With no idea what would happen, SAMANTHA LITTLESON took her camera along to session with local clairvoyant Sue Thompson.

Samantha said she was careful not to intrude on what was obviously a very personal experience for the clairvoyant's client.

"She [Sue] is very vivacious and passionate and I wanted my photographs to capture that," she said. 

“Everyone is clairvoyant,” Sue said. “But some of us know, and its a feeling … I can see spirit, I can speak to spirit.” Sue does about 300 readings a year. Her favourite part of the job is connecting with the different souls that walk through the door. “You connect intimately for that period of time because their hearts are open,” she said, “They come to you with such greatness. They come with an expectation and it can be met and they bare their souls to you. Even if they don’t want to, they do.”

“I’ve been doing it a long, long, long, long time, and I just see these incredible colours of people and I see their worlds and I see their love and I see who they really are and I see that, it comes to me. It’s so exciting. I see everybody’s love,” she said.

For Sue to give a very good reading, she needs to meditate. “I request that the beings that surround (the clients) – because none of us are alone – come and tell me their names and what their purpose is. And as soon as I’ve got that I feel then … when the client comes I tell them who is there – they know who it is of course, I don’t. I tell them what their intention is and then … all of a sudden the spirit takes over and lets me relate … Because it’s light energy to dense energy, sometimes there is gaps in what is said or done. And I don’t know if I hear words or see them. I don't know how they come.”

Sue also uses Tarot cards to give readings. They offer a more general view, she said. 

 For Sue, the job is focused around love, and this is something that has evolved over the years. “I’m not afraid to love everyone with it,” she said, “So I can pour love into people and I don’t need a response to that. I can love. Previously I could’ve loved them but I would have wanted them to love me. Now I don’t care. I just love them. It doesn’t matter.”

“My love that is responded to, that’s the best feeling in the world,” she said.

“My job is the best job on earth,” she said, “There is no job like mine that can give you such satisfaction and that much love. You can’t have that much love in your job … I feel blessed to be me. And yet, I’ve probably got such a wide diverse range of friends that can’t come together, I probably have the least money out of all the people of my age that I know, I probably have the least care for security … I probably have the least of a lot of things. But [I have] this total freedom, and this power, this incredible power of freedom to be who I be.”