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........

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

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.

lol Spring and mistree

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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!

Seriously?

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

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