Everyone has intuitive abilities. The question isn't whether you have them - it's which ones are strongest.
The four primary spiritual gifts (or 'clairs') are clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairsentience (clear feeling), clairaudience (clear hearing), and claircognizance (clear knowing). Most people have one or two dominant gifts. Clairsentience is the most common - if you're an empath, this is likely your primary gift. Paul Wagner is a developed clairvoyant who helps clients identify and develop their own gifts through readings, courses, and The Shankara Oracle practice.
Clairvoyance means you receive information through inner vision - images, colors, symbols, or scenes that appear in your mind's eye. Clairsentience means you feel information in your body - gut feelings, emotional impressions, physical sensations that carry meaning. Clairaudience means you hear guidance - an inner voice, words, music, or sounds that convey truth. Claircognizance means you simply know things - information arrives fully formed without any sensory pathway you can identify.
Notice how you naturally receive information. When you meet someone new, do you see something about them (clairvoyance), feel something (clairsentience), hear an inner comment (clairaudience), or just know something (claircognizance)? When you recall a meaningful experience, which sense is strongest? Your dominant gift is usually the one you've been using your whole life without realizing it was anything special.
Like any ability, spiritual gifts strengthen with practice. Meditation is the foundation - it quiets the mental noise so you can hear the subtler signals. Oracle card practice develops all four gifts simultaneously because you're constantly interpreting symbols, feelings, and impressions. Journaling helps you track patterns and build confidence in your perceptions. Working with a developed intuitive like Paul Wagner can accelerate your development dramatically.
The biggest block isn't lack of ability - it's lack of trust. You've probably been receiving intuitive information your whole life and dismissing it as imagination, coincidence, or wishful thinking. Fear of being wrong, fear of being seen as strange, and childhood conditioning to be 'rational' all suppress natural gifts. Healing these blocks is often the fastest path to development.