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'Psychic Hillbilly' offers illuminating ladies luncheon - and I ain't taking that back This is the opinion of Susan Reinhardt, who can be reached at 232-5845 or sreinhardt@CITIZEN-TIMES.com. Contact Susan Reinhardt at 828-232-5844 or via e-mail at sreinhardt@CITIZEN- TIMES.com. I'll admit fear and apprehension as I walked into a world I'd never before explored. About 20 polished and professional women, most who'd never met, gathered in the hostess' beautiful living room with their plates ... and curiosity. Many of us were in some kind of pain - inner our outer - and enough emotional turmoil to take this chance - this opportunity to attend a "Ladies Psychic Luncheon." The closest I'd come before was a tarot card reading at the mall for three minutes and the quarter I put into the Sophia Prediction machine, where a mannequin in tons of make-up and scarves shot out a card saying, "You will seek the path of light." Wow. What an eye opener. Those in charge of the Psychic Luncheon invited Angela Moore of Marion, who has been billed on radio as the Psychic Hillbilly and is now a regular on WNCW at 7:45 a.m. Thursdays, presenting "Metaphysical Matters." She'll be a featured presenter at Barnes & Noble the first Thursday of every month at 7 p.m., where she'll do her thing and discuss topics related to her line of psychic duty. She has a reputation for nailing national tragedies such as Sept. 11, telling a friend three days before the act she saw planes "going down everywhere." A year or so before 9/11, she told another group she saw a great explosion in the Northeast that would reverberate throughout the world. Both predictions, she said, are on tape. Last Saturday, as we ate and waited, she came bustling into the home out of breath and full of apologies. "I'm late, I'm so sorry. I blame it on my husband," she said, smiling, taking a seat in the center of the circle. She wore an orange top and blue jeans, looking more like a kind-hearted mother than what I'd imagined from TV and the movies. We went around the room introducing ourselves and giving her our birthdays. She'd pause, breathe deeply, and tell a person point blank what she thought or had received about her troubles or personality. "You're out there. Out of reach and closed off," she said to one of us. "I see the beach. You need to travel. That's an assignment. Go to the beach, and I ain't taking that back." She has a distinctive southern accent, which charms and disarms. She starts sentences with "I'm not making this up" and finishes with "That's non- negotiable, and I ain't taking that back." I called her after the session with a few questions, mainly if religion and her abilities to predict clash. "I'm an ordained minister," she said. "I consider what I do a calling, a gift from God. I don't charge, but take donations." She said everyone from Baptists to Jews, from Buddhists to criminal investigators and even preachers have come to her for advice on a range of topics. She didn't realize she was psychic until she was 34 and began commenting on her boss's private life, matters she couldn't possibly have known. "You know what you are?" the boss asked. "You're a psychic." It was then Angela knew all those strange things from her childhood, the dreams and visions, the things she'd hear and later come true, meant she wasn't crazy. There was a label - psychic - and most people can tap into it, she said, especially artistic and creative types. For more information, copies of her book, and her schedule of appearances, go to www.angela-moore.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World through the eyes of McDowell's 'hillbilly psychic' may seem unnatural By MIKE CONLEY nconley@mcdowellnews.com Monday, August 7, 2006 Angela Fae Moore, Marion’s "hillbilly psychic," asks you to see the world through her eyes. In fact, it’s the title of her new book. "This is a calling," she said one afternoon at her home, where she does her psychic readings. "This is something I feel compelled to do. I feel it’s a natural thing to do." Moore, 48, has known all of her life that she could see things differently than others. As a child, she often heard "the walls talking." That meant she could hear the laughter of unseen children and the voices of grownups long gone. She also experienced strange visions. But it wasn’t until 1992 that Moore started to focus more on her psychic abilities. A businesswoman whom she respected finally explained to her that she was indeed psychic. At that time, she was in her mid-30s, an age when people start re-evaluating their lives. "I think it kind of increased at that age," she said. Indeed, her life took a new direction at that point. Since then, she’s become a respected and well-known spiritual psychic in western North Carolina. Moore is a frequent guest on area radio talk shows and has been featured in several regional newspapers, including The McDowell News, The News Herald and The Asheville Citizen-Times. Her show "Metaphysical Matters" is featured on public radio station WNCW in Spindale. She also hosts a popular call-in radio show, called "Hillbilly Psychic," on Asheville’s WWNC. She will offer pet readings for the Buncombe County Humane Society’s Doggie Carnival in October. Through the years, Moore has participated in investigations of haunted places. Law enforcement officers have visited her seeking help with finding missing individuals. And people call on her at her home asking for guidance with life’s problems. She can interpret