Tahillia back to doing what she does best

ONE of Australia’s most successful practitioners in the psychic world, ‘Tahilllia’ is back doing what she does best after more than decade off.

Tahillia’s innate abilities to ‘read’ people saw her at the forefront of mediumship both here in Australia and overseas for many, many years, her prolific presence and accuracy saw her readings published national magazines like Girlfriend and Total Sport while prime time TV couldn’t get enough of her.

A regular on current affair program Today Tonight, her outcomes with live audiences were so credible they declared her the best in the world, something Tahillia recalls like it was yesterday.

“I’d travel down to do an appearance with other psychics. At first it felt a bit strange, a bit gimmicky, because I thought they were testing me like a guinea pig but it was the only way you could be taken seriously by people and other clairvoyants. I remember I would be reading audiences until 2 in the morning,” she said.

Tahillia said the TV producers were impressed with her ability because she operated on a ‘theta’ level while the other psychics on the program were alpha readers.

“They used to call me the clairvoyant for clairvoyants. A lot Yogis in India, they do all sorts of things to reach ‘theta’ level, follow special diets, but I do it spontaneously, it’s like a meditative, dream-like state when it happening.”

Tahillia’s talent has seen her do readings for people from all walks of life, from A-list celebrities to sports stars and politicians.

After prompting she rattled off a few names: Keanu Reeves, Ewan McGregor, Andie MacDowell, rockstars Mick Jagger and then girlfriend Jerry Hall, Mariah Carey, Lisa Marie Presley and sportstars including Greg Norman, Susie O’Neill, Cathy Freeman, and John Eales.

“I’ve read for a lot of famous people, touched on what was happening in their lives at the time and if I picked up a problem it would end up being sorted out. You pick up things in their energy.”

Tahillia said she doesn’t have work face-to-face to do this, she has done readings over the phone or from a photograph “and just go from there.”

Her special sense has also been called upon to help with police cases which are general highly sensitive in nature so discretion is always a priority while working in this field.

“Journalists working on stories referred to me as ‘fire hose’ when it came to my abilities. I’m not just a clairvoyant, I’m a specialist right across the psychic field. I just think, tune in and feel and hear things.”

While Tahillia is hard to define as a practitioner, her specialities include mediumship, past lives, clairvoyance, dream analysis, and she is the only person in the world that does (readings) based on children’s names and what they mean about that individual as they grow older. She also teaches meditation techniques to kids and adults.

What she doesn’t do is read cards (tarot).

“Lots of people look to card readings but I don’t do that. I couldn’t read one of those if my life depended on it. If anything they would probably confuse me more. And I don’t read off crystal balls. I use my own ability.”

That ability is something Tahillia said she has always had. It’s not something she learned by doing a course or following some kind of formula.

“I was like this when I was a little girl. So you can imagine in the 1960s, I would just mutter away and say things and do that at a child level. I’d go off to church and tell kids where they lost their animals or their toys. I had a lot of tests as a kid because they couldn’t understand where it was coming from. As a person that can feel a bit horrible, people don’t realise that what they’re attacking is your nature.”

Tahlia was in the middle of remerging on the psychic stage when the COVID-19 pandemic hit “I was ready to a 2000 audience in Sydney and 100,000 on the internet in New York City” and while that did put the brakes on for a while she is getting closer to catching up with all the technological advances that have occurred since taking time out.

“It used to be all faxes and emails before I went travelling and took a break but I felt ready to go back into my profession and started working again about eight months ago. I’m back doing what I do best, helping people move on with all kinds of things in their lives.”

Tahillia said she has a website set to be launched next month, YouTube videos being made, and a Facebook community to build. “I’m even on Twitter now and keen to get that blue tick.”

Based here on the North Coast of NSW, Tahillia said she was also planning to do live shows “at some stage” in the region, and will be touring overseas once international borders are open again but would be working with worldwide audiences on the internet in the meantime.

“I’ve never had as much to do with internet as I do now.”

While Tahillia knows she has a special ability, she recognises it like she would any other talent.

“We’re all gifted in certain areas. You could be gifted in writing or playing music. I’m gifted in my ability but not everybody gets to that point. You can be good at art but you’re not Michelangelo. Some people are just particularly good at what they do.”

Tahillia said that’s the difference between having someone that’s a total professional to somebody who’s just a “kick-about”.

“I’m really against these courses that think they can teach people to read-off a photograph in 10 minutes or go and do deep readings at markets. You can be dealing with people’s tragedies and emotions, there’s a responsibility to doing this sort of thing. I was born with this ability so I don’t know anything different.”

“YOU don’t read Shakespeare,” I remember once hearing, “he reads you.” And while this pithy assessment of the great bard’s output remains so very true, it also aptly fits the bill of a little-known Spanish wordsmith called Baltasar Gracian, who actually lived around the same time as Shakespeare.

I’m not sure what it was about this period in history (that being the cusp of the 1600s) that gave rise to minds that seemed to fathom or reflect such a deep understanding of the human condition.

Gracian was a Jesuit priest who was forever getting into trouble with his ‘superiors’ for penning things that were so brutally honest that they offended sensibilities without even trying. It is little wonder he ended his days in exile, having said too many things that simply cut too close to the bone. None other than Friedrich Nitzsche once confessed, when referring to The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Gracian’s most celebrated work) that “Europe has never produced anything finer or more complicated in matters of moral subtlety.” Being little more than a book containing 300 sayings, Gracian’s vision of worldly wisdom is nothing short of something very sublime. It reads like a stampeding patchworkcross between Machiavelli, Ambrose Bierce and Voltaire.

Akin to Nietzsche’s noted observation, “The philosopher knows not where to stand if not on the extended wings of all ages,” Gracian takes flight as if he were Icarus, only with firmly