The Clairs

When it comes to psychic gifts, there are plenty one can either be born with or develop through practice and patience. Of those, there is a group of gifts that most people know, at least by name. These are The Clairs. Most people are familiar with the most popular ones like Clairvoyance, and Clairaudience, but there are more Clair gifts that are used to access glimpses of the (possible) future, communicate beyond the veil, and alert us to possibilities and opportunities we might not otherwise be aware of. There are 8 such Clari gifts.
 
Clairvoyance: Clear Seeing – The most popularly known of the Clairs. This gift presents as visions or mental images. These can occur within the mind/mind’s eye, or be seen, eyes open, as if they are happening right before one’s eyes. Remote viewing can be categorized under this heading as well.
 
Clairaudience: Clear Hearing – This is when messages are heard, either as sounds, music, or words. This can include (but is not limited to) hearing the message as if someone is speaking to you, hearing the lyrics of a song at just the right time that answers a question or provides relevant insight, or ringing, pressure, or burning of the ears.
 
Clairsentience: Clear Feeling – This is when messages or information is presented through sensations in the body. It might be felt externally, like goosebumps when a spirit is nearby, or a feeling in the body part that indicates how a spirit died or what a health issue in that part of the body. It can also be internal, like an unexplained sense of dread, or feeling like “something is coming” (good or bad).
 
 Claircognizance: Clear Knowing – This is often compared to “mother’s intuition”. It is when messages or information present themselves as abstract concepts or intuitive downloads suddenly pop into your head, that prove to have significance to the reading or mediumship work being done; either in the present or later.
 
Clairgustance: Clear Tasting – this one is a little less popular than most Clairs. It is the sensing of psychic information through taste. It could present itself as a particular taste to mean a particular situation has occurred or will occur, such as tasting blood when a fatal incident has or will happen. It could also be a taste that represents a person or memory the person the reading/medium work is being done, sent by the communicating spirit. This Clair, like a few others, is most often used during mediumship work, though that is not strictly the case.
 
Clairsalience: Clear Smell – Like Clairgustance, this Clair is most often used in mediumship work. However, it involves one’s sense of smell, rather than taste. The same applies to it though. It could be the smell of something that triggers the memory of a particular person, place, or other memory. It likely signals the presence of a familiar spirit with a message.
 
Clairempathy: Clear Emotional Feeling – This Clair also involves feelings, but unlike Clairsentience, this is felt on an emotional level. While that may sound like simple empathy, there is a distinct difference. Empathy itself is feeling the emotions of those around you, while Clairempathy is receiving psychic information or messages through your emotions. These feelings can come over a distance, through the veil (like sensing the emotions of spirits that are present or wanting to communicate), or before an event even happens, not just from the people/animals around you in the present.
 
Clairtangency: Clear Touch – This is what I would have classified as psychometry. It is the receiving of information or messages from the energies/vibrations of an object. This can include its history, the people connected to it, and even the energies of significant events it was involved in (strong emotional energies can imprint on objects).
 
Anyone can possess these gifts at birth, or achieve them through practice. There are plenty of books and websites out there to help one learn how to do this. While inherent talent may make it easier to develop such a skill, they are a skill like any other. You must use and practice them to hone and control them. One could also possess more than one of these skills at a time. While these skills are often used to aid in divination or by Mediums to bring messages across to loved ones (or help spirits cross over), they do have other uses as well. Many of them, like Clairsentience, Claircognizance, and Clairempathy would be greatly useful to healers in their practice. Whether that healing is physical, mental, or spiritual. Any one of them could be helpful in a spiritual wellness/guidance setting, such as a spiritual counsellor or a death doula. They can all provide a way to help bring comfort, understanding, and peace to the user or the one they are using them for.
 
Do you possess any of these gifts? Have you used them to help yourself or others? Have you consulted someone with these gifts for your own personal healing or spiritual journey? Would you want to learn one of them yourself? I would love to know.