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And how was it?

I''ve been to a couple. Some tea readers (too young to remember anything about it) and then one tarot reader in DC (too drunk to recall anything)... but my life has crossed the path of some people that are gifted and they have done free friendly readings on me.... and been scarily accurate.


I''m thinking about going to a psychic again soon (I actually Yelped psyhics) and wondering what you all think of the subject/expereince?

Pleases be polite to alll viewpoints expressed.
 
I went to one when I was about 19. She said I would get married when I was 27 and meet my husband on a train. I got married at 21 and had known my husband since I was five lol
 
I have a friend G, who is a medium. She was part of a small group doing readings to raise money for cancer research, so I went along - I''d always resisted before. One of the guys in her group did mine and he said that I was going to be wealthy in the short term future, but not lottery win rich. He said something unexpected would happen and I would have a comfortable life. Hey, I was thrilled. How good would that be?

A few months later, my MIL died unexpectedly and we inherited money from her. Now I know these two events are not connected (and I''m a tiny bit sceptical anyway) but I felt awful, just terrible. I won''t go again.

G visited our house when we bought it and was able to describe how it looked when it had a different family living in it, round about 1900. She told us about the family members in some detail. I was interested but not convinced. A couple of years after that, a very elderly lady came to the door and asked if she could walk around the garden and take some photos. She was a child in the family that lived here from 1899 onwards, it was her grandparents'' house and then her parents''. She confirmed every word my friend told me, down to the decor in the living room. My friend had got all the details of her family correct, down to some quite personal information. G had told me there was a photo of a WWI soldier called Robert somewhere in the house that we should find. It was in the attic, and we showed it to this lady she told us it was her uncle Robert. He survived the war and came back to live in the house here.

I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
 
Date: 5/10/2010 8:05:33 AM
Author: Mrs Mitchell
I have a friend G, who is a medium. She was part of a small group doing readings to raise money for cancer research, so I went along - I''d always resisted before. One of the guys in her group did mine and he said that I was going to be wealthy in the short term future, but not lottery win rich. He said something unexpected would happen and I would have a comfortable life. Hey, I was thrilled. How good would that be?


A few months later, my MIL died unexpectedly and we inherited money from her. Now I know these two events are not connected (and I''m a tiny bit sceptical anyway) but I felt awful, just terrible. I won''t go again.


G visited our house when we bought it and was able to describe how it looked when it had a different family living in it, round about 1900. She told us about the family members in some detail. I was interested but not convinced. A couple of years after that, a very elderly lady came to the door and asked if she could walk around the garden and take some photos. She was a child in the family that lived here from 1899 onwards, it was her grandparents'' house and then her parents''. She confirmed every word my friend told me, down to the decor in the living room. My friend had got all the details of her family correct, down to some quite personal information. G had told me there was a photo of a WWI soldier called Robert somewhere in the house that we should find. It was in the attic, and we showed it to this lady she told us it was her uncle Robert. He survived the war and came back to live in the house here.


I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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That''s freaky about the family that lived in your house.
 
Mrs. Mitchell, the story about your house gave me chills!!

I went to a psychic once and while I''m not a "believer" in psychics, she turned out to be right. I went with a friend about 4 or 5 years ago. I told her absolutely nothing about my life and she knew immediately that I was having doubts about my relationship. Not exactly a stretch for a girl in her mid-twenties. She told me that I was thinking about leaving my relationship and that I would. She also knew that it was because my boyfriend was unsure about our relationship. She told me that we would get married, but that I would live on my own for a time first. I remember as we were leaving I asked if we would have a long, happy marriage and she said "oh yes, you will not divorce and have a happy marriage--you are soul mates". It was a bit cheesy, but I have to admit she was on the money (so far!)
 
Mrs Mitchell your story made the hairs on my arms stand up!!

I have been to a few, some good, some not so. I should say that i am a believer and feel that i am quite open and susceptible to this kind of stuff. I have had quite a few of my own premonitions (only small stuff) come true.

