15 Readings a Day — What Happens to You When You Work At Australia's Biggest Spiritual Festival

By reading number eleven, something changes.

It's not that you get tired — though you do. It's that the boundary between where you end and where the person in front of you begins becomes less defined. You've been in and out of other people's energy fields all day. You've held grief, confusion, longing, relief, gratitude, shock. You've been the vessel for messages from people's mothers who have passed, their guides, their higher selves. And by eleven, you have to work harder to stay clean. To stay yours.

The Mind Body Spirit Festival is Australia's largest spiritual event, and there is no amount of preparation that fully readies you for the scale of it. Thousands of people. Hundreds of practitioners. A room that vibrates at a frequency unlike anywhere else we work. People come in from all over the country specifically to sit with someone who can see them. The hunger for genuine connection - with themselves, with the people they've lost, with the parts of their lives that feel uncertain, is extraordinary. And it is an honour to be one of the people they choose.

Fifteen readings in a single day is a number I reached on day two of the festival.

Kebrasca was beside me for most of it, doing his own sessions — healing work that operates at a different frequency to mine but draws from the same well. By the end of each day we'd compare notes on the collective themes coming through. What people kept asking about. What kept showing up in sessions without the client mentioning it. The festival creates a kind of collective field and if you're sensitive to energy, you feel it as clearly as you'd feel a room change temperature.

The themes that kept surfacing across my fifteen readings on that particular day: women in their forties facing a threshold they hadn't named yet. Grief that had been parked rather than processed. A surprising number of people asking about purpose — not career purpose, but soul purpose, which is a different question entirely. And a recurring thread around relationships that had run their course but hadn't been released yet.

I don't share this to reduce what any individual person brought to their session. Every reading is singular. But there is a collective consciousness at an event like this and it speaks. Learning to hear it as background information without letting it overwhelm the individual foreground is part of what doing this work at scale teaches you.

Kebrasca's observation, which I've been sitting with since:

The festival is one of the only places in Australia where someone can walk in off the street, sit down across from a Māori healer and his Māori psychic wife and connect instantly. The space makes it normal. And there is something both wonderful and a little heartbreaking about that — that this kind of normal isn't everywhere yet.

We came away from the festival with a list. Not of things we need to buy or fix or change. A list of the conversations we want to keep having. The people we want to bring into this work. The communities we want to reach who don't yet know that this room and what happens inside it, exists for them too.

We'll be back.

— Amber

Book a reading with Amber at glowbyamber.com. Sessions are available in person and online. If you want to experience Kebrasca's healing work, head to kebrascaking.com. We talk about what events like this teach us and what they reveal about business, energy, and identity on #creativetalk, live every Thursday at 5PM AEST.