I don't know who the heck told you that psychics shouldn't use tools. That's like saying a surgeon should use all the education and courses available to them nor should they use all the tools in the operating room to perform a procedure.
It's a matter of opinion. A person can be an astrologer, a medium, an empath etc. The word *psychic* seems to be the general word for someone who is gifted. I don't know very many *psychics* that don't use cards or whatever there poison to do readings.
I see a psychic live here in my city once a year. She's phenomenal, lives and breathes astrology. The first 45 min of her reading is all about charts and where you are in your cycle or where whomever you are asking about is in their cycle. Then for the last 45 minutes of the reading she pulls out her tarot cards and tells me what's coming up in the future. Along with that, she's caught me completely off guard before the reading and ask me how my kickboxing classes were. I had JUST gone back that week and I never even told her that I was ever involved in kickboxing as it was never something that came up in my reading with her. Another thing she pulled out of her hat was her telling me that there was a tall men dressed really well standing behind me. She said he told her that his name was Barrie and that he was my grandfather's father.
Uh... My mother had just pulled out some pictures maybe a month prior and introduced me to my great grandfather Barrie who was a teacher. Ya, freaky stuff.
But that's thing. What is this woman? Is she a medium, an astrologer, a psychic? I don't know what to call her she's so multi-talented on the spiritual playing field.
So ya, psychics use tools, guides whatever their poison. I know northstarjulie doesn't call herself a psychic, she calls herself a card reader. But do you really think that pulling cards and laying out a spread answering questions about a specific person that happened to actually be the truth and confirmed in reality, are we going to call Julie a non-psychic? C'mon. It's just a title. I call them gifted.
And another question, what about cookie? She's an amazing remote viewer. She hears things, sees things about ones past a future. Is she a psychic or is she a remote viewer?
I think anyone that can see your past, future, present, tell you how things are going to be coming up, reads cards accurately, practises numerology and is accurate, practises clairaudience/clairvoyance etc. well, in my opinion, are all gifted or psychic, tools and all.