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I have had the opportunity the last couple of months to speak to two different psychics. I have to say it is an interesting thing to do just from a people watching/studying framework.

One part of me believes that the really good psychics are simply very good at picking up body signals and clues we give off let alone slips of the lips or just guessing at things that may apply to any given cross section of the population that would choose to visit the person to get advice. This is my logical side or some may say my cynical side but I don’t see it as a cynical viewpoint, I believe someone who is very perceptive and can guess well would be a very good ally or advisor even if they weren’t psychic.

On the flip side, one part of me believes there is something to it. I have had a couple of very close very dear family friends who happened to be “gifted” and sometimes have heard that myself or family members are ”gifted” as well. Am I gifted, I don’t know. But I can tell you some of the times weird things are known well before they should be known by some members of the family and especially by the old now passed away family friends.

On the flip flip side, maybe these people are saying things and they are becoming self-fulfilling. For instance, if someone says you are going to get in a car accident, you will probably be so self conscious about it you may actually cause yourself a car accident. 

I have several different stories though that can’t be explained away so very easily I think. One story involves me and my mother, from what I understand of the story, been a while since I heard it, my mom came home one night, a dear friend of the family looked at her and said you are pregnant. My mom was quite sure she wasn’t, I don’t think that is something you can talk someone into either no matter how convincing you tell them. Well she was, with me. Now how detailed was the “you are pregnant”? I don’t know. I think I recall hearing once the story was you are pregnant with a boy, other times I think I just heard you are pregnant. I don’t know. I am sure mom will come along and comment and let me know. Either way, I recall hearing that story and the fact that you can read this blog is proof that the person was right.

Now the same lady was holding me at some point when I was just an infant and said something like (again I don’t know details, just hear snippets when grandma or mom said something), this boy is going to be special and going to do amazing things. Now that could be said about anyone when they are still wetting their diapers, tough to prove you know? But now, many years later, I would be inclined to agree, I have done some amazing things. I don’t want to put any of my brothers and sisters down but I am the one with a book and a website with millions of hits a month. I think I have more amazing things in me still and figure I have another 40-60 years to do it.

Now one of my friends recently saw a psychic and the lady told her that she had a problem with her kidneys and needed to get into the Dr. The next day, she goes to the Dr, Dr starts chewing her out because she had a very bad UTI that had moved up into her kidneys, my friend thought something might be wrong but it didn’t hurt enough to warrant a Dr’s visit, until two days after the psychic when she described the pain as someone kicking her in back and leaving their boot. Oh, the best part is how that reading started. She drove up to the psychic who has a big picture window looking out on the parking lot in her beautiful Jeep Wrangler Sahara and walked up in her work clothes looking like a million dollars and as soon as she walked in the door, the lady said, I am sorry honey, I only take cash and I know you don’t have it ($50) on you. If you hurry you can get back before my next appointment… The thing is, she didn’t have the cash on her, she had to leave and come back. Quite a guess there too huh?  

I’ve got more believe it or not, but we will stick with those for now. So what did the psychics recently say about me?

Well to start off with, I am good at masking body language and being quiet with info when I need to be. I can assure you that I was trying to be very low key and give away very little.

The first psychic got maybe 5 words out of me the first 20 minutes and then asked some questions that made me really have to open up and explain some situations so anything after that first 20 minutes, I kind of discount, she had more than enough info to guess about stuff so I won’t mention anything from then. Overall, she blew me away. She just sat and told me things for 20 minutes, only occasionally asking me a question like ‘I see blah and blah and blah and blah, who is this person?’ and it would be specific enough for me to say exactly who it was except for one exception. She actually scared me with what she seemed to know about me.

The second psychic got pretty much all yes/no answers out of me. She wasn’t as impressive as the second because while there were certain topics that she nailed there were other topics that she did a lot of fishing around on and getting things outright wrong.

