Psychic to the stars shares top tips for manifesting love ahead of Valentine’s Day

A tarot reader to the stars of Real Housewives Of Cheshire and Love Island has shared her top tips for manifesting love ahead of Valentine’s Day, and revealed what her clients really want to know about their futures.

Self-described as The White Witch of Cheshire, Claire Stone, 44, said she was a psychic and author who was born with abilities such as astral projection and being able to communicate with spirits and angels.

From as young as seven years old, Claire said she remembers playing with a snake spirit animal that she would chase around the living room and that her cousins would follow, but she did not realise at the time that they could not see it.

She lived with her grandparents and one night, after they put her to bed, she said she astrally projected – an out-of-body experience where she described floating in spirit form – and saw them eating supper and watching the news downstairs. The next morning, she said she nonchalantly told them what she had experienced, but that they were “really scared” because they were Christians.

Claire said a vicar cautioned her grandmother that the abilities her granddaughter had reported were the “devil in disguise” and he encouraged her to enrol her into a religious course to put her back on the “right” path. As a result, Claire became scared of the angels and spirits who she said visited her, screaming out to them one night to leave her alone, which she said they did.

At 11, Claire said she secretly got into tarot card reading after her friend got a book about it for Christmas, which gave her a lot of comfort at a tumultuous time in her life. She said she was grappling with agoraphobia and instability at home and had reached breaking point by her early teens.

Claire told PA Real Life: “I had just had enough of this crap life and I was so fed up. Instead of turning to God like I’d been conditioned, I asked the universe: ‘Can anyone help me?’ This is when I opened my mind to these spirit guides that I’d once connected with years ago.”

“I was petrified. I’m not going to lie. I was really, really scared, but I was equally as intrigued to reawaken that as well,” she said.

This is when Claire said she dived head-first into her psychic interests and bought her own deck of tarot cards to do readings for herself and her friends, alongside communicating with angels.

It started out as “ridiculous” questions such as, “Will I get a Berghaus coat for Christmas?” and “Does this boy fancy me?”, until Claire said she was giving readings to her friends’ older siblings, their parents, and neighbours. She said she quickly became known as The Angel Girl.

By 19, Claire went to college and studied aromatherapy, reflexology, Indian head massage, and reiki, before qualifying as a professional holistic therapist. It was during these therapies that she said she would receive messages from clients’ loved ones.

“I was giving someone a massage one day and all I could think in my head was about green wellington boots,” Claire said.

“And sometimes it can feel ridiculous to say something because it means nothing to you as the reader, but you’ve got to trust that it means something to that person. So I asked if green wellies meant anything to her.

“She immediately burst into tears because it was the anniversary of her dad’s death. That’s why she had treated herself to a massage. And the only thing that she’d had of his was a pair of green wellies,” Claire said.

Claire is now a published author, wife, and mother-of-two to Leah, 21, and Lexi, 13, who has given tarot readings to celebrity clients, including Love Island 2018 winners Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham, and Big Brother’s Lisa Appleton.

Claire’s career led to producers from the television series The Real Housewives Of Cheshire approaching her to be a featured guest.

She said: “I’ve been on the show loads of times and sometimes it’s ridiculous, like doing past-life readings on dogs. And I am up for a laugh. If it’s not harming anyone, I’ll go and entertain it.”

Claire said she had become friends with the cast, including doing readings and helping with feng shui to help try and manifest love.

“She had this gorgeous painting of a glamorous woman looking over her shoulder, but it was a single woman,” Claire said of one Housewives cast member.

“I told her that she needed to get rid of that picture and replace it with something like a couple with their arms around each other or a statue of a couple embracing. I also got her to put two rose quartz crystals under the bed.”

Claire said crystals were one way to help manifest love into your life, something she said she got asked a lot about, especially around Valentine’s Day.

One way to manifest love, she said, is to create a “love corner” in your home: a feng shui principle often implemented in your bedroom or the far right-hand corner of your living space. Claire said that if you were single and you had a double bed but only one bedside table, your romantic energy was blocked because you were not symbolically inviting a partner into your space.

Another was through tarot, such as embracing the “two of cups” card, which represented harmony, romantic partnership, and mutual attraction. Claire suggested placing this imagery in your love corner or changing your phone screen background to it to invite the energy in.

According to Claire, the biggest thing you could do to manifest love was to be open to it.

She said: “People will say things like, ‘I’ll never meet anyone’ or ‘all men are bastards’, but you’re never going to attract love until you’ve got rid of that. So you need to reprogramme your mind by saying things to yourself like, ‘I am loveable’, ‘I am worthy of love’, ‘my perfect partner is on the way to me’, and ‘I can’t wait to meet this person’.”

The most common question Claire said she gets during her £111 tarot card reading sessions is about work and business, then a lot about whether exes will come back into her clients’ lives.

For the latter, Claire said: “I’m very cautious with this because I know it’s quite unhealthy for people to be hung up on past partners, so I tell them we can do a cord-cutting ritual together, which is a ceremony where you are releasing the energy of your ex-partner. Or you could write everything down and then burn it. You can also get rid of anything that they ever bought you to remove that physical connection. Again, it’s very much about changing the way you think.”

Claire said she believed manifestation was something you could do for all aspects of your life, and that you did not need to be able to speak to angels or spirits.

She said: “Every day I get up, I light my angel candle, and I’m connected straight away. I’m asking for guidance, asking for protection, and asking for the day ahead to be blessed. If you keep asking, it makes you feel connected, and I think that’s what everyone is looking for.

“Whether someone wants to be a millionaire, (to have) success in their business, or (to find) a life partner. I think underneath all of that, what people are really looking for is a connection to themselves, to their own souls, and to that universal energy.”