The 5 Clairs Explained
Each psychic gift, your Clair, is connected to a specific chakra. When your energy is aligned, your intuition flows more clearly.
Are You Psychic? How to Tell if You Have Hidden Intuitive Abilities
Ever felt something so deeply… but brushed it off as being “too sensitive”?
What if your sensitivity wasn’t a flaw, but your greatest spiritual gift?
If you've ever walked into a room and instantly felt overwhelmed, thought of someone right before they called, or just "knew" something without knowing how - you're not imagining things. You're experiencing psychic abilities.
Quick psychic abilities test: Do any of these sound familiar?
You walk into a room and instantly feel overwhelmed (without anyone saying a word)
You suddenly think of someone you haven't heard from in years... just before they reach out
You get "gut feelings" about people that always turn out to be right
You feel drained in crowds or pick up on emotions that aren't yours
You just "know" things without being able to explain how
If you answered yes to any of these, you likely have natural psychic gifts waiting to be understood and developed.
About My Journey with Psychic Development
I’m Janet Rae Orth, and for 30 years, I've helped thousands of highly sensitive people discover and develop their natural psychic gifts. After decades of guiding clients through their spiritual awakening, I've learned that what most people call "being too sensitive" is actually untapped psychic potential waiting to be embraced.
You're not broken. You're not "too much." You're intuitive, and I'm here to help you understand exactly how your psychic abilities work.
Ready to develop your psychic gifts? Whether you want clarity about what you're sensing or practical tools to strengthen your abilities, I can help you understand and trust your intuitive nature.
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What You'll Discover in This Psychic Abilities Guide
The 5 psychic senses (the "Clairs") and how they show up in daily life
Which psychic gift is strongest for you
Why your "sensitivity" is actually a superpower
How to stop dismissing your psychic hits and start trusting them
Signs you might be psychic that you've been ignoring
Quick Clairs Reference: The 5 Types of Psychic Abilities
Wondering "am I psychic" and which psychic sense you might have? Here are the 5 main types of psychic abilities:
🔮 Clairvoyance - Clear seeing (mental images, visions, symbols)
🎧 Clairaudience - Clear hearing (inner voice, guidance, phrases)
💗 Clairsentience - Clear feeling (emotions, energy, physical sensations)
🧠 Claircognizance - Clear knowing (sudden insights, just "knowing" things)
🌸 Clairalience/Clairgustance - Clear smelling/tasting (spiritual scents)
How to Know if You're Psychic: Beyond Just Being Sensitive
Most people have psychic abilities but dismiss them as coincidence or being "too sensitive." The difference between general sensitivity and psychic abilities lies in the specificity and accuracy of the information you receive.
Signs you have psychic abilities:
Your "random" thoughts about people prove accurate (like knowing if you should trust someone or not)
You sense things before they happen (like knowing a friend will have to cancel your plans)
You feel physical sensations that aren't medically explainable (cold sensations, tingling)
Animals and children are drawn to you (I have had wild dolphins make a beeline for me in the ocean)
You have vivid, prophetic dreams (watch for my blog on dreams coming soon)
Electronics malfunction around you during emotional moments (they always broke around me until I learned to ground my energy)
You might brush these off as coincidence, think you are imagining it, or think you're just "too sensitive." But what if that sensitivity is actually your intuition trying to communicate with you?
What My Clients Say About Discovering Their Psychic Gifts ✨
"Working with Janet helped me realize I wasn't 'too sensitive' - I was intuitive. Everything makes sense now."
— Sarah M. "I've always felt other people's emotions but thought something was wrong with me. Janet taught me it's actually my superpower."
— Michael R. "The session was life-changing. I finally understand how my intuition works and trust it completely now."
— Jennifer L.
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Your Intuitive Design: Why Logic Isn't Everything
Here's the thing: we live in a world that prizes logic over intuition. As Einstein once said: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Let’s awaken the gift. Your intuitive senses aren't accidental. They're part of your spiritual design, meant to guide and protect you.
🚫 The #1 Mistake That Blocks Your Psychic Messages
Before we dive into the 5 Clairs, let's talk about the biggest mistake I see people make with their psychic abilities: dismissing their first intuitive hit.
