I went to meet a psychic who has a room in a new age shop. I figured if she has a room there, the shop probably screened her to make sure she was minimally competent. Oooh, not so. When I saw her from afar, I didn't feel totally in confidence because she didn't seem to have a put together nor confident appearance. She also seemed quite rushed. She held my hand after shaking it to lead me to her room.

The first thing she told me was that I had beautiful eyes and that I should wear a purple or lavender eyeliner. Wooah, I didn't know psychics gave make-up advice! Even then, I feel it might be the best advice she gave me because I did buy a purple eyeliner afterward and it looks nice. 

She touched my hand throughout the reading which I found hard to maintain. Luckily, I had booked only 30 minutes. She started by speaking fast, did not seem wholly comfortable at first and said only one line of introduction. She then asked me if I had any picture. I showed her the picture of the man I wanted to ask about. It's always because of a man, isn't it? Throughout the reading she asked me: what place was the man born, how long we had been together, how we stopped being together, what I did for a living and for how long, what he did for a living, if we had been married.

I decided that if she was offering a real piece of information or asking a pointed question, I would tell her the main thing about the man: that he is dead. For example, if she had said: ''I get the feeling the man might be sick or in trouble physically.'', I would have voluteered more info. But she never picked up anything about that or any related elements. In fact, she told me he was transitioning (true, all right) and would reflect for about a year after which he would likely come back to me! That would be difficult to do. After that, all she told me she could infer from the questions she asked me. She never picked up any of the problems related to my relationship to this man and his death nor any issue I have had since he has been gone. She also could not tell I was in a career transition and a transition in all respects otherwise. She said I would likely be staying right where I am.

Whenever I lingered on something interesting she said, she could never be more precise. She told me I was an ''old soul''...All right, every body must be an old soul. She could not be more precise about any past life. As to my 2 guardian angels, they may have been with me for the last 15 months or for the last 9 months, you decide. Also, I might be alone for the next 3 years or my dead boyfriend might come back to me within a year, you also decide.

But, to me, the real outrageous thing in that reading was that after it was done, she led me to the crystals and said: ''you would need a crystal for the man and a crystal for you''. The shop keeper, after received a prompt from the reader, put a book in my hand saying it was very good. I felt it was 100% funneling into buying stuff, with no relation whatsoever to anything she had said during the reading about crystals, chakra or anything. Because of that manner of doing things, I have decided to never go into that store again.

So, all in all, I do want to believe some people have a gift but I think there is a lot of commercial crap out there. The next 40$ I spend will not be on a reading but on a book about developing your own psychic skills and spirituality (not that I'm lacking books on that subject). I was very disappointed, especially considering that I was not in for very practical concerns but more for spiritual connection and guidance in a time of transition.

Well, I do have a purple eyeliner now.

Well, if you think that there are people on this planet who have a special gift of intuition, you would hope to gain some insight by receiving a reading from them. That's if you believe those people exist and that they would advertise as such. If you don't think they exist, the point is moot.

I wouldn't use a ''gift'' as a full-time job but then, that's just me. Or I would if I just had this tremendous vision that is just changing people's life so much that there is nothing else I could think of doing.

Julie--hi. I'm sorry that the experience felt so negative for you. I think you may have had unreasonable expectations about the reading and about getting very specific info.

Different people do readings in different ways. And give different types of info.

I hope at some point you can stop blaming the person and just think of this as mismatch between the two of you.

If you are interested in having a long distance reading feel free to contact me via a bnet PM.

Sending good thoughts your way.