What happens when an astrologer's meditation on birth charts opens unexpected doorways to the spirit realm? Susan Reynolds never planned to communicate with the dead—in fact, she was once so terrified of ghosts that she would leave the room if anyone mentioned them. Yet over her 40-year journey as an astrologer, the veil between worlds kept thinning until she could no longer ignore the messages coming through.
Susan's remarkable story begins with a routine pre-reading meditation that unexpectedly revealed a client's past life as an Irish farmer's wife with seven children. Though hesitant to share what seemed like a "boring" vision, Susan watched in amazement as this revelation transformed her client's life, lifting the burden of guilt the woman had carried about choosing career over family. This pivotal moment taught Susan to trust the information coming through, regardless of how it might be received.
The spiritual downloads didn't stop with past lives. During readings, deceased loved ones began appearing with urgent messages for her clients. "I'm not a medium," Susan insists, explaining that unlike professional mediums, she can't summon spirits at will—they simply show up. One particularly moving encounter involved a father who had passed just weeks earlier, desperately wanting his daughter to know he loved her one last time.
For years, Susan maintained a double life—corporate professional by day, intuitive astrologer by nights and weekends—until her spirit guides abruptly announced it was time for her to pursue her calling full-time. This dramatic career shift allowed her unique approach to astrology to fully bloom, combining traditional chart analysis with spiritual insights that address the soul's journey across lifetimes.
Whether you're a skeptic, a spiritual seeker, or somewhere in between, Susan's experiences offer a fascinating glimpse into what happens when analytical practice meets intuitive gifts. Her story reminds us that our greatest strengths often emerge from embracing the very things that once frightened us most.
Ready to explore your own cosmic blueprint? Visit ExploreAstrology.com for Susan's free monthly predictions and intuitive guidance.
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Becky (00:04):
Past lives, spirit guides and ghosts all play into
Susan's unique brand ofastrology, but she wasn't always
a full-time professionalastrologer.
Once upon a time, she held downa corporate job and kept her
gifts a secret from herco-workers.
Today, however, she has fullyembraced her calling and, as you
(00:28):
can imagine, the dead keepgiving her glimpses into the
past, both for herself and forher clients.
Her stories are wild and you'regoing to get to hear them today
on Homespun Haints.
Hello, hainted Loves, welcometo Homespun Haints.
I'm Becky.
Hey, I'm Diana.
Today on the show we've got aspecial treat for you.
(00:51):
We have Susan, who is anastrologer, so she is the fourth
astrologer we've had on theshow.
We've talked to ChristianBradley West.
We have spoken with Aurora.
We have spoken with Brad.
Diana (01:06):
West.
We have spoken with Aurora.
We have spoken with Brad.
Yes, four very different typesof astrologers really, but all
kind of unified in that factthat they combine astrological
observational science with theirown intuitive abilities, and
they're all pretty funny.
Becky (01:20):
She is amazing.
Diana (01:22):
We loved talking to her and, Diana, you actually got a
reading from her right, I did, Idid and I'm I'm actually going
to share the video because shemanaged to take like this hour
and 15 minute long video.
I'm going to save thehighlights and share it with our
patrons on patreoncom slashhomespunhance.
So if you, if you want to gosee the behind the scenes and
(01:42):
learn about what my fate wasupon being born upon this planet
under the stars of Leo.
Becky (01:53):
I think where you're going, I'm just going to follow.
You know, just wear a reallylong coat so I can hold on to
your coattails and just likewhee through the air to wherever
you land.
It sounds fun.
Right before we hit record, Iwas telling Diana about the
latest weird thing that appearedin our house.
Yes, you've got tools, thesethings.
They appear because I have ageeky husband and for those of
(02:15):
you that follow us over on ourbusiness side of things with the
concept spot, you know that I'malso an early adopter, so I'm
like always getting the weirdcool gadgets right away before
anybody else does.
3d printer shows up in thehouse.
Husband puts 3D printer inbasement.
Basement is full of crapbecause D&D campaign happened
(02:37):
there yesterday.
Diana (02:39):
The children's, not yours .
Becky (02:41):
Well, no, it's like a boys D&D club Dads and kids Cute
.
Yeah, it's really cute, it?
No, the it's like a boys D&Dclub.
So it's like Dads and kids cute.
Yeah, it's really cute, dadsand kids yeah.
And basement was alreadytrashed because my son's
birthday party had taken placethe night before.
Luckily, I got like washableeverything down there so I can
get the chocolate stains out ofthe rug and things like that.
Diana (03:03):
I have a friend who advocates putting the rug in the
bed of the pickup truck andthen going through car wash.
Becky (03:12):
What a brilliant idea.
Diana (03:13):
She says that's a really easy way to wash a rug and also
cheap.
You just need a pickup truck.
Well, actually she was doing itin a sedan.
But it's much harder to do in asedan because you need two
people one to put the rug overthe top and the other one to be
in there, because you can't getthe door open when there's a rug
over the top of the sedan.
So I was actually modifying hertechnique for your family
because you've got a pickuptruck.
Becky (03:33):
I do have a pickup truck, yes, which my husband can't
drive right now because he'slugging 3D printer into the
basement trying to work his wayaround all the crap.
Printer into the basement,trying to work his way around
all the crap, like he set upcard tables and folding chairs
and then other furniture is justlike scooched against the wall
and it's.
It's a mess.
And he stubs his toe into thecouch.
(03:56):
And I'm actually on my way outthe door because I just got a
call from the school and theywere like your daughter vomited.
And I was like, okay, well, shevomits all the time.
And they're like, no, she can'tstay here, we have rules.
So I was like, oh crap, I gotto go get my kid.
Diana (04:11):
Like cat, like daughter.
Becky (04:12):
Kids vomit.
Okay, like she looks atsomething funny and she vomits.
She stays in a car for morethan five minutes.
She vomits.
She's just a vomitous child, Imean billiest child.
So I'm like crap, all right.
So I'm running out the door andmy husband's like uh, I think I
hurt my toe and I'm like I'mstill, I've still got to go.
(04:33):
And he's like I think I brokeit and I'm like okay.
So I go over and you know, I'mlike what did you do?
And he was like I was walking.
I'm like God, you're gettingold.
So I walk over and I look athis toes, so you know.
So imagine this is the big toe,second toe, middle toe.
So these are the other toes andthis one's like sorry, I'm
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flipping you off.
It's not intentional, but itwas, it was not painful though.
It was not going in the rightdirection and I said, um, that
looks broken.
And I was like trying to moveit.
He's like I can't, I'm likebroken, I'm like great, all
right, well, I'm just gonna dropyou off at urgent care so you
can get x rays and I'm gonna goget my kid.
(05:19):
But I couldn't do that Becausethen my husband goes into shock.
So I'm like, oh crap, it's likethis is such a life of a mom,
right, it's like why do?
people keep getting injured.
He starts like getting dizzyand he's like pouring sweat.
He's like so I'm like likeputting him in the car and he's
like throw up.
(05:39):
I'm like, not you too.
Just the other day we weretaking my son to his birthday
dinner and he threw upeverywhere.
Your whole family's gettingpretty bilious, I know right,
can you believe we travel a lot?
Yeah, so we're driving down theroad because he really wanted
to go to Panera.
That's his favorite place forhis birthday.
Diana (05:57):
Wait, your son right?
Becky (05:58):
Yes, my son, yeah, no no, this is like a few days ago,
right before the part.
Yeah, so we're driving toPanera and he's like I'm gonna
get sick and I was like rolldown the window and just like a
college kid, he's like yeah,like all over the streets of
Roswell, georgia.
We pull in and I'm like, allright, it's like all over him.
I'm like let's go to thebathroom bud and wash you up.
Diana (06:28):
And let's go eat our bread bowls.
You know like nothing, no bigdeal.
So I'm just I'm so, I'm justI'm so used to dealing with this
.
I have to interrupt and sayyou're a really good mom for
raising kids.
That would not be likedevastatedly embarrassed by the
situation that we're just likeokie, dokie, yeah, it's gonna be
my party, no big deal, that's.
That's some next levelconfidence.
Good job, good job mom in that,some next level confidence.
Becky (06:45):
Good job, good job, mom, in that.
So it comes from a lot of mejust like I can't.
I can't deal with emotion, soyou're gonna just power through
this, yeah.
So anyway, I get my husband inthe car and the whole time I'm
like trying to give him Lamazebreathing techniques.
Oh, throw up in my car and he'slike.
He's like, okay, we'rebreathing together, we're
breathing together and I'm likebreathing with him all the way
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to urgent care and I get him inthe door and I'm like I cannot
just leave him here like hecouldn't even walk anyway.
I'm actually on the hunt for um, a local reiki healer in our
neighborhood, because we aregoing to roam in less than a
month so that toe needs all thegood vibes it can vibe that toe
better be healed because I amgoing, with or without him,
(07:30):
screw the fact that it's our20-year anniversary, but I do
want to give a big shout out toTiffany Parks of the Bittersweet
Life podcast.
She hosts that with Katie Sewell, who's actually a patron of
ours.
Tiffany has been soinstrumental in helping us plan
this trip.
She is actually a tour guide.
We're going to take one of hertours and she set us up with
(07:52):
some private tours throughoutRome, as well as giving us a lot
of recommendations like insiderinformation.
Diana (07:58):
That's so cool.
So you're going to see thedarker side of Rome.
That's.
The important thing to mentionright here is that this is a
spooky trip to Rome.
Becky (08:06):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Just a normal trip.
My family doesn't know that yet.
Diana (08:10):
Oh sorry, it's a secretly spooky trip to Rome, so it's
interesting You're going to bein the Vatican during Jubilee,
during a new Pope election,assuming like the conclave is
over with by then.
If you guys were Catholic, thiswould be really like a big deal
in your lives.
Becky (08:29):
Right, none of this is happening if my husband's toe
doesn't heal.
Diana (08:33):
Right, right.
So we need to all send goodvibes.
Becky (08:37):
Send good vibes to my husband, because he is going to
get stuck in the hotel room withhis foot up while I go walk
around in the catacombs.
Diana (08:46):
You're going to call him when the kids puke and he has to
come pick them up so you cancontinue infiltrating Catholic
venues.
Becky (08:53):
I'll just tell him to find a bush.
Diana (08:55):
They have public fountains there.
It's fine.
You'll be able to clean them upno matter where.
Oh good God, Do not throw up.
Oh no, that's not what I wasrecommending.
I just meant like it's easy toclean up because there's always
fresh like oh yeah, I can cleanthem up.
Becky (09:08):
No, no, this is true.
Yes, and the world's firstsewer system was there, so I'm
sure there's plenty of placesthey can throw up into Probably.
Diana (09:18):
But, I can't wait.
You're going to see the churchwhere the the which.
Becky (09:26):
Tiffany, yeah, she says she's going to take us there.
Diana (09:29):
Okay, the one where they catch the bodies that wash up on
the on the river, on the Tiber.