Here's what happens:
You get that instant gut feeling, flash of knowing, or immediate "yes/no" response
Then your logical mind kicks in: "That can't be right. I'm probably imagining things”
You talk yourself out of it, rationalize, second-guess
Later (sometimes much later), you realize your first instinct was spot-on
Remember this: Your intuition speaks first. Your logical mind speaks second. It might be hard, but the key is learning to trust that initial psychic response before your brain has time to interfere.
The 5 Clairs work the same way - they deliver information quickly, quietly, and often without fanfare. The magic happens when you stop dismissing these messages and start paying attention.
🔍 The 5 Psychic Abilities Explained (The Clair Senses)
Each of the Clairs corresponds to different energy center in your body called chakras - spinning wheels of energy that govern different aspects of your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. When these energy centers are balanced, your intuitive gifts flow naturally. When they're blocked or imbalanced, you might experience both physical symptoms and difficulty accessing your intuitive or psychic abilities.
👁️ Clairvoyance - Clear Seeing (Psychic Vision)
The Psychic Gift: Clairvoyance is the ability to receive psychic messages through visual images, either as quick flashes, symbols, or even scenes that play like you’re watching a movie in your mind’s eye.
Energy Center: This gift is connected to your sixth chakra (third eye), located in the center of your head.
How Clairvoyance Shows Up: This isn't usually literal sight - it's mental imagery through your inner vision.
You might be clairvoyant if:
You get vivid flashes of people, symbols, or colors during meditation or prayer
You’re a visual thinker who easily imagines things in detail (when you read a book you see the characters, what they are wearing, the room they are in)
You’ve seen glimpses of something before it happens (like seeing an image of an old friend pop into your head, and then they text you an hour later)
You receive spiritual signs through imagery (like a repeating number, an animal, or vision of a loved one)
You see auras or energy around people.
You receive spiritual signs through imagery (like seeing repeating numbers, specific animals crossing your path, or spontaneous visions of departed loved ones)
Who This Psychic Ability Serves: People with strong clairvoyance often become visual artists, designers, dreamers, and visionaries. They’re imaginative, often drawn to symbolism, and may receive signs in dreams or spontaneous visual “downloads”.
For example, I am very visual and was accepted to art school. As a child, I would see colors around people, their aura, but I didn’t know what it was.
When Clairvoyance Is Imbalanced: An out-of-balance sixth chakra can make someone have difficulty focusing or cause issues with the eyes and vision.
🔊 Clairaudience - Clear Hearing (Psychic Hearing)
The Psychic Gift: While clairvoyants receive visions, clairaudients receive messages through sound. Clairaudience is the ability to receive psychic messages through sound - words, phrases, tones, or music you "hear" inside your mind, like an inner voice that's not your own.
Energy Center: This ability is connected to your fifth chakra (throat chakra), your center of communication and expression.
How Clairaudience Shows Up: It may sound like your own voice, in your head, but the words arrive unexpectedly, as if dropped in from somewhere else.
You might be clairaudient if:
You often hear guidance as a phrase or sentence that drops into your awareness (like suddenly hearing "take the back road" right before hitting traffic on your usual route)
You’re sensitive to sound, tone, or music, and can feel energy shift through it
You’ve heard your name called (but no one was there)
You receive messages in dreams that feel like they were spoken to you
You hear song lyrics that answer your questions
Who This Psychic Ability Serves: Clairaudient people often have a strong inner dialogue and are excellent communicators, lawyers, musicians, or writers. Many receive guidance through song lyrics, intuitive “pings,” or specific words that repeat until they listen.
My daughter is highly clairaudient, which matches how she processes learning, - she is very auditory. Even as a child, she preferred to say her spelling words out loud rather than write them down. Which was fine when the words were short, but as they got longer, it got harder for me (a visual learner and more clairvoyant) to translate them in my mind from sound to a visual image as quickly as she could say them.
When Clairaudience is Imbalanced: An out of balance fifth Chakra can result in hearing issues, sore throats, or thyroid imbalances. This is especially common in women, whose voices, both energetically and emotionally, have often been suppressed or dismissed.
