Local medium's message is one of likely outcomes delivered in nonfrightening way.
The Mystical Moon: Laurie Barracco, who grew up on Long Island, is in her fourth year as a medium and the owner of Mystical Moon, a south Fort Myers gift shop and reading room.
Laurie Barracco, owner of Mystical Moon, a psychic, intuitive reading and spiritual guide shop in south Fort Myers, sits in the presence of crystal stones in her reading room. Barracco is origionaly from Long Island and opened the store in 2007. / Photos by Brian Hirten/The News-Press
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Never mind, TLC. Southwest Florida has its own Long Island medium.
Theresa Caputo recently began a second season as a reality show star, the “Long Island Medium.” Laurie Barracco, who grew up on Long Island, is in her fourth year as a medium and the owner of Mystical Moon, a south Fort Myers gift shop and reading room. But the way they share their talents with others is as different as Florida from New York.
Barracco’s compact but well-stocked book, crystal and card emporium is tucked into a strip shopping center off Island Park Road. She does no advertising, but business is good. She began as the shop’s only reader — of tarot or pendulum or other divination methods — but since opening, word of mouth has required that she add three more full-time readers.
What she does not do is flit from person to person, from gas station to grocery to park, surprising and even startling unsuspecting people by telling them she has messages from loved ones beyond the grave. That may be Caputo’s way, but it is not Barracco’s.
According to TLC’s numbers, Caputo’s methods make for good TV, because an average 1.3 million people watched each episode last season. But wandering around speaking for spirits may not be the best for an offscreen life.
Besides being an invasion of privacy, Barracco believes that being open to communications for everyone she encounters would be disturbing. “I don’t need all of that in my head,” she said.
She does, however, think Caputo is “authentic.”
“I can read energy. I can see her heart open up. What she does definitely serves its purpose and she helps a lot of people.”
And that’s the reason she has worked to hone the abilities she says she has had since early childhood — when she frequently chatted with “imaginary friends.”
Barracco, 44, moved to Florida from New York at age 19. She went to Edison State College and trained as a teacher, and also a paralegal, while continuing to meditate, take classes on psychic matters and see clients, nurturing a dream to open a shop. And then found what she was looking for in a former tanning salon.
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