Kindred Journeys

Cool store. It has a lot of cool stuff. Check it out for yourself.

I enjoy having this shop in town. It really is the only of its kind. They have fair prices on crystals and incense and most other items in their store. I have not participated in any readings. However I thought it was a neat concept and business idea to have classes throughout the month to learn more about their various spiritual offerings (tarot reading, pendulums etc). I like being able to go down and pick up a new piece of citrine or spoil myself with some type of new crystal and enjoy having a store in town to do so. It always feels like a guiltless treat. Check this store out, it is cute.

It is very disappointing when you make an appointment ahead of time for one of the readers and the staff who book it mess it up! If you schedule before the day of your reading call to ensure they have the correct date.

Go see Katie. Just trust me on this. Go see Katie for a tarot reading. Just go. I’ve had many readings in my life & several from different people here but Katie has always given me the best advice & clarity. She is amazing, authentic, honest, sweet & always spot on.
I’ve recommended her to at least 7 of my friends, all of whom have had similar experiences with her readings.
The shop itself is cute with a smaller selection of books, gifts, jewelry, crystals, etc. I have found many cute gifts there & have great interaction with the staff but I mostly come for readings with any shopping done as an afterthought. All in all, I love this place. It’s a gem.

I love this place! I’ve been going here for years and I absolutely love it! The energy is clean and happy, and the staff is super helpful. I buy a lot of my crystals there and I have also purchased books and readings as well. I try to get readings from someone new each time I go and I haven’t been disappointed yet. I’ve also attended their classes and rituals which are so much fun!

KAYLEE!!! YOU CAN MESSAGE ME THROUGH Unilocal, GIRL!
Called Kindred today and guess what? Looks like my girl Kaylee has left the company.
Now, I totally understand that Kindred can’t give me her info due to legal issues (I could be a psycho stalker), but they most definitely have the ability to contact Kaylee and give her my number so she can contact me.
When I asked the woman who answered the phone just this, she replied with a VERY RUDE, «You’re our client, not hers!» Well, guess what, sweetheart, I’m not your client anymore.
Listen: For any other sleezy, money-​grubbing Corporate America company, I absolutely get that line of thinking. BUT KEEP IN MIND, DEAR UnilocalERS, THIS PLACE IS SUPPOSED TO BE ALL ABOUT ACHIEVING THE HIGHER GOOD.
The owner, Pam, states on the website’s front page, and I quote (all caps, my emphasis): «…WE ARE ONE AND THE COMMON THREAD IS LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE.»
#Hypocrite
#Karma
You know, when you call Nordstrom and they don’t have what you’re looking for, they send you to another store. They do everything to help you out. If Kindred would’ve been WORKING FROM INTEGRITY and graciously passed on my info to Kaylee, I would’ve continued with the shop for other things.
And notice Reta P.‘s awesome review, below, where she points out (and I’m paraphrasing here) after working with someone for years and then having to start all over again with someone new. Where is the integrity in that, Kindred Clan?
Move away from deceit toward virtue and you’ll see that other metaphysical bookstores list their counselors full names. These other shops aren’t working from a scarcity place but, rather, unconditional love and freedom and honesty.

Cute little shop hidden among the strip mall. Unless you are specifically looking for it, it’s easy to miss. They are a spiritual shop /​coffee stop venue. They carry a variety of items to include, but not limited to crystals, journals, sage, jewelry, incense, cards, books, gift items, Tibetan prayer flags in several different sizes to include travel size. I didn’t try the coffee, however it did smell wonderful and I did note there were a variety of different blends. This store is right off the main strip and on Thursdays I understand there is also a street Farmer’s Market that takes place.

I want to like this store — I really do. They’re the only one of its kind in Oceanside at the beach, so it’s cool to have a kind of shop like this near downtown Oceanside for those who are interested in spiritual development. I have been here several times and enough is enough — I’ve had consistently bad experiences.
They have a small selection of books — which are actually well selected based on each topic — but you are asked NOT to read them. So, am I supposed to judge a book by its cover? The other items are fairly priced and I have bought a few items ranging from crystals, books, smudging times, etc.
This is where things go awry for me… I’m intuitive myself. I can see spirits, energies, and I get information just like those who work there. I know spirit is there because I’ve seen it there, but the thing that summed it up for me is that I literally saw a spirit standing next to one of the psychics with its arms crossed aggressively, like a bouncer. It summed up this woman’s energy to the letter. Yes, she’s knowledgable on the subject of spiritual development, yes she can pick up information, but do I find the people (like her) that work at Kindred Journeys spiritually developed? NO. I feel that the people who walk through the door are just seen for their potential cash value and not at all as people to serve. There is no sense of service or warmth whatsoever, save from the woman who occasionally works the register.
I have been ignored by the staff there and even huffed aside without so much as an «excuse me» by such busy readers. They didn’t give out free mother’s day messages they advertised to some customers when all they had to do was read a silly divination card from a box, making people wait 20 minutes (on purpose, maybe?) before they finally walked out because they were ignored.
You don’t have to have intuitive abilities to know the difference between bad and great service, obviously. If you go, buyer beware. I rather drive 20 minutes to Soulscape in Encinitas to have a more pleasurable experience where the customer service is amazing and the products are higher quality and in greater abundance. For psychic readings, go to Victoria Bearden, the astrologer and intuitive or Leslie Juvin-​Acker at LJA Coaching, in Oceanside.

