3 Ways to Strengthen Your Intuition

Hey cosmic beings!

We are in a powerful energetic vortex known as the eclipse season which kicks off on September 17th with a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces and goes through October 2nd which brings in a New Moon Solar Eclipse in Libra.

What is an Eclipse? In short, eclipses are when the moon, earth and sun play a game of musical chairs by shifting between one another. In astrology, lunar eclipses are seen as important events that bring about changes and transformations.

On the 17th of September we have a Lunar Eclipse which falls in a Full Moon In Pisces. This powerful transit will force us to face our illusions while giving us the chance to harvest our natural intuition.

Let’s go…

Developing Your Intuition:

Intuition is the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. It’s our inner gut instincts. For example, anyone who has ever cared for a small child will know that feeling of the child being in a home and being a little “too quiet.” Of course when we go in search of them, we find them up to all types of shenanigans. Or, let’s say there was a party that you were going to go to, but decided to change your mind at the last minute and cancel. Then the next day you read reports of a huge car crash that was on the same route you would’ve taken to the party and happened at the precise time you would’ve been on the road. These are but a few ways that define how we use our intuition on a daily basis often without really realizing it.

As we move deeper into the Age of Aquarius (a time that the human collective awakens to their individual sacred gifts), we will find that our intuition naturally increases in a variety of ways.

Today, I’m going to teach you three ways to start, open, and harness your intuition. Think of the Lunar Eclipse in Pisces as an activator. This potent energy will be available to all of us from September 17 – October 10, which includes the October 2 New Moon in Libra Solar Eclipse.

You can kick off any of these practices between these dates, and please by all means continue to practice as often as you would like. If you’d really like to test your gifts, then look for a “Psychic Test” game app on your phone app store of choice.

3 Ways To Strengthen Your Intuition:

1. Open Your Third Eye Chakra:

Chakras are invisible energy centers in our physical body and auric field that can influence our emotional, spiritual and physical state. The Third Eye Chakra aka The Ajna chakra is the sixth primary chakra in the body and sits in between the eyebrows and slightly above them. It’s purple in color and is where the seat of our intuition sits. The key to harnessing the power of this Chakra is to open and balance it. You will know that the exercises I’m teaching you are starting to work as you become more sensitive to the emotions of others, start to have more dreams that come true as well start to be able to “hear” clearly from your heart and your gut.

The most powerful but simple way to start to harness the power of this chakra is by doing daily Third Eye Opening meditations. You can find one on YouTube (10 mins is long enough) or you can grab my Intuition Development ToolKit and pop open my rapid opening meditation. But before jumping in, there are a few energetic protocols that you should make a part of your practice:

• Energetic Cleansing: Before starting the meditations you will want to find a comfortable and quiet space to sit as well as grab a piece of Palo Santo Wood or Sage. Light it and move the smoke around the space you’re sitting in as well as run it over the top of your head and sweep it down your body.
• Closing Down: An equally important part of this practice is shutting down your third eye after you are done opening it. You can do this simply by simply visualizing your “eye” closing gently while taking a few deep gentle breaths and then say out loud: “My intuition is now closed for the day.” This will ensure you’re not too sensitive (picking up the energies of others) while going about your day.

  This is why I personally like to do this exercise on Sunday mornings so I can have a full 24 hours before Monday morning to stay “open.”

2. Rock Rocks! 

Healing Crystals are minerals and stones that harness energy and since we as humans are made up of energy, various crystals can help us heal and transmute any energy depending on the make up of the crystals. Below are my top go-to-crystals for increasing your intuition and how to use them. But before we jump into my handy list, here are a few tips:

• Where to Purchase Crystals: Know that the best place to get your crystals is from a local botanica or crystal shop which can be online or off. Asking a friend or a trusted reader for their place of choice is always a good look.
• Cleansing & Charging Crystals: As these powerful rocks often suck up negative energies, it’s important to cleanse them every few months. A few easy ways to do this include:
  • Sitting them on a Selenite Crystal charging plate for a few days
  • Running each crystal briefly through the smoke of Palo Santo or Sage
  • Blowing on them in your hand while setting the intention of them being cleansed.

Here are my picks for the best healing crystals to utilize for expanding your intuition and how to use them. Please note that opening the intuition is a 360 experience so this list of crystals addresses both a direct opening of the Third Eye chakra as well as supporting you energetically to provide amplification to this process.