I had a boyfriend that died a few years ago and as a part of the healing process i saw a clairvoyant/psychic type a few times. I asked her if i would ever meet someone and be in love again. She said ''absolutely'' and that my boyfriend had already lined someone up for me. He was going to live in the area, work local and that we were already connected in some way, but had not yet met.

Well I met my DH a year later (we were set up by a mutual friend) and it turns out that he had heard about my boyfriends death at the time. My DH worked with my boyfriends next door neighbour.

I like to believe that he played some part in us meeting and that the clairvoyant was on the money with her reading.

Some might say small world, i say fate.
 
It''s a tiny bit freaky, isn''t it?!

DH is more sensitive than I am to these things - he occasionally walks into a room and says "oh, hi" like there was someone in there that we disturbed. Our house was part of a victorian railway station and he sometimes sees people in our garden, where one of the platforms was. I''ve asked him to stop telling me!
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I''m (slightly) reassured by my medium friend telling me that it''s always been a really happy house and nothing bad has ever happened here. The lady who visited us confirmed that she had really happy memories of the house and that it stayed in her family for 3 generations.

Hawaiianorangetree, sorry to hear about your boyfriend. It''s nice to think he had a hand in linking you up with your husband. He must have loved you.
 
I had a session with a psychic at a friend's Sweet 16 birthday party. I had forgotten all about it until I read this thread, so I dug out my photo album from high school, where I put the notes I took after that meeting.

At age 16, the psychic told me:
- I would marry a shorter man (true)
- He would have dark hair (true)
- He would be of my parents' religion (true)
- I would be 27 when we married (true)
- He would be much older (true--10.5 years)

Interesting. When I was 16 I was much shorter than I am now, so I was pretty appalled that he said I would marry a shorter man. AND, I was dating a blond-haired guy, and I had ZERO interest in dating anyone who was my parents' religion.

I also thought I would never get married. Ha!

It's actually a bit eerie how on-the-money he was. Those five points are the only notes I took. I'm glad I dug them out!
 
Nope, I''ve never been to one. Even if the person does have some kind of ability to see what will happen, it''s still going to be a mystery when it happens, and unless you''re religious about going, you won''t be thinking of what the medium told you when you meet the person/have the experience they tell you about. So if it''s going to happen anyways, and I''ll still be surprised when it happens, I''m not going to spend the money.

That said, Mrs.Mitchell, what you''re describing is awesome! I definitely believe that there are benign (and not-so-benign) spirits out there after having lived in a house with a pretty angry ghost. That was enough contact for one lifetime, thankyouverymuch. But yours sounds much nicer.
 
Hi,

I believe that rare people possess the ability to use intuitive skills to tell us things that seem to fall outside our present knowledge. I went to a psyhic several times in my life. I found a very good one in England when I lived there. She told me I would be going home soon and I actually argued with her that that I had moved to England and wasn''t going back to the US.
Six weeks later I went back to the US. I taped my session with her and have gone over it many times in the intervening yrs and am always amazed at how accurate her readings were.
I am a wee bit concerned Gypsy, because I suspect that you may be using all sorts of magical things to find your place in the world. I used to be a searcher, when I was too idealistic. When I began to see and accept the world as it is, I stopped searching and accepted my place in it without all the idealism of my youth. I think life many be a bit disappointing for you after all your hard work. Don''t get too sidetracked with future tellers. Have a little fun with it, most are charletons.

Thanks,
Annette
 
Some of these stories are definitely a bit creepy. I''ve never been to one but I always thought it would be a fun experience. Unfortunately, I don''t have much disposable income at the moment so unless I crossed paths with someone who would do it for free that probably won''t happen.

I''m terrified of living in a house with ghosts so if weird things started happening in a house we live in I would consider contacting someone to come out to our house to see what was up.

All this talk though is making me kind of want to go to one just for kicks. I feel like I''m at a point in my life where things could go a lot of different ways so I''d be interested to see what they say and see if it turns out to be right.
 
