My Story

Melissa is a natural-born Seer, traditionally known as a Matakite. Indigenous to New Zealand, Melissa is from a long lineage of Seers and healers.

From a very young age, I was aware of the spirit world, and I always had a strange and uncanny ability to read people’s energy. When I was five, my mother would tell me that when I knew visitors were coming to our house. I would wait at the front door for them to arrive. I would shut the door on certain people and tell her that they were a bad person.

It was through my loving grandmother Kararina Hine Turakiao Thatcher nee Akuhata, who was a well-known Healer in New Zealand who worked with Rongoa (herbal medicine) that the spirit world was revealed to me.

Growing up around my grandmother, I was aware of spirits in her house. She would often remark that a family member or friend had passed away. When asked, ‘how do you know, as we only spoke to that person yesterday.’ She’d reply, ‘they came to visit me last night from the spirit world.’ Then it would be confirmed that in fact that person had passed away. My grandmother was often called out to move unwanted spirits from people’s homes, sometimes staying in haunted houses by herself.

My grandmother influenced my life in so many ways. She taught me about my Māori culture and laid the foundations for my spirituality.

Over the years I have pursued careers in people-helping professions; I always felt in my heart this was my calling.

It wasn’t until later in my life that I was fully aware that I could communicate with our passed-over loved ones in the spirit world. Unlike most people who come to Mediumship through a near-death experience, accident, or grief – it was quite the opposite for me. It happened while I attended a Doreen Virtue seminar in Sydney. I had read her book Light Workers Way in my 20s, and we were asked to do a Mediumship reading for the person sitting next to us. I didn’t know the woman I was to read for, and this was new to both of us.

I closed my eyes and was instantly aware of a man in spirit. He told me he was her husband and had passed away the year before. As I began to channel this man, I was aware of strong currents of electricity moving up and down my spine. The husband explained to me in detail – his name, age of passing, what he passed with and the date he passed. He then went on to tell me he had a son and daughter. He had given his watch to his son, and his name was engraved on the back of the watch. He also knew that since his passing his daughter had given birth to a baby boy and he was named after him. I opened my eyes, and the lady was crying. She confirmed everything I had said to be true.

Because the evidence I had given was so detailed, I just couldn’t shrug it off as being my imagination or that I made it up. That event set me up on the path of wanting to understand what had just happened to me. As I am a logical-thinking person by nature, I needed to test my psychic and mediumship muscle to see if I could do that again – and how far I could go. What better way to do that I thought than put myself out in that arena…

At first, I offered phone psychic readings to friends of friends. Then I took every opportunity to use my psychic and mediumship abilities, reading at psychic fairs, mind body spirit expos, working in various new age shops, and international psychic phone lines and then eventually setting up my own business as a professional Psychic Medium in Melbourne.

Looking back at that Doreen Virtue conference in Sydney, I would never have dreamt that I would now be working in this profession – or that I even had this ability to this extent within me. Yet now I know that when the timing is right and the conditions are perfect, your abilities can be awakened.

Although this Taonga (gift) has been passed down through my family, I’ve had to work hard over the years to perfect, refine and nurture my abilities, trust my link with the spirit world, and trust myself. Now it has become a natural part of my everyday life.

I feel truly honoured and blessed to do this work as a Psychic and as a Medium serving the spirit world. I thank ihoa (God) and my ancestors every day for allowing me to do this work.

My Story

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