Delightfully astute, beautifully gracious, and very tuned in, Fredericka Fairchild has consequently developed an adoring international clientele of truthseekers. Her abilities to mirror a person's truth back to them in a loving way, and her therapeutic use of gemstone elixirs have combined to create a long track record of successes, even for the most difficult and complex of psychologies. "There are healthy ways to fully experience the entire spectrum of emotion from anger, fear, and grief to hopelessness," says Fredericka. "It depends on recognizing that all emotions belong to you and are not caused by, or due to the behavior of others. When we let go of self-justification, blame and or victim consciousness we are free to fully experience what is in our hearts."

Fredericka began her public metaphysical odyssey in 1976, in New York City, when an astrology client with a TV studio set her down in front of cameras, and produced a local weekly show, "The Astrologer's Way." Every week a mover and shaker in some New York industry would consent to coming on the show and having their astrological chart read by Fredericka. She would also tune the audience in to the astrological energies of the week.

The show was a great success, and launched Fredericka's private practice internationally, thanks to the global crossroads of New York City. "I was just doing the show for fun," says Fredericka. "I was too young to understand all the concepts around promotion and production, but it allowed me to walk the talk, and was a tremendous educational opportunity."

Persistantly dedicated to her pursuit of knowledge, she completed degrees in Philosophy, Cognitive Developmental Psychology, and Clinical Psychology. Then, she went much deeper into esoteric metaphysical studies, apprenticing under famed New York intuitive and metaphysician, Rev. Phyllis Woodbury. Woodbury represented a Western mysticism lineage that included Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and H.P. Blavatsky--as Fredericka says, "I did the traditional, old-fashioned. esoteric mystical training."

As much of Western mysticism had its roots in Tibet, Fredricka sought out apprenticeships with Tibetan Buddhist Lamas (including H.H. The Dalai Lama), completing initiations in these ancient studies. With her wide-ranging knowledge of these esoteric traditions, she has been able to integrate it into her clinical psychology practice, and has been the "go-to" therapist for difficult cases sent to her by her peers. "People will be sitting with me and say, 'Where is this all coming from? It's so amazing.' It's coming from having practiced and studied on the intangible field of knowledge. So yes, I went to grad school, yes, I'm well-read, yes, I studied esoteric texts, but truthfully what rounded it off was this extra- dimensional instruction."

The "extra-dimensional" instruction Fredericka refers to is the Western and Eastern esoteric meditation practice of sitting with a symbol, a color, or a gemstone, and remaining mentally and emotionally clear and open to the teachings available to those who can hear them.

Much of Fredericka's practice deals with finding a person's "essential self," the part of them that is the experiencer and director of the life. This Essential Self is the essence of the expression of a person, and is what comes out when the person is self-realized. Experiencing this can have profound psychological effects. "Half of our misery--if not more--is that our essential self is trapped and doesn't have any expression," declares Fredericka. "I've sat with people who burst into tears in the moment of the recognition when we have that talk. That they've waited their whole life to somehow know and recognize what I'm speaking about. It was so primordial, so non-verbal, that they couldn't land on it. The miraculous is the discovery of something that you don't know you know."

As Fredericka delved deeply into Tibetan metaphysics, she inevitably came upon the tenets of Tibetan Medicine. It is a very pure, clear and concise system based on the Five Elements (air, fire, water, earth and space), and within this context, Fredericka deeply studied the properties and therapeutic effects of gemstone and flower elixirs.

Around 1980, Fredericka discovered Gem Elixirs and Vibrational Healing, by Gurudas. She poured through the dense study offered by the book, and became deeply inspired to create her own elixir laboratory. "I had a dream I'd have my own laboratory, and it came true!" enthuses Fredericka. "I highly recommend the Gurudas book to anyone interested in understanding essences in general. If you're really serious, it's the bible of the industry."

Fredericka created her own line of gemstone and flower essence elixirs available at www.dailyelixir.com.

Creating a Spiritual Household...

Fredericka lives with her teenaged daughter on Shelter Island off the New York coast, where she creates her elixirs, counsels her clients by telephone and in person, and experiences being a mom. "I feel like I live my life in a mandala--a sacred circle. In the center of that sacred circle is the commitment to and joy from the spiritual practices--to be connected in the presence of Awareness; to be as much in the moment as possible."

Raising a teenager, running a home office and laboratory, makes for a long day, and the potential for chaos and the stress from that is ever looming. "The house can get very messy with projects and be cleaned up within 30 minutes, because beneath it all, there's no clutter. If I have two of anything, and it's extraneous, I give it away as a gift. Every season, four times a year, I go through everything we own and either recycle or give away, and this is what allows energy to flow. So for me, a spiritual household is to allow for chaos to enter, and then to be flexible enough to drop everything and just deal with it."

The key is not to devalue the teaching value or revelations possible within chaos. "Let it be as important as what you enjoy," says Fredericka. "Let it be as meaningful as a good session with a client, or preparing a delicious dinner, or arranging a nice floral planting--whatever it is--let those challenges and crises be just as meaningful. To do that you need to be able to give up what you think you should be doing each moment."

Fredericka has chosen dinner as the time to reconnect with her daughter, and to re-center. "I use the dinner as an opportunity to celebrate. For me, dinner is a celebration. It's a way of letting go of everything and having a good time--setting the table really nice, making a really good green tea, delicious food. Honestly, I do that five if not six nights a week. That's how we come together."

As a single mom, Fredericka has deftly applied her esoteric knowledge to the practicalities of raising her child. "My daughter shows me that we choose our parents, so my philsophy from infancy forward was, This is what I do, learn to live with it," says Fredericka. "When she was five years old I took her on the road to Buddhist retreats. I let her run around. If she wanted to come into the shrine room and get the transmission she could, but she could do what she wanted. By the time she was nine years old, in her first parent-teacher meeting I was told she was a laser beam: she just sits there and stares and listens. So it has rubbed off on her. But she's a rock star, a horseback rider; she's fresh, and she's rude, and she's got a great foundation--something to fall back on. That also comes out of a spiritual household."

The practices of Feng Shui also play a big part in Fredericka's householding. The trick was being able to get the concepts across effectively to the teenager...

"My daughter lives in the financial prosperity quadrant of the house. Like any American teenager, she has to have everything under the sun, and she has to have it now. And, everything under the sun exists in a pile in the middle of that room. I went through a process where instead of going in there and cleaning it up, I let it go for about six months this past year. I even kept the door closed to it. Soon, things started to happen where my expenses started to outpace my income, and then my daughter had all these things she wanted to do with horse events that required quite a bit of money. And I said, 'Honey, I don't have the money. You know, this broke down, that broke down. Money doesn't grow on trees. We're just going to have to wait on your having those things.' She was devastated. So, as a mother I knew this was my moment. I said, 'Now, you know, I've explained to you for years that you're in the prosperity room. Did you ever stop to think that this holy mess has something to do with things breaking down? Since I gave that talk to her five weeks ago, the room is spotless. It's beautiful. That was my moment of glory!"

Connecting with Fredericka...

Fredericka uses her website, www.frederickafairchild.com, as her secretary, so to schedule a session with her in person or over the phone, visit the website, and fill out the intake form posted there. If you are interested in her elixirs or guided visualizations, visit www.dailyelixir.com. And, enjoy Fredericka's latest article at the link below.