A New Year Psychic Reading

To celebrate this New Year (and to attempt to appease my uncertainty of what it could bring), I visited a local psychic and medium for a personal reading. We shall call her Jan.

In fact, it was my experience with Jan that gave me the idea to start this blog.

I was a little nervous to begin with, mainly because the reading was held in her house – previously I’d only gone to shopfronts or ‘expos’. I also hadn’t let anyone know where I was going, lest they try and talk me out of the ‘ridiculous waste of money’. So off I went, to the unknown Southside of town, with the plan to tell my psychic that my husband knew exactly where I was and was in fact just around the corner at the shops. But the house looked quite normal (for the Southside, anyway), and as I crept up the driveway I could hear a cheery-sounding lady talking loudly on her phone.

When I see a psychic, I don’t try to hide anything, by dressing differently or using a different name to test them. I intentionally try to be very open-minded, so it’s not my own negativity or deceit that might disturb them. Really, I want them to succeed. Especially if I’m paying all that money.

But it didn’t bode well when Jan answered the door. ‘Did you have any trouble finding the place? Oh well, of course you wouldn’t; you live on the Southside don’t you.’
‘Er, no – I’m from the Northside actually.’

This was the start of a long series of quite blatant mistakes, from guessing I had a brother rather than a sister; that I was being bothered by a male at work (when in fact they’re all female bar one, who’s a very lovely gentleman); and that I had just split up from my boyfriend. In fact, I married only two months ago. Jan then suggested that we were having teething problems and I had to assure her that we have been unofficially married for over 5 years and were actually fine. At one stage, I wondered if she was actually somehow channelling my sister, as the circumstances she was describing seemed more suited to her.

The crowning moment was when Jan announced, ‘You’ve had a big change in your employment in the last few months – but of course, that’s when you moved from FAHCSIA to DEEWR’ [Australian Government Departments].

What? I’ve never worked in either of those departments, and in fact not worked for the Government at all. Nor do I intend to. Actually, I hadn’t even changed jobs in the last three years. I had to let that one slide though; I couldn’t bear having to disagree with her again.

All in all, the hour was a little embarrassing for both of us; at least until we started talking about the practice of psychics’, and how they develop their skills, rather than my personal forecast. From there, Jan was a wealth of information. She pointed me towards a number of websites and books (which will be reviewed here at some point), and most importantly spoke about the importance of ‘psychic protection’. She explained that psychic protection involves a number of processes, some verbal and some material, that all psychics must undertake to ensure they are protected from negative forces; and give thanks and respect to their guides and angels. It certainly highlighted the importance to me of looking into psychic protection before I attempt to develop my own skills.

Later that night when I got home, I had an email in my inbox from Jan. She explained, and apologised, for confusing me with a woman she had met of the same age at her husband’s Christmas Party. She had only met my namesake briefly, and when I contacted her shortly after, assumed it was one and the same. My full name is not overly common, so I can see how she would make the mistake.

Jan assured me that her confusion had no bearing on the reading she gave me (really?). So unfortunately, I am left no more or less convinced than I was prior to the reading; and not particularly enlightened about what 2010 could bring. I would have been bitterly disappointed by the experience, had I not at the time had the idea to start this project and blog and find out more about it. So thank-you to Jan for that!