Embark on a fascinating journey into the realms of healing, spirituality, and self-discovery with Neo Pachisia, a seasoned practitioner whose eclectic blend of astrological insights, tarot wisdom, and shamanic practices has illuminated the paths of many. Neo shares her profound experiences, from her journalistic roots in India to becoming a renowned healer in London, weaving together the threads of astrology, tarot, Reiki, and shamanic techniques to offer a comprehensive approach to holistic well-being. Learn more in her exclusive MysticMag interview below.
Who is Neo Pachisia? What is your personal story and what has your professional journey been like?
I used to be a journalist in India for 10 years, and then I got married and moved to Chicago. At that point, I couldn’t work for a year, which is when I started reading about healing. This was in ’92. Then, in ’94, I did my first course in hypnotherapy. In ’95, I started studying astrology in New York City.
Then, in ’98, we moved to England, where I earned diplomas from two of the most prestigious astrology schools in the world. One was Liz Green’s Centre of Psychological Astrology, and the other was the Faculty of Astrological Studies-proud to say that I’m one of only two people who have both of those diplomas.
Soon after, my practice grew and I was doing more readings with clients and realised, while Astrology and Tarot offered guidance and helped you get a glimpse of your life ahead, the echoes of traumas, grief, and negative beliefs resonated not just in our minds but seeped into the very essence of our being, down to the cellular level—and for healing to be comprehensive, some kind of body/energy work was essential.
Resolving painful issues and negative patterns on an energetic level is necessary to open new doorways and for you to find ways to manifest what you want – health, wealth, relationships, career, etc.
For example, someone may come to me with anxiety or a chronic sense of low self-worth. Then you look at the chart, and you can see, say, that Chiron was conjunct the moon, or the Ascendant or such and you can explain to them the potential source of their anxiety or low self-worth. You can have a discussion about it. It’s not just me telling them something, it’s always a Conversation. We try to explore that because my orientation is very psychological.
Astrology and Tarot are not just for divination for me but for examining and understanding yourself. The quest for comprehensive healing and deeper learning led me down paths unexplored which included dozens of conferences and workshops on various aspects of healing, astrology, and metaphysics including a year-long immersion into Hermeticism, Mediumship, two residential workshops with Stuart Wilde, Huna, a 3-month course trying to learn the spectacular healing techniques of Jesus (no, couldn’t figure out what he did :-).
The curriculum expanding to embrace Shamanic healing, Past Life Regression, Reiki, EFT, Pranic Healing, Art as Therapy, and more. For years, I immersed myself in Jungian psychology and Greek mythology, dream analysis and meditation while I crafted and customised my private practice, facilitated workshops in India, and gave talks in England.
What can you tell me about Shamanic Healing? How does it work?
Shamanic healing is one of the most ancient forms of healing and I absolutely love it. When we didn’t have doctors or chiropractors, we had shamanic healing. It started in ancient cultures, and each of them had some form of shamanic healing.
In shamanic healing, we are dealing with energy, but we are also calling in a lot of spirits to help—your ancestral spirits, spirit guides and power animals to assist you. Shamanic healing operates on a spiritual and energy level, addressing the interconnectedness of illnesses with possible underlying factors such as loss or trauma.
Techniques like soul retrieval, cord-cutting are employed to release and heal various issues and toxic relationships.
While the results of shamanic healing may sometimes not be as immediately apparent as with EFT or past life regression, clients often report profound changes within days or weeks after a session.
What are power animals?
Power animals are essentially spirit guides in animal form. Everyone has power animals, and if you’ve had a natural affinity towards a particular animal throughout your life, like say being consistently drawn to foxes, big cats, or owls, that is likely your power animal. However, power animals can change over time. Each animal or spirit guide comes into your life when you need its specific energy.
For instance, if a cheetah is your power animal, it signifies traits like high speed and focus. This suggests that you need to be focused and move clearly in a specific direction.
When you experience a series of mishaps in various aspects of your life and something or other keeps going wrong, your business fails, your relationship breaks apart, it may indicate a ‘power loss’. Which means your power animal is no longer with you.
The first thing you can do is through a shamanic journey, you can reconnect with a power animal. I, on behalf of the client, or the client themselves, establish a connection with the power animal and invite them into the client’s life. The animal can become like a friend, guide, and mentor to the client.
Can you walk me through a Reiki Healing session?
All these energy healing modalities like Reiki and Pranic are virtually the same.
‘Reiki’ is a Japanese word and can be translated as ‘universal life energy.’
Reiki works on achieving wholeness and harmony, on all, personal, physical, emotional, and spiritual levels— by gentle placing of hands on the body or long distance. We use symbols which are like keys that access the energy field but the main thing is the intention. You focus on your intention – “What is it that you want to heal?” Who are you sending Reiki to and to heal what?
You can use Reiki healing with animals, too. It’s actually very popular right now to do it for animals. I give Reiki to my pooch almost every day, even if for a few minutes.
You use it to remove blockages in the person’s energy field and heal the chakras with it. There are virtually no limitations to how you can use Reiki or Pranic.
What can people expect from your Tarot and Astrological Counselling?
For Astrology counselling, I need the person’s date, time, and place of birth. Then I make a chart and I study, and then we have a session. If they want, for example, we can look at their natal chart. Then we can look at the transits – what’s happening now in their life and what may be coming in their life.
It’s the same with Tarot. Both can be used for divination and psychological understanding. One of the things about astrology is that it is the only method that gives you a very good timeline of possible events. We can know that something could happen within this month, so we can alert and prepare the client if it looks like a hard transit. It’s not possible to predict the exact event but the quality of it. Is it likely to be a sudden event, or will there be some kind of profound loss or is a partnership of some kind likely and so forth. You can look at the past and see a timeline of events.
Tarot also gives timing, but it’s usually for a period of 6 to 9 months, but astrology can give you more precise timing.
What other services do you offer?
One that I haven’t mentioned is EFT – Emotional Freedom Techniques which I love because you can see immediately results. It’s one of the most powerful modalities for healing all manner of emotional and psychological issues (and to some extent physical as well).
With acute issues you may need just one or two sessions but with chronic situations—like say always struggling with your finances, requires some digging in and could take several sessions as we un-peel layers of negative or limiting beliefs about money.
Having said that, the result with EFT is incredible. It’s very fast and I’ve had great responses with that technique. The best thing about EFT is that it’s an excellent self-help tool and can be learned and used by clients very easily. I’ve done huge EFT workshops in India with 200+ people—you can translate it into any language and don’t have to be educated or very savvy to get results.
Where do you operate from?
After spending decades navigating through 3 continents and at least 25 homes, my husband and I are now firmly anchored by our beloved Labradoodle, Hobbes, in beautiful London and make yearly visits to India.
I work from my home office and for now almost entirely Online. Since Covid I’ve found that every healing modality can be used long distance and works equally well online as in person. It’s a huge benefit because I see clients from all over the world, whenever it suits us—no travel required.
To learn more about Neo and her work, you can visit www.healwithneo.com