I had a silly reading when I was a teenager. I was told that at 27 I would marry a tall, bald man and have ten kids. I got married at 30. And DH is 5''11" and still has most of his hair. And I have a lot of catching up to do to get to ten kids (currently at 0!).

I have however had a couple of other readings done since then which were pretty accurate on some specific details surrounding some predictions. But again, I just look to them for a fun experience. I am open and definitely believe there are people who are very sensitive to these sorts of things, but, even the "best" psychics will remind you that the future can change at any given present moment. I''ve never quite let a reading therefore influence my decisions in life. I know some people on the other hand who have taken it as oath. DH has a couple friends whose wives saw psychics and then came home ranting about how their own DH was having an affair (neither were). It caused some major issues!
 
I went to one a few years back.

She told me that there were two very painful events in my life, one relating to a death in the family, and one being the death of a relationship. True.
She told me that she can tell that my mother and I have a bad relationship. True
She couldn't say if me and my DH were going to get married.
She said she saw me writing as a career.

She realllyyyy wanted me to buy this cheap candle that supposedly had healing powers....she said that if I bought it she would light it every night and pray for my mother and I to get along. I declined.
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Her toddler was running around naked during the whole reading.


Oh, then there was an extremely religious woman (like, brainwashed) whose house I used to clean for some extra money. She claimed to be a prophet (she didn't believe in psychics). Right before I got engaged she told me that I should drop everything and move back to my hometown. She said that is where I belong, and if I stay down here and marry DH I will just be "floating through life" and I'll never feel fulfilled. I love my DH, but that woman's words have always stuck with me. I think about it sometimes when I get really homesick. I wish I could just forget it! All I can do is try to live the most fulfilling life possible. As for her prophetic abilities, they weren't exactly groundbreaking. At that point in time I was an impatient LIW and I didn't know if DH was on the same page. I told her that if things didn't work out with DH then there would be nothing keeping me in TX and I would just move back home. After a while it was clear that DH and I WERE on the same page and he even bought a ring. We were about to go on vacation to Virginia and I knew he would propose there. The day before we left for the trip I told the woman that he had the ring and that I suspected he was going to propose there. That's when she decided to have "the talk" with me. She said God brought me to her so that she can tell me these things.
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Anyway, I said "yes" (obviously), and I never went back to that woman's house. When I got home I avoided her phone calls and stuck her house key in the mail.
 
I first wish to express my deep respect for all members of this board and their experiences. Here''s my take:

I had a very brief free session with a plam reader when I was 12 and she told me that I have deep lines on my palms so I am an "old soul" whatever that means. She also told me she never cautions people against a particular fate because in trying to avoid that fate they may panic and inadvertantly trigger it.

I would never go to a plain psychic because I think it''s too easy for them to make blanket statements that are easliy true for most people - you live near water (most human settlement is around some form of water body, how near is "near"?), You will go on a short journey soon (what counts as a journey? how soon is "soon"?).

Make sure you understand cold readings and hot reading before you go. As human beings we have a tendancy to ignore the untrue, and remember the true - so even if your reading was 1/2 useful and 1/2 out to lunch, you will only remember the useful parts.

I suppose Psychics could provide some comfort as sort of a counselor/amature psychologist. People usualy see psychics about 3 main things: Relationships, Money, and contacting loved ones that have passed.

Relationships: If you are so unsure about your relationship that you need to seek the advice of a psychic - dump him. it''s not going to work. (If it was a good realtionship you''d consult your friends and listen to their advice). If it''s a friend or family member you have such a bad realtionship with, perhaps you need to break contact with them.

Money: If you have money troubles start reigning in your budget and stop spending on unecessary luxuries like psychic readings. See a financial advisor, make a plan and stick to it. Free money doesn''t happen unless someone dies - which is sad !

Deceased loved ones: Talk to fellow family members that also have unfinished buisness with your loved one and commisserate. Then head to a counselor lay out all your unfiunished buisness/grief/anger/resentments and do the tough work of forgiving, making peace, and moving on with your life.