the hidden meanings behind dreams. Moore once took part in a paranormal conference at Asheville’s Grove Park Inn, hosted by author and ghost-hunter Joshua P. Warren. The famous inn is believed to be haunted by the ghost of a young woman, who supposedly died there under mysterious circumstances back in the 1920s. The entity is called the "Pink Lady." While checking out the haunted rooms, Moore wrote that she felt the Pink Lady’s presence and then sensed that another female spirit was touching her face. A photo taken by a friend at that moment shows a mysterious orb next to Moore’s face. Recently, she has used her psychic abilities to help heal others. "Often, I have been asked to lay hands on someone in order to assist a body in need of healing," she writes in her new book. "I feel that we can be used as conduits in this way and can infuse one with healing energy. By visualizing a person in need of healing as surrounded by light and imagining that they absorb the light, we may assist them in healing as well." Moore said she sometimes notices that her hands become hot during a healing session and, at the same time, she has an impression of their illness or wound in the person’s energy field, which is called an aura. When she sends them her energy, often the people say they had found relief. "I’m no substitute for a doctor or anything else," she said. "Some people aren’t going to be healed. I’m not doing anything. I’m just a conduit to let people heal themselves." Now, Moore has put these experiences and others down in a new book "Through Angela’s Eyes." Her stories are sometimes poignant, occasionally eerie and often humorous. She is refreshingly unpretentious in her approach to the mysterious world of the paranormal. On the first Thursday of each month, Moore will be at Barnes and Noble bookstore in Asheville giving a presentation on paranormal topics. She is also scheduled to do a book signing at Malaprop’s bookstore in Asheville on Sept. 2. Folks can get copies of "Through Angela’s Eyes" online through her Web site www. angela-moore.com. It is available locally at Earth Heart on U.S. 221 North in Woodlawn. It can also be found at Malaprop’s and Blue Moon in Spruce Pine |
| Psychic takes fans on futuristic ride By Ragan Robinson, staff writer McDowell News 6/12/03 Not many people waiting in the darkened banquet room knew quite what to expect. “If she pops out of a puff of smoke here in a minute, I’m leaving,” jokes one woman, spying the white candles on the table and sniffing at the incense in the air. She was one of some 40 people who came out for what was being billed as Psychic Night Wednesday at Ivan's Restaurant and Bar. Local intuitive Angela Fae Moore was to share her gift of insight with audience participants. Some had visited with Angela before, looking for advice, guidance and – most enticingly – a glimpse at their futures. I had only read about her. But I had some unfair notions about what might be in store, figuring she’d glide through the door in some kind of flowing robe, crystals in her hair and new age philosophy on her tongue. Maybe somewhere else, but Angela is Marion’s psychic. Dressed in a simple blouse and pants, she comes into the room like a lot of southern women you know – quick, determined and smiling as she begins what will be more than an hour of rapid-fire intuition. “Fasten your seatbelts,” she declares. “It could be a bumpy ride.” Her powerful cadence keeps eyes focused on her as she points out people along her path. “You are changing,” she says to the first woman inside the door. “In five years, you won’t know yourself.” “I know you don’t believe me now, but, you’ve got romance coming,” she tells another. Then, to a man at a back table, “you’re going to make a difference in a lot of people’s lives and half the time, you won’t even know it.” To a man sitting nearby, shifting in his seat, she says, “You live calmly on the outside but intensely on the inside.” She stopped briefly to add a small disclaimer. “Sometimes I’ll tell you something and it won’t happen because you’ve got free will,” she says. “Always listen to your heart, listen to yourself …” She cuts that sentence short and points at a lady in front of her. “ You’ re kind. Little children are going to love you.” Then it’s back to the explanation. She thinks everyone has psychic abilities but believes it is just a matter of getting to the right side of your brain. She stops again. “A dog is going to love you at some point,” she zeros in on a woman in the middle of the crowd. Often, she’ll punctuate her thoughts with, “I can’t take that back: and “Don’t forget I told you.” Her advice ranges from the general – “you’ve got a sense of power within you” – to the specific – “pay attention to T names” and “you are being scrutinized by a man without too much hair.” Angela’s bracelets jingle as she bounces across the room, so energetic I forgot for a moment to keep taking notes. Hers is not an overly serious presentation. In the audience, jaws drop, then stretch into laughter. “Oh my gosh, I am so psychic,” she say at some point. Angela is getting tired and opens the floor to questions. “I’m going to quit soon,” she says, and hands fly up across the room. People ask about work, about money, about romance, even about the war. Some whisper that they’d like to see her alone sometime. Afterward, Angela sits in the corner. A long line forms – more questions, no doubt. “Don’t forget I told you,” she still saying as the room clears. |
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