Many people today turn to them for help, but often do not know the difference between a clairvoyant and a medium. That happens because many mediums are clairvoyants, some clairvoyants are mediums, and some can even do both in the same session. But the two are quite different. And if you want to turn to a medium or clairvoyant, you should know about their abilities so you can get the right spiritual insights you are looking for.
To put it briefly, both a clairvoyant and a medium use extrasensory perception. A clairvoyant has special powers that logic or science cannot explain. And a medium is someone with the ability to communicate between the world of the living and the afterlife.
Are there more differences between a clairvoyant and medium? Let’s find out.
What is a clairvoyant?
A clairvoyant is someone who possesses special, even supernatural powers. For instance, they can tell your future by using Tarot cards, runes, or a crystal ball, as well as look into your past or see your present. People with the gift of clairvoyance can also gain information from locations, people, or objects, and see images inside their minds related to those. Because of their psychic skills, they can tune into the energies of people, places, or objects.
Clairvoyants can receive those images from their spirit guides or by using their heightened intuition. They are known for their ability to see the future. Even the word ‘clairvoyant’ literally means ‘clear seeing’. With their extraordinary perception, they can see objects, energy fields, chakras, energy lines in landscapes, telepathic images, souls, or even energy imprinted on objects.
A clairvoyant uses his or her “sixth sense” and other spiritual means to foresee the events that might happen. They also usually have heightened sensory perceptions and can hear, see, smell, feel, or taste things that others cannot. Such abilities go alongside others like:
- Clairsentience (clear feeling)
- Clairaudience (clear hearing)
- Claircognizance (clear knowing)
People usually turn to clairvoyants or fortunetellers, to know what is awaiting them in different aspects of their lives, be it money, love, career, health, and other things. They read your aura (the energy field around you) to make predictions about what could influence future events in your life. You can go to a clairvoyant when you are looking for inspiration, strategies on how to deal with challenges, or a fresh perspective on your present life.
What is a medium?
Mediums are capable of transferring messages between the two worlds-the earthly world and the spiritual one. As a result, they can receive messages from spirits residing in the afterlife. This is a very particular characteristic of mediums because they serve as a connection between this world and the one beyond. Some people also believe that mediums can even go to the spiritual worlds themselves.
Communicating with the afterlife is not easy, and mediums do it by using a technique called channeling. There are different types of channeling:
- Light mediumship
- Spirit writing
- Trance channeling
In light mediumship, the medium remains fully conscious while receiving information. But in spirit writing and trance channeling, the mediums let either the spirit energy or the spirit itself to take control of their body. Through channeling, mediums help the spirits from the afterlife to deliver messages to the living.
Mediumship allows you to see that those who passed away are not gone, as their souls live on. Mediums do not usually tell the future or make predictions about someone’s love, career, or health. They help you reconnect with your loved ones so that you can receive support and healing. At a session with a medium, they will tune into the spiritual energy which surrounds a person and use this energy to receive information.
Like clairvoyants, mediums often have psychic abilities. For example, they can see a person’s aura. But they also recognize spiritual energies around the person and reveal information about this person by reading their energies. They also possess a strong intuition, the “sixth sense”, but they do not always use it to perceive things and relay them. Instead, they rely on the information they gather from spiritual beings like ghosts, spirits, and angels.
Difference between a clairvoyant and a medium
Here are the main points of difference:
- A clairvoyant cannot connect with the beings in the afterlife, unlike the medium. And the medium, in turn, cannot foresee the future, although some mediums do have psychic abilities and they can do what a clairvoyant typically does.
- When you are in the presence of a clairvoyant, you can see that they interact with you directly – you are the one they are reading. A medium, on the other hand, would only relay the messages they receive from the spiritual world, so it would seem to you as if they were absent in this one.
- A big difference between clairvoyant and medium is in the place they look for messages. Clairvoyants focus more on foretelling. They predict events that could possibly happen in the future. On the other hand, mediums read the spiritual energy to know about the past and the present of the person, in order to help them improve their future. Because of this difference, predictions of a clairvoyant vs medium are more stable in the latter case. Every person is shaping his or her own destiny, so the events foretold might change. You should always keep that in mind and use the predictions of a medium or a clairvoyant to work toward a better future for yourself.
- Another difference between clairvoyant and medium is that clairvoyants do not seek out souls or spirits. Instead, they develop and practice extrasensory perceptions. Many people can have a strong intuition, or some degree of a psychic ability, but mediumship is rare. Mediums can also have their own spirit guides that would have a very strong connection with a medium and help him or her connect with the world of the spirits.
So, these were the main points of difference between a clairvoyant and a medium. But keep in mind that they may have different abilities, but both possess the power to help you heal and solve problems.