| Many people associate psychic readings with anything | | | | Distant readings are far simpler to explain. When |
| that attempts to explore an individual's past, present or | | | | presented with a question about the future, the psychic |
| future without any other knowledge. This is correct to | | | | will use their ability to gain foresight of the outcome. |
| a degree, but it is important to remember which | | | | Psychometry is different to both Aura reading and |
| readings require genuine psychic ability, and which | | | | Distant reading as it does not look to an individual or to |
| readings are based on learnable skills. | | | | the future, but to the past or the present. Utilising an |
| The first step in understanding which methods rely on | | | | object that is closely linked to the event in someway |
| clairvoyance and which do not is to understand what | | | | (for instance, a wedding ring from a husband |
| that clairvoyance actually is. | | | | suspected of cheating, or the favourite hat of a |
| A reader with clairvoyance, or psychic ability, will use | | | | missing person), the psychic can read the residual |
| this extra-sensory perception to ascertain knowledge | | | | energy that is imprinted on it from that person, and |
| during a reading. This knowledge can be about a | | | | determine what they were doing at a specific point in |
| person, a group of people, an object, a place or an | | | | the past, or what they are doing now. |
| event. It is this ability which is made use of during Aura | | | | Separate to these, there are readings which do not |
| reading, Psychometry, and Distant Reading. | | | | require the reader to possess psychic ability |
| In Aura reading, the psychic's ability gives them | | | | themselves, but instead rely on an outside force for |
| awareness of a person's aura. They can observe an | | | | answers. Examples of these are Tarot reading, |
| aura's size, the intensity or brightness of it, the colours | | | | Palmistry and Astrology, all of which are learnable and |
| which make up the aura, and the shape of the aura. | | | | rely on the cards, a person's hands, or the movements |
| Every factor says something about the individual's | | | | of astral bodies for answers. |
| character, and by interpreting these signs the reader | | | | The difference between the two methods is marked, |
| can learn things about the individual without any other | | | | and getting the right reading for what you require is |
| input. | | | | important. Choose wisely. |