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........

[izzywhizzyletsgetbusy]

What was the dream? What comes to us in our dreams/nightmares can be symbolic, and it does not necessarily mean that what we dream about will actually occur in our waking lives - in fact, the opposite can occur.

If you're feeling particularly disturbed by your dream it would not be a good idea to seek the services of a tarot card or palm reader at this time.

[MissusTulip]

I had my palm read 6 or 7 years ago, in the most random way. Was at a dinner after a professional meeting, where a lot of drink was being consumed with the tasty grub. A drunk, male Indian psychiatrist sitting across the table randomly decided to read my palm. I hadn't had much to do with him prior to the dinner, so he hadn't had a chance to hear any relevant info before hand... It was hilarious - esp when he tried to whisper how much I enjoy sex (ahem), but some of his reading has subsequently been spot on:

• I'd move countries for work age 27/28 (yep)
  
• I would marry very happily (so far so good!)
  
• I would have 2 children and at least one boy (DC no 1 on the way, 20 week scan 2 weeks ago confirmed it's a boy)
  

He also predicted I would be very eminent in my field, here's hoping!

He didn't come to the second day of the professional meeting and I've never seen him since, despite being on a comittee with him for a year at the time. I didn't imagine it, honest, as the colleagues sat a the same table were still cracking up over the loving sex comment for ages after

[onagar]

Here's a thought. If any means of telling the future worked then the future must be fixed. It doesn't matter if it's Tarot cards, Palm reading or Biblical prophecy. If any means worked then what happens in the future is already settled. If you could choose to do something different then it would all go wildly wrong as your choices affect other people too.

So... and here's the good bit... go and throw the cat out the window or run down the street wearing a teapot on your head. Rob a bank or eat 10 pounds of chocolate. It doesn't matter what you or anyone else does because it is all fixed. Anything you do now was already decided before you were even born.

:o

[LordOfTheFlies]

I've got a palm-reading story for you cynics.
Many years ago, probably 1989, DH (who was at the time DF) and I went to a psycic fayre with 2 friends.I didn't go in with DF as I didn't want someone to 'cold read' me.
Went to see an Asian middle aged chap.
I had a plaster on my hand.He asked why and I said I had cut my finger. He said I had 'healing hands'. I work in healthcare.
He said my life would change at 28. At the time I was 23 and we hadn't set a date but we got married at 28.
He said I would have one baby easily, the next one would be more difficult. I laughed out loud as I had no intention of having DCs (let alone 2)
I had DS when I was 33. When I was TTC DC2 I had a MC and a car accident when I was 4 months pg with her.( She was okay,as was DS.I knackered my back)

Didn't really put it all together until many years later but it is spookily uncanny.

Coincidence?? I think not.

[SpringchickenGoldBrass]

Oh FFS! It's all a load of bollocks (as is Christianity and any other religion you can name). All these 'accurate' predictions are just lucky guesses: it's not exactly an unsafe bet to predict that a young-ish woman will have one or two children as most women have at least one child. And 'your life will change at 28' - yeah right. A lot of people make changes in their lives in their mid-to-late 20s, sometimes that's marriage, sometimes it's travel or a change of job - the thing is, gullible people remember the 'right' predictions even though they are always either the vague ones or the absolutely no-shit-sherlock ones and forget how much of what was said was wrong. Spookily uncanny, my arse.

[LordOfTheFlies]

You just can't argue with 'higher things'.
Everyone has their own views but I know my reading (and I've only had one) was uncannily accurate.
IMHO

Childish raspberry!!

[LordOfTheFlies]

AS in blowing a childish raspberry, not calling you a childish raspberry.
Clear as mud.

[SpringchickenGoldBrass]

LOTF: Yeah, right. Everything that man said to you was both vague and plausible, you just fitted it to your own circumstances. If he'd (for instance) said you were going to have triplets and they would be two girls and a boy and that had happened five years later it would have been a little surprising as less statistically likely. He probably told you quite a lot more guff that didn't actually happen (but was not exactly outside the norm) and you just forgot it.

[seeker]

Lordoftheflies - what you need to think about is what else he said thatdidn't come true.

If a "medium" or whatever scatters lots of predictions, people tend only to remember the ones that come true. And most people have 2 children - that;s a pretty safe bet!

[LordOfTheFlies]

Well he said there was going to be a death which I didn't really pay much heed to because I had elderly GP and my GF died a year later then my GM a year after him. That was coincidence, I reckon.

But how many people have a 6 year engagement??
And the problems when pg with DD
And the healing hands??

Let me have my little moment of madness.I find it a comfort, you terrible sceptics, you!!

[Empusa]

"He said my life would change at 28. At the time I was 23 and we hadn't set a date but we got married at 28."

So you can guarantee that you absolutely, without a doubt, never ever, even subconsciously, chose to get married at an age you had previously been told would be significant?

"He said I would have one baby easily, the next one would be more difficult."

The most common number of children is 2. Chances are one of the births will be more difficult.

[seeker]

And if you hadn't got married, something elsoe might well have happened in your 28th year that would have made you remember the prediction. And if nothing significant had happened, you wouldn;t have remembered.

[LittleBlueBoat]

I had my plam read years ago when i was 20.

The man said i would go to USA - i was studying American business studies but had to pull out of the year in am american uni. But i then got married in USA?

The man said i would work in the supply of medical equipment - i did for 2 days and hated it.

The man said i would have 3 children - but i only want 2 and i'm currently carrying DC2

He also said - remember the name Paul - there are thousdands of people called Paul and i'm sure i meet someone called Paul everday!

I think its a load of BS as the choices we make change the course of our lifes.

[SpringchickenGoldBrass]

THe 'healing hands' bit is an open statement. If you hadn't worked in healthcare or something similar, he would have assessed how gullible you were and told you that you should consider 'developing your gift' for healing and probably flogged you a book on massage. Most people would be able to remember some incident of them being kind to a distressed person that they would be able to big up in their heads to having Speshul Powerz.

Anyway, the reason we rational ones are pulling your tail about this con job is that while the reading you were given has done you no harm, other people can be harmed by this sort of shit, either worrying needlessly for a long time about some vague prediction of 'death.... loss... close by' or spending a fortune on these crooks.

[justonemorethen]

I 've been twice and she was very accurate.

First time I was pregnant and couldn't decide whether to have keep it or not. Had no job,no money no where to live and the father said I should abort because he had a new girlfriend. Tarot reader said it'll be a boy, have him and he'll bring you nothing but happiness. Turned out he was a boy. Was offered lots of work and had more money than pre pregnancy, a nice place to live and he was a perfect baby no trouble at all.
Went back after 5 months to the same lady because she had been right to see what else she could tell me. She said I was just about to meet a man and described him (not my type at all). She said I already knew him and that we would have a long relationship. Two weeks later my bosses best friend (who I had seen once before but not spoken to) asked me out. Fitted the description perfectly. Seven years on and he's still here. She also mentioned travel and turns out this guy works abroad a lot hence we get to go on holiday at least 3 times year with him.

I also brought my own cards. Contrary to expectations the same cards do always come up to specific questions and I predicted my own ectopic pregnancy last year.

[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 !

[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.

[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.

[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."

[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.

[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]

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

[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.

[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..).