I love the worshops/​classes they offer… very informative and enlightening!

I absolutely love this place! The air and energies, the people, the items available, everything!
As far as readings go, I’ve only received readings from Kaylee because the first time I was drawn to her (I’m also an Aries ^w^), and the second time because I knew that Kaylee could do the reading that I wanted to get on that day.
I’ve talked to Just a few times, and he’s a very great person; also, I’d had a few questions about some dreams that I’ve had and just wanted to talk to someone about them before I went in for my reading, and Cindy helped me understand them with better clarity than I could provide myself at the time.
I really love this store and highly recommend it to anyone!

Horrible experience
While a friend had gone here and recommended I check it out… Well I went and 15 min in I asked questions regarding what she saw as the reader suggested I should… but
When I asked my reader why my current situation felt so off from what she was seeing she freaked out and refused to read anymore. Wow
I Decided just to get my money back and get out of there Yikes!!!
This place is a joke; professionals don’t act like that.
Be sure not to ask any questions u might get Kicked out!

This store is my spiritual home! All of the readers are absolutely fabulous, intuitive, and warm. You must take the spiritual development classes with Gayla. If you are looking for an all inclusive, past lives, whats my soul purpose, and who are my guides reading go for Monique. There is NO better astrologer than Kaylee. Looking for an extremely gifted medium try Amy. For a wonderful true empathic energy impression go for Just. I will always love Dewey’s Full Moon circles and his wonderful singing. He has the wise Native Indian Shamanic energy and his singing bowl circles are pure healing! I will forever love this store!!!

I love LOVE LOVE: MARIA at Kindred Journeys!!! If anyone has questions about my experience with Maria, please send me a message and I’d be happy to help.
Maria disappeared and the shop was very rude and vague. Just like other reviewers mentioned about Kaylee, Kindred refused to pass any messages to Maria or honestly answer whether she would be returning. I’m guessing they have a non-​compete or some lame overly strict rules that just make them look paranoid. Fine, but just BE HONEST and don’t be so rude to your loyal, long-​standing clients. Stop lying and saying «I DON’T KNOW» when you DO know!
Kindred didn’t even bother to call me and cancel my previously scheduled readings with Maria, and probably just planned to transfer me to someone else. Are they so insecure that they have to go to great lengths to hide the identity of their readers? Other spiritual shops are more transparent and open about their readers’ identities and aren’t threatened by their talents or their relationships with clients.
It seems Kindred Journeys hopes you’ll eventually give up on readers who left, and convert to another reader. Well, in today’s world, it’s not super hard to find someone ;-), so by being difficult you’re just being lame. Why would clients get readings from a place that doesn’t foster support and trust, and cares only about $$?
Being honest actually helps KEEP clients, believe it or not! Clients will keep coming back and will be more willing to try someone new when you’re open, honest and transparent. After my recent experiences in trying to get straight answers from Kindred Journeys, their rude and uncompassionate attitude, and how they handle such situations, I won’t be coming back.
Please take a step back, look inward, and practice what you stand for.

I love this store. I have to say it is now my favorite spiritual place to visit, always calm and relaxing and something about it being so close to the beach is soothing.
I actually first came here cuz I wanted to check it out. I’m a huge person who loves to buy crystals and gems and cool fend shui for my house or work space. But I’ve always secretly wanted to get a reading done… and it wasn’t until I first absolutely HAD to have one to a burning question many months ago that the reader at the time, Sharon, left me breathless and while at first semi-​skeptical, absolutely speachless! She gave me the exact name of a person who I didn’t know and wouldn’t have ever known about! (Many thanks to her by the way!!).
I’ve been back so many more times since then. Actually, just for the readings! It’s $ 20 for 15 minutes and it’s become such a thing that I told everyone since my first time and I can’t count the amount of friends/​coworkers who have joined and gone and left feeling better and impressed.
The other two reader I saw was one a friend had gone to– one whose so good, she’s always booked! Haha — Monique! She’s such a sweetheart and absolutely the real deal. She has her own separate large room and she just started spewing out everything she saw for me as it came! And she was able to answer my questions. I left leaving the store feeling clearer and better about my life direction and honestly, I feel like that is how a reading should be. She gave me two options and let me know what would potentially happen in both. I have yet to be back– I waited a good week/​week and a half for her and wasn’t dissappointed!
The last person I just recently saw was Just– who was also wonderful. He was so sweet and knowledgeable and very open with what I wanted to talk about and even something that he absolutely needed to share. I liked the way he interpreted the cards and seemed very experienced with what he was saying and doing! Although not what I was coming for– it helped me kinda have advice on that and brought about something else that makes me feel good and empowered.
This store is great. The people are awesome and it’s nice to have help every once in awhile. I have no foul words nor complaints of this place– just that I wish it’s success and encourage more people to come and partake. I feel like we all need a little more help in this journey we all experience– life.
:-) a huge thanks to all the readers who have helped me.

