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Now, if there’s one skill that everyone who’s ever tried to run a business could use, it’s a little “foresight.” That’s something that Biznik member Spookee seems to have a lot of. So much, in fact, that she’s making a name and a profession for herself by giving psychic readings at Seattle nightclubs such The Capitol Club, Contour, and The Chapel. I was bar tending at a fundraiser recently where she caught my eye, and since then I’ve been looking forward to interviewing her about how “no one ever really dies, everything is interconnected, and you are never alone.” Today’s the day!

Q: How’d you get the name Spookee?

All my life I’ve kept telling people things that I shouldn’t have known and making offhand remarks to people that were really prophetic. People would look at me and say I was spooky.

When I was 17 my high school boyfriend took pictures of me in a beautiful old cemetery. When he developed them, all of the pictures of me had clouds in front of me, and the ones of the monuments alone were perfectly clear. He teased me, “Hey, maybe you’re a medium,” “What’s that?” “You know, one of those women who wears a turban and does seances and talks to dead people.”

I laughed at him and shoved him. Joke was on me.

Most psychics choose a name based on mythology, and as a result you get 500 psychics with the same name. But I’m also a wiseass from the East Coast, so I decided to tell it like it is: I’m extremely empathic like Counselor Troy on Star Trek or Phoebe on Charmed. I also talk to spirits, so to some people I am Spooky. The email name spooky was taken so I became “Spookee” spookeelittlegirl@yahoo.com.

Q: Can you really see the future and spirits?

I see the future, present and the past actually, yes spirits too. I’m getting really good at guessing baby genders, too.

I was at a friend’s house and looked out of a window on the stairs I never look out of and noticed a branch about to fall on his car and told him to move it. “I’ll do it later”, he said. If only he had listened it wouldn’t have totaled it an hour later when it fell. Made a cool sound.

I say “I told you so” a lot, but people don’t mind.

I’ve told people looking for love about people they’d meet in the future. What they’d look like, their personality. I’ve told them enough that they wouldn’t just throw themselves at the first blonde woman they saw, so they would know when they met them.

Once I was talking to a mother and son who were thanking me for a reading I’d done for him. I suddenly saw a muddy field strewn with bodies in civil war uniforms rifles and crows and the word Gettysburg. The mother and son were having a nice time out together so I didn’t bring it up.

A few months later I asked if they’d had any ancestors who fought in the Battle of Gettysburg, and they had. I’ve seen the Battle of Gettysburg like my own memory. War is bad.

My specialty is Grandmas. Maybe because I was so close to mine. When Grandma says she  looooooves you, believe her! When a ghost barges in to the conversation it’s almost always Grandma.

Q: Why Grandmas? Is there something about female energy that is more, what’s the word, “communicative” in that way?

Nope. Communication is as individual there as it is here. Everyone has their methods and specialties. Some transfer emotion, others spell words, or play pictionary with me, some people are gentle or pushy. It’s not gender specific. Grandma just loooooooooves you like no other. Grandma wants to see “her” baby, she’ll do whatever it takes. Once grandma comes she usually stays til the end of the reading — or longer. Grandpa’s come in second.

Q: Is this a skill you can teach, or are you pretty much born with it?

I don’t believe children have “imaginary friends.” I don’t believe in coincidence anymore, either.

Psychic ability is like musical ability: People have it to varying degrees, and they can learn it to varying degrees. I’ve taught people what their abilities are, so they could develop them.

Everyone has intuition, it’s part of survival instinct. In some cases people have it more, more than they’d even want to. Sometimes people who are skeptical are psychics themselves and just don’t want to deal with it — they’re psychic bashers.

Q: What’s the most common question you hear from your clients?

“When will I find my TRUE LOVE?! When?! Now?! Where?!”
I love love, I’m a romantic, I like that question. I’ll tell them who I see on the horizon.

Q: Let me guess the second most popular question: “When will I/how will I make money?”

It’s funny, questions seem to come in waves. Lately I’m not getting so many love questions as I am “what should I study in school?” “What profession should I pursue?” With that I address what their heart wants and what their pocketbook wants and I leave it to them which to choose, or how to combine the two. My visions have more to do with how they can work it out.

Q: Tell me a ghost story…

My Dad wanted to put a headstone on his mother’s grave. She died when he was a teenager, about ten years before I was born. He was too dazed to remember where she was buried. His dad was gone already and he was alone. He told me because of segregation she could be in one of three cemeteries. I saw a tree that copied itself and rotated so that it looked  like an arch. I told him which I thought it was. “Shady Grove.”

My father booked a hotel for four days and we flew to Florida. The day after we got there we went to the cemetery I’d told him about. I asked my Grandmother where she was buried and she indicated an area, and I said you have to be more specific or they won’t believe me. She said “OK.” The graveskeeper couldn’t find her on the computer, but found her in the old index cards. “Now we have to see where she’s buried,” he said. I pointed, “Over there.” He looked at me and then looked at the card and said, “You’re right she is, but we have to find the plot.”

We walked over and I saw two trees leaning in to each other like an arch. I stood between them and thought “What a nice place to rest.” My father and the graveskeeper were still referring to the card, so I walked away to look at the headstones. I didn’t feel my grandmother near me anymore. So I walked back to where my Father was in time to hear the graveskeeper say “Well, she’s at 22 and this is 33, so she’s one over and one back, between those two trees.” Exactly where I had been standing. I chose a headstone for her and we were done the first day.

That was how I told my father I was psychic. He’s a scientist I know he wouldn’t have believed me unless he saw it for himself.

Spookee has more ghost stories on her website at www.spookee.org/ghoststories.html

You can catch her at a Pure Cirkus event (lavishly beautiful website) or at Co-op Sundays at The Chapel Bar on Capitol Hill, where she is the house psychic.

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