Why Premonitions Are Bullshit: The Truth About Free Will, Timelines, and Your Future

Premonitions are what hooked me into the metaphysical world in the first place. One of the first readings I ever had started with a woman sitting across from me and telling me pieces of my future. She talked about my family living long lives, my marriage, my children, and even possible health themes down the road. At the time, I remember feeling this deep relief in my body, not just because she was saying positive things, but because it felt like someone had reached into the uncertainty of life and handed me a little bit of certainty.

That is the seductive thing about predictions. They make us feel safe. When life feels chaotic, we want someone to tell us what is coming. We want to know if the relationship will work out, if the baby is coming, if the house will be ours, if the job will happen, if the medical test will be okay, or if the thing we are hoping for is actually on its way. A prediction gives the nervous system something to hold onto. It does not just feel interesting. It feels regulating.

And honestly, I get it. This is why people book psychic readings, pull tarot cards, look at astrology forecasts, get year-ahead readings, study numerology, and ask spirit for signs. Most people are not only looking for information. They are looking for relief. They want to know that all of this is going somewhere. They want to know that the hard thing has a purpose, that the waiting is not meaningless, and that the future is not just a dark hallway with a bunch of emotional jump scares.

When I Became the One Giving the Predictions

The problem started when I became the practitioner on the other side of the reading. As a medium, I have always felt much more comfortable with evidence. Mediumship usually begins with things that have already happened: memories, personality traits, family dynamics, humor, details, and messages from departed loved ones. There is still responsibility in that work, but it felt different from telling someone what might happen next in their life.

Future predictions felt heavier. If someone asked me whether they would have a baby, whether their marriage would survive, whether their health would be okay, or whether a dream was still possible, I could feel the weight of that question. These were not casual questions. These were the questions people ask when they are exhausted, grieving, afraid, or standing at the edge of something they do not know how to carry anymore.

This came up often in fertility readings. After one of my videos about spirit babies went viral, many clients came to me after pregnancy losses, failed IVF rounds, unexplained medical issues, and years of heartbreak. They wanted to know if the baby was still coming. They wanted to know if the soul they lost would return. They wanted to know if they should keep trying or protect themselves from another round of hope.

And sometimes, I could see the baby waiting. Sometimes I could see the issue that needed to shift. Sometimes I could see the future path so clearly that the answer came through before I even had time to argue with it. Then, months later or a year later, the client would come back and tell me they were pregnant. That is when my logical brain and spiritual brain started having a full-blown cage match, because the predictions were landing, but the responsibility of saying them out loud still felt enormous.

The Problem Wasn’t That Premonitions Were Wrong

For a long time, I thought my discomfort meant I did not trust premonitions. But over time, I realized that was not exactly true. The issue was not that future information never comes through. It does. The issue is that we often talk about premonitions as if they are fixed, final, and immovable, when most of the time they are much more nuanced than that.

A premonition is often a reading of the current energetic path. It is what is most likely to happen if the same energy continues forward. If someone keeps the same beliefs, fears, habits, behaviors, choices, and frequency, there is a path that forms from that. An intuitive reader can often follow that thread and see where it is likely to go.

But “likely” is not the same as “guaranteed.” That distinction changed everything for me. A premonition may show the momentum someone is currently living inside, but it does not mean they are powerless. It does not mean the future has already been written in stone. It means the energy is moving in a certain direction, and if nothing changes, that direction may become the outcome.

That is where the conversation around premonitions needs to evolve. Because if the energy can be read, the energy can also shift.

Free Will Changes the Whole Reading

This is where I started calling bullshit on the way premonitions are often handled in spiritual spaces. Not because psychic predictions, tarot readings, astrology, numerology, or intuitive guidance are useless, but because future information without free will is incomplete. If a reader tells someone, “This is what will happen,” without context, that person may organize their choices, fears, and hope around that prediction.

A more honest way to say it is: this is the likely outcome if nothing changes. That one phrase brings the person’s power back into the room. It says, “Here is the energetic thread I can see right now, but you are not trapped inside it.” If nothing changes, the relationship may continue down the same path. If nothing changes, the business may keep struggling. If nothing changes, the same pattern may repeat itself in a new outfit with slightly better lighting.

But you are not here to have the future happen at you. You have free will. You have choice. You have energy. You have the ability to change your beliefs, behaviors, boundaries, standards, nervous system patterns, and relationship with what you think is possible. That does not mean you can bypass reality or ignore practical action. It means the future is not only something you predict. It is something you participate in.

The Part Spirit Had to Teach Me

At some point, I had to ask my spirit team why so many future-facing messages came through as a yes. Yes, the baby is possible. Yes, the better timeline exists. Yes, the door can open. Yes, this can shift. My logical mind was not having it, because surely everything could not be a yes. Surely not every outcome could be the best possible outcome.

The answer I got was simple: my job was to give them hope.

Not fake hope. Not fluffy, “everything happens for a reason” hope. Not spiritual bypassing dressed up in glitter and good intentions. Real hope. The kind that changes someone’s energy because they suddenly remember they are not trapped. The kind that helps someone stop collapsing into the worst-case scenario. The kind that opens a door in the field because the person finally realizes another timeline is available.

I have felt this happen in sessions. Someone comes in depleted, afraid, and convinced the future is already against them. Then something shifts. They see another possibility. They choose it, not just with their words, but with their whole body. Their energy changes in the room. Their field starts to organize around a different outcome.

That does not mean every outcome is controlled by thought alone. It does not mean you can ignore doctors, avoid therapy, skip the hard conversation, refuse to look at your bank account, or sit on the couch waiting for the universe to deliver your dream life with free shipping. It means belief, energy, intention, and choice are part of the equation, and they matter more than most people realize.

Premonitions Are Not the Final Word

This is where I think the future becomes much more interesting. A premonition can show you the energetic thread you are currently following. It can validate what you already feel. It can show what is building. It can bring comfort, clarity, or hope when you are too tired to find those things on your own. But it should not make you passive.

The best spiritual work does not make you dependent on someone else telling you what is going to happen. It brings you back into relationship with your own power. Instead of asking, “What is going to happen to me?” the better question becomes, “What future am I feeding right now?” Instead of asking, “Will I be successful?” you can ask, “What version of me can actually hold the success I want?” Instead of asking, “Is this my path?” you can ask, “What path am I choosing, and what needs to shift so I can walk it?”

That is a very different kind of spiritual work. It moves you out of passive prediction and into conscious participation. It stops treating the future like a locked box that only psychics, astrologers, tarot readers, or spirit guides can open for you. Your future is responsive. It moves with your energy, your choices, your healing, your courage, and your willingness to stop outsourcing your power to a prediction.

So, Are Premonitions Bullshit?

Premonitions can be real. They can be accurate. They can be validating, comforting, and life-changing. But they become bullshit when we treat them like the final word. They become bullshit when they make people feel powerless. They become bullshit when they are used to predict a life instead of helping someone consciously choose one.

Your future is not as fixed as you think. Your soul may have milestones, lessons, contracts, and themes, but that does not mean there is only one timeline available to you. You are not chained to one prediction, and you are not here to wait around and see what life decides to do with you.

So the next time you want to ask, “What is going to happen?” ask the question that actually changes your life: “What future am I choosing, and what energy am I feeding right now?” That is where the real work begins. And honestly, that is where the magic gets a lot more interesting.

Listen to the full episode of The Unity Code Podcast, “Why Premonitions Are Bullshit: The Truth About Free Will, Timelines, and Your Future,” for the deeper conversation on psychic predictions, free will, timeline shifting, and why your future may be more flexible than you think.