Thank you, Zen. Much appreciated. Very brave of you to post too.
op you've just proved how easily it is to con the credulous that you have psychic powers. What Zen posted (deliberately I suspect) says precisely nothing about you or your life that doesn't apply to most people. Let's break it down:
- Something that used to interest you has lost it's appeal.
Well yes, this happens to all of us, otherwise we would be still playing with toy blocks and our favourite food would by rusks.Do you know anyone who had exactly the same interests, tastes, hobbies, pastimes and general likes and dislikes as they did 20 or 30 years ago?
Notice also how vague it is: 'something' doesn't specify say, a particular hobby or a book or an aspect of your work or a television programme. It is deliberately written in such a vague way that the reader fills in the blanks. It is what is known as a 'Barnum statement' and it is so vague it contains 'something for everyone' to read into it.
It is not like Zen is saying 'you started water-skiing in February 2012, at first you really enjoyed it and Kevin the instructor was really helpful, but now you've mastered the basics, you feel it it is getting quite boring. You skipped the Water skiers' Summer ball last Tuesday and are putting off renewing your membership as the subs have gone up to £56:31 a month.' If she had never met you and could have predicted that accurately that would be astounding but she hasn't and she can't.
I could pick it apart line by line. How much physic ability does it take to make trite, affirmative statements like:
- 'Have confidence in yourself. Think positive and things will work out for you!' ' .This is a time to come into your own.'
They could come straight from the world's worst self help book, but it makes it feel like the psychic is on your side and has your best interest at heart.
Deliberately vague and open ended predictions:
- 'I see a celebration coming up (wedding, baby pregnancy etc).'
Note it doesn't say specify what the event will be a birth, a wedding, a pregnancy or whether it will happen to you or someone else you know. It doesn't say 'you will get pregnant before November or 'your sister's boyfriend will propose to her on her birthday' and the etc. is a brilliant get out clause.
So in the next few months if any of the following events happened a believer in physics would say:
A work colleague gets pregnant: gosh just like the psychic said!
or Great Aunty Maureen invites you to her Golden Wedding anniversary: gosh, just like the psychic said!
or someone throws you a surprise party: gosh, just like the psychic said.
Except she didn't say that, she said something so vague and open ended: basically something (anything) worthy of celebration or a social occasion will happen to you or someone you know will happen within an ill defined time-frame.
- 'A new person is coming into yout life.'
New people come into our lives all the time, whether as casual acquaintances, new colleagues, a new bus driver on the 37 bus route etc.
This next bit is really clever though ...
-This could be (a) new romance or (b) your current relationship becoming more romantic.
This is a way for the so-called psychic to cover up the fact that they have no idea if you are in a relationship or single. If you are single you will focus in on (a) the new partner and disregard (b). Likewise if you are in a relationship you will focus your attention in on (b) and will skip over (a).
Notice also could not will happen. So you might meet someone or you might not. Your current relationship might get better/more intense or it might not. Wow.
- consider working with people whose skills add to your own. (I see ine one blond one dark does thus ring any bells?)
Playing the odds. Unless you are a member of Right said Fred or are one of the Mitchell Brothers, there are pretty good odds that someone in your workplace will have hair on the broad spectrum of 'blonde' or 'dark'. Notice it doesn't specify their relation to you or even their sex and even encourages the op to speculate in her mind who it might be 'this ring any bells?' invites the op to start applying the template to someone they know either at or through work.
- According to these here cards you should develop your psychic powers!
And how might you do that? By going back to your psychic guide who will happily continue to relieve you of your cash and have their ego stroked by you hanging off their every word.
Like I say op i am 90% certain that Zen has written this as a really excellent parody of the vague non-specific guff and the trick that so called physics can convince someone they have special gifts or capacity to see the future. As I've said before, it isn't anything other than a cheap fairground trick.
Do me a favour: go through Zen's reading again and pick out the stuff that applies to you and to you only and couldn't be applied to anyone else on this thread. There really is nothing at all.