these are the steps I’m taking. What do you think?”

The shift from looking outside to looking inside is a gradual process as one learns the language of inner dialoging and intuitive listening. For me, one’s teachers serve you best when they work with you to that end.

There are books, workshops and retreats that help in this process. They can teach one to give a voice and loving attention to those parts of ourselves that may have never been heard. One of the most popular ones is known as our inner child. But I have to believe that there resides in us an equally important voice that has not gotten as much attention. The voice of the inner sage, inner wise man or inner wise woman. I do not believe this one will scream or shout or demand to be heard. This one I believe, waits patiently for us to come softly, with an open heart, ready to listen. If we do not make the journey to them, they will simply, and quietly, wait.

I believe that this one, just as much a part of ourselves as our inner child, is like the elders of old. Our inner sage sits along the edge of the sea of our inner consciousness. There they wait for us to come to them with reverence, with openness, holding our wounds in our hands like an offering, not wearing them like a badge or carrying them like a shield. They wait for us to lay our wounds down and ask, “What would you have me know?”

I believe, at that moment, our inner wise one will turn to us, smile with love and compassion and give us the answer we need to hear.

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