Yes, On the Tiber river.
Becky (09:35):
Yeah, I'm very excited, looking forward to that.
Diana (09:37):
Please call me from there .
I'm looking forward to that,all I'm looking forward to that.
All right, surely they haveWi-Fi.
All good churches have Wi-Fi,right.
Becky (09:45):
Wi-Fi.
It's in the Bible, right Likeit's the 11th commandment Thou
shalt have good Wi-Fi, it'senshrined.
And those of you that are partof our patron, patron Patreon, I
will be sharing little storiesof the trip as I go, so you'll
get some exclusive imagery, justlike we did for our trip to
Appalachia.
But please send healingthoughts to my husband and his
(10:07):
toe.
Diana (10:08):
I used to sprain and or potentially hairline fracture my
baby toes all the time.
Because my feet are shaped likethis.
I've got monkey toes.
They're prehensile.
I can play the piano almost aswell with my toes as with my
hands, but that's just because Ican't play piano.
But I can pick things up.
I I one time I learned how tocrochet with my toes.
(10:29):
I can write with my toes alittle bit.
But what I wanted to say was Iused to always fracture,
hairline fracture my middle toeevery time I walked through a
dark room because I'd knock itonto some doorway or something,
until I got these shoes righthere and these shoes or
something.
Until I got these shoes righthere and these shoes you may not
be able to tell how big theyare on a flat screen, but
(10:49):
they're larger than my head,they're huge and they've got
cheekbones, because it's like anevil jack-o'-lantern.
Right, they've got cheekbonesthere and there.
Becky (10:58):
Where do you find said shoes?
Diana (11:00):
I will put a link to them in the show notes for this
episode, should you want toobtain a pair of evil
jack-o'-lantern shoes that keepyou from breaking your toes, so
that you never do this to yourspouse when she's hoping to have
her first trip to Italy as anadult?
And you're breaking your toesand going, oh, there's nothing I
(11:21):
could have done?
Yeah, yes, there was.
Becky (11:25):
Okay, that's a really good idea.
Diana (11:32):
I don't think I've told you yet, becky.
The library here has a creativewriting contest for adults
every year, and this year I won.
Oh, you didn't tell me that?
Yeah, I got first place in theessay contest.
Congratulations, thank you, sonow now I'm going to have my
story published on the librarywebsite and I get to go to a
ceremony where I get to read italoud.
Now you know me, the story isincredibly embarrassing and it's
(11:59):
all true.
So, unfortunately, yes, I getto read a very embarrassing
story aloud and then have peoplereference it online for a year.
This is what publication islike.
Becky (12:08):
Oh well, it's incredible, diana.
I'm so proud of you.
Thank you, it's awesome.
It's a cool accolade to put onyour resume.
Diana (12:16):
That's the first thing I did.
I've edited my CV that Ihaven't edited since 2019.
Becky (12:27):
Cv that I haven't added since 2019.
Well, hated loves.
Thank you for listening to ourrantings and ravings about
contests and broken toes initaly.
If you are a patron, you canfollow our adventures at
patreoncom.
Diana (12:36):
Slash homespun hates and if you're not a patron, we'll
just continue to watch youquiver in anticipation.
Susan (12:51):
Oh man, I had a rough day .
Becky (12:52):
What happened, honey?
I was out with the guys andthey uh.
And, and they said I wasn'tspooky enough.
Oh honey, how could they saythat to you?
You're hella spooky.
You think so, Of course.
After all, you came up with theectoplasm being ghost jizz
theory, and you've beenscratched by more horny ghosts
than anyone else.
I know.
Diana (13:11):
Well, I suppose you're right.
Becky (13:13):
But if you're really worried about it, I have just
the thing oh wow, A spooky AFt-shirt.
That's right, Our spooky AFline comes in shirt, sweatshirt,
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Susan (13:27):
Man, those are super awesome, especially for
something with profanity on it.
Becky (13:32):
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exclusively from Homespun Hatesby world-renowned calligrapher
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Holy, ghostly cannoli.
That's amazing.
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one will accuse you of beingboring.
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(14:07):
Today on the show, we arethrilled to bring on Susan
Reynolds of Explore Astrology.
Hey everybody, Welcome Susan.
She is an astrologer and shehas been doing it for 40 years.
That's so cool, I know it's socool.
I know it's so cool.
So, as you know, we'll includelinks to her information or her
(14:28):
email address, because I'm sureyou guys are going to have lots
of questions and you're going tohave an expert that you can
reach out to after this show.
Susan, thanks so much for beinghere with us.
Thanks for having me.
I'm excited to be here.
Before we hit record, you wereexplaining that when you began
reading these charts, youstarted actually delving into
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people's past lives with theircharts and the exploration you
did, and that's kind of one ofthe unique approaches that you
take with your practice.
Can you go back to thebeginning and tell us what that
was like and how that sort ofoccurred?
Can?
Susan (15:06):
you like, go back to the beginning and tell us what that
was like and how that sort ofoccurred.
Well, I started out doingsomething that I still do today,
even after 40 years.
Before I ever do a reading witha client, I meditate on that,
that chart.
And so there was a woman whohad made an appointment.
I'd never met her before, shewas a brand new client.
And I was sitting theremeditating on this chart, like I
always do, and all of a suddenI started to see a vision Like I
(15:30):
didn't ask for this, I didn'teven know this could happen.
But boom, there we were and Isaw a vision of a woman who I
knew was my client and it waslike the 1800s, 1700s.
She was a woman, she lived inIreland, she was married to a
man who was a farmer.
She had like seven or eightkids.
I saw this woman trying to be agood mother, to be a good wife.
(15:55):
Money was a little bit of astruggle, but she was teaching
her children to get an education, you know.
And then I think she diedsomewhere in her 50s.
And then the vision went and Iwas shocked.
I didn't know what to do withthis.
Remember this was 40 years ago.
This was not as accepted and Isaid I can't tell this woman
(16:17):
this.
You know, it may take all hercourage to come from astrology
reading, and I'm going to talkabout crazy past life stuff.
You know what, if she calls mea fraud.
But then I thought, well, I gotit for her, I should tell her.
So I kept going back and forth,back and forth, should I,
shouldn't I?
Finally I said, okay, I'm goingto tell her, and I'll tell her
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right at the beginning of thereading, so that if she doesn't
like it, she's upset with me,she could leave and that'll be
it.
And so if she doesn't like it,she's upset with me, she could
leave and that'll be it.
And this probably doesn'treflect well on me, but I'll
tell you anyway.
I was upset at getting thisvision, but I was also upset at
seeing such a boring past life,like a huge story of Jess' life.
(16:59):
Could she not have been apirate or a civil war general or
something with some pizzazz?
You know a housewife and thenyou die.
Like who wants to hear that?
Diana (17:11):
That's probably 95% of our past lives, if you think
about it.
Susan (17:15):
And I was like, oh my God , I can't even tell her this
boring life.
You know, my client comes in.
She's a lovely woman in her 30s, very well-dressed, very polite
.
We sit down, we start thereading and I tell her about
this vision.
My client bursts into tears andshe says, oh my god, that
explains my whole life.
Oh, what, what?
(17:36):
That is my reaction.
This, this explains your wholelife, turns out.
My client was a lawyer.
She was born in a very lovingIrish Catholic family in Boston,
large family, six or seven kidsand all the women, the girls in
that family.
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They would grow up and getmarried and then have kids.
They may get a job to help outthe family, but she said she
always knew from a young agethat she didn't want to do that.
She wanted a career.
She went to college, she wentto law school.
She was a lawyer.
She said she was aiming to makepartner and she said she always
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felt guilty that she wasn'tbeing like all the other women
in her family.
She always felt guilty for notwanting to follow that path, for
wanting to enter a career.
And when I told her this it waslike I could see this woman
getting lighter, gettingbrighter, right in front of me,
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like that burden of guilt hadlifted she was.
I don't even remember what therest of the reading.
All I remember is her reactionthat what I thought was boring
and humdrum changed her lifeLike literally.
In those moments I could seeher life changing and it was a
lesson to me.
Like Susan, it's not up to youto decide what you're supposed
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to tell them.
If you're seeing a vision, youjust tell them and let go of it.
That's your job, but not thejudge of this.
And so after that I would dothe same thing with other
clients go into my time ofprayer meditation before we sit
down, and more and more often Iwould start to see visions of
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past lives.
And this is what you came intothis lifetime to do.
And so many times I would seethat click.
Oh, that's why I struggle withthis.
That's why this is this way.
So usually when I do a readingnow, I will start if I got a
vision for them.
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Occasionally, but it's rare, Iwill go into my time of prayer
meditation and my guides willcome in and they'll go.
No, you will get no informationabout this person's past life,
and that's annoying for me butit's incredibly frustrating for
my client, because most of myclients are word of mouth and so
their friends or theirrelatives telling them this is
what she told me.
I'm like I'm so sorry, I cannottell you anything.
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But the vast majority of thetime, like 90, 95% of the time,
I'm going to see something andI'm going to tell you and I tell
people all the time believe it,don't believe it, toss it away,
keep it.
Totally up to you.
I've done my job, I've sharedit.
This is what I saw, this iswhat I'm sharing.
The end.
And then I'll get more into thechart.
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But I'll start to explain thechart from a spiritual
standpoint, from the soulstandpoint.
This is why you brought in thisVenus.
This is what it's trying toteach you.
So my way may be a littledifferent than most people's
style, but that's okay.
It's mine and I've made peacewith it over the years.
Diana (20:47):
You know, susan, we've interviewed at least two other
professional astrologers andboth of them have some practice
that has to do with intuition,mediumship or psychic ability or
predictions or something that'sabove and beyond just, oh, I
read charts.
So I think that, yeah, I thinkthat once you become a
professional something, maybeeither the people who are meant
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to be professional astrologershave some kind of gift naturally
and it weaves itself in, or itmaybe generates some kind of
gift.
I don't know.
Susan (21:18):
I will say, before I start the reading, I always take
a moment of prayer to bless thereading, to call in their
guides, to call my guides, andwhen I do that, when if any
astrology does that you'reopening that door and you don't
know what's going to go throughthat door.
I mean certainly we're protectedand we're going with the high
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vibration.
But their guides sometimesstart talking to me.
My guides sometimes starttalking to me.
Sometimes I'll be telling myclient something and my guides
will sort of hit me in the backof the head like Susan, this is
for you too.
Like pay attention.
So I have just learned to justgo with it.
I am often the most surprisedperson in the reading surprise
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person in the reading.
The first time a relative camein.
I'm not a medium, I'm not a youknow, I don't talk to the dead
and I was reading for this woman, lovely young woman, and I saw
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this man, older man sort of,come towards me and he was very
loud, very insistent Tell her Ilove her and I'm in my head
going no, go away, go away.
Shoot, shoot, shoot.
And I'm doing this in my head,talking to him, and so I'm still
reading the chart, and so I'mstill talking about her moon or
what's going on here, and he'slike tell her I love you, no, go
away, go away.
