Nope.
It always annoys me when fortune cookies contain a platitude or an aphorism or something rather than, you know, a fortune. I want a prediction, dammit, not a thought for the day!
I've never had any luck at all with tarot readers, paid or not. I have had a decent palm reading or two. One palm reader (palmist? palmologist?) told me that I had turned away from a calling to be a teacher, and that I could have influenced many people's lives. (I did, in fact, drop out of the teacher-education track late in college, and ended up with a degree but no teaching certification.) I guilt-tripped over that for years before I decided on a new life path.
I do have friends who have had scarily accurate card readings from a guy who has a table set up next to Jackson Square in New Orleans. He didn't charge an arm and a leg, and didn't try to press for further appointments - being in a tourist area, most of his clients aren't likely to be around for that. Based on what I've been told, though, I'm going to try to find him the next time I'm there, and my friends have seen him several times now.
My husband has also gotten good readings at the state Renaissance Festival on several occasions - again, no real chance of scaring you into a later appointment. But he did go back to see the same people in subsequent years.
If you're going to pay for a reading, that sort of thing might be best - someplace where the only chance they'll ever get you to come back is if they're so good you want a repeat performance. |
