By Karen Parr-Moody
Despite what TV shows would have you believe, police rarely turn to psychics in the hunt for missing persons. But people seeking romance do.
With Valentine’s Day cupids wafting through the air, Clarksville Now chatted about love’s crystal ball with two area psychics, along with a woman who says a psychic predicted who she would marry.
“I love my love story,” says Clarksville resident Jenny Drane.
It all began when Drane lived in California and regularly sought advice from a psychic at the Psychic Eye Book Store in L.A.
“She definitely had an aura about her,” she says.
Before her final consultation, Drane had just come out of an 8-year relationship, so she asked the psychic specifically about her future husband.
“She basically told me I would not meet ‘the one’ until I was 30,” Drane says.
At the time, Drane was 27 years old and hated dating. But she listened.
“She told me that he was going to be a very good friend. So I put that in the back of my mind. She said he was going to have blue eyes and a boyish face. She kept saying that – ‘a boyish face’ – she was so specific about what he would look like. And she said, ‘You’ll have such a connection of history.’”
Drane dated for the next three years, but she held onto the prediction. Then in late 2005 she reconnected with a high school friend via the internet. As they caught up, she asked the man about Barry Drane, who had been his best friend in high school.
“We flirted all the time,” she says of her high school relationship with Barry, who became the class valedictorian. “All of our mothers would say, ‘Why don’t you date Barry Drane?’ We didn’t because he was the nerd.”
But through the mutual friend, she reconnected with Barry. The first night they chatted on the internet for more than four hours; they were soon
having “phone dates.”
By January 2006, she flew from L.A. to North Carolina, where Barry lived, to meet him in person. When she got off the plane and saw the blue-eyed man, she reflected back to what the psychic had said about her future husband having blue eyes and, in particular, a “boyish” face.
“I wonder if she saw us as kids; I met him in the 9th grade.”
After that fateful weekend, the two decided she should leave L.A. for North Carolina that June; but she missed him and moved earlier, in March.
In the end, the blue-eyed valedictorian won her heart; the couple has been married since 2008. And while she no longer sees psychics or reads her horoscopes, Drane says, “I’m big into serendipity.”
Nashville’s Frank Castellano describes himself as a “clairvoyant psychic medium.” To look into a client’s love life, he says he reads the “aura” that person is vibrating and to see if the person’s energy is “in sync, in harmony” with their current partner. Then he gives feedback.
And, he warns, if you’re trying to find romance you can’t simply put on a red dress and get groomed. Such external trappings mean nothing if you don’t have the right energy.
“Am I guiding you to your highest love?” he says. “No. You are. I’m telling you what you have to learn and what you have to clear to meet that person. I simply let you know what to prepare for.”
Some of his suggestions include where a client should go to find the right partner, whether it be a wine auction or an estate sale.
“What I’m trying to do is guide you to your best life now,” Castellano says. “To heal the past, to let it go and to step into who you are.”
To learn more about Castellano visit www.thespiritchrysalis.com.
The Psychic Eye Book Store in Los Angeles, where Jenny Drane met with a psychic who predicted her future husband’s identity./Contributed
Patsy Seay-Dollar, a self-described psychic medium in Clarksville, says she usually gets a visual about the person a client asks about regarding his or her love life. Sometimes she sees several possible romantic matches for a client.
“They just needed to be specific in what they were looking for, or try all the relationships on,” she explains. “But I always say, ‘Please don’t do that simultaneously! Only one at a time, please.”
Seay-Dollar says that in many instances a person is not ready for a new relationship.
She says: “It may be that this person needs to heal from the last relationship or they are not sure what they want for a new partnership. If I see this in their path, I try to direct them into a state of clarity and healing. Trust is a big challenge for people, as well.”
Whatever the future seems to hold, most reputable psychics will tell their clients that free will is a factor.
“I tell people that this is the path that I see for them now, at this time,” Seay-Dollar says. “And they can change this path with a simple decision. Free will is free will.”
On Valentine’s Day, Dollar-Seay will host a day of romance at ii Energy Works Metaphysical, a store she operates at 1191E Ft. Campbell Boulevard.
There will be a class on how to bless a candle to bring more love into your life along with “special intuitive readings.” For more information visit www.iienergyworksmetaphysical.com or call 931-216-6324.