And again, this is my fault.
(22:43):
I thought I love you was somesort of generic message Like oh
yeah, yeah, I'm a medium,they're happy, they're on the
other side, they love you.
I wanted a message like thewill is under the third brick in
the fireplace.
Diana (22:57):
Like I want it specific.
Susan (23:00):
I wasn't getting that.
I wasn't getting this.
I love you.
Like no, we're not doing this,go away.
So I'm arguing with this man inmy head while I'm reading for
my client and he won't go away.
And finally I'm so annoyed athim.
I had a pencil in my hand.
I just threw it down on thetable.
Oh well, right.
And my client's looking at melike what did I do?
Because she doesn't know.
(23:20):
I've been arguing with this manfor the last 10 minutes and I
tell her there is a man here.
He's an older gentleman and heis very insistent that I tell
you I love you.
He wants you to know I love you.
And I still get a little chokedup about this because tears
started running down her face.
I did not know this, but herfather had died three weeks ago
(23:46):
and she was in another state atthe time and her family called
her.
He was in the hospital, so itwas expected, but they said come
it's time, he's fading.
So she drives like a bat out ofhell to get to the hospital and
he had died before she gotthere and she said I'd give
anything to hear him say I loveyou one more time.
(24:07):
Oh wow, I did not know any ofthat.
So once again I had to learn.
It's not up to me.
Sometimes I think my guys havetaken up a special collection to
work with me.
I'm sure I'm in slow class orsomething.
Becky (24:23):
I give them bits.
You say I'm not a medium, buthow is that not mediumship in a
way?
Susan (24:31):
Well, I've had people come to me and say I want to
talk to Aunt Mary or mygrandmother.
Nothing happens Like I gotnothing.
I think a professional mediumcan call on the other side at
will and be able to picksomebody up.
I can't do that Like the otherside is making and be able to
pick somebody up.
I can't do that Like the otherside is making the decision, not
me Got it Okay.
So I had to sort of saysometimes this happens and if it
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does, I will do my best to bethe best interpreter.
But you're also not gettingsomebody who's a professional in
this area and my clients arefine with that.
But I'm always a little worried.
I don't want to disappointanybody or, you know, I don't
want them to be misled in anyway about my work.
I remember this this older womancame to me beautifully dressed
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I think she's wearing a Chanelsuit.
You know, very sort of likeladies who lunch kind of energy.
She just looked beautifully puttogether and this young man
came in and was standing behindher and I couldn't see him very
clearly.
Remember, not a professional.
So I'm doing my best to likewho is that?
What is that?
And he was holding something inhis hand.
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It looked like a tall spear.
I was like what is that?
His hand, it looked like a tallspear.
I was like what is that?
So I asked her.
I said does a man holding aspear mean anything to you?
And she said no.
I said, okay, you know, I justwent right back to the reading
and then a little bit later itwas like the picture wasn't as
fuzzy, it was like it was finetuned or something.
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And I said, oh, it's not aspear or something.
And I said, oh, it's not aspear, it's a fishing rod.
I said do you know anybody witha fishing rod?
And she said, oh yes, my sonwas a bass fisherman before he
died.
So again, my skills are notnecessarily where I would want
them to be if I was doing thatprofessionally.
Becky (26:20):
I just say I'm doing my best, know it's just a little
extra perk that comes sometimeswith the readings the past life
readings.
Diana (26:28):
Do they come through the dead, through a form of
mediumship that maybe you're nota pro at yet but that happens
to you passively, or do theycome through you?
Susan (26:38):
somehow they come through me, they come to me and through
me.
Um, sometimes it's a goodquestion you ask because I
didn't think about thisSometimes, when I'm seeing a
past life unfold in front of me,I'll realize immediately oh you
know, that woman's now herfather.
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In this lifetime, likesometimes, that connection will
just be shown to me immediately.
Time, like sometimes, thatconnection will just be shown to
me immediately.
Most of the time not, butoccasionally it's shown to me to
understand this is why thissituation is going on, and so
sometimes it will happen likethat, but most of the time it's
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like watching a movie it's, youknow, cue the MGM, like the fog
and the vision and everythinghappening, and I just watch, I
just kind of watch, but I'llalso it's hard to explain I'll
also be feeling these feelingslike this happened and this is
what you were feeling, and Iwatched a life unfold in front
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of me, a past life, where awoman, a woman, was married,
they had children, and a faminehit their nation or their
country, wherever they wereliving.
Her husband died, her childrendied and this woman eventually
passed after her husband andchildren, and what I remember is
this woman's sense of guilt andfailure I failed my children,
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you know, like they died, like Icouldn't keep my children on
this woman's heartbreak and inthis lifetime she was scared to
get pregnant and this lifetimeshe's afraid to be a mother.
Oh, wow, she didn't know why.
She said nobody in my familydied from childbirth.
You're like I don't know whyI'm so scared to have kids.
Well, if you watched yourchildren die, you might be a
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little hesitant.
So she did nothing wrong as amother.
She was a good mother.
But our feelings and what shewas feeling at the time that she
died I'm a failure as a mother,I'm a terrible mother was
impacting her in this lifetime,that is incredible.
That's so relevant.
Diana (28:45):
That's bizarre to me, because the reason I was asking
that question is because I'vehad an Akashic Records reading,
which is you're familiar withthat?
Okay, yeah, but basically theone reading I had produced an
extremely profound image of apast life that I had no takeaway
from.
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It meant nothing to me, therewas no value whatsoever, and the
reader went over every singleaspect that she was able to see.
It had no relevance to my lifeand I still, to this day, cannot
place it as anything relevantto my current life.
Wow, that's incrediblyfrustrating.
Sometimes you're going to getmessages that maybe aren't
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relevant yet or would berelevant in a future life, or
something like that.
Susan (29:31):
Sometimes we can see something and we misinterpret it
in a certain way, and that maybe what was going on or, like
you say, it may be relevantlater on.
Diana (29:41):
I don't know it was.
It was a good friend of mine,so she knew me.
It's not like she was justtrying to connect with some
random things.
Susan (29:48):
I would start to.
Maybe, if you work with yourspirit guides at all, I would
start to ask them to show youwhat do I need to learn from
this, even if you get nothing.
Let's say they were describinga life where you were sitting
under a tree eating an apple.
You know, and you okay what?
What is the big deal about that?
Start to maybe make it like astory.
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What can that mean?
Was I a farmer growing apples?
Was I hungry?
You know?
Was I happy in that moment?
Start to treat it like you'reinterpreting a dream and see if
you can put things together.
You might even get a dream bookand look up apple or look up
tree, just because it may seemvery simplistic or not seem to
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have any relevance.
Sometimes, when we dig into ita little bit more, something
starts to come.
Diana (30:38):
That makes sense.
That makes a lot of sense.
I never thought to interpret itlike a dream, but that's a
really good idea.
Becky (30:43):
And you would be good at that, Diana.
Of course you do a lot of dreaminterpretation.
Diana (30:45):
Yeah, I do dream interpretation, so that is kind
of something I would.
Susan (30:48):
Oh, I do some too.
It's fun Once you start to diginto it.
What looks one way totallychanges and looks a totally
different way.
Becky (30:56):
Poor Diana gets a text from me almost every day.
Susan (30:59):
I dreamt about this.
What does it mean?
Becky (31:01):
She's like well, you're going to learn to do this
yourself.
Diana (31:04):
That's okay, helps me keep tabs on you.
Susan (31:07):
I used to work years ago in corporate America and my
friends would call me up at workto tell me they had a dream and
I'd be like not a good time,not a good time.
Diana (31:20):
That'd be an interesting performance review.
That'd be an interestingperformance review.
It must feel good to move froma life where you're trying to do
readings in between clientcalls and corporate break room,
and then now you do this fulltime.
Susan (31:34):
Yeah, I started out in corporate America Never thought
I'd be a professional astrologer.
Even when I took classes andstarted having clients, it was a
hobby, nights and weekends.
In astrology I do my best tomake it very practical to what's
going on in your life today andpeople would say you need to go
do this full time.
And I go, look, I need a healthcare plan, I need some benefits
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.
I'm not walking away from a jobthat pays me a good salary with
a lot of benefits.
So look at this.
So for many years I justthought that would be it.
Look at this.
So for many years I justthought that would be it.
I would do it nights andweekends.
And then one day my guides werelike no, today's the day, Just
like that, Just like that.
And I went to my boss and Isaid I was leaving and I never
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went back and I had no money, Ihad no plan, I had no nothing.
I tell people all the timedon't ever leave your job the
way I left mine.
Don't do that, it's incrediblystressful.
Becky (32:27):
So your guides meant like leave that day, don't give a
month notice, don't try to get aseverance package.
Susan (32:34):
I gave my notice that day and I had reached in the
company I was working for, ifyour years of service plus your
age added up to like the magicnumber, you could leave and
retire with medical benefit, andso I wasn't even thinking about
that, but my guys were.
Becky (32:52):
Oh, so you had that.
Susan (32:53):
you were at that point and the minute I reached the
magic number, they were likeokay, you're out of here.
Oh, really.
Diana (32:58):
That's awesome Okay.
Becky (33:00):
All right, I mean you still had all of that.
You built that for yourself atthe company.
Susan (33:04):
Yeah, I liked what I did.
It wasn't exciting, but I wasgood and I was respected.
I you know, if my guides hadnot decided otherwise, I might
have stayed there a lot longer,but I was very invested in my
astrology, even though it waspart time.
I was doing a lot of night andpart time work and I was in the
break room, you know, sort ofhaving lunch with a colleague
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and casually I wasn't eventhinking said something about
working that weekend and he said, oh, I didn't know, you had a
part-time job.
And immediately I'm like deer inthe headlights oh, my God, I
cannot tell him what I do.
I work for a very conservativecompany.
And he could see my panic allover my face and he said it's
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okay, it's okay, you don't haveto tell me what you do.
And I guess most people wouldhave said, no, I'll tell you.
But I said, oh, thank you somuch.
I got up to leave the breakroom and then I kind of turned
around and I looked at him and Isaid, but my stage name is
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Cinnamon.
Diana (34:09):
He's been Googling that for years and still can't find
you?
Susan (34:13):
I never did tell him what I really did.
Diana (34:15):
That's phenomenal.
Becky (34:17):
Welcome to my life.
You see images of the departedin your visions, of the departed
in your visions.
Have you ever seen a ghost or aspirit or something like that
outside of reading for a client.
Susan (34:31):
Yes, oh, twice, not a lot , but twice I've seen this.
The first was many years ago.
I was an astrologer, I wasstill working in corporate
America, and my sister and Iwere at a graveside.
We were visiting a relative'sgrave and leaving some flowers
there and I looked up and I sawthis young man like leaning on a
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big headstone and I thought itwas kind of disrespectful.
Like you know, that's not aseat, you know, and you don't
usually see that, like, peopleare usually very respectful in a
graveyard.