"There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen." -Rumi
🌊 Clairsentience - Clear Feeling (Psychic Empathy)
The Psychic Gift: Moving from the mental realm of sight and sound, we enter the emotional and energetic realm of feeling. Clairsentience is one of the most common psychic gifts, and often the most misunderstood. It’s the ability to pick up on energy through feeling. Emotions, physical sensations, or “vibes” you can’t explain often come through this channel.
Energy Center: This gift is located in your second chakra, below the belly button, which governs emotions and creativity.
How It Shows Up: This is often called "the empath's superpower" - the ability to feel what others feel.
You might be clairsentient if:
You feel other people’s emotions deeply, even when they say they’re fine
You get physical sensations in your body when something’s off. (Like a heavy chest or nervous stomach when you walk into a coffee shop and suddenly feel anxious, then notice a couple arguing quietly in the corner)
You feel drained in crowds, or emotionally overwhelmed without a clear reason
You’ve felt a strong energetic “yes” or “no” before making a decision
You get that gut reaction when you just don't trust someone, or know you'll get a job offer long before there's any confirmation
The Psychic Empath's Superpower
Who This Psychic Ability Serves: Clairsentients are the empaths and energy sponges of the world, deeply compassionate and emotionally tuned-in. These people often become healers, bodyworkers, nurses, therapists, or hospice workers. They are the emotional anchors for their family, often feeling more of other people's emotions than their own. Clairsentients are the emotional healers of the world, the peacemakers, holding space for others even when they don't realize it.
Common Experience: Many intuitives start here - this is the most common clair. We've all felt it: knowing someone's judging you (remember middle school?), sensing a couple has been fighting even if they're smiling, or getting that instant feeling about a situation without logical explanation.
When Clairsentience Is Imbalanced: When your second chakra is out of balance, you might experience digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, or chronic fatigue. Emotionally, you might feel overwhelmed by others' emotions or have difficulty setting boundaries.
This gift is not a flaw or weakness - it's a superpower rooted in the wisdom of the body. Clairsentience can be beautiful, but without energetic boundaries, it can also be overwhelming and draining. With proper training, this gift can become your greatest strength instead of something that exhausts you.
Consider my one on one [Energetic Boundaries Phone Session→] to learn how to protect your energy.
💡 Claircognizance - Clear Knowing (Psychic Knowing)
The Psychic Gift: Beyond seeing, hearing, and feeling, some people simply know. Claircognizance is the psychic ability to just know something without knowing how you know it. It's like a sudden insight that drops in fully formed, without logic, but with deep certainty.
Energy Center: This gift operates through your seventh chakra (crown chakra), located at the top of your head, connecting you to higher wisdom and universal consciousness.
How Claircognizance Shows Up: This form of knowing feels different from regular thinking - it's like accessing wisdom you didn't know you had, as if the information was always there, waiting to be remembered.
You might be claircognizant if:
You often have gut-level “knowings” that turn out to be right. You may know someone is pregnant, even before they do. Or you know the sex of the baby
You receive insights or ideas out of nowhere, like divine downloads.
You find it hard to explain why you know something… you just do. You may know someone is lying to you, but not know how you know
People often come to you for clarity, even when you haven’t studied the topic
You finish people's sentences or solve problems before they're fully explained
Who This Psychic Ability Serves: This gift is common in doctors, leaders, teachers, entrepreneurs, and inventors. If you find yourself finishing people’s sentences, solving problems before they’re fully explained, or receiving big-picture insight seemingly out of thin air, this might be your dominant Clair.
When Claircognizance Is Imbalanced: When your crown chakra is out of balance, you might experience headaches or feel disconnected from your inner wisdom. For example, this can happen to anyone in highly analytical professions who become overly reliant on logic and lose connection to their intuitive wisdom.
✨ Clairalience & Clairgustance - Clear Smelling & Tasting
The Psychic Gift: Though rarer than the other four, these psychic senses are just as powerful. Clairalience (clear smelling) and clairgustance (clear tasting) allow people to receive messages through scent or taste, especially when those experiences come without a physical source.
How It Shows Up: These gifts often appear during spiritual connections or energy work..
