SPIRITUAL HELP

Help is Out There Jennifer Wai channels your spirit guides

By Tara Ryazansky

Photos courtesy of Jennifer Wai

Jennifer Wai is an intuitive consultant. Sounds like a psychic. “I think people hear the word psychic and think, ‘Call this hotline,’” Wai says. “But it’s all the same thing. I use the word empath and the word intuitive because they encompass it all.”

Wai is different from an old infomercial psychic, but she does work by phone. That format helped her fare well during quarantine isolation.

When Wai provides a reading, she does a quick assessment of her client around 20 minutes before they speak. “I just need their name,” she says. “I tap into their energy field which is what I call a soul stream.”

She filters information that’s given to her by spirit guides.

“It’s basically like their guides are talking to my guides,” she says. “A guide could be a being who is incarnated currently somewhere or was incarnated who is related to you in a soul way. They are a soul family member. They have made an agreement with you before you were born into your body.”

What do these guides look like? “Sometimes it’s an animal. Sometimes it’s like a weird-looking being where I’m like, ‘I don’t know if I want to look at you again,’” Wai laughs. “I’m a Jew from Long Island, so this is all pretty funny to me.” The Origin Story

When Wai leaned into her innate psychic abilities, it wasn’t well received by many in her life.

She started exploring her intuitive abilities when she was in her late 30s. “Perfect midlife crisis timing,” she says. “Everybody has these abilities. We’re just socialized out of them.”

She watched online documentaries about people who channel aliens and angels and took an intuitive coaching course to build her confidence.

“I lost a lot of friends,” Wai says. “I don’t know how to shut up, and I don’t know how to edit myself.” She does talk a mile a minute, with genuine excitement. “A lot of people were freaked out by it.”

A community of believers gravitates to all things new-age. Wai was in the early stages of planning a fest in Van Vorst Park when COVID-19 broke out. She wanted folks to attend workshops, receive readings, energy work, or reiki healing. With nonessential activities shut down, the event was cancelled.

Jennifer Wai

Power Outage?

“I was on a live chat with a bunch of other psychics, and we were like, ‘Why didn’t we see this coming?’” Wai says. “People have to hold their own light right now. We’re here to help that. It’s going to be a reckoning for a lot of people who are not willing to adapt or evolve.”

Her long-term clients are more than willing. Wai says she’s had an uptick in business consulting. “I spend a lot of time talking with partners and making sure that they’re aligned in a complementary way,” she says. “I think businesses in general need to be revolutionized. Things have to be personal. Things need to be community-based. A message that I would want people to know is that as a business owner, you have employees who are dealing with something that has never before occurred. The business needs to provide a safe space for people to communicate for their energetic wellbeing. When a business runs really well, it’s palpable. You can feel it.”

She says that the opposite is also true, especially for those as sensitive to energy as Wai. “I ate a meal from takeout, and I could tell that whoever made it was under an immense amount of stress. This isn’t measurable stuff, but it is stuff to consider.”

She has also been helping clients dealing with work stress and career changes. “I love to help people pivot,” Wai says.

Around the end of March, Wai offered free half-hour readings for three weeks. It was her way of helping those who felt lost during the first wave of Covid-19. “I met a lot of amazing people through that. It’s really exciting for me to be invited into what other people are going through,” she says. “It helps me too.”

At the end of June when the Black Lives Matter movement came to national attention after the murder of George Floyd, Wai felt inspired to offer free half-hour readings again. “I did another round of free sessions at that time,” she says. “I didn’t specifically say it was for people of color because I think everybody needed it at that time. I ended it on Juneteenth, which is also my birthday.” Test Drive

Of course, I signed up for a reading. Wai begins our session by guiding me through a short breathing exercise. She calls on my guides and tells me what she’s intuited before our call. She starts all her readings by asking clients’ guides where the clients are in their lives. She sees visions in her mind’s eye and interprets them. “I kind of break apart that image and ask where does this person need support right now, and if I don’t really get a clear answer, I keep pushing for it,” she says.

According to my guides, I have too much on my plate.

The message sounds general at first, like something that could apply to anyone, but it soon becomes surprisingly personal. She says a few things that are so spot on that they give me chills.

I waffle back and forth between skeptic and believer, but I came away with solid life advice. Whether she channeled it from my spirit guides or not, it was eye-opening and fun. For 30 minutes I wasn’t thinking about the Coronavirus.

“At the core of what I do I just want to help people,” Wai says. “I love my clients. We came here to have this human experience. I just want them to see what I see.”—JCM

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