3 Clairs

Clairvoyants are psychics who see images or pictures. Clairvoyant literally means "clear-seeing". The clairvoyant psychic must interpret the pictures or images in light of the questions you are asking the psychic, which is another reason directly stating your questions is very helpful. If a psychic is seeing a picture of the Empire State Building, and your question is "Should I move to New York," the answer is obvious. If, however, your question is about finding romance, the Empire State Building could represent a potential mate in New York, or it could represent a tall person that stands out above the rest.

Pictures are often symbolic to clairvoyants, and clarifying your question helps a clairvoyant determine how to interpret the picture s/he is receiving.

Clairaudients are psychics who hear voices and sounds which give them information. The "psychic vs. psychotic" joke is an old one, but generally psychics hear voices only when they need to, can usually turn them off when necessary, and are never told by a voice to harm someone else. The voices are within the context of what they do, and make sense. The voices can come from guides, or spirit guides, angels if you prefer to believe in them, relatives of the client who have crossed over, or other entities. The voices could simply be an "inner voice" imagined spoken out loud. Most of us are familiar with that little voice in our heads that says "Don't go out with this person, they'll hurt you," or "Take a different route to work today" -- only to find out later that we were right about that romantic prospect, or there was an accident on our regular route to work that day.

Clairsentients are similar, but don't audibly hear voices or visually see pictures. They simply feel specific information. A clairsentient may say "I feel that you are not in the right relationship, that what you really want to do is pursue your career as a singer, and that you should move to Los Angeles." The information simply feels right to them.

Empaths are similar to clairsentients in using feeling as a psychic tool, but they are more limited. Empaths are able to use feelings to pick up on what others are feeling, both emotionally and physically. Think Deanna Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation. That's an empath.

Any and all of these types of psychic abilities may occur within an individual psychic. An empath may also be clairvoyant, but get most information via empathy, and only occasionally experience clairvoyance. A clairsentient may occasionally hear information, but mostly receive it through feelings.