welcome!
My name is Dilshad.
Thank you for being here!
This page has been written with the intention for you to get a sense of who I am & the work I do. Because those two things are one and the same.
I’m giving you all this detail primarily so that you can feel confident and secure in your decision to book a session with me. Secondly, perhaps you can see yourself in my story and maybe you can realize that you’re not crazy, stupid, or wrong.
formal training
Close to a decade of professional intuitive work
Professionally trained as an intuitive with feedback and casework
Life Coach training under Martha Beck
areas of expertise
Intuitive readings without props
Intuitive readings with props - oracle cards, tarot cards, bibliomancy
Energy clearing
Emotional and psychosomatic processing
Thought work and processing
Discerning what is true and what is fake with regard to spiritual principles and teachers
Rituals and ceremonies to affect change/transformation or to jumpstart a new phase of life
Working with natural cycles - including moon cycles, sun cycles, equinox, and solstice
Trance journey work (with plants, animals, spirit guides, deities, elements, etc)
Meditation (chakra meditation, visual guided meditation)
Working with rose, lavender, lemon balm, tulsi, & cedar plant medicine
Sacred geometry activations
Energizing the chakra system
Building relationships with a deity, spirit guide, archangel
Channeling
Co-creative work (new age - manifesting)
Dream analysis
Energetic boundaries
Sovereignty work
Archetypal work with feminine and masculine essences
Working with archangel/angelic frequencies
What the sacred feminine IS
A fresh, sensual, cleansing & liberating energy
Sovereignty, Ease, and Power
Everyday, ordinary, deep mysticism that connects you to the core of life
A strong sense of self - grounding into your own purpose and your strengths
Spiritual skill - aka spirituality that actually works in the real world
Acceptance that we’re here on earth & making the best of it - desire to make a heaven on earth
Conserving energy and directing it powerfully
Advocacy, stewardship, & warriorship
Sacred Marriage, Union, Merging, Creativity
Upholding the living flesh symbol of the feminine - aka women
What the sacred feminine is NOT
Subconsciously adopting old world views of the feminine aka repackaged patriarchy
Blatant indulging in spiritual escapism, airy fairy approaches, wishy washy thinking, or making fantasy your truth
Infantilizing yourself, making yourself small/collapsed, or indulging in incompetence
Taking a backseat in any area of your life
Looking ‘like a woman’ - long hair, flowy dresses, makeup, etc.
Being soft or gentle all the time
Tolerating bad behavior in the name of “compassion”
Being derogatory or submissive to the masculine
Entitlement
Why this work is different from anything you’ve done before
spiritual maturity & Safety
There’s a lot out of toxic new age thought & religion that is masquerading around as spirituality. It can really do your head in & cause a lot of suffering. We will always keep a watchful eye out for these dysfunctions & come back to spirit.
truth focused
Truth heals like no other. Nothing heals or grounds you better than truth. It may hurt your ego to hear it, but it will sound like angelic bells to your soul. What is the truth of the situation, person, place, thing, etc? We will always come back to this question. Your ability to transform is DIRECTLY related to how well you can hear and speak truth.
grounded, practical, embodied
If we cannot live as capable/competent/powerful humans here and now, it doesn’t matter how connected we are spiritually. We will always come back to experiencing as a primary tool - your lessons/truth will sink into your bones. This is true transformation! We will always bring your body into the process of your healing.
simple, essential, efficiencies
We are in the business of conserving your energy and directing it powerfully. We will always look for the core, the essential, or the single gear that turns the whole machine. Spiritual work is work, but it needn’t be wasteful.
power, sovereignty, esteem, worth
Your personal, individual power is needed in this world. Amplifying your power is my duty. We need personal power in order to cause a change internally and externally. Without personal power & sovereignty, we cannot serve others. We need a sense of self with which to operate from. Our work will always include an element of building your strengths.
liberation, cleansing, releasing, space
We need to clear to make space for something new to come in. Without cleansing and clearing, the goodness you seek cannot come to your address. Our will will always include an element of clearing.
my Herstory - how it began:
I couldn’t tell you where my story begins. It probably began the moment my soul was created…whenever that was.