Love this place!!!

I’ve been to Kindred Journeys many times for readings and I always leave feeling better than when I came in. First off the store itself is adorable and has this calming energy about it when you walk in. They recently expanded their store and I must say it looks awesome!
I have had readings by Monique and Marie at their after hours on thursdays. You can’t go wrong with getting a reading from either of these gals, they are truly gifted. I have yet to have a reading from their other intuitives, but I sure will in the future. Monique and Marie have been on point with all the things they pick up on about me in my readings, and it sometimes scares me at how accurate they are. I know a lot of people are skeptics about this kind of thing but i’m a believer that there are some people in this world that are very intuitive. Just see for yourself. Oh, and if you get a reading I highly recommend recording it because it is so much information to digest and to remember once you’re done. Its nice to listen back to what was said in your reading.

I must admit, I was and still a bit skeptical about the whole thing and its mostly cuz I myself believe in anything is possible ideology but I haven’t experienced it myself so I move very cautiously about the whole thing.
My friend had gone here occasionally n the person she normally worked with wasn’t here. I was seeking some questions to be answered and said what the heck, lets just do this and if it didn’t work out, at least I know…
Now there was bit of a time crunch cuz the individual we wanted to see, Sharon, had a class at 12 so my 15 minutes ($ 20 per) went by quickly.
I can say that I had a general reading to see if there was anything she would pick up. I had a very positive experience and that’s all that ill go into. I know it may not what all of you want to read but I can’t say because I had a positive experience or she picked up on things that you will too have the same. But what I can say is that I wish I had more time with her to delve deeper and I would recommend her based off my short experience.

Yes! Still love this place! Monique was my psychic/​therapist and she was great! Life changing and eye opening experience! The prices went up but I would say the experience was priceless and money well spent, I wish I could of payed for more time with her and my guides and angels she was channeling. I am semi psychic also and Monique confirmed what messages I’ve received in the past that I needed the extra confidence in trusting! Thank u to Monique and Kindred Journeys for being there!
Oh they don’t sell used books anymore which I was a little disappointed about but still give them 5 stars!

This place used to be so great, but I was there yesterday and it’s REALLY gone downhill. Their book section is now completely gone, and so they have a maximum of 30 books in the store, which are just stacked on a display with a sign asking you to not read them. The atmosphere is completely different — it used to be very calming, and now they play music from the radio, and the girls at the counter kvetch loudly about their parental issues, so that you can’t really concentrate on your shopping We were in the store for about 20 – 30 minutes, during which time not one of the three women even acknowledged our presence, forget about greeting us or making us feel welcome. One of them even came over to the same display I was looking at and called across the room to her friend, still not even looking at or interacting with me.
I was looking for books on shielding, but they had absolutely nothing on that topic, so I looked at the crystals and accessories. I’ve been needing a new pouch for my tarot cards, but they didn’t have anything near the right size — in fact, the only pouches I saw were tiny cheapily-​made sacks of incredibly shabby material, ostensibly made for keeping stones in, if you don’t really care about the quality of something you’re going to put your stones in and carry around with you. They had some REALLY ghetto beanbags to display bigger stones on – I’m talking, made out of shaggy thin material of even lower quality than cheap stuffed animals won at a skeevy carnival. It gave me the creeps just to touch it, and the thought of placing any of my crystals on it simply appalled me.
The store seems to be solely comprised of «displays» now. There don’t seem to really be any sections of anything. The pictures shown here on this site are not indicative of the current state of the store. As I said, they have barely any books at all; and even the second display pictured is more abundant than anything I saw in person. Their selection of small stones is adequate — nothing exciting or unusual, and some stones are conspicuously absent — but I will say that the small stones are only 60 cents each, which is a lower-​than-​average price. The store isn’t very big to start with, so the fact that they no longer really have any departments or a huge selection of anything means that you feel like the entire store is just a waste of space. This is why I find that other recent review where they told the woman «we carry so many I would have to go through by hand one at a time to see» so amusing — while it’s not unusual for smaller stores like this to not have their inventory in a computer, they have virtually NO STOCK, so it really shouldn’t take anyone very long to check the shelf. Plus, if you’re doing your job right, you have a vague inkling of what kind of things you have, because you straighten and restock on a regular basis. Of course, maybe they don’t even do that, because my husband pointed out to me that everything in the store was very dusty, which would explain the stagnant feeling of the space. In a small store like that, it’s very easy to keep things clean and the displays well-​stocked and sparkling… but I guess the staff is too busy filling the space with emotional baggage energy to actually maintain the store or help its customers. It’s sad, because it used to be such a lovely space. Skip it, and drive the fifteen minutes down to Encinitas for Soulscape, a much bigger, nicer, friendlier, and just all-​around better store.

My bad! Gayla was very pleasant this week for yet another reading. Thank you for that. I must echo that her predictions are jaw-​dropping! She is able to envision as far as a year out… Very impressive.
I suggest you to try the newer gals also — Marie and Katie. Marie predicted my mom’s death a week before she expired. Katie is 100& accurate too about each personality in your circle. Watch out!