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SHE’S done a psychic reading for a famous West Coast Eagles player, been heckled by religious zealots for doing the “devil’s work”, and overcome two major tragedies in her life.

Say hello to Catherine Faulds, one of Fremantle’s best-known mediums and tarot readers.

Every weekend you’ll find her in Fremantle Markets, contacting the spirit world from behind an ornate curtain at her mysterious booth, which she shares with MoeMoe’s Magick.

Faulds has been reading tarot cards for 36 years and consciously honing her medium skills for the past decade.

“The reason why I’m so passionate about being a reader is because I love helping people,” she says. “Many of my clients say my readings are like a therapy session in which I help them to gain insight into their lives and interactions and help them to shift their perceptions toward a more positive mindset.”

Faulds has been dabbling in tarot since the age of 10, when she was allowed to attend readings conducted by her parents, who had their own experiences with psychic ability and the spirit world, and recognised her intuition.

“I was fascinated by how they worked and it didn’t take long for me to start eavesdropping and interjecting on their readings with messages that had popped into my mind,” she says.

When she was 14 she was given her first tarot deck and it was around this time she had her first psychic experience, following the death of her great aunt.

“She appeared in my dream on a Friday night just after her funeral,” Faulds says.

“She told me she would visit every Friday night and she did for four weeks in a row until one day she told me it would be her last visit but she’d always be around.”

But a major tragedy in Faulds’ life would be the turning point for her getting serious about her abilities – after turning 17 and graduating from high school, her father, a senior sergeant police detective, was killed.

Overcome with grief she went for a mediumship reading with Dawn Collins, a world-renowned psychic medium.

“She completely blew my mind but most importantly I finally had closure and I was able to forgive myself for not talking to my dad in the months leading up to his death,” Faulds says.

“Over the years I had a number of reading with Dawn and she opened my eyes up to who I was. I had not previously thought of myself as a medium because I assumed I needed to see spirit in the same way as mediums do in the movies.”

Faulds was still a bit reticent about using her skills in public, but following another tragedy – losing her son in childbirth – she decided to start taking more chances in life and seize the moment.

After working in a friend’s shop in 2020 and building up her confidence, she launched her own business – Mystical Zephyrs Esoterical Entertainment Perth Zephyr.

She was soon in demand and working at markets, tarot parties, nightclubs, restaurants and high-profile events like the Perth Royal Show, The Big Easy and Oktoberfest.

After Perth City Market shutdown, she moved to Fremantle Markets in January last year, where she shares a stall with MoeMoe’s Magick, offering reiki, angelic healing, massage and psychic/tarot readings. Faulds says she’s had some famous faces pop in for a reading, including a West Coast Eagles player, who shall remain anonymous (let’s hope Faulds didn’t predict their epic losing streak last season).

“Throughout the reading I kept noticing people stopping and staring at us and lingering around near the stall,” she says.

“It wasn’t until after I finished the reading that I realised he was a West Coast Eagles player. I don’t follow football but he was very happy with his reading.”

Faulds says some of her favourite clients have been skeptics who’ve tagged along with their friends for a laugh, only to become a believer by the end of the session, including a woman who went on to win $9000 as predicted.

So what does Faulds, a former law student now studying psychology and counselling, say to all the naysayers out there?

“I do often get people heckling me as they walk past my stall, I’ve had religious people tell me I’m doing the devil’s work and I’ve had skeptics attempt to humiliate me during a reading,” she says.

“My message to naysayers is that you are entitled to your opinion but please keep it respectful. My practice is based on my spiritual and cultural beliefs that I am also entitled to.

“Ultimately, I want to bring peace and closure to others.”