So I applied for a job as a tarot reader at a local place called the "White Feather Psychic Centre". I've been reading tarot, fairly successfully, for around eight years with no complaints. I go to the "interview" and find myself at the "centre" - a musty old flat where an old white-haired stern-looking woman with an ancient little terrier greets me. She has me come in, sit down on her embroidered couch, and do a reading for her. She then proceeds to complain about the deck I use (Rider-Waite) and the layout (Celtic Cross). She also carps at length about how my reading is too "by the book" and that I need to make it into a story for entertainment purposes. I ask for an example, and she proceeds to give me a reading, during the course of which she asks lots of questions, asserts that she talks to angels, and is seemingly 'cold reading' me. (my evidence for this stems from the fact that she said I was having financial difficulties [I am 22 and a student... like most Americans here] and made a few wildly innacurate assertions that would prolly be accurate for someone in a similar position to me.)
Now, my real questions here are as follows:
1) Would you consider it 'unethical' to preform cold readings and rook drunk people out of wads of cash?
2) Can anyone here help me learn how to cold read within the next two weeks, or direct me to someone/somewhere that could?
3} Was her terrier undead? It was 18 years old, deaf, toothless, and matted with grime. Perhaps it was her master, the power behind the throne? What are the telling signs?
-Pooka |