I'm kind of looking at them andI'm trying not to look because
I don't want to be rude.
And finally I'm talking to mysister.
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I'm like you see that man overthere, do you not think that's
disrespectful?
And my sister says what man?
Uh-oh, yeah, that was me, uh-oh.
And I look again and he's stillthere and I realize I'm looking
through him instead of at himand I'm like, okay, we can go
(35:33):
now.
You know, like I'm not sure Iwant to talk to him and he looks
fine and we're not walking inthat direction, we're going to
walk in this direction.
Whoa, walking in that direction.
We're going to walk in thisdirection.
It was the first time I'd everseen a ghost.
I did later, not that day.
I looked at the grave markerthat he was sitting on and it
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was a grave for a young man whohad died in his twenties and I
figured that was him.
The second time that I saw aghost was much, much later.
Grown woman left corporateAmerica full-time astrologer.
I don't know if either one ofyou have ever heard of Chip
Coffey.
He's a very well-knownespecially in Atlanta, very
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well-known medium and he had ashow for a while about working
with children who are mediumsand seeing dead people, and I
don't know if he still does thisup until COVID.
I know a few times a year hewould do an event at like a
haunted place and you would buyyour ticket, maybe go to like a
haunted mansion for the weekendand you would have the weekend
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there and you would see ghosts.
He would take you around to seeghosts, and so he was offering
something in Tennessee, inPigeon Forge, at the Titanic
Museum that they have there, anda friend and I decided to buy
tickets and to go.
It was like you buy your ticketand there's a three or four
course dinner in the eveningwhen the museum is closed and
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then they take you through themuseum at night and it just
sounds like fun.
That's my idea of fun, you know.
So we buy our tickets, we go toPigeon Forge and during the day
we decide to go to the museumas a tourist, just to see the
museum.
It was very well done.
If you're ever in Pigeon Forgego to the Titanic Museum, it was
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really very well done.
And you get a card with apicture and a name on it as you
enter and then at the end youcould see if you survived, like
did you survive it was is verywell, nicely done.
So we're looking through and I'mlooking at these exhibits and
in glass containers or whatever,and um, and they had encouraged
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us for this event to dress in1920s clothing, like really to
get into it.
I did my best but I didn't knowthat I was going to wear a
bustle or whatever it is foranybody, so I had my limits.
But I'm walking through themuseum and there's a young boy
there, maybe like eight to 10,something like this, and he's
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dressed in like the 1920s style,with a cap and like the
knickers kind of thing, andwe're kind of playing with each
other, kind of teasing eachother, and he's, like you know,
darting over here and I'm goingover there to sort of find him
and we're just having a goodtime with each other.
And then he darts behind awoman that is looking at the
exhibit that I take to be hismother, and I dart right behind
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him and there's nobody there andI realized, oh, that was a
ghost.
Becky (38:37):
Oh my goodness, so nobody else saw him?
Susan (38:41):
No, because I asked my friend and she's like what boy?
She didn't see anything.
Diana (38:47):
Oh my gosh, the random woman you darted behind must
have been a little alarmed.
Susan (38:53):
You know, I didn't even think about that.
Diana (38:57):
I probably do that to people all the darn time.
Susan (39:01):
I didn't even think about that, but the dinner was lovely
, and then they took us intothis part of the museum and the
temperature drops to like the20s or something like that.
It drops to the temperature.
It was that night when theTitanic went down, so you're
immediately cold and they hadlittle slats created where you
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could sit on, like littlebenches that mimicked the
rowboats that they had where thesurvivors would sit in the rows
on the rowboat and I wassitting down and then I scooted
over to make room for the womansitting next to me and I
realized I didn't see anybody.
But I realized it was nobodysitting there, but like I could
feel the brush of cloth or adress or something next to me.
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So I knew there was somebodythere, but we didn't communicate
and I was just like, oh, that'sinteresting.
Diana (39:54):
So somebody is here, you know.
Okay, I know you don't know theanswer to this, but if you were
speculating, would you guessthat these spirits were attached
to items in the museum from theTitanic, or attached to the
land somehow, or perhaps justattached to the idea that the
concept of the Titanic and somany people thinking about it?
Susan (40:14):
This is my impression, again, as a light medium, not a
professional medium.
I got the impression they wereattached to the objects.
Okay, I definitely didn't senseany attachment to the land or
anything about Tennessee thatwas important to them, but I did
get an attachment to theobjects and even to some doing
an attachment to that experience.
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Like it was so overwhelming, sotraumatic, that there was still
definitely an imprint there,because many of the things that
they have there they wereoriginal to the ship.
Becky (40:51):
They were not recreations .
I'm really surprised that thoseare the only incidents that you
have to talk about, becausethose are really, really
visceral.
Susan (40:55):
I'll tell you something.
I sort of opened up to being anastrologer and moving into the
more spiritual, metaphysicalworld through my ARE study group
.
They are joined with ARE, theAssociation for Research and
Enlightenment, and it's anorganization that is in Virginia
Beach and it was created byEdgar Cayce, who is a very
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famous seer You're both nodding.
He lived in the 1890s to like1940s, something like that, and
the ARE is his organization.
He has ARE study groups allover the country, all over the
world.
It's free to join, and I hadjoined one and I knew nothing.
I knew nothing about past lives, I knew nothing about any of
this yet, but I was interested,which is why I asked to join.
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So they encouraged me andhelped me.
But one of the things that theywere very surprised about is
that I never wanted to talkabout ghosts.
I never wanted to talk aboutdead people.
I never wanted to talk aboutmediums or seeing spirits.
It scared the bejesus out of me, literally to the point where
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if they were going to talk aboutthis subject, I would leave the
room.
I would, I could not even be inthe room.
If they were going to talkabout this subject, I would
leave the room, I could not evenbe in the room while they were
discussing this.
I would leave the room andthey'd say okay, susan, we're
done talking, you can come backagain.
This is how scared I was ofthis subject, so I was
completely shut down.
They laughed themselves sillythat now I'm seeing dead people.
You know they think this is thefunniest thing in the whole
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world.
It took me a while to open up tothis.
This was not natural for me.
This is not something I askedfor or wanted.
I had to kind of make peacewith this.
Now, of course, I've made peacewith this and it's fine.
But I kept wondering why am Iso scared of this To literally
have to leave the room with theconversation turns there?
That's kind of an extremereaction.
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One night I had this dream, notsay it was real or not, but I
had a dream where I was a mediumin the 1800s and I was like I
don't know what they call it, atrance medium where you open up
and the spirit comes into youand can speak through you.
That was the kind of medium Iwas and I had a spirit who
didn't want to leave and go backand give up the body.
Becky (43:11):
I was going to ask if it has something to do with a past
life.
Susan (43:14):
Okay, so this life, I'm like, oh hell.
No, I'm not doing any work formediums or ghosts, no, I got it
with sperm.
Diana (43:22):
Once again, the past life .
What could be a past lifevision, I suppose, since it was
a dream, but it sounds like itexplains it pretty well.
I'm jealous.
I need another past lifereading.
Susan (43:35):
Well, if either one of you ever want me to read for you
, let me know.
I'd be happy to read for youand you can experience what a
reading with me is like.
Becky (43:43):
So do you do readings over Zoom and you can experience
what a reading with me is likeso do you do readings over Zoom?
Susan (43:47):
Yes, I absolutely do them by Zoom and I record them and
I'll send the recording to myclient.
Sometimes during a reading I'lljust kind of trail off and you
might think, well, I'll juststart looking at the ceiling or
something you know, and I tellthem I haven't lost interest in
your reading, like I'm hearingyour guide or something's coming
through, and so I always tellthem just give me a moment, just
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let me get it, and then I'llshare it with you.
Diana (44:12):
Speaking of looking at the ceiling when you're doing a
Zoom reading, when some spiritcomes through to speak to you or
speak through you, do they comethrough on your side, in your
location, or on theirs?
Mine, okay, okay, gotcha.
They come through to your sideand your location or on theirs?
Mine, okay, okay, gotcha, theycome through to me.
It's not whoever's surroundingthem, they come to you.
Susan (44:29):
No, it's interesting you say that they're.
They're on my side, they'resurrounding me, but sometimes
I'll see a guide trying tocommunicate with them and
they'll say why aren't my guyscommunicating with me?
And I'll say they'recommunicating with you, you're
not open to hearing them.
Yes, and so I'll see them therewith my client at their
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location, wherever that is, butthey'll still be communicating
to me because I can hear themand they can't.
Becky (45:00):
Susan, you have so many stories.
This is such an amazingconversation.
Diana (45:06):
Love to hear anything else you want to talk about.
Susan (45:08):
Well, every month on my website my website is
exploreastrologycom I put outfree predictions for every one
of the 12 signs and you don'thave to join anything, you don't
have to pay anything.
It is my way of giving back tothe community.
So if you want to know what'sgoing on with you, I think I
just updated explore astrologywith april's predictions for all
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the signs so you can go on andyou can check and it's just a
way of sharing.
And I'm also going to say Ihave a facebook page, susan
reynolds, and every day, everyday, I go on my facebook page
and I will tell people where themoon is that day.
You know, today the moon is inpisces and it may be a nice day
to meditate or do some woo woothings or do some healing,
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because Pisces is associatedwith that.
And again, of course, facebook.
There's no charge for that.
I also send out a free monthlynewsletter, um, where I talk
about the new moon and the fullmoon and what's going on for
that month's moon energy.
The new moon and the full moonand what's going on for that
month's moon energy.
Diana (46:05):
So if you want to be on, the list and receive that.
Susan (46:07):
Go to my website and you can sign up for that right now.
I'm getting ready to teach athree month intuitive
development course, because somany clients say how do you do
that?
I want to do what you do, andwe all have some intuitive
ability and so we're getting youknow.
Friends of mine and I areteaching it together and we all
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have some intuitive ability, andso we're getting you know
friends of mine and I areteaching it together.
She's in Atlanta, by the way.
Oh, nice, nice, and so we'regetting together and we're going
to teach this over the courseof three months, so the whole
course would be three months sopeople can own this, use this,
talk to other people about this,not like one and done and go
out into the world.
Becky (46:46):
Very cool, a lot of great stuff, and that's all at
exploreastrologycom.
Susan (46:50):
Yeah, all the stuff about the classes are on my events
page.
The predictions are on mypredictions tab.
Every month I'll put up monthlypredictions.
Becky (46:59):
Well, we will have links to all of that on our website at
homespunhaintscom, on Susan'sepisode and in the description
below this episode, whereveryou're receiving it.
So make sure you check that outand click on that link.
Diana (47:12):
Oh, one important question when we do the
predictions, do we go by ourrising sign or our sun sign?
Go by your sun sign.
Susan (47:18):
But I always tell people, if you know what astrologers
call the big three, look up yoursun sign, look up your moon
sign, look up your rising sign.
But if you had to just pick oneof them, pick the sun sign
first.
