Interesting thread.
I actually stopped giving readings because I didn't find that it was helpful for many, various reasons.
1. If you were meant to know the future, you would already know yourself.
2. I actually don't believe in free-will (it's a religious things that I don't want to get into)
3. Back to free will......You do have a tiny amount of free will, but time is merely an illusion and we choose what lessons we are to learn before we come to earth, which is why I don't necessarily believe in free will. This is just MY opinion. It's not meant to be a discussion on free will vs. predestination.
4. Now if we choose to have a little adventure on earth and learn lessons, how does knowing the future prepare us? It kind of doesn't. And that is why you can skip to Number 8.....
5. I decided to stop giving readings...back to that...I had one girl obsess...and i mean obsess.....I described a man she would meet. She thought she met him and then tried to force herself on him. She kept writing back to me over and over and over again. And my only response was, "Why don't you just let it unfold naturally." Now I have to think either that wasn't the guy or she used the small amount of free will she had to mess up the situation or I was just horrible wrong and good at describing people. Sure, I could describe the man.....but maybe I was wrong. Maybe what I saw was just her crushing and falling in love with a man whose love would always be unrequited. And I also never, ever said that she would MARRY the guy, which she kept confusing in her head because that was what she so desperately wanted. I actually described something quite different for her and a marriage much later. Did I see some kind of romance between her and the guy I described, yes, I did. Was I wrong. I think so. I am never 100% right. Psychics are not omni-present. They are not God.
6. I had a horrible reading by "real" tarot reading. You know, the one with the website that usually comes up to the top of google. The dumbest part about it was that I had a negative feeling before I asked for the reading. but then I thought maybe I was being judgmental because she was so pretty. and I have been judged a lot by the way I look, so I thought maybe I was projecting.
6a. She didn't answer the questions I wanted and then admonished me about karma and my "choice" to fall in love with a married man who I NEVER had an affair with. So .......LOVE is a bad karmic mistake? no...I don't think so. Like I said, I think she assumed I had an affair with him, which I wouldn't do. So...no need to admonish anyone or lecture anyone over a karmic event that NEVER happened.
6b. She predicted a man....fairly accurate. So I meet a man like the man she describes. I had actually met him prior to her reading, but got a shadying feeling from him. So flash forward 6 months and there my girlfriend and I are at starbucks when said guy walks in.....and I think.....maybe that's him. And my girlfriend was like, "He's so cute. go for it...." Well.....ends up he hired me to build a website for him, which I did....but because I was so so sure that it was totally possible that we could be soul mates I let the fact I wasn't getting paid slide.....and the fact he had anger management issues, impulse control, possible Narssistic Personality Disorder and was a weirdo control freak just slide out of my view of judgement...... And guess what? He owes me 2 grand for a website that I made for him. I had to threaten litigation (don't even have the money for that!), but he took down the website (that I built) and replaced it with some template built site a month later. ANYWAY! that just SUCKED.
6c. I was hustled by said "soul mate" and the woman who gave me the reading. And the whole time I ignore my own intuition. I will not call this woman out publically, but if you want to know who she was you can PM me. And who knows, maybe I'll met ANOTHER guy who fits his description next year, but the whole point was that my decision to do business with him was SWAYED by a reading that wasn't entirely accurate and had many, many false points.
7. I have had a very, very good experience with Patricia Mclaine.(google her) She has described accurate things. Sometimes she describes things that I think, "That's not true....I would never"...like when she said I would fall in love with a cat. I told her, "I would never get a cat. I hate cat hair and the litter box." Flash forward two years later I am so, so, so in love with my cat Loki. So sometimes, psychics will say things that doesn't resonate at the moment....but we are in denial because we really don't know ourselves as good as we do. Like we have this certain projection in our own head about where we think and want our live to go, but it doesn't always go that way.
I have also come across this with readings I give for people. There is a lot of "That's not true." and then the call 2 years later...."What you said happened." Or there is the point where you are slighly off and the client doesn't make the connection. For example, you say, "You have a big family." and the client says, "No, I don't." and you repeat, "I see a lot of family around you." the client says, "No, I don't have a family. I'm not married. No children." Now...I could have stopped there....but I was so so sure I could see a lot of family....so I said, "Do you have a lot of brothers or sisters..?" and the reply was, "Yes, I'm one of 12." I would say that's a BIG family, but the client was in denial because she didn't have her own immediate family. There can be disconnects.
Professions are also hard to predict. Like when you tell someone they are in one field, but it's just closely related to a similar field, so there in denial about that too. Or this one "I see you moving a lot. did you just move?" the reply is , "no"....Psychic says"I see boxes around you, a lot of moving boxes..." and then....."Oh! well my parents own a moving company."
8. I stopped giving readings because it's not my place to tell anyone who you will marry, what school you will go to, or what will unfold...and most of the time when you WARN people of bad things....they do NOTHING to change it. So what's the point in that..... Like for instance I have a client who I've read for many times....."Beware of the woman in red....She's foreign...She's not who she says she is..." Nope, he signs a business deal with her, get scammed and comes back for another reading...."Don't let your girlfriend's daughter drive your 80 thousand dollar car, she'll wreck it." Can you guess what happened?
If you've read all this....thank you for taking the time.