That said If you still need guidance by the hand of god/fate and prayer just isn''t working, then formulate a very specific question/ set of questions you want answered and then consult a fortune teller that uses tools that incorporate chance: Taro cards/runestones that can be shuffled, I-ching coins that can be tossed, a fortune cookie that can be drawn from a barrel etc. If the universe does have a message for you, I stongly feel that chance and coincidence are more likely to allow it to be conveyed because it doesn''t have to be filtered through human intention.

Pychics want repeat buisness and so may not guide you truly or quickly because they want your money and for you to come back. There is a conflict of interest in that the profit motivation is at odds with quick accurate and timely consultation.

My favorite form of divination is with an old daily devotional book called "God Calling". This book was given to me by my deeply religeous Christian grandmother ( I ascribe to no religion) to guide me when I travelled overseas because she was worried I would adopt a new religion. It''s a mild little book of short meditations for each day of the year, and when I need guidance I fan the pages back and forth with my question in mind, and then open to a page that feels right and read what''s on it. I find it to be quite helpful and beter than 70% accurate.

Do you have some sort of book with personal signifigance that would help you. I expect any book with a series of short meditations of phrases would be helpful. A long time ago I also had a book called "The Answere book" which had a series of short answeres on each page - it was more direct.

Above all, we make our own destinies so if there is something you want to happen in your life, then don''t hang around and hem and haw, just go do it!
 
I''ve never been to one, but do believe that some can read the future and sense the unknown.

I do believe in ghosts, etc. My DH once lived in a house with a bunch of roommates and the spirit in that house was SO strong that *everyone* who entered the home felt it! There were a number of occasions when DH would leave me there by myself and I''d hear a door slam and go up stairs to see who was there and the house would be empty! Also, once I saw a shaded shape of a person go down the stairs into a room in the basement. I didn''t mention this to anyone and months later, a friend described seeing the exact same thing.
 
Nope, I've never been to one. I'm sort of a skeptic and I'm not willing to spend the money.
 
Great post HopeDream, ITA.
 
I paid for a reading with Sylvia Browne- I waited over a year for it. $750 later I can confirm she is not what she claims to be. So, if you ever wondered if she just might be the real deal she isn''t.
 
I had my cards read at Bottom of the Cup in New Orleans. They will do over-the-phone readings as well as in person readings.

Ummm, it was eerily accurate . . . particularly about what would happen in the future.

I''ll give you an example: My mother was still alive and healthy as far as I knew, but the reader asked me about her health as she was seeing serious blood pressure problems for my mom. My mother passed away two years later because her blood pressure was not high enough or stable enough for a surgical procedure that she needed.

That''s just one of many *odd* things that she was intuitive about.
 
I find fortune cookie messages to be spot on, tasty, and cost effective. Plus if you don''t like it, you can always get another (in bed)!
 
Date: 5/10/2010 2:27:07 PM
Author: swimmer
I find fortune cookie messages to be spot on, tasty, and cost effective. Plus if you don''t like it, you can always get another (in bed)!
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ROFL. I still crack up every time I read a fortune and say "in bed!"
 
Date: 5/10/2010 2:50:31 PM
Author: monarch64
Date: 5/10/2010 2:27:07 PM

Author: swimmer

I find fortune cookie messages to be spot on, tasty, and cost effective. Plus if you don''t like it, you can always get another (in bed)!
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ROFL. I still crack up every time I read a fortune and say ''in bed!''
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Me too. The best is when I get 5 or 6 fortunes in one cookie (most I have had was 10!) and add "in bed" to them all.

I can''t crack anyone else up like I crack myself up. DH can attest to that.

I don''t actually eat the cookies though. I just don''t find them very tasty.
 
I went to one aged 19, by default. My mother has always made me promise NEVER to attend one. She is very against such things and I actually agree with her. However, one of the girls I worked with was having a reading and organized a night in her house. The main reason was she had lost her father the previous year and her and both her sisters wanted to reach out to him. I refused the initial invite but she asked me to be a back up in case someone dropped out.