Becky (47:30):
Okay, Well, Susan, thank you again so much for coming on
and sharing everything.
I really really enjoyed talkingto you.
This has been such a greatconversation.
You have some really, reallyamazing stories and experiences
and you're just full of lightand just an amazing soul.
So, so thrilled that we got achance to connect.
Susan (47:51):
I tell people I have a very boring life.
All I do is like work and youknow, go to the grocery store,
go to a book club, and then Ihear myself talk at you and I
think, oh, maybe my life's notas boring as I think it is.
Diana (48:04):
Well, this was lovely, thank you so much for having me.
Thank you, susan for being onthe show and Hainted Loves.
What do you think If you weredoing a normal astrology chart
and suddenly the dead startedtalking to you?
Would you admit it or would youjust have a spooky day?
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Slash submit.
Past lives, spirit guides and ghosts all play into
Susan's unique brand ofastrology, but she wasn't always
a full-time professionalastrologer.
Once upon a time, she held downa corporate job and kept her
gifts a secret from herco-workers.
Today, however, she has fullyembraced her calling and, as you
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can imagine, the dead keepgiving her glimpses into the
past, both for herself and forher clients.
Her stories are wild and you'regoing to get to hear them today
on Homespun Haints.
Hello, hainted Loves, welcometo Homespun Haints.
I'm Becky.
Hey, I'm Diana.
Today on the show we've got aspecial treat for you.
(00:51):
We have Susan, who is anastrologer, so she is the fourth
astrologer we've had on theshow.
We've talked to ChristianBradley West.
We have spoken with Aurora.
We have spoken with Brad.
Diana (01:06):
West.
We have spoken with Aurora.
We have spoken with Brad.
Yes, four very different typesof astrologers really, but all
kind of unified in that factthat they combine astrological
observational science with theirown intuitive abilities, and
they're all pretty funny.
Becky (01:20):
She is amazing.
Diana (01:22):
We loved talking to her and, Diana, you actually got a
reading from her right, I did, Idid and I'm I'm actually going
to share the video because shemanaged to take like this hour
and 15 minute long video.
I'm going to save thehighlights and share it with our
patrons on patreoncom slashhomespunhance.
So if you, if you want to gosee the behind the scenes and
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learn about what my fate wasupon being born upon this planet
under the stars of Leo.
Becky (01:53):
I think where you're going, I'm just going to follow.
You know, just wear a reallylong coat so I can hold on to
your coattails and just likewhee through the air to wherever
you land.
It sounds fun.
Right before we hit record, Iwas telling Diana about the
latest weird thing that appearedin our house.
Yes, you've got tools, thesethings.
They appear because I have ageeky husband and for those of
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you that follow us over on ourbusiness side of things with the
concept spot, you know that I'malso an early adopter, so I'm
like always getting the weirdcool gadgets right away before
anybody else does.
3d printer shows up in thehouse.
Husband puts 3D printer inbasement.
Basement is full of crapbecause D&D campaign happened
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there yesterday.
Diana (02:39):
The children's, not yours .
Becky (02:41):
Well, no, it's like a boys D&D club Dads and kids Cute
.
Yeah, it's really cute, it?
No, the it's like a boys D&Dclub.
So it's like Dads and kids cute.
Yeah, it's really cute, dadsand kids yeah.
And basement was alreadytrashed because my son's
birthday party had taken placethe night before.
Luckily, I got like washableeverything down there so I can
get the chocolate stains out ofthe rug and things like that.
Diana (03:03):
I have a friend who advocates putting the rug in the
bed of the pickup truck andthen going through car wash.
Becky (03:12):
What a brilliant idea.
Diana (03:13):
She says that's a really easy way to wash a rug and also
cheap.
You just need a pickup truck.
Well, actually she was doing itin a sedan.
But it's much harder to do in asedan because you need two
people one to put the rug overthe top and the other one to be
in there, because you can't getthe door open when there's a rug
over the top of the sedan.
So I was actually modifying hertechnique for your family
because you've got a pickuptruck.
Becky (03:33):
I do have a pickup truck, yes, which my husband can't
drive right now because he'slugging 3D printer into the
basement trying to work his wayaround all the crap.
Printer into the basement,trying to work his way around
all the crap, like he set upcard tables and folding chairs
and then other furniture is justlike scooched against the wall
and it's.
It's a mess.
And he stubs his toe into thecouch.
(03:56):
And I'm actually on my way outthe door because I just got a
call from the school and theywere like your daughter vomited.
And I was like, okay, well, shevomits all the time.
And they're like, no, she can'tstay here, we have rules.
So I was like, oh crap, I gotto go get my kid.
Diana (04:11):
Like cat, like daughter.
Becky (04:12):
Kids vomit.
Okay, like she looks atsomething funny and she vomits.
She stays in a car for morethan five minutes.
She vomits.
She's just a vomitous child, Imean billiest child.
So I'm like crap, all right.
So I'm running out the door andmy husband's like uh, I think I
hurt my toe and I'm like I'mstill, I've still got to go.
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And he's like I think I brokeit and I'm like okay.
So I go over and you know, I'mlike what did you do?
And he was like I was walking.
I'm like God, you're gettingold.
So I walk over and I look athis toes, so you know.
So imagine this is the big toe,second toe, middle toe.
So these are the other toes andthis one's like sorry, I'm
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flipping you off.
It's not intentional, but itwas, it was not painful though.
It was not going in the rightdirection and I said, um, that
looks broken.
And I was like trying to moveit.
He's like I can't, I'm likebroken, I'm like great, all
right, well, I'm just gonna dropyou off at urgent care so you
can get x rays and I'm gonna goget my kid.
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But I couldn't do that Becausethen my husband goes into shock.
So I'm like, oh crap, it's likethis is such a life of a mom,
right, it's like why do?
people keep getting injured.
He starts like getting dizzyand he's like pouring sweat.
He's like so I'm like likeputting him in the car and he's
like throw up.
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I'm like, not you too.
Just the other day we weretaking my son to his birthday
dinner and he threw upeverywhere.
Your whole family's gettingpretty bilious, I know right,
can you believe we travel a lot?
Yeah, so we're driving down theroad because he really wanted
to go to Panera.
That's his favorite place forhis birthday.
Diana (05:57):
Wait, your son right?
Becky (05:58):
Yes, my son, yeah, no no, this is like a few days ago,
right before the part.
Yeah, so we're driving toPanera and he's like I'm gonna
get sick and I was like rolldown the window and just like a
college kid, he's like yeah,like all over the streets of
Roswell, georgia.
We pull in and I'm like, allright, it's like all over him.
I'm like let's go to thebathroom bud and wash you up.
Diana (06:28):
And let's go eat our bread bowls.
You know like nothing, no bigdeal.
So I'm just I'm so, I'm justI'm so used to dealing with this
.
I have to interrupt and sayyou're a really good mom for
raising kids.
That would not be likedevastatedly embarrassed by the
situation that we're just likeokie, dokie, yeah, it's gonna be
my party, no big deal, that's.
That's some next levelconfidence.
Good job, good job mom in that,some next level confidence.
Becky (06:45):
Good job, good job, mom, in that.
So it comes from a lot of mejust like I can't.
I can't deal with emotion, soyou're gonna just power through
this, yeah.
So anyway, I get my husband inthe car and the whole time I'm
like trying to give him Lamazebreathing techniques.
Oh, throw up in my car and he'slike.
He's like, okay, we'rebreathing together, we're
breathing together and I'm likebreathing with him all the way
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to urgent care and I get him inthe door and I'm like I cannot
just leave him here like hecouldn't even walk anyway.
I'm actually on the hunt for um, a local reiki healer in our
neighborhood, because we aregoing to roam in less than a
month so that toe needs all thegood vibes it can vibe that toe
better be healed because I amgoing, with or without him,
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screw the fact that it's our20-year anniversary, but I do
want to give a big shout out toTiffany Parks of the Bittersweet
Life podcast.
She hosts that with Katie Sewell, who's actually a patron of
ours.
Tiffany has been soinstrumental in helping us plan
this trip.
She is actually a tour guide.
We're going to take one of hertours and she set us up with
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some private tours throughoutRome, as well as giving us a lot
of recommendations like insiderinformation.
Diana (07:58):
That's so cool.
So you're going to see thedarker side of Rome.
That's.
The important thing to mentionright here is that this is a
spooky trip to Rome.
Becky (08:06):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Just a normal trip.
My family doesn't know that yet.
Diana (08:10):
Oh sorry, it's a secretly spooky trip to Rome, so it's
interesting You're going to bein the Vatican during Jubilee,
during a new Pope election,assuming like the conclave is
over with by then.
If you guys were Catholic, thiswould be really like a big deal
in your lives.
Becky (08:29):
Right, none of this is happening if my husband's toe
doesn't heal.
Diana (08:33):
Right, right.
So we need to all send goodvibes.
Becky (08:37):
Send good vibes to my husband, because he is going to
get stuck in the hotel room withhis foot up while I go walk
around in the catacombs.
Diana (08:46):
You're going to call him when the kids puke and he has to
come pick them up so you cancontinue infiltrating Catholic
venues.
Becky (08:53):
I'll just tell him to find a bush.
Diana (08:55):
They have public fountains there.
It's fine.
You'll be able to clean them upno matter where.
Oh good God, Do not throw up.
Oh no, that's not what I wasrecommending.
I just meant like it's easy toclean up because there's always
fresh like oh yeah, I can cleanthem up.
Becky (09:08):
No, no, this is true.
Yes, and the world's firstsewer system was there, so I'm
sure there's plenty of placesthey can throw up into Probably.
Diana (09:18):
But, I can't wait.
You're going to see the churchwhere the the which.
Becky (09:26):
Tiffany, yeah, she says she's going to take us there.
Diana (09:29):
Okay, the one where they catch the bodies that wash up on
the on the river, on the Tiber.
Yes, On the Tiber river.
Becky (09:35):
Yeah, I'm very excited, looking forward to that.
Diana (09:37):
Please call me from there .
I'm looking forward to that,all I'm looking forward to that.
All right, surely they haveWi-Fi.
All good churches have Wi-Fi,right.
Becky (09:45):
Wi-Fi.
It's in the Bible, right Likeit's the 11th commandment Thou
shalt have good Wi-Fi, it'senshrined.
And those of you that are partof our patron, patron Patreon, I
will be sharing little storiesof the trip as I go, so you'll
get some exclusive imagery, justlike we did for our trip to
Appalachia.
But please send healingthoughts to my husband and his
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toe.
Diana (10:08):
I used to sprain and or potentially hairline fracture my
baby toes all the time.
Because my feet are shaped likethis.
I've got monkey toes.
They're prehensile.
I can play the piano almost aswell with my toes as with my
hands, but that's just because Ican't play piano.
But I can pick things up.
I I one time I learned how tocrochet with my toes.
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I can write with my toes alittle bit.
