palm reading, tarot reading

[nadia77]

has anyone had palm reading or any sort of pyschic reading? could you please tell me about your experinces i'm thinking of having my palm read and tarot card reading but not sure if it's for real or just haux........

[HedgehogAtHome]

Suppose it makes a change from the sex line work she's posted about previously. Screwing someone over the phone, plus sex work.

[WorraLiberty]

Seriously?

You've revived a 4 year old thread, just to chat bollocks?

[HedgehogAtHome]

Yet she couldn't foretell you'd revive a Zombie thread and look like a tit with your spam. Shame.

Would be awful if we all signed you her up for various newsletters with that email address. Imagine the spam you she'd get then!

[Empusa]

"a beautiful or interesting deck stimulates the imagination and all that. (And I would still quite like to own a Geiger deck, a friend had one and I coveted it just because the pictures were so fascinating)"

That deck is absolutely stunning. Personally I would love the McKean deck.

[Andrewofgg]

Crap, bollocks, ignorance, waste of time (people who do it), waste of space (people who believe in it), and an indictment of an educational system that makes it anything but a laughing stock.

[Piggles]

I've had my cards read quite a few times and most of the time the readers just spout pretty general stuff that could apply to just about anyone. There are a lot of people out there who claim to be psychic, but aren't even especially gifted con-artists. I did have one guy who read my cards though who was quite unusually accurate and didn't get anything wrong. I have no idea if he was just a very skilled mentalist, or if he really had a gift. It was interesting though.

My mum has a more interesting story though, which is very hard to wave off. When my mum was in her early twenties, her teenaged sister ran away from home - no note or warning, just packed her stuff and left. Mum and her family were beside themselves, but they couldn't find her. One day a friend of mum's dragged her to see a psychic. The psychic told her that her sister was fine and living in London with a much older man, and she would come home after they were married. A year or so later mum's younger sister came home to visit with a husband 20 years older than her in tow - they had been living in London.

Now that, is just a bit bizarre.

[SpringchickenGoldBrass]

Even I can see some value in tarot cards as a kind of meditative thing, a beautiful or interesting deck stimulates the imagination and all that. (And I would still quite like to own a Geiger deck, a friend had one and I coveted it just because the pictures were so fascinating). But there's nothing woo about it and there is no way to predict the future. The main reason a lot of woo-peddlers seem so 'accurate' is because the bulk of their 'predictions' are statistically likely to be right anyway.

[BelleDameSansMerci]

This may be a bit heavy going but could be of interest...

FWIW, I can read tarot pretty well but I don't think there's anything "woo" about it.

[nadia77]

ooooooooohhhhhhhhhh! i forgot to mention something really weired happened the day i wrote this thread! well i was having a lazy day in which is why i was on laptop sitting on my couch untill i had to do the school round, as i was leaving i picked up the promotion leaflets dropped through my letterbox guess what i found?! a leaflet on palm reading! I'VE BEEN LIVING AT THIS ADDRESS FOR 6 YEARS NEVER HAVE I HAD ONE OF THOSE!

[SpringchickenGoldBrass]

FUzzled: I love that book. Have you read Pandemonium yet?

[Fuzzled]

Try reading "Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks" by Christopher Brookmyre - a very good take on all things psychic!

[nadia77]

lol Spring and mistree

[MistressFrankly]

Years back i had a reading done by a highly reccomended man. I had no intention of being read but my friends got nervous and wanted me to be the guinia pig. He got many obscure facts about my life unnervingly correct, predicted events i could have never have seen coming and did the same for my friends. Do i think he was pyschic? Bollocks. He was good at his job and his job was understanding people and picking up on all the little clues we carry about.

I come from a family of mediums, tarot readers, astrologers and white witches. Whilst i respect their ability to help those around them simply dont agree where their skills are derived from. They say pyschic, i say perceptive observers with a good line in logic. They do however help a lot of suffering people and have never charged for their services so i leave them to their personal beliefs. Anyone peddling this kind of service for a fee is merely looking for an easy living off the backs of vulnerable unhappy people. As some have said using the tarot yourself can help clarify situations, but no more than a chat down the pub with a good friend.

The only thing the 'psychic' predicted for me which has not come true was that i would be rich beyond my wildest dreams (and they are pretty wild ) and i am very annoyed That might have sayed me to look on him a wee bit more favourably.

[Rindercella]

Seeker, thank you Distraction by trivia is an amazing thing...

[SpringchickenGoldBrass]

Oh plenty of woo-peddlers are well-meaning and have quite good counselling skills (a good counsellor uses the same skill-set as a good con-artist BTW, it's all about picking up cues from the other person and working out what they want to hear).
But all these allegedly 'accurate' predictions are things that are statistically likely to happen to the person; if you were 51 and postmenopausal a fortune teller would probably not tell you you are going to have another child unless you have had a lot of botox. Most women of childbearing age will have one or two children, most people are a bit concerned about a friend or family member ('I see worry, someone close to you is struggling' - there is always going to be someone you know who is struggling with something).
I can read a Tarot deck - every card has a pretty good selection of meanings that you can fanny around with until you hit pay dirt.
Oh, and a really accurate medium/psychic will be one who has a waiting list. That's because s/he will be using that waiting time to Google you vigorously (pre-internet they had to go to the library or ask around..).

[seeker]

I'm on a mission to stand up for rational thinking and The Enlightenment.

It's good to see you here, rindercella - hope that means you now have at least a little headspace for the more trivial aspects of life.

[Rindercella]

Seeker, you have a very good knack at erm, seeking out these threads

[seeker]

You can do that with horoscopes, too.

You've got a self selecting audience who want it to be true so much that they meet the medium or whatever much more than half way.

[Rindercella]

It's all a load of bollocks imo. But I understand that for some people it works.

My husband saw someone years ago. She said he would have 3 children. He did. She also said that he would live until he was 85. He died 2 months ago at 52.

[Empusa]

"I had two friends who had their cards read on a pier in the same week. They were both astonished by the woman's accuracy. When I got them to compare notes, she had pretty much said exactly the same thing to each."

[swash]

I had two friends who had their cards read on a pier in the same week. They were both astonished by the woman's accuracy. When I got them to compare notes, she had pretty much said exactly the same thing to each.

[swash]

I learned to do tarot, and read quite a few people's cards (for fun and for free). Some of them were shocked at what I told them (so shocked that they still mention it 15 years later!). So for a while I was convinced that I really did have a gift.

But I think good tarot-readers are just good story-tellers. There is definitely a need for the person to feed back information to you - and if you are perceptive and emotionally tuned in, you pick up a lot from their reactions to things. People often desperate need an outlet, and tarot can provide that.

i wouldn't pay anyone though. If you are seriously wondering about issues in your life, I would pay a good counsellor. S/he can pick up on the non-verbal cues you give out, and help you discover what it is you want to do. It's a lot healthier and more useful than tarot or palm reading.

[Gotabookaboutit]

Tis bollocks -if the reason behind going is just wondering what's going to happen in your life, you need to sit and have a really good think about your long term goals and how to achieve them as all you lack 1s focus and/or personal understanding. If its a more emotional thing you would do better paying for some good counselling of a type suited to your problems or even just a bloody good read of the relationships board on here !