Is Intuition Innate or Cultivated?

I’ve been watching the final season of Stranger Things (don’t worry - no spoilers!). In one scene, a conversation unfolds about the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer.

The distinction they make is simple and profound:
A Wizard studies, practices, and develops their gifts.
A Sorcerer is born with them - they are the gift.

And immediately I realised -this is the same question I’m asked again and again about intuition:

Are intuitive gifts something we’re born with, or something we cultivate through practice?

I’ve been living inside this question for most of my life.

I was born highly sensitive, deeply tuned in, though I didn’t have language for it until much later. Looking back, I can see how often I felt what others were feeling beneath the surface. I perceived what wasn’t being said. I spoke to people who “weren’t there.” My inner and energetic world was vivid, porous, and alive.

My perception is dialed up more than most, but I don’t believe that makes me special.
I believe it makes me human.

Because every one of us is made of energy, reading energy. We see, hear, feel, sense, know, and intuit because we are vibrating within the same field we’re perceiving.

Intuition is not mystical - it’s natural.

For me, tuning in is simply a matter of focus.
When you learn how to place your attention, you begin to access the information that is always here, quietly waiting.

This is where the Wizard enters. The Wizard is the one who chooses to use the gifts.

The Wizard is the part of you that:

• Pays attention to dreams and listens for their hidden language.

• Listens to the body instead of overriding it.

• Asks the Soul instead of outsourcing knowing.

We are all born intuitive. But those who honour and develop their sensitivity are the ones who move through life with more grace, more clarity, more self-trust.

When you stop denying what is natural within you, life becomes less effortful. The next step reveals itself. The path softens beneath your feet.

Here are a few reflections to sit with as you strengthen your inner Wizard:

• How might intuition feel if you saw it as something natural instead of strange or “other”?

• When has your intuition guided you well in the past? What helped you trust it then?

• What practices help you feel more attuned—time in nature, meditation, creativity, healing, stillness?

• When do fear, doubt, or worry drown out your inner knowing? What helps you return to it?

You have a unique way of seeing and sensing the world. When you learn to listen to your intuition, the picture grows brighter, the sound clearer, and your knowing steadier.

What will you do today to meet yourself there?

Sending you blessings for intuitive ease, confidence, and deep trust.

- Jennifer

P.S. If something in you is stirring as you read this… trust that.

You’re warmly invited to join me for The Intuitive Path, a free two-day online journey on 27–28 January, where we’ll explore how intuition actually works, and how to begin trusting your own inner guidance in everyday life.

And for those ready to go deeper, I’ll be teaching Practical Intuition online, on 7-8 February - a powerful immersive experience to help you understand, refine, and confidently use your intuitive gifts in grounded, real-world ways. Early booking closes this Friday, so if your inner voice is whispering yes, now is the moment to listen.

Your intuition is not a fantasy. It’s a remembering.
Come walk the path with us.