You might experience these psychic gifts if:
You smell your grandmother’s perfume, or pipe smoke from a passed loved one, with no physical explanation
You taste something metallic, sweet, or sour when energy shifts
You associate certain spirits, places, or energetic presences with specific sensory impressions
Who These Psychic Gifts Serve: These intuitive senses often show up in mediumship or ancestral connection work. They're especially meaningful for people who have a strong sense memory or work with healing modalities.
🧭 Discover Your Dominant Psychic Clair
Take a moment and reflect:
Do you tend to see images or flashes? → Clairvoyance
Hear phrases, lyrics, or messages in your mind? → Clairaudience
Feel the energy of people, rooms, or emotions deeply? → Clairsentience
Just know things with certainty, even without proof? → Claircognizance
Experience spiritual scents or tastes that come out of nowhere? → Clairalience or Clairgustance
Everyone has access to all these psychic abilities or Clairs, but most people lead with one or two that are naturally dominant. Understanding how to develop your intuition and work with your dominant Clair can help you build confidence, trust your inner voice, and reconnect with your natural psychic abilities. Your dominant Clair often mirrors how you naturally learn, process, or lead in the world. When you understand your psychic language, you can stop doubting your gifts… and start listening.
As you learn to be more sensitive you may continue to be dominant in primarily one area but will learn to sense all of them.
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Developing All Your Clairs or Psychic Abilities
While you likely have one dominant Clair, or psychic ability, you're not limited to just one. Think of it like being right-handed, you still use your left hand, but your right hand is stronger and more natural.
As you develop your psychic abilities, you'll notice the other Clairs or senses, become more active too. I'm primarily clairvoyant, but I also feel energy deeply and sometimes hear guidance. The key is starting with your natural psychic strength and building from there. For example, I will sometimes hear words, phrases or sentences in my head that are not my own thoughts. And just like you, I have moments where I simply know something about a person or situation without being told.
As you learn to be more sensitive, you may continue to be dominant in primarily one area but will learn to sense all of them. The most important part is to pay attention - and stop dismissing them.
The key is starting with your natural strength and building from there.
Psychic Development Exercise
Journal on this question: "When was the last time I had a gut feeling, a vision, or an inner knowing... and it turned out to be right?"
Pay attention to:
What type of information came through
How it felt in your body
Whether you trusted it or dismissed it
What happened when you followed (or ignored) the guidance
❓Frequently Asked Questions About Psychic Abilities
What is the most common Clair or psychic ability? The most common psychic gift is Clairsentience (clear feeling). Many people feel energy, emotions, or “vibes” from others without realizing it's a psychic sense. If you've ever felt drained in crowds or instantly picked up on someone's mood, you're likely clairsentient.
Can you have more than one psychic gift? Yes, everyone has access to all of the Clairs, but most people lead with one or two dominant senses. Over time, with awareness and practice, the others can become stronger too. Your intuitive system is like a muscle: the more you work with it, the more attuned it becomes.
Can you develop psychic gifts later in life? Absolutely. Psychic abilities often awaken or strengthen during times of emotional growth, spiritual awakening, trauma, or major life transitions. You can develop them at any age.
Are intuitive abilities inherited? Many people find that intuition runs in families, though it's not always talked about. You may have a grandparent who had vivid dreams, or a parent who always “just knew” things. Whether inherited or awakened later in life, your psychic gifts are part of your soul’s natural design, and they can be developed at any stage. It runs in both sides of my family, though no one had a word or name for it.
What’s the difference between intuition and anxiety? That’s a powerful question, and one I get asked often. The truth is, it’s not always easy to tell the difference, especially if you’re highly sensitive or energetically open. Psychic information feels neutral and comes with clarity, while anxiety feels charged and creates mental loops. Learning to distinguish between them is crucial for psychic development.
How do I know if I'm really psychic or just imagining things?
Track your psychic hits. Keep a journal of your intuitive impressions and check their accuracy over time. Real psychic abilities show consistent patterns of accuracy.
Are You Ready to Trust Your Psychic Gifts?
Your sensitivity isn't something to fix or overcome—it's something to understand and embrace. When you learn to work with your psychic abilities instead of dismissing them, life becomes richer, easier, and more aligned with your true path. Stop calling yourself "too sensitive." Start calling yourself psychic or intuitive.
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