There is quite a freaky story about the phone call that booked our psychic. Anne, who was organizing it, was too scared to call, so got one of my closest friends to call. Karen made the call knowing she would never attend as like myself she had been sworn not to by her mother due to her mothers horrendous experience with one on her honeymoon, of all things. So karen made the call pretending to be Anne. The psychic kept questioning her about her name. Karen insisted it was Anne and confirmed the booking. At the end of the call the psychic said to her that she knew that she wasn't Anne and even although she knew she wouldn't attend that she wished her well in her life!!! Well, we were freaked out and so the scene was set.

On the friday night my then female boss pulled out and Anne asked me to come. I really did not want to but felt obliged. I asked Karen to go with me. She refused saying the phone call was bad enough!!

Anyway, I turned up and waited my turn. I was some way in the middle. The 3 sisters went in first and they were very emotional given that their main reason was about their recently deceased father.

I went in. We said a prayer, she took my childhood ring and did something with tarot cards. She then would "call in" people from my past, present and future identifying them by their initials and description of personalities. She was scarily accurate. She described myself and my immediate family with incredible accuracy. Here are some of the points she told me that came true. Honestly, she hit the mark every time.

My boyfriend (not serious) had emigrated to Canada 6 weeks previously. She told me this. She also told me that he would come back for me and ask me to marry him but I would turn him down. I said to her I would never turn him down. She said I would have found someone else by then. True - he came back for my brothers wedding(they were best friends)!! He asked and I said no, as I was in a serious relationship at this time.

She told me I would be promoted just not when I thought. It would take about 6 months. I thought this was nonsense as I was next in line for a promotion and a position had just come up in my department. The reading was June. When did the post get advertised and filled (by me) November!!

She asked if I was learning to drive. I said no. She told me that I would by the end of the year, I would pass my test first time but I would have a car accident, not serious, but it would involve the police. Well, started to learn to drive when I got my promotion, in November as I could now afford a car. I booked my test for March. My test was on a tuesday morning. On the sunday before it I was out for a drive with my brother, I turned a corner into a quiet residential street. A dog ran on to the road from between 2 parked cars. I slammed on my brakes but still clipped him. Luckily he was ok! He got up and his owner checked him out and promised to take him to the vet! He apologized to me. How do I know all this? because the car that was opposite me when i hit the poor doggy was a police car! Yes, true again!!

She only told me things that would take me up to my 23rd year, saying she only worked in 3's (?)

Anyway, I lived and breathed those predictions and I was so glad when the period was over. I WILL NEVER EVER go to one again. I was lucky, nothing bad was told to me, but other have been told such awful things I could never risk it.

My advice, some are good, most are bad and you really don't need it. Put your positive energy someplace else.
 
Forgot to add. My female boss that pulled out, her young brother was killed in a freak accident at work the day after the reading. What would have happened if she had gone?

Cue the Twilight Zone music

The whole event creeps me out to this day, especially what happened to LH''s brother.
 
I have not, but my mom did before I was born, her friend swore by this lady and gave a reading as a gift to my mom.
This was a few years before she met my dad, and was not planning on ever getting married again or having kids.
She was told:
She would married a dark haired foreigner from the north. (My dad went gray young and did not have dark hair when they met. He is from MT and I am pretty sure he had never been outside the country until after he met my mom)
She would have a boy then a girl. (She had me then my brother.)
Her sister was an alien. (This is the truest statement actually. My aunt is very smart and sweet, but she is not on the same wave lengths as everyone else. The family is equally split as to whether she is an alien or a faerie changling.)

My mom doesn''t remember anything else, but other than the thing about her sister, which did startle her, everything else would be easy to guess. She was an attractive, well spoken woman in San Fran, so a dark haired foreginer would not be hard to come by. Since births are roughly 50/50 per sex, having one of each was a good guess too.
 
Date: 5/10/2010 3:16:10 PM
Author: RaiKai

Date: 5/10/2010 2:50:31 PM
Author: monarch64

Date: 5/10/2010 2:27:07 PM

Author: swimmer

I find fortune cookie messages to be spot on, tasty, and cost effective. Plus if you don''t like it, you can always get another (in bed)!
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ROFL. I still crack up every time I read a fortune and say ''in bed!''
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Me too. The best is when I get 5 or 6 fortunes in one cookie (most I have had was 10!) and add ''in bed'' to them all.

