The 'doubters' may find this hard to believe, but I'm a doubter too! Some scepticism is probably healthy, and belief is a personal choice. I happen to believe in the power of synchronicity, because I've noticed its instructive (and challenging) force in my own life. However, I don't preach it to anyone. I agree, people will see what they want to see and take what they want to take from a 'reading', but that's their prerogative. I enjoy playing with symbolic meaning and composing supportive readings from what I 'see', but it could be from looking at pretty much anything with visual content in the moment that I'm focusing my intention on a particular person's request. At that moment I might look up at the sky and interpret the pattern of the clouds or shades I see there, or I might look at the floor and interpret the details in the marks and other features I see there; sometimes I tune into my mind's eye and other times I look at pictures or 'hear' thoughts and use those to work from. I interpret according to my own 'lexicon' of common sense and/or received wisdom, often with humanistic values underpinning my approach to supporting people or offering guidance. But I accept that that framework is made up of lots of influences and I don't claim that it's anything special at all. On the other hand, I'm convinced by the power of the unconscious forces that shape all our lives, and which (when I've paid attention) have taught me some lessons that have been profound influences on my own development as a person. The vital ingredient is intention, and people will take it or leave it. Again, their choice. You can object that when people ask for readings based on intuition or 'psychic power' they're particularly vulnerable, and sometimes you would be right and in other instances you would be assuming an incapacity that simply isn't there. For many people this approach is informed by a preference for how guidance or support is sought and found, and that's up to them, not you. I work from the assumption that people asking for a reading need an instance of reflective support and so I endeavour to couch statements in supportive, encouraging terms. And when I mention 'significant' or 'auspicious' colours or numbers, I do so because, as I'm focusing my intention on giving that person a supportive and encouraging reading, those particular colours or numbers pass through my awareness and I read them as information. If there's any value in that for someone to take from the reading (eg. it prompts them to reflect on positive associations to particular colours or numbers) then the energy inherent in those phenomena has been experienced as symbolically useful to someone's perception of their experience, perhaps. (And often, briefly but helpfully.)
We all make things 'fit', every day, sometimes based on the most useful and informed approaches to interpreting information gained through our senses, and other times in self-destructive and self-defeating ways. That's life. Some people gain strength and hope from symbolic ways of interpreting and thinking about the world and themselves, others don't find much value in that mode of perception and prefer established science, with its emphasis on the 'objective vs subjective' mode of reasoning. Nobody in their right mind would argue that the benefits of applied science haven't made a contribution of inestimable value to humanity. On the other hand, we can be very quick to overlook the very real dangers that the scientific (mechanised, relative or quantum) world view has brought to our daily lives and which now threaten to engulf the planet and mankind irrevocably because of how very fallible people have employed that world view. And for some reason people insist on its absolute credibility. My point is that all ways of thinking and perceiving have a destructive face. Intention is everything. The road to hell can be paved with the best of intentions, whether you're thinking in symbolic and metaphorical ways, or applying scientific values and methods. I understand that and I would never claim that reading tea leaves, tarot cards, clouds, or 'psychic' visions is valid without querents making constructive use of it. And that's their business, not mine. And not yours, either.