But what I wanted to say was Iused to always fracture,
hairline fracture my middle toeevery time I walked through a
dark room because I'd knock itonto some doorway or something,
until I got these shoes righthere and these shoes or
something.
Until I got these shoes righthere and these shoes you may not
be able to tell how big theyare on a flat screen, but
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they're larger than my head,they're huge and they've got
cheekbones, because it's like anevil jack-o'-lantern.
Right, they've got cheekbonesthere and there.
Becky (10:58):
Where do you find said shoes?
Diana (11:00):
I will put a link to them in the show notes for this
episode, should you want toobtain a pair of evil
jack-o'-lantern shoes that keepyou from breaking your toes, so
that you never do this to yourspouse when she's hoping to have
her first trip to Italy as anadult?
And you're breaking your toesand going, oh, there's nothing I
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could have done?
Yeah, yes, there was.
Becky (11:25):
Okay, that's a really good idea.
Diana (11:32):
I don't think I've told you yet, becky.
The library here has a creativewriting contest for adults
every year, and this year I won.
Oh, you didn't tell me that?
Yeah, I got first place in theessay contest.
Congratulations, thank you, sonow now I'm going to have my
story published on the librarywebsite and I get to go to a
ceremony where I get to read italoud.
Now you know me, the story isincredibly embarrassing and it's
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all true.
So, unfortunately, yes, I getto read a very embarrassing
story aloud and then have peoplereference it online for a year.
This is what publication islike.
Becky (12:08):
Oh well, it's incredible, diana.
I'm so proud of you.
Thank you, it's awesome.
It's a cool accolade to put onyour resume.
Diana (12:16):
That's the first thing I did.
I've edited my CV that Ihaven't edited since 2019.
Becky (12:27):
Cv that I haven't added since 2019.
Well, hated loves.
Thank you for listening to ourrantings and ravings about
contests and broken toes initaly.
If you are a patron, you canfollow our adventures at
patreoncom.
Diana (12:36):
Slash homespun hates and if you're not a patron, we'll
just continue to watch youquiver in anticipation.
Susan (12:51):
Oh man, I had a rough day .
Becky (12:52):
What happened, honey?
I was out with the guys andthey uh.
And, and they said I wasn'tspooky enough.
Oh honey, how could they saythat to you?
You're hella spooky.
You think so, Of course.
After all, you came up with theectoplasm being ghost jizz
theory, and you've beenscratched by more horny ghosts
than anyone else.
I know.
Diana (13:11):
Well, I suppose you're right.
Becky (13:13):
But if you're really worried about it, I have just
the thing oh wow, A spooky AFt-shirt.
That's right, Our spooky AFline comes in shirt, sweatshirt,
pillow and even a high-qualitymug.
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Man, those are super awesome, especially for
something with profanity on it.
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What's even better, all these items were hand-lettered
exclusively from Homespun Hatesby world-renowned calligrapher
Nikki Malick.
Holy, ghostly cannoli.
That's amazing.
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Today on the show, we arethrilled to bring on Susan
Reynolds of Explore Astrology.
Hey everybody, Welcome Susan.
She is an astrologer and shehas been doing it for 40 years.
That's so cool, I know it's socool.
I know it's so cool.
So, as you know, we'll includelinks to her information or her
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email address, because I'm sureyou guys are going to have lots
of questions and you're going tohave an expert that you can
reach out to after this show.
Susan, thanks so much for beinghere with us.
Thanks for having me.
I'm excited to be here.
Before we hit record, you wereexplaining that when you began
reading these charts, youstarted actually delving into
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people's past lives with theircharts and the exploration you
did, and that's kind of one ofthe unique approaches that you
take with your practice.
Can you go back to thebeginning and tell us what that
was like and how that sort ofoccurred?
Can?
Susan (15:06):
you like, go back to the beginning and tell us what that
was like and how that sort ofoccurred.
Well, I started out doingsomething that I still do today,
even after 40 years.
Before I ever do a reading witha client, I meditate on that,
that chart.
And so there was a woman whohad made an appointment.
I'd never met her before, shewas a brand new client.
And I was sitting theremeditating on this chart, like I
always do, and all of a suddenI started to see a vision Like I
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didn't ask for this, I didn'teven know this could happen.
But boom, there we were and Isaw a vision of a woman who I
knew was my client and it waslike the 1800s, 1700s.
She was a woman, she lived inIreland, she was married to a
man who was a farmer.
She had like seven or eightkids.
I saw this woman trying to be agood mother, to be a good wife.
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Money was a little bit of astruggle, but she was teaching
her children to get an education, you know.
And then I think she diedsomewhere in her 50s.
And then the vision went and Iwas shocked.
I didn't know what to do withthis.
Remember this was 40 years ago.
This was not as accepted and Isaid I can't tell this woman
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this.
You know, it may take all hercourage to come from astrology
reading, and I'm going to talkabout crazy past life stuff.
You know what, if she calls mea fraud.
But then I thought, well, I gotit for her, I should tell her.
So I kept going back and forth,back and forth, should I,
shouldn't I?
Finally I said, okay, I'm goingto tell her, and I'll tell her
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right at the beginning of thereading, so that if she doesn't
like it, she's upset with me,she could leave and that'll be
it.
And so if she doesn't like it,she's upset with me, she could
leave and that'll be it.
And this probably doesn'treflect well on me, but I'll
tell you anyway.
I was upset at getting thisvision, but I was also upset at
seeing such a boring past life,like a huge story of Jess' life.
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Could she not have been apirate or a civil war general or
something with some pizzazz?
You know a housewife and thenyou die.
Like who wants to hear that?
Diana (17:11):
That's probably 95% of our past lives, if you think
about it.
Susan (17:15):
And I was like, oh my God , I can't even tell her this
boring life.
You know, my client comes in.
She's a lovely woman in her 30s, very well-dressed, very polite
.
We sit down, we start thereading and I tell her about
this vision.
My client bursts into tears andshe says, oh my god, that
explains my whole life.
Oh, what, what?
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That is my reaction.
This, this explains your wholelife, turns out.
My client was a lawyer.
She was born in a very lovingIrish Catholic family in Boston,
large family, six or seven kidsand all the women, the girls in
that family.
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They would grow up and getmarried and then have kids.
They may get a job to help outthe family, but she said she
always knew from a young agethat she didn't want to do that.
She wanted a career.
She went to college, she wentto law school.
She was a lawyer.
She said she was aiming to makepartner and she said she always
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felt guilty that she wasn'tbeing like all the other women
in her family.
She always felt guilty for notwanting to follow that path, for
wanting to enter a career.
And when I told her this it waslike I could see this woman
getting lighter, gettingbrighter, right in front of me,
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like that burden of guilt hadlifted she was.
I don't even remember what therest of the reading.
All I remember is her reactionthat what I thought was boring
and humdrum changed her lifeLike literally.
In those moments I could seeher life changing and it was a
lesson to me.
Like Susan, it's not up to youto decide what you're supposed
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to tell them.
If you're seeing a vision, youjust tell them and let go of it.
That's your job, but not thejudge of this.
And so after that I would dothe same thing with other
clients go into my time ofprayer meditation before we sit
down, and more and more often Iwould start to see visions of
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past lives.
And this is what you came intothis lifetime to do.
And so many times I would seethat click.
Oh, that's why I struggle withthis.
That's why this is this way.
So usually when I do a readingnow, I will start if I got a
vision for them.
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Occasionally, but it's rare, Iwill go into my time of prayer
meditation and my guides willcome in and they'll go.
No, you will get no informationabout this person's past life,
and that's annoying for me butit's incredibly frustrating for
my client, because most of myclients are word of mouth and so
their friends or theirrelatives telling them this is
what she told me.
I'm like I'm so sorry, I cannottell you anything.
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But the vast majority of thetime, like 90, 95% of the time,
I'm going to see something andI'm going to tell you and I tell
people all the time believe it,don't believe it, toss it away,
keep it.
Totally up to you.
I've done my job, I've sharedit.
This is what I saw, this iswhat I'm sharing.
The end.
And then I'll get more into thechart.
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But I'll start to explain thechart from a spiritual
standpoint, from the soulstandpoint.
This is why you brought in thisVenus.
This is what it's trying toteach you.
So my way may be a littledifferent than most people's
style, but that's okay.
It's mine and I've made peacewith it over the years.
Diana (20:47):
You know, susan, we've interviewed at least two other
professional astrologers andboth of them have some practice
that has to do with intuition,mediumship or psychic ability or
predictions or something that'sabove and beyond just, oh, I
read charts.
So I think that, yeah, I thinkthat once you become a
professional something, maybeeither the people who are meant
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to be professional astrologershave some kind of gift naturally
and it weaves itself in, or itmaybe generates some kind of
gift.
I don't know.
Susan (21:18):
I will say, before I start the reading, I always take
a moment of prayer to bless thereading, to call in their
guides, to call my guides, andwhen I do that, when if any
astrology does that you'reopening that door and you don't
know what's going to go throughthat door.
I mean certainly we're protectedand we're going with the high
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vibration.
But their guides sometimesstart talking to me.
My guides sometimes starttalking to me.
Sometimes I'll be telling myclient something and my guides
will sort of hit me in the backof the head like Susan, this is
for you too.
Like pay attention.
So I have just learned to justgo with it.
I am often the most surprisedperson in the reading surprise
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person in the reading.
The first time a relative camein.
I'm not a medium, I'm not a youknow, I don't talk to the dead
and I was reading for this woman, lovely young woman, and I saw
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this man, older man sort of,come towards me and he was very
loud, very insistent Tell her Ilove her and I'm in my head
going no, go away, go away.
Shoot, shoot, shoot.
And I'm doing this in my head,talking to him, and so I'm still
reading the chart, and so I'mstill talking about her moon or
what's going on here, and he'slike tell her I love you, no, go
away, go away.
And again, this is my fault.
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I thought I love you was somesort of generic message Like oh
yeah, yeah, I'm a medium,they're happy, they're on the
other side, they love you.
I wanted a message like thewill is under the third brick in
the fireplace.
Diana (22:57):
Like I want it specific.
Susan (23:00):
I wasn't getting that.
I wasn't getting this.
I love you.
Like no, we're not doing this,go away.
So I'm arguing with this man inmy head while I'm reading for
my client and he won't go away.
And finally I'm so annoyed athim.
I had a pencil in my hand.
I just threw it down on thetable.
Oh well, right.
And my client's looking at melike what did I do?
Because she doesn't know.
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I've been arguing with this manfor the last 10 minutes and I
tell her there is a man here.
He's an older gentleman and heis very insistent that I tell
you I love you.
He wants you to know I love you.
And I still get a little chokedup about this because tears
started running down her face.
I did not know this, but herfather had died three weeks ago
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and she was in another state atthe time and her family called
her.
He was in the hospital, so itwas expected, but they said come
it's time, he's fading.
So she drives like a bat out ofhell to get to the hospital and
he had died before she gotthere and she said I'd give
anything to hear him say I loveyou one more time.
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Oh wow, I did not know any ofthat.
