“By reconnecting…, I am able to facilitate the healing that comes from fixing past hurts, not being able to say goodbye, or simply reassuring you that you are not alone on this often bumpy journey of life.”
– Mollie Morning Star, psychic medium
Milwaukee-area psychic medium Mollie Morning Star says everyone will have spiritual visits from their loved ones; she simply has the ability to validate the presence of those who have passed.
By Maureen Vander Sanden
SLN staff
Other than her eccentric name, Mollie Morning Star insists she is the typical girl next door.
At 39, the petite brunette with an eye for good fashion and love for fine art says her focus is very much centered on her kids and family.
“I like to garden, I like to bake. I clip coupons. I shovel my own snow.”
I’m very normal,” she often reassures people.
With about five years under her chic belt as one of Milwaukee’s most reputable psychic mediums, Morning Star says people who hear about her “special ability” immediately conjure up images of crystal balls and incense or assume she sees dead people.
She’s never seen a ghost and doesn’t gaze through a crystal ball or read cards to gain insight into the future (for that you might want to try a free psychic reading online instead). What Morning Star has is a gift for communicating with the dead and has made a successful career out of it.
Previously a professional mural artist, with works displayed in public and private spaces throughout southeastern Wisconsin and North Carolina, Morning Star tapped into her supernatural self at 34.
It happened very naturally, according to her.
“One night while I was praying ‘they’ simply showed up and ‘tuned in’ my nervous system,” she explained.
“There was no big explosion or special event. This 15-minute experience left me completely and extremely aware of spirit and energy.”
It wasn’t scary and her experiences since never have been, she contends.
“I just didn’t know what to do with it. People fear the unknown, but there is nothing to fear.”
Soon after, she made a trip to England, where she enrolled in classes at Arthur Findlay College, the world’s leading college for the psychic science – “kind of like Hogwarts for grownups,” as Morning Star puts it.
At Arthur Findlay, the then-unseasoned medium said she learned how to successfully interpret the language of spirits for the living – what she calls, “communicating on a soul-to-soul level.”
She likens the ability to connect with the dead as speaking with someone in a foreign language, or communicating with a deaf person or baby – it’s learned.
She says she hears with her heart and by blending her energy with spirits, she can tune into her senses to bring through messages.
“We all expect a ghost to show up and speak to you but it really is a subtle thing and you have to learn to interpret the language,” she explained.
Immediately upon getting to work at the spiritualist school in England, Morning Star worked with a tutor from Scotland who she said was very experienced.
“She was the first person to sit down with me and walk me through it,” she recalled. “At the end of that experience I had brought through a message from her mother for her. And it was very valid and there was plenty of evidence. I realized at that moment what I had the ability to do and that’s when things changed.”
Since she received formal training back in 2008, Morning Star has established herself as one of the Midwest’s most highly ethical mediums and claims to have connected thousands of people with their deceased loved ones.
With television shows like “Ghost Whisperer,” “Crossing Over with John Edward,” and the most recent hit “Long Island Medium,” making mediumship more mainstream, Morning Star has seen a spike in the demand for her services.
“I have people calling me every single day, especially since she (Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo) is coming to Milwaukee in November,” she said.
“She’s great because she allows her own personality to be there,” Morning Star says of Caputo. “People have these ideas that mediums are angels or we’ve been given this gift from God to do some special angelic work, but we are human.
“We have families and I think she’s really showing the world that normal people have this ability and I’m glad she’s brave enough to just be herself.”
Morning Star says Caputo has a proven track record, but advises those who are willing to pay $400 for the starting cost of meet-and-greet packages to see her next month; they will likely not get the deep meaningful reading they see on television.
“They are paying for a celebrity, not a reading,” she said.
People don’t have to pay thousands of dollars for a reading, Morning Star stressed. Anyone considering going to see a medium, she advises, should do good research to make sure they are hiring someone highly ethical with a proven track record.
Like Caputo and Edwards, Morning Star hosts dozens of large-group events throughout the year.
On Nov. 9, she kicks off her Midwest Holiday Tour in Minneapolis, where she will stop in 10 cities to deliver a dozen or more quick messages and validations from beyond in about a two-hour time span.
People typically pay about $50 for a seat in the audience.
She emphasizes that those who attend are not guaranteed a reading; it is simply a demonstration of her ability.
For the more serious soul searchers, Morning Star does private readings, which start at about $225 an hour.
Her clients who come for these more intimate readings, she said, are bereaved and are often seeking closure after a tragic loss or suicide for example.
“Sometimes people who are still alive need to have the assurance and validation their loved one are still with them in order to keep moving forward, and that’s what I am here for.”
“It’s a very healing thing if you’re open to that process,” she added.
