Seebold says that Astral Journeys offers ‘anything good for the mind, body, and soul’  

The Enterprise — Michael Koff

Reading the past, present, and future: Christine Seebold, seated in her new business, Astral Journeys in Guilderland, reads the deck of tarot cards that she developed herself. She calls her deck Oracle of the Nile.

GUILDERLAND — Astral Journeys Center, a new business at 1811 Western Ave. in Guilderland, is owned by Christine Seebold, who has been a medium, she says, since she was 2.

“I would predict things and they would come true,” she said.

As a very young child in Brooklyn, she said, she was once sitting at her front window overlooking the street and said to her grandmother, who was also psychic, “See that truck? See that car? Boom!” The truck then skidded over and hit the car, and both vehicles exploded, she said.

Another time, she said, when she was 5, the family home caught on fire in the middle of the night; she woke up and alerted the others. “Everybody got out alive,” she said.

Seebold, now 51, has been working out of her Loudonville home for three years and  has thousands of clients, she said, but wanted to move her business to a different location, to give her family privacy.

She has studied with some of the “best teachers in the world,” she said, listing Lisa Williams, John Holland, and Janet Nohavec.

The 1,700-square-foot center on Western Avenue has a store in the front, a “huge” classroom, and two private rooms, Seebold said.

In addition to services like mediumship or psychic readings, past-life regressions, reiki, and massage, the center also offers classes in yoga, meditation, jewelry-making, reiki, and Finding Your Inner Child — “anything that is good for the mind, body, and soul,” said Seebold.

Last year, Seebold came out with her own tarot deck, Oracle of the Nile, which comes with a one-hour, online group class in how to use and interpret it.

The center’s shop, which sells crystals, books, jewelry, pendulums, and novelty items, is owned by Toni Craft, Seebold said.

Seebold offers, free of charge, a “psychic kids’ club,” she said, for kids with psychic abilities, “so they get to be around other kids like themselves, so they don’t feel like outcasts.”

When she was a child, Seebold would have liked to attend that club herself, she said.

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