How Maggie Reads Auras

In my current work in progress, MAGGIE RISING, Maggie is working her way through Cal State University, Chico as a psychic reader and that means she reads auras. She says there is nothing psychic about it.

Here is how Maggie describes the experience:

I began ... as I often begin a session, by reading her aura. I have the subject stand against a light-colored wall, one I had painted in Rock Candy White specifically for this purpose, and then I study the light I see around her body, and especially around her head.

Don’t freak out when I tell you this, but I’ve always been able to see people’s auras. Although I usually have to focus hard to see them, sometimes they just jump out at me, especially when they’re bright (the auras, I mean, not necessarily the people). I have a peculiar sensitivity to light – the same thing that gives me a migraine if I get a sudden bright glare shot directly into my eyes, only more productive. So I see auras; no biggie.

To me they look a bit like the “ghosts” you see on old, slightly off TV sets, except that auras have some color in them. The colors are what I read: blue for intelligence, gold (it looks silvery to me) for spirit, pink for love, green for ill health or lack of rest … you get the idea.

So here's the $64 question for the day: Where did I get this information? Hmmm... Stop by sometime and I'll tell you about it -- while I read your aura. :-)

What Maggie Thinks of "Sorority Chicks"

In my work in progress, MAGGIE RISING, practical Maggie is working her way through Chico State as a psychic reader. In the early pages of the manuscript, she is asked to do a reading for a girl she quickly sizes up as a party girl/sorority chick. Here's her comment:

"Although I am not cynical in general, I have more than enough cynicism for empty-headed party girls, especially sorority chicks. They give a bad name to the other women at my school – studious, respectable women like me.

"Let me hurry to add that Chico State – that’s California State University, Chico -- has some cool sororities, ones that encourage the girls to work and study hard. The good sororities will even help their members with tutors and study sessions when necessary so they can earn good grades, actually learn something, and set themselves up for great careers in the future – or, if they choose, to be happy wives and mothers raising great kids who will become the leaders of the future, etc., etc. So it’s not that I’m necessarily down on the whole Greek system, either.

"The trick is, there are other sororities, groups of virtually fratricidal “sisters” that seem to exist for no better purpose than providing easy sex for the guys in the corresponding fraternities and stabbing each other in the back. The gullible little bottle-blonde who now sat across the table in my parlor belonged to one of those sororities and I hoped to be able to pull off this reading without her ever figuring out how much I was laughing at her. Given the wide-eyed look on her face, that shouldn’t be too difficult."

Hmmm... Wonder where Maggie gets that attitude? Tee-hee.