So once again I had to learn.
It's not up to me.
Sometimes I think my guys havetaken up a special collection to
work with me.
I'm sure I'm in slow class orsomething.
Becky (24:23):
I give them bits.
You say I'm not a medium, buthow is that not mediumship in a
way?
Susan (24:31):
Well, I've had people come to me and say I want to
talk to Aunt Mary or mygrandmother.
Nothing happens Like I gotnothing.
I think a professional mediumcan call on the other side at
will and be able to picksomebody up.
I can't do that Like the otherside is making and be able to
pick somebody up.
I can't do that Like the otherside is making the decision, not
me Got it Okay.
So I had to sort of saysometimes this happens and if it
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does, I will do my best to bethe best interpreter.
But you're also not gettingsomebody who's a professional in
this area and my clients arefine with that.
But I'm always a little worried.
I don't want to disappointanybody or, you know, I don't
want them to be misled in anyway about my work.
I remember this this older womancame to me beautifully dressed
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I think she's wearing a Chanelsuit.
You know, very sort of likeladies who lunch kind of energy.
She just looked beautifully puttogether and this young man
came in and was standing behindher and I couldn't see him very
clearly.
Remember, not a professional.
So I'm doing my best to likewho is that?
What is that?
And he was holding something inhis hand.
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It looked like a tall spear.
I was like what is that?
His hand, it looked like a tallspear.
I was like what is that?
So I asked her.
I said does a man holding aspear mean anything to you?
And she said no.
I said, okay, you know, I justwent right back to the reading
and then a little bit later itwas like the picture wasn't as
fuzzy, it was like it was finetuned or something.
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And I said, oh, it's not aspear or something.
And I said, oh, it's not aspear, it's a fishing rod.
I said do you know anybody witha fishing rod?
And she said, oh yes, my sonwas a bass fisherman before he
died.
So again, my skills are notnecessarily where I would want
them to be if I was doing thatprofessionally.
Becky (26:20):
I just say I'm doing my best, know it's just a little
extra perk that comes sometimeswith the readings the past life
readings.
Diana (26:28):
Do they come through the dead, through a form of
mediumship that maybe you're nota pro at yet but that happens
to you passively, or do theycome through you?
Susan (26:38):
somehow they come through me, they come to me and through
me.
Um, sometimes it's a goodquestion you ask because I
didn't think about thisSometimes, when I'm seeing a
past life unfold in front of me,I'll realize immediately oh you
know, that woman's now herfather.
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In this lifetime, likesometimes, that connection will
just be shown to me immediately.
Time, like sometimes, thatconnection will just be shown to
me immediately.
Most of the time not, butoccasionally it's shown to me to
understand this is why thissituation is going on, and so
sometimes it will happen likethat, but most of the time it's
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like watching a movie it's, youknow, cue the MGM, like the fog
and the vision and everythinghappening, and I just watch, I
just kind of watch, but I'llalso it's hard to explain I'll
also be feeling these feelingslike this happened and this is
what you were feeling, and Iwatched a life unfold in front
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of me, a past life, where awoman, a woman, was married,
they had children, and a faminehit their nation or their
country, wherever they wereliving.
Her husband died, her childrendied and this woman eventually
passed after her husband andchildren, and what I remember is
this woman's sense of guilt andfailure I failed my children,
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you know, like they died, like Icouldn't keep my children on
this woman's heartbreak and inthis lifetime she was scared to
get pregnant and this lifetimeshe's afraid to be a mother.
Oh, wow, she didn't know why.
She said nobody in my familydied from childbirth.
You're like I don't know whyI'm so scared to have kids.
Well, if you watched yourchildren die, you might be a
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little hesitant.
So she did nothing wrong as amother.
She was a good mother.
But our feelings and what shewas feeling at the time that she
died I'm a failure as a mother,I'm a terrible mother was
impacting her in this lifetime,that is incredible.
That's so relevant.
Diana (28:45):
That's bizarre to me, because the reason I was asking
that question is because I'vehad an Akashic Records reading,
which is you're familiar withthat?
Okay, yeah, but basically theone reading I had produced an
extremely profound image of apast life that I had no takeaway
from.
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It meant nothing to me, therewas no value whatsoever, and the
reader went over every singleaspect that she was able to see.
It had no relevance to my lifeand I still, to this day, cannot
place it as anything relevantto my current life.
Wow, that's incrediblyfrustrating.
Sometimes you're going to getmessages that maybe aren't
(29:26):
relevant yet or would berelevant in a future life, or
something like that.
Susan (29:31):
Sometimes we can see something and we misinterpret it
in a certain way, and that maybe what was going on or, like
you say, it may be relevantlater on.
Diana (29:41):
I don't know it was.
It was a good friend of mine,so she knew me.
It's not like she was justtrying to connect with some
random things.
Susan (29:48):
I would start to.
Maybe, if you work with yourspirit guides at all, I would
start to ask them to show youwhat do I need to learn from
this, even if you get nothing.
Let's say they were describinga life where you were sitting
under a tree eating an apple.
You know, and you okay what?
What is the big deal about that?
Start to maybe make it like astory.
(30:10):
What can that mean?
Was I a farmer growing apples?
Was I hungry?
You know?
Was I happy in that moment?
Start to treat it like you'reinterpreting a dream and see if
you can put things together.
You might even get a dream bookand look up apple or look up
tree, just because it may seemvery simplistic or not seem to
(30:32):
have any relevance.
Sometimes, when we dig into ita little bit more, something
starts to come.
Diana (30:38):
That makes sense.
That makes a lot of sense.
I never thought to interpret itlike a dream, but that's a
really good idea.
Becky (30:43):
And you would be good at that, Diana.
Of course you do a lot of dreaminterpretation.
Diana (30:45):
Yeah, I do dream interpretation, so that is kind
of something I would.
Susan (30:48):
Oh, I do some too.
It's fun Once you start to diginto it.
What looks one way totallychanges and looks a totally
different way.
Becky (30:56):
Poor Diana gets a text from me almost every day.
Susan (30:59):
I dreamt about this.
What does it mean?
Becky (31:01):
She's like well, you're going to learn to do this
yourself.
Diana (31:04):
That's okay, helps me keep tabs on you.
Susan (31:07):
I used to work years ago in corporate America and my
friends would call me up at workto tell me they had a dream and
I'd be like not a good time,not a good time.
Diana (31:20):
That'd be an interesting performance review.
That'd be an interestingperformance review.
It must feel good to move froma life where you're trying to do
readings in between clientcalls and corporate break room,
and then now you do this fulltime.
Susan (31:34):
Yeah, I started out in corporate America Never thought
I'd be a professional astrologer.
Even when I took classes andstarted having clients, it was a
hobby, nights and weekends.
In astrology I do my best tomake it very practical to what's
going on in your life today andpeople would say you need to go
do this full time.
And I go, look, I need a healthcare plan, I need some benefits
(31:54):
.
I'm not walking away from a jobthat pays me a good salary with
a lot of benefits.
So look at this.
So for many years I justthought that would be it.
Look at this.
So for many years I justthought that would be it.
I would do it nights andweekends.
And then one day my guides werelike no, today's the day, Just
like that, Just like that.
And I went to my boss and Isaid I was leaving and I never
(32:16):
went back and I had no money, Ihad no plan, I had no nothing.
I tell people all the timedon't ever leave your job the
way I left mine.
Don't do that, it's incrediblystressful.
Becky (32:27):
So your guides meant like leave that day, don't give a
month notice, don't try to get aseverance package.
Susan (32:34):
I gave my notice that day and I had reached in the
company I was working for, ifyour years of service plus your
age added up to like the magicnumber, you could leave and
retire with medical benefit, andso I wasn't even thinking about
that, but my guys were.
Becky (32:52):
Oh, so you had that.
Susan (32:53):
you were at that point and the minute I reached the
magic number, they were likeokay, you're out of here.
Oh, really.
Diana (32:58):
That's awesome Okay.
Becky (33:00):
All right, I mean you still had all of that.
You built that for yourself atthe company.
Susan (33:04):
Yeah, I liked what I did.
It wasn't exciting, but I wasgood and I was respected.
I you know, if my guides hadnot decided otherwise, I might
have stayed there a lot longer,but I was very invested in my
astrology, even though it waspart time.
I was doing a lot of night andpart time work and I was in the
break room, you know, sort ofhaving lunch with a colleague
(33:26):
and casually I wasn't eventhinking said something about
working that weekend and he said, oh, I didn't know, you had a
part-time job.
And immediately I'm like deer inthe headlights oh, my God, I
cannot tell him what I do.
I work for a very conservativecompany.
And he could see my panic allover my face and he said it's
(33:48):
okay, it's okay, you don't haveto tell me what you do.
And I guess most people wouldhave said, no, I'll tell you.
But I said, oh, thank you somuch.
I got up to leave the breakroom and then I kind of turned
around and I looked at him and Isaid, but my stage name is
(34:08):
Cinnamon.
Diana (34:09):
He's been Googling that for years and still can't find
you?
Susan (34:13):
I never did tell him what I really did.
Diana (34:15):
That's phenomenal.
Becky (34:17):
Welcome to my life.
You see images of the departedin your visions, of the departed
in your visions.
Have you ever seen a ghost or aspirit or something like that
outside of reading for a client.
Susan (34:31):
Yes, oh, twice, not a lot , but twice I've seen this.
The first was many years ago.
I was an astrologer, I wasstill working in corporate
America, and my sister and Iwere at a graveside.
We were visiting a relative'sgrave and leaving some flowers
there and I looked up and I sawthis young man like leaning on a
(34:52):
big headstone and I thought itwas kind of disrespectful.
Like you know, that's not aseat, you know, and you don't
usually see that, like, peopleare usually very respectful in a
graveyard.
I'm kind of looking at them andI'm trying not to look because
I don't want to be rude.
And finally I'm talking to mysister.
(35:13):
I'm like you see that man overthere, do you not think that's
disrespectful?
And my sister says what man?
Uh-oh, yeah, that was me, uh-oh.
And I look again and he's stillthere and I realize I'm looking
through him instead of at himand I'm like, okay, we can go
(35:33):
now.
You know, like I'm not sure Iwant to talk to him and he looks
fine and we're not walking inthat direction, we're going to
walk in this direction.
Whoa, walking in that direction.
We're going to walk in thisdirection.
It was the first time I'd everseen a ghost.
I did later, not that day.
I looked at the grave markerthat he was sitting on and it
(35:55):
was a grave for a young man whohad died in his twenties and I
figured that was him.
The second time that I saw aghost was much, much later.
Grown woman left corporateAmerica full-time astrologer.
I don't know if either one ofyou have ever heard of Chip
Coffey.
He's a very well-knownespecially in Atlanta, very
(36:15):
well-known medium and he had ashow for a while about working
with children who are mediumsand seeing dead people, and I
don't know if he still does thisup until COVID.