I can''t crack anyone else up like I crack myself up. DH can attest to that.

I don''t actually eat the cookies though. I just don''t find them very tasty.
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I used to say in Marlon Brando''s bed until he died.
Now I like what they have in this comic: http://www.xkcd.com/425/
 
I went to a psychic when I was 17 or 18 with my mom (who was in the room with me.) The psychic said that I would NOT marry my first love, I would have 4 children--3 girls and 1 boy, that I''d start my own business and a few other things.


I did marry my first love, I have my 2nd child on the way and no business in my future.

None of this was accurate for me, however ALL of it was accurate for my mom. If she was "real" she picked up on my mom''s vibe and not mine.
 
OOOOOOOOOOOkay. Sometimes trying to be politically correct and diplomatic about respecting everyone''s belief''s can bite you in the tail. Especially when you''re normally blunt- sorry if my initial post was misleading. I was reading a mystery novel with a police psychic in it, and I thought.... wow it''s been a while since I did that and it sounds like fun. My personal belief is that there are things that we can''t explain out there... but that most people out there doing this stuff deserve the bad rep they have. Which is why I tried yelp (don''t recommend yelp for this btw). And being a PSer it occured to me that it was a topic I hadn''t seen discussed on here. End of story. Yes, I am on a "finding myself" kick. But I''m not looking for magic to solve my problems. I have other more proven things that I am trying. But thanks everyone for the concern and the advice. As for waste of money- I don''t know. The time I was drunk I was in DC and it was a lot of fun-- of course that could have been the tequila and the atmosphere. There''s a woman in a town nearby that drives a ''physic van''.... always thought it would be fun to try the experience again. To each their own.
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Sorry Gypsy,

Didn''t mean my post to come over as "concerned!"

I didn''t have a bad experience I just don''t think the information sat well with me and it was my reaction that wasn''t good as opposed to my reading.

I just wonder how you would feel if they told you something appalling, as has happened to people I know. My friends mother who I mentioned in my post was told, on honeymoon, over 50 years ago, that her marriage would break up, she would be diagnosed with terminal cancer and that one of her sons would die suddenly at a very young age. All of these terrible things came true, albeit over a very long time. However, she could never shake this woman''s words and they haunted her right up to her death 2 years ago. It is more the thought of this type of scenario that would make me advise anyone, not just you, about not going to these people.

Sorry again!
 
I''ve never been to one, but something strange happened to my mom once...

She was in a book store, just browsing around one day. A kid in his early 20''s walked right up to her, and said, "I know this is weird, me just walking up to you like this. But I have something important to tell you. You have a son about my age, right?". She replied that she did (my brother was 22 at the time). "Well," he says, "He''s going to go through a rough time soon, and you''ll have to help him, but please don''t worry, everything will turn out okay." He then thanked her and left.
My mom called me immediately. She didn''t want to freak out my brother. At the time, things were really looking up for him. He had just started a new job 2 weeks prior, and had gotten a new car. My mom was worried and freaked out, she felt like the guy just knew. Sooo weird.
2 or 3 days later, my brother got really sick. 105 degree temp, so sick my mom took him to the ER. He had just started his new job, and didn''t have sick time OR health insurance. Turned out to be the flu, and my mom had to help him out financially, between the hospital bill, $150 for the antibiotics, and his car payment that he couldn''t afford because he had missed out on a week of work. And she had to take a few days off from her job to take care of him. He recovered, but it was scary. I''d never seen him that sick.
So, I do believe that some people have a ''third eye'' or whatever you want to call it. My mom was so weirded out, that she vowed to never step foot in that book store again!
To this day neither of us have told my brother, though. We think he''d be mad that we didn''t warn him he''d be facing a ''rough time''.
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I''d be afraid they''d tell me something bad, so I don''t think I''d ever go to one.
 
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