AIBU to ask whether any of you are particularly good at English?

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Can someone interpret this sentence into plain old English for me pretty please?

It's in the context of a psychic reading. Not interested in getting into the ins and outs of that, just want to know what the sentence means as I don't understand it.

There is a deeply spiritual tone to your reading, almost esoteric, certainly powerfully archetypal

What does that mean?

From the dictionary, both esoteric and archetypal mean 'typical'. But even then the sentence doesn't make sense?

It's bollocks for "you're a very special and yooneek person".

You might want to recheck your dictionary definition of "esoteric".

Esoteric is usually used to refer to something "special", that is intended for or understood by few people. Most people use abstract or obscure more often.

That said, the sentence is designed to hook you in. To make you seem "different" and mystical, so it's worth spending more on understanding yourself. It's a very common sentence for that type of thing.

English/History lecturer here: this is how I encourage my students not to write. Lockheart seems to sum it up neatly.

I think they're trying to say your reading is mysterious and unusual but they've misused archetypal.

Ok, just googled it again and got this

"Esoteric means "understood by only a chosen few". An esoteric person would have select interests shared by few others and would speak in big or rarely used words, that would typically go over the heads of the people s/he converses with." Well that's a load of bollocks anyway! Ironic word to use.

I'm sure I saw a definition of it meaning typical somewhere when I last googled.

I am a very special and yooneek person though

In my own head anyway!

It means "I'm making this shit up but I've put some words in to sound more woo"

There is a deeply spiritual tone to your reading (= it feels spiritual in a general sense rather than there being any specific examples of spirituality in it)
almost esoteric - it is almost as if it can only be understood by a select group of people who are specilists in this area, or have understanding of this particular philosophy (psychic readings presumably)
certainly powerfully archetypal - it is very much a typical standard example of the type of thing it is ( a psychic reading ? things with a spiritual tone ?)

In other words (and I know you don't want to hear this) it is gibberish, It is self contradictory and makes no sense whatsoever, Someone has swallowed a dictionary of woo sounding words and spewed them up into a sentence that is total bollocks.

But each to their own

Thecoffee put it more succinctly

Esoteric's meaning is far from 'typical' - it means 'only understood by a select few, private, secret etc. Agree that archetypal means typical with regard to a person or written work. No idea what they mean by 'powerfully archetypal.

Sorry but as psychics make stuff up, I suggest this is along similar lines.

That's probably why I couldn't make head nor tail of it then!

They’ve used long words to bamboozle you and to make you think they’re intelligent. It’s also totally vague and could apply to just about anyone.

"archetypal"- full of archetypes? Like Jungian symbols?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes

It means "You believe in spiritual crap", which I suppose you must do if you're looking at psychic drivel. The whole context has a "give me some money" feel about it, there must be a more detailed reading to be purchased further down the page.

Ok, so loosely translated she's saying that I'm psychic too or something?

She's scamming you telling you want she thinks you want to hear in flowery, sesquipedalian wankspeak.

Ok, so loosely translated she's saying that I'm psychic too or something?

Only if you accept that she is psychic - which she clearly isn't or she'd have known you were going to post her 'reading' on MN and we'd all say it was complete dung.

The Jungian reference makes sense.

Well if she thought I'd understand it, she was clearly wrong lol.

English teacher here. It means:

You have paid money for this reading so I want you to feel special. I am going to achieve this by using words which don't actually make sense in the sentence I've used them in but will make you feel mysteriously important...

The "archetypal" at the end is just bollocks as it directly contradicts the "esoteric". Tbh, I don't think the author of the reading understands the words.

It was a free reading.

But......... if anyone wants a reading from me since I'm esoteric, I'll happily oblige for £50.

Btw, I didn't ask for an interpretation of why they said it. I just wanted a 'translation' of sorts of the sentence.

Sometimes I use complicated words I don't understand to make me sound more photosynthesis.