I know a few times a year hewould do an event at like a
haunted place and you would buyyour ticket, maybe go to like a
haunted mansion for the weekendand you would have the weekend
(36:37):
there and you would see ghosts.
He would take you around to seeghosts, and so he was offering
something in Tennessee, inPigeon Forge, at the Titanic
Museum that they have there, anda friend and I decided to buy
tickets and to go.
It was like you buy your ticketand there's a three or four
course dinner in the eveningwhen the museum is closed and
(37:00):
then they take you through themuseum at night and it just
sounds like fun.
That's my idea of fun, you know.
So we buy our tickets, we go toPigeon Forge and during the day
we decide to go to the museumas a tourist, just to see the
museum.
It was very well done.
If you're ever in Pigeon Forgego to the Titanic Museum, it was
(37:20):
really very well done.
And you get a card with apicture and a name on it as you
enter and then at the end youcould see if you survived, like
did you survive it was is verywell, nicely done.
So we're looking through and I'mlooking at these exhibits and
in glass containers or whatever,and um, and they had encouraged
(37:40):
us for this event to dress in1920s clothing, like really to
get into it.
I did my best but I didn't knowthat I was going to wear a
bustle or whatever it is foranybody, so I had my limits.
But I'm walking through themuseum and there's a young boy
there, maybe like eight to 10,something like this, and he's
(38:04):
dressed in like the 1920s style,with a cap and like the
knickers kind of thing, andwe're kind of playing with each
other, kind of teasing eachother, and he's, like you know,
darting over here and I'm goingover there to sort of find him
and we're just having a goodtime with each other.
And then he darts behind awoman that is looking at the
exhibit that I take to be hismother, and I dart right behind
(38:26):
him and there's nobody there andI realized, oh, that was a
ghost.
Becky (38:37):
Oh my goodness, so nobody else saw him?
Susan (38:41):
No, because I asked my friend and she's like what boy?
She didn't see anything.
Diana (38:47):
Oh my gosh, the random woman you darted behind must
have been a little alarmed.
Susan (38:53):
You know, I didn't even think about that.
Diana (38:57):
I probably do that to people all the darn time.
Susan (39:01):
I didn't even think about that, but the dinner was lovely
, and then they took us intothis part of the museum and the
temperature drops to like the20s or something like that.
It drops to the temperature.
It was that night when theTitanic went down, so you're
immediately cold and they hadlittle slats created where you
(39:23):
could sit on, like littlebenches that mimicked the
rowboats that they had where thesurvivors would sit in the rows
on the rowboat and I wassitting down and then I scooted
over to make room for the womansitting next to me and I
realized I didn't see anybody.
But I realized it was nobodysitting there, but like I could
feel the brush of cloth or adress or something next to me.
(39:46):
So I knew there was somebodythere, but we didn't communicate
and I was just like, oh, that'sinteresting.
Diana (39:54):
So somebody is here, you know.
Okay, I know you don't know theanswer to this, but if you were
speculating, would you guessthat these spirits were attached
to items in the museum from theTitanic, or attached to the
land somehow, or perhaps justattached to the idea that the
concept of the Titanic and somany people thinking about it?
Susan (40:14):
This is my impression, again, as a light medium, not a
professional medium.
I got the impression they wereattached to the objects.
Okay, I definitely didn't senseany attachment to the land or
anything about Tennessee thatwas important to them, but I did
get an attachment to theobjects and even to some doing
an attachment to that experience.
(40:35):
Like it was so overwhelming, sotraumatic, that there was still
definitely an imprint there,because many of the things that
they have there they wereoriginal to the ship.
Becky (40:51):
They were not recreations .
I'm really surprised that thoseare the only incidents that you
have to talk about, becausethose are really, really
visceral.
Susan (40:55):
I'll tell you something.
I sort of opened up to being anastrologer and moving into the
more spiritual, metaphysicalworld through my ARE study group
.
They are joined with ARE, theAssociation for Research and
Enlightenment, and it's anorganization that is in Virginia
Beach and it was created byEdgar Cayce, who is a very
(41:18):
famous seer You're both nodding.
He lived in the 1890s to like1940s, something like that, and
the ARE is his organization.
He has ARE study groups allover the country, all over the
world.
It's free to join, and I hadjoined one and I knew nothing.
I knew nothing about past lives, I knew nothing about any of
this yet, but I was interested,which is why I asked to join.
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So they encouraged me andhelped me.
But one of the things that theywere very surprised about is
that I never wanted to talkabout ghosts.
I never wanted to talk aboutdead people.
I never wanted to talk aboutmediums or seeing spirits.
It scared the bejesus out of me, literally to the point where
(42:02):
if they were going to talk aboutthis subject, I would leave the
room.
I would, I could not even be inthe room.
If they were going to talkabout this subject, I would
leave the room, I could not evenbe in the room while they were
discussing this.
I would leave the room andthey'd say okay, susan, we're
done talking, you can come backagain.
This is how scared I was ofthis subject, so I was
completely shut down.
They laughed themselves sillythat now I'm seeing dead people.
You know they think this is thefunniest thing in the whole
(42:26):
world.
It took me a while to open up tothis.
This was not natural for me.
This is not something I askedfor or wanted.
I had to kind of make peacewith this.
Now, of course, I've made peacewith this and it's fine.
But I kept wondering why am Iso scared of this To literally
have to leave the room with theconversation turns there?
That's kind of an extremereaction.
(42:53):
One night I had this dream, notsay it was real or not, but I
had a dream where I was a mediumin the 1800s and I was like I
don't know what they call it, atrance medium where you open up
and the spirit comes into youand can speak through you.
That was the kind of medium Iwas and I had a spirit who
didn't want to leave and go backand give up the body.
Becky (43:11):
I was going to ask if it has something to do with a past
life.
Susan (43:14):
Okay, so this life, I'm like, oh hell.
No, I'm not doing any work formediums or ghosts, no, I got it
with sperm.
Diana (43:22):
Once again, the past life .
What could be a past lifevision, I suppose, since it was
a dream, but it sounds like itexplains it pretty well.
I'm jealous.
I need another past lifereading.
Susan (43:35):
Well, if either one of you ever want me to read for you
, let me know.
I'd be happy to read for youand you can experience what a
reading with me is like.
Becky (43:43):
So do you do readings over Zoom and you can experience
what a reading with me is likeso do you do readings over Zoom?
Susan (43:47):
Yes, I absolutely do them by Zoom and I record them and
I'll send the recording to myclient.
Sometimes during a reading I'lljust kind of trail off and you
might think, well, I'll juststart looking at the ceiling or
something you know, and I tellthem I haven't lost interest in
your reading, like I'm hearingyour guide or something's coming
through, and so I always tellthem just give me a moment, just
(44:09):
let me get it, and then I'llshare it with you.
Diana (44:12):
Speaking of looking at the ceiling when you're doing a
Zoom reading, when some spiritcomes through to speak to you or
speak through you, do they comethrough on your side, in your
location, or on theirs?
Mine, okay, okay, gotcha.
They come through to your sideand your location or on theirs?
Mine, okay, okay, gotcha, theycome through to me.
It's not whoever's surroundingthem, they come to you.
Susan (44:29):
No, it's interesting you say that they're.
They're on my side, they'resurrounding me, but sometimes
I'll see a guide trying tocommunicate with them and
they'll say why aren't my guyscommunicating with me?
And I'll say they'recommunicating with you, you're
not open to hearing them.
Yes, and so I'll see them therewith my client at their
(44:53):
location, wherever that is, butthey'll still be communicating
to me because I can hear themand they can't.
Becky (45:00):
Susan, you have so many stories.
This is such an amazingconversation.
Diana (45:06):
Love to hear anything else you want to talk about.
Susan (45:08):
Well, every month on my website my website is
exploreastrologycom I put outfree predictions for every one
of the 12 signs and you don'thave to join anything, you don't
have to pay anything.
It is my way of giving back tothe community.
So if you want to know what'sgoing on with you, I think I
just updated explore astrologywith april's predictions for all
(45:29):
the signs so you can go on andyou can check and it's just a
way of sharing.
And I'm also going to say Ihave a facebook page, susan
reynolds, and every day, everyday, I go on my facebook page
and I will tell people where themoon is that day.
You know, today the moon is inpisces and it may be a nice day
to meditate or do some woo woothings or do some healing,
(45:50):
because Pisces is associatedwith that.
And again, of course, facebook.
There's no charge for that.
I also send out a free monthlynewsletter, um, where I talk
about the new moon and the fullmoon and what's going on for
that month's moon energy.
The new moon and the full moonand what's going on for that
month's moon energy.
Diana (46:05):
So if you want to be on, the list and receive that.
Susan (46:07):
Go to my website and you can sign up for that right now.
I'm getting ready to teach athree month intuitive
development course, because somany clients say how do you do
that?
I want to do what you do, andwe all have some intuitive
ability and so we're getting youknow.
Friends of mine and I areteaching it together and we all
(46:29):
have some intuitive ability, andso we're getting you know
friends of mine and I areteaching it together.
She's in Atlanta, by the way.
Oh, nice, nice, and so we'regetting together and we're going
to teach this over the courseof three months, so the whole
course would be three months sopeople can own this, use this,
talk to other people about this,not like one and done and go
out into the world.
Becky (46:46):
Very cool, a lot of great stuff, and that's all at
exploreastrologycom.
Susan (46:50):
Yeah, all the stuff about the classes are on my events
page.
The predictions are on mypredictions tab.
Every month I'll put up monthlypredictions.
Becky (46:59):
Well, we will have links to all of that on our website at
homespunhaintscom, on Susan'sepisode and in the description
below this episode, whereveryou're receiving it.
So make sure you check that outand click on that link.
Diana (47:12):
Oh, one important question when we do the
predictions, do we go by ourrising sign or our sun sign?
Go by your sun sign.
Susan (47:18):
But I always tell people, if you know what astrologers
call the big three, look up yoursun sign, look up your moon
sign, look up your rising sign.
But if you had to just pick oneof them, pick the sun sign
first.
Becky (47:30):
Okay, Well, Susan, thank you again so much for coming on
and sharing everything.
I really really enjoyed talkingto you.
This has been such a greatconversation.
You have some really, reallyamazing stories and experiences
and you're just full of lightand just an amazing soul.
So, so thrilled that we got achance to connect.
Susan (47:51):
I tell people I have a very boring life.
All I do is like work and youknow, go to the grocery store,
go to a book club, and then Ihear myself talk at you and I
think, oh, maybe my life's notas boring as I think it is.
Diana (48:04):
Well, this was lovely, thank you so much for having me.
Thank you, susan for being onthe show and Hainted Loves.
What do you think If you weredoing a normal astrology chart
and suddenly the dead startedtalking to you?
Would you admit it or would youjust have a spooky day?
Becky (48:22):
Homespun Haints is hosted by Becky Kielimniknick and
diana dodie and produced byhomespun haints media llc.
Editing and music by beckykalimnick.
Show notes by diana dodie.
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