Psychic Skills for Magic & Witchcraft, by Cat Gina Cole

INTRODUCTION I have been asked many times how long I have been a witch and psychic; my honest reply is “I have never not been one.”

I was four years old when I had my first psychic experience. I had my first out-of-body experience when I was four, and my first memorable clairvoyant event occurred when I was around seven.

My magical foundation was laid and assisted by Mom, Dad, and Grandma White. My dad, an immigrant from Italy, had dreams and saw ghosts. When I was older, my mother told me my real father was Native American and Hispanic. She took the secret of who he was to her grave.

Supposedly, Grandma White was not a blood relative. However, she was the only grandma we knew since our biological grandparents had passed before we were born. Grandma White told stories about her family traveling the trail of souls out of Romania during a war and how her family settled in Wales and Ireland. She proudly claimed she and her family as Gypsy.When I was older, my mom hinted that she was indeed my real grandmother, but she never confirmed that fact.

So the way I see it, I have always been a child of mystery and possibilities, and Mom fueled that. Mom was a Christian practitioner of Witchcraft and psychism. Today we call that being a Christian Mystic, and she hid that well from the rest of the family. Grandma was much more traditional and less open-minded than Mom. 1