I can tell you when the first sense of “something’s missing in the world” occurred. I was running through my kindergarten hallway and I woke up. All of a sudden I panicked because I realized that I was in a child’s body. I looked to my right and I saw two swings swinging back and forth in the desert wind. I started wondering where “he” was. And then just as quickly as the consciousness arrived, it went away and I continued running down the hallway. This 10 second event became just a weird memory that didn’t have any feeling associated with it. I realize now that that was divine intervention disassociating me from what know feels like a cosmic glitch. My child brain couldn’t handle the enormity of the consciousness that this event brought in and my emotions would have imploded me. I would have either committed suicide or been put in a mental asylum.
I can also tell you when the first sense of “something is not quite right about this world” or “no, I know better than this” or “wait, that doesn’t sound like truth” thought happened.
It was when I was about 7 years old, studying an encyclopedia on the 365 wonders of the world (one wonder for every day of the year). And I got to the day where they talked about the Egyptian pyramids. The book said the pyramids were tombs built specifically to bury the great pharaohs.
I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I’d ever heard.
A few years later, I went to my first conscious memory of visiting a fire temple near my mother’s childhood home in Bombay. I was there with my aunt. I entered the fire temple and immediately vomited in the sacred washing area at the entrance to the fire temple. It came suddenly.I had no control over it. I was not sick. The priests and my aunt in the temple blamed it on all the smoke in the temple. They said that is what made me nauseous. But I was wrecked with shame and embarrassment. I thought they were being polite because they knew what I knew - something “bad” in me had just exited me. Almost like it was allergic to the fire temple and couldn’t stay with me anymore.
I can also tell you when the first spark of “this is truth” happened. It was when I first read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - I think I was around 11 years old. Something unlocked itself.
“It is one of the pitfalls of Westerners adopting Eastern meditation techniques to bliss out and render ourselves high but dysfunctional.
We lose our grounding and, with it, our capacity to act in the world.
In pursuit of higher consciousness, we render ourselves unconscious in a new way””
my Herstory - coming into spiritual maturity:
My first psychic reading was when I was around the age of 19. It was one of the most horrific and traumatizing events of my life.
I didn’t know then what I know now. There is such a thing as black magic and this woman was clearly a black magician.
It was my first introduction to the dark side of spiritual power.
Over the years, I was taught by many teachers, psychics, and healers. One of them being my own best friend at the time.
Each one of them showed me:
what NOT to do with spirituality
how important ethics and integrity is in a client-mentor relationship
how crucial grounding is in energy work
the characteristics of a wounded healer and just how dangerous they can be
predicting the future is spiritual abuse - 99% of the time
education, training, life experience is critical to an intuitive’s competency. it is not optional
a true sign of a competent spiritual teacher/healer/guide is joy, lightheartedness, and a sense of humor
we do in fact need to be in service to light and love - light and love is actually a spiritual truth. However…..
at the same time we need to remember that everything is not light and love. and we need to develop the resiliency and competency to handle those things when they inevitably do present themselves in our lives. being competent at working with darkness will build self-esteem unlike anything else
At the time I felt these people were traumatizing, cruel, mean, depressing, anger-inducing beings.
Over time I began to understand that they played a role in growing me up quicker than anyone/anything else.
They set me up to be the person I am today. While I do not encourage their actions, I am truly grateful for the experience.
my Herstory - present day:
These days I find myself in deep contemplation, channeling, energy working/clearing, and ritual work.
In general, I often find myself calling bullshit on so-called spiritual principles. I have these antennas on the top of my head that just go “zinnggggg” anytime someone says or does something claiming “spiritual truth”, when it is infact, egotistic mumbo jumbo.
I find my energy to be laser sharp at detecting imbalances/spells/delusions. I have this cutting, archer-like tuning that can pick up on the unseen forces at play. There is a warrior-like energy to my work.
I also find my energy to be divine motherly at resolving those dysfunctions. I have a bottomless pit and a never ending stream of care, love, and light for the human condition. There is a deep, mystical, feminine richness to my work.
And these days I’m enjoying that embodiment of seemingly opposing forces.
thank you!
I hope knowing all of this was useful to you.
And I hope to see you soon!
With respect,
Dilshad
(for any inquiries, please email dilshad@dilshadmehta.com)
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