• Purple Amethyst Crystal: This is my top choice in crystals for the intuition. The best way to work with this potent crystal is to physically place a piece of this crystal on your third eye on your forehead while listening to a third eye opening meditation. It will supercharge the opening of this core chakra. Wear it around your neck and make sure the length of the chain places the crystal at the level of your heart. Place a piece of it under your pillow while you’re sleeping.
• Green Calcite & Orange Calcite Crystal: This is a 2-for-1. Calcite crystals are great emotional unblockers and balancers. Here you’ll be opening up secondary chakras that help to facilitate the deepening of our intuition. Green Calcite is used to help the Heart Chakra, while Orange Calcite is used for the Sacral Chakra. The Heart Chakra rules our capacity for love—the bigger the capacity, the easier it is to connect to your intuition. The Sacral Chakra is where our emotional body sits (think about how often your stomach reacts to people and situations i.e. “he gave me butterflies.” The best ways to work with these specific crystals include placing the Green Calcite crystal on your heart (Green Calcite and the Orange Calcite crystal on your navel while listening to either a 7 Chakra Meditation on YouTube or listening alternatively to a Heart or Sacral Chakra meditation. You can also place these on these same area of your body while listening to a third eye opening meditation. And yes, feel free to add a Purple Amethyst on your third eye while doing this. It becomes a big energetic punch to rapidly boosting your intuition.
• Hematite Crystal: This silvery colored rock known as Hematite is a grounding crystal and works best with the Root Chakra. This chakra is key for making us feel safe and connected to our everyday reality emotionally, physically and energetically. When we start to open up our third eye, we can often find that we may feel “space” or slightly like we aren’t in our body enough. Hematite crystal helps to stop this from happening. Two easy ways to work with it include wearing it and sitting/meditating with it. Get a hematite crystal bracelet and place a piece on your wrist and your ankle.
• Sit & Meditate With It: Find a Root Chakra meditation on YouTube and hold this crystal in your hand while meditating. You can also place this crystal on your lower belly (just above your pubic bone) while listening to any healing meditation of your choice
• Black Tourmaline Crystal: This is my go-to-warrior healing crystal. As we expand our intuition, we become more sensitive to our environment: from the weird vibes from other humans to the unseen energy in a physical space. To help stabilize your emotions and not take on the energies of others, having black tourmaline on your body goes a long way. This is another crystal that I rarely don’t have on me. Wear this around your neck or as a ring. The bigger the rock, the better. You can also place pieces of black tourmaline around your home: In your window sills, on top of your doorways, next to your devices, on high shelves, under your bed. You can empower it by first placing it in a small bowl filled with salt.

3. Learn & Work With an Oracle Cards Deck

Many people are familiar with Tarot cards. These are cards with colorful symbols that are known to forecast one’s future and tell of the present. However, I want you to skip over these and grab an Oracle card deck. Why? Because Oracle decks simply have one word and a picture on it. This allows you to interpret the cards using your intuition without being overwhelmed by a variety of symbols tied to a ton of information and rules. Pro tip? Cleanse your cards.

Whenever you get a new deck of cards, break them open and run them card by card through some Sage or Palo Santo Smoke. Get into the habit of doing this before each reading.

Here’s how to use them:

• Pull a Daily Card: These are great to use for daily messages from the spirit world. I’d suggest doing your third eye opening meditation and then pulling one card while a candle is lit.
• Give Yourself a Full Reading: Start with three questions and then shuffle the cards and see what comes up. Be sure to journal/record your results and look for synchronicities as you do this throughout your day.
• Do a Reading For Someone Else: Once you feel confident, you can read for others on a casual level. This is a good way to help build confidence in your intuition and have a fun afternoon.
• Journal Prompt: Pull a card and then journal around the feelings and thoughts that come up for you with this card.

Ready to Get Going?

Screenshot this post and keep it handy as you start on your spiritual journey and the ascension of your consciousness. Again, doing any or all of these practices during this portal eclipse season (from now through October 10) should turbo boost your sacred power. To further help this along, try and refrain from eating too many animal products, drinking alcohol and hanging out with low vibe people.

Until next time…I send you love, light and realness.

P.S.: Also be aware that this will be a heavy season of karma. If you know you’ve been a good person – no worries – but if you’ve been on a wack tip, well, prepare to reap what you’ve sown. Don’t @ me…I don’t make the rules…LOL

ZYA is a psychic medium who channels messages from the divine through words, sound and visual art. Currently based in Mexico City, you can book a reading with her at BOOKZYA.com and follow her on IG at PSYCHICZYA. 

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