| Issue #49, March 16, 2007 |
Who’s Here
Amy Zerner
&
Monte Farber
Authors
By David Lion Rattiner
When you first meet Amy Zerner and Monte Farber, you are struck by their genuine kindness and sense of humor. The East Hampton couple has built an empire around tarot cards, psychic reading books, jewelry and fashion that has captured the hearts and minds of millions of people around the world.
Since 1988, Amy and Monte have been sharing their gifts as psychics, having sold close to 2 million copies of the various books they have written together, which have been translated into ten languages. This has resulted in having their own Enchanted World imprint for Sterling Publishing, Barnes & Noble’s publishing company, and even their own Enchanted World shelf at Barnes & Noble stores, following the March release of their “Chakra Meditation Kit,” “Karma Cards,” and “Tarot Discovery Kit.” They also have four new titles coming out in the fall.
Their story is remarkable. They met through a friend in October of 1974, when Monte was playing bass in a band in New York City. At the time, they were just 23 and 24 years old. From the moment they met, Amy “was studying astrology and I was studying Amy,” recalls Monte. However, he believes that their connection goes back even further. “When I was just 14,” Monte told me, “I had a dream about a woman with purple hair like Amy has, and I just felt this incredible love that I now get to feel it every day.” Amy is truly the woman of his dreams.
Amy and Monte began giving psychic readings out in the Hamptons because Amy’s family had a house in Springs. They developed a small following because of their accuracy, and their ability to use their skills to help their clients. At the time, Monte was working in the movie business as a bodyguard for Michael J. Fox in New York City. He developed a form of psychic reading that he called Karma Cards and they wondered if a publisher would be interested in them.
In 1986, the couple traveled to New Orleans to attend the American Booksellers Association conference. “We were walking amongst all of these different tables and sat down with a publisher. I said to him that I have this card game that can predict the future. He said to me that he’d try it and thought of a question and the answer came up that he should do it. When I asked him what his question was, he said, ‘I asked whether or not I should publish this,’” Monte told me.
“It was a very magical moment,” said Amy.
It was from there that their work began to blossom and they were able to share with others that being psychic is something common to us all, because we are all connected. Following the same philosophy of listening to your third eye, they were able to make smart decisions, which included the development of a game called the Psychic Circle.
A lot of what they do is about helping people make decisions in life that are the right decisions. They expressed to me that making the right choices in life is extremely important and that using your own psychic powers can lead you to a good decision instead of a bad one. “Everybody has a psychic ability. Being psychic is like a muscle; you have to exercise it for it to be strong. A lot of what we do is about helping people harness that,” Monte says.
Amy and Monte both expressed to me the importance of intuition with their work and learning how to trust that gut feeling. “Making good decisions in life is a combination of being logical and following your intuition,” says Monte.
“If you listen to your intuition, you’ll be guided to the right destiny. It’s very important to listen to that pure voice. It’s the part of you that knows,” Amy says.
It was intuition that first brought Amy to the Hamptons. When Amy was just 16, her family was planning to move away from their home in Pennsylvania. It was something Amy didn’t want to do, but when her mother showed her a map of New York and told her to choose a spot, Amy followed her instincts and pointed to East Hampton. Her Mother drove out there and bought a house in Springs a short time after. “That’s a good example of how important it is to follow your children’s intuition as well,” Amy tells me.
The couple are still very active in giving private readings and using their abilities to help others. They are also doing many things outside of selling books. Monte uses his psychic abilities to help solve crimes. “My life is so interesting to me because I still don’t know how it works. But I’ll be able to connect with a dead police officer in an unsolved crime and he’ll tell me how everything happened and the case will get solved. I’ve learned how to trust that because it’s accurate.”
Amy has developed her own line of jackets called Spiritual Couture. The jackets have been bought by famous celebrities including Oprah, Patty Labelle and Martha Stewart. They sell at Bergdorf Goodman and can be seen at the couples website, www.theenchantedworld.com.
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