Cassondra Gresl of Rochester gets a reading from Morning Star. Gresl later said she ‘firmly’ believes the Midwest medium succeeded in connecting with her late fiancé who was killed tragically in a New Years Day crash two years ago. Gresl said the experience offered some healing.
Putting Morning Star’s mediumship to the test
It’s been almost two years since her fiancé and father of her child was tragically killed on New Year’s Day in a car crash, and Cassondra Gresl’s grief has yet to subside.
“I think about him every day, I think about him every day,” she repeats choking back her tears.
The 23-year-old Rochester woman describes her loss as “a pain that shatters and shakes your whole world.”
“It feels so unfair that life goes on when you feel like yours has stopped because that one person has, in a sense, disappeared from it.”
For Gresl, the worst part is feeling her daughter’s heartbreak as she cries about her beloved daddy.
“Experiencing her pain is worse than my own,” Gresl says.
Though time has passed quickly, and her wounded heart as yet to heal, the young mother said her daughter is the only reason she keeps going.
“I couldn’t be selfish and curl up in my room for months, though I wanted to,” she said. “I wasn’t going to let her lose two parents. I am strong for her.”
Over the past 22 months, Gresl believes that through odd, yet simple occurrences, like seeing a dime on the ground, and through the beaming face of their daughter, she feels her lost love’s presence.
“I always have felt connected with him and that he is always watching us – holidays, recitals, birthdays….”
“Although, maybe it was just wishful thinking since those times are truly the hardest.”
Seeking a medium has never occurred to the recent psychology grad, but Gresl said the current popularity in mediumship has struck her interest.
“I’m not a skeptic, but I am not a firm believer. I’m open to possibilities,” she said before agreeing to go to Morning Star for a reading.
On a brisk fall day, Gresl was welcomed into Morning Star’s Sheboygan home that looked like an average city street abode from the outside, and something straight out of the pages of Homes & Gardening inside.
Morning Star greeted her with a charming tray of teacups and saucers, pouring out a fragrant and soul-warming blend of ginger and lemongrass into each cup.
Before she started the reading, the medium spent about 15 minutes, explaining her gift and what Gresl could and could not expect as it gets under way.
“First of all I’ve never seen a ghost or fully formed apparition. When I do a reading there is nothing to see. I don’t see with my eyes and you probably won’t see either,” she recites.
Throughout the reading, Morning Star claims to channel her senses in order to identify spirits and bring through accurate messages.
Physically, she says she can feel the energy of spirits blend with hers.
She uses an example of when one might be thinking of their friend, and shortly after their phone starts to ring, and it’s that friend on the other line.
“At that moment, her soul reaches out to yours and she picks up on it and is aware of your energy blending with hers, and that’s how you will connect with a loved one.”
“It does not matter where the body is,” the medium explained.
Morning Star went on, saying that she can feel deep pressure in certain parts of the body that can indicate how the person coming through has passed.
Visually, through clairvoyance, she sees snapshots in her head that help to validate whose spirit she is connecting with. She cites balloons for birthdays, and rainbows for warm-weathered vacations as examples.
“There is nothing to hear with your ears, because there is no voice being projected,” she goes on.
According to Morning Star, she hears with her heart.
To her, it is the energy of love that allows the communication to even take place.
Finally, before she begins the reading, she tells Gresl:
“I only open the door, I cannot control who comes in.”
Prior to Gresl’s visit, Morning Star knew nothing about the young woman, nor her deep loss.
The reading started off a bit shaky.
She first saw a woman.
Taking short pauses and deep breaths, eyes closed, Morning Star asked Gresl to verify information centered on an elderly Spanish-speaking couple she suggested might be Gresl’s grandparents.
Gresl’s late grandparents did not speak Spanish.
She continued to channel information from this pair including the “strong H sound. Hector, Jose?” coming through. It did not seem to make sense, but Morning Star continued on.
The medium says she does not filter any information, even if it doesn’t add up, because often times, later, it will.
“I found over the years, my clairvoyance is 100 percent accurate, but my interpretation of it is flawed.”
When things don’t make sense, she simply moves on and continues to present her evidence.
About 10-minutes into what seemed like a hoax, Morning Star was insistent of this spirit with “an H, or ‘ha’ sound coming through” which she heard earlier with the elderly couple.
Gresl offered her fiancé’s last name; “Hallman” and then the reading took off.
“He’s very present,” Morning Star said.
Gresl agreed, saying he was very persistent.
“Sometimes the people who expect to come through, come through a little bit late,” the medium commented before shutting her eyes and taking a pause.
She then relayed to Gresl that her whole body felt weak, and she felt a “terrible head pain,” insinuating he died of head trauma.
That “validation” was enough to convince Gresl who instantly burst into tears.
