Jean

Jean has been pouring for 12—15 years. She learned the preliminaries of the ceremony from her mother, but had to wait until she was older, because a woman must be post menopausal. She leared to read the wax on her own. She believes that anyone can learn what to do from someone, but your interpretations are your own and you must learn on your own. Each person's interpretations will be much different than someone else's. She says you have to be gifted in order to do it. She was told she has “healing hands” from a male healer. She puts her hands over her grandchildren if they fall and scrape themselves and they’ll stop crying.

During the ceremony, Jean does whatever she feels she should be doing to them. However, she uses the same prayer every time, which she recites in English. She says that no matter how many times she does it, she cannot memorize it, so she reads it. When she reads the wax there is always a life line, to see what their lives are really about, and to see if they’ve been sick. The sides will say how many husbands, wives,/girlfriends they’ve had and how their current relationship is going. Jean says you have to keep watching the wax because it will change in front of your eyes for different readings, so you have to really focus and watch it. A fear doesn’t always have the same shape in the wax (ex. water will be the shape of what happened in the water. Hard for her to explain why she can see that.) Jean sees guardian angels every time. Sometimes they have wings, sometimes only has one wing- might be a bit bad. Two wings-really being guarded. Angels on the other side of the wax mean they might have someone sick or might be losing someone. Everyone’s wax is different. She does three pourings- past, present, and future. Three separate times (every 6 weeks), a lot of people don’t go for all three though.

She is busy doing the wax ceremony. Lots of people come to see her (sometimes no one and then sometimes lots of people). She can only pour for 2-3 people a day or it draws everything out of her, she loses her appetite and gets headaches if she does too many. She protects herself with a cross her mother gave her and crosses around the house. Jean pours for all different races of people, even Arab people, as long as they believe in God, because if they don't the she can’t do anything for them. Word of mouth is how they hear about her. People come from Calgary, Saskatchewan, from the states. She has a lady that comes from Turkey (once every 5 years). People make appointments. She does not have specific days for people, but she doesn’t pour on Sunday (God’s day) or Saturday after noon. Often, the whole family comes. People leave gifts if they want to but they don’t have to.

She also does shirts, socks, animals etc. and does long distance for a lady she’s never met before by uses her socks. People come with specific problems others come to see her because they feel better and lifted after. Some come every 2-3 months/weeks. She has read wax off a picture in a phone and it was all right. Jean thinks a lot of people are scared of seeing he,r because they’re afraid to see their truths. She has a confidentiality agreement with them and doesn’t ever want to scare anyone. A lot of what Jean works with is fears and fear of their own, fear of going out, feelings tahat they have that they want to conquer. Health reasons too, "why do they have these headaches"?, "why does this and that hurt?".

When asked if she is curing them, Jean says “I don’t know if its me or just a coincidence” ”I’m not one to take the accolades for it. I’m just happy I’ve helped them to have a better life for themselves” Jean says that the ceremony must be passed onto the oldest or the youngest born in a family. She is hoping and praying one of her girls will do it, because she really doesn’t want it to die. She thinks there is still a need for it, but thinks it's being lost because people don’t understand what she does and need someone to explain it to them.