Another pause and Morning Star tells Gresl he acknowledged someone who recently got a tattoo in his honor.
Through tears, Gresl validates the information.
The reading quickly turned into a discussion of Gresl’s 6 year old, who Morning Star acknowledged he was so very proud of.
According to the medium, he acknowledged the gifted girl’s school performance, dance recitals, love for playing dress up, that she recently learned to ride her bike and even her distaste of vegetables – all things Gresl said were accurate.
“He’s making my mouth hurt. Do you have dental issues?” she asked at one point during the reading.
Gresl nodded. She has a toothache in her molar.
“Ok, he wants you to go get that checked out,” the medium says.
As the reading went on, Gresl became more eager and humbled with every little, piece of information divulged.
Of course there were still some images relayed by Morning Star that are questionable to Gresl.
Like when she said he was making issues of a staircase in the house, mentioned a special belt buckle, and a sheep-like rug of some sort.
Gresl is still racking her brain trying to make those connections, but said the evidence was enough for her to believe in the medium’s ability.
She was especially comforted when Morning Star told her that his passing was painless.
“She knew exactly how he died … I broke down because I did not tell her how he died. She did not know. It happened in an instant, and she told me there was no pain. It was a huge assurance.”
“Now that I’ve had the reading, I am a very firm believer.”
According to Morning Star, Gresl’s experience is much like her other clients’ experiences.
“They want to know their loved ones are OK.”
“They just haven’t evaporated into a place where we don’t know where they are,” she continued.
The medium claims all spirits she has connected with are in a good place.
“Everyone is welcomed back into the arms of God. I have never seen a ghost, never gotten a negative message, and never gotten a prediction of negative things.
“I think if I did, I would not do this work anymore,” she added. “It would take one time, and then I would stop.”
I’ve seen Mollie in action and was fortunate enough to recieve a personal reading. She’s amazing, and has brought me an overwhelming feeling of peace at a time when I needed it most. This woman is the real deal!
After a reading with Mollie there is no doubt in my mind that my deceased loved ones are with me. She felt the presence of five dearest souls that passed, some recently, some long ago. She was truly compassionate, and accurate. I felt great peace after an hour with Mollie.
Mollie is the real deal. I first had a phone reading with her when she connected me with my deceased first husband. She relayed that he and I would have a grandchild within the next year and I laughed and said no way! It was accurate. She is 5 months old now. I also attended a group demonstration with my sister and Mollie again brought my late husband through with lots of validations, as well as my sister’s late horse! We were all stunned about the horse, but it was accurate even though it had been several years since it passed.
The things a medium tells you that don’t make sense should be written down anyway. You can review those notes over the next few months or even years and suddenly you will realize what it means. Mollie kept emphasizing the number 8 as special in someway. It didn’t make sense to me until after our granddaughter was born….on 6/2! Her due date at the time I attended the group demo was 6/3!
I was guided to Mollie this summer when she visited Seattle and I booked a private reading. While I have a belief in psychic mediumship from living with a daughter with the same special abilities, I approached my reading with healthy caution. I nearly fell out of my seat when she described my husband coming through wearing a pair of leather pants! She could NOT have known that years ago when he was fit and skinny he proudly wore those pants EVERYWHERE! I had just been talking that day to my friend about him and his favorite leather pants! She went on to tell me many things that were 100% spot on! – Even describing the injuries he sustained at his death. Some things didn’t make sense until a couple of weeks later. I have had readings by other world reknowned psychics and paid a small fortune only to be disappointed when nothing he told me was relevant or actually came to pass. Mollie is the real deal! My husband was in law enforcement and died from complications of an on-the-job injury. I told her nothing about myself except my name. She knew nothing of my grandmothers, husband, and cousins all of whom are in spirit on the other side, and all of whom came forward during my reading with spot on validation. She gave me closure and comfort from my grandmother and my husband who died 3 years ago. The one thing I needed to hear from him, and had told NO ONE about, she communicated to me from him. He repeated the message throughout the reading to make sure I heard it. My private reading with Mollie was the best money I’ve ever spent on myself.
I was one of the lucky few in a group reading in Seattle. Mollie gave me messages and answers I had been asking from my husband in the spirit world. It was absolutely the best mini reading I have ever had.
I can’t say enough on how right on she is.
funny, reading this I was excited to see a story on Mollie, since I had a reading with her earlier this year, at her house.
Excited to read a spot-on review, I can’t believe many of the statements Mollie told Gresl were the exact statements told to me. And the beginning of my reading was so unbelievably shaky that I actually should have stopped the reading because none was making sense, and if it doesn’t right away, you’re actually supposed to stop the reading, because ‘the time might not be right for a reading’ – something I think she says on her personal website. Unreal!
@anonymous, so are you a believer or a skeptic?