Well here are some highlights.

o Both said that money is not and will not ever be a concern for me. Now, living in Michigan at this time, that is a heck of a brave prediction, half the state is on welfare and the other half is getting close. This is with me showing up in ripped jeans and a dirty t-shirt which I purposely wore both times to throw off the scent so to speak. Now I wouldn’t say I am rolling in money but I am certainly not missing meals and that truly is all the money I need having been at the missing meals point at various stages of my life.

o The second said that I had a regular job and a side job, only the side job doesn’t make me much money right now. Well joeware certainly doesn’t make me much money as the tools are free so I would say that is accurate because in a general case, I put as much or more time into my joeware activities as I do my real job because I truly enjoy that time. She did say that that side job was going to become my only job within a few years though and I would do very well with it. Now this is nice to hear as it is something I have been slowly working towards and wanting more and more every year. I didn’t mention to her that I had been in Border’s books looking at Small Business books and LLC books just within the last few weeks. Oh they also both said that while money would come to me, it wasn’t terribly important to me. A few years back I would have disagreed quite a bit as I thought it was critically important, but now I don’t. I know I can live through having money and I can live through not having money, I have done both. When I took my most recent job, it was with the distinct knowledge that I was taking a huge pay cut but I was also cutting back from 50-80 hours a week to 30-40 hours a week. I know I could have any number of jobs working those old hours again making much more money but I have no desire for them.

o The first said I would live to be around 80, the second said mid-80s. Considering they both said up front that they can generally see things 3-5 years out, that isn’t bad for how close they are. But it could be a standard thing for them to say. My friend heard different numbers, I think mid to high 90’s but I don’t recall for sure.

o They both said that I help a lot of people a great deal and ask for and get very little in return. Now this is one of those things you can say to anyone and they will likely say, oh yeah, that’s me so I don’t put much stock into it. But it is true in my case, again, look at joeware. The second also said that I like to teach people things, this is also true.

o The first said I was an authoritative person. Asked if I was a judge or a policeman or somehow related to something like that. I said nope. She said well people listen to you, well no let me correct that, A LOT of people listen to you. She was really quite adamant about that and wouldn’t back down on it despite me saying negative things. Again though… joeware and my book. I think a lot of people do listen to me - whether for good or bad, I won’t guess.

o Both said I moved recently and they both said the move was needed and my new place was perfect for me.

o Both said I wasn’t currently seeing anyone but both said I would be married within the next 12 months. I can confirm the first, but not the second obviously. I can see myself married but it would take a miracle for it to happen in the next year. I just don’t move that fast especially on something like that; ask anyone who knows me personally. Interestingly both psychics said I was extremely picky and so is the person I will be with (psychic two actually said this woman I will marry considers most men to be pigs/jerks) but there will be no doubts on either side once the decision is made. The first psychic said that I was lucky as this person was my soul mate and we always managed to find each other in every lifetime. All sorts of action around this according to both psychics in the spring but signs popping up just after New Year; it is all inevitable like a rock rolling down a hill. Stay tuned on this one I guess but it sort of messes with my idea of personal destiny and made me slowly redefine what I think that means.

o They both said I would have two kids. My friend was told by both of them she would have 3 kids. Could be luck I guess that both sets of psychics guessed the same value for both numbers for both of when the readings were several months apart from each other. The first said one kid would be my kid, the other would be a child from the women’s previous relationship. The second just said two kids but they would be twins or their birthdays would be very close together. I guess this is another that I have to say stay tuned on.

o Both said I would be blessed with general good health, avoiding major illnesses and issues. The second dug into that a little and said that something recently scared me and made me get healthy and that directly saved me from some impending health issues. That is actually true, a very good close friend of mine had a heart attack last June and I can’t explain the wave that came over me that I needed to change many things in my life because I didn’t want to be laying in a bed like he was with regrets like he had. I don’t think anyone who was with him when that all went down was not altered in some way. I substantially changed my eating and overall lifestyle since.

o  Both psychics said that in my current period (the right now), my lesson to learn and hold dear is patience. Great, I don’t mind patiently waiting for something, I just want the wait to be over soon. ;o)

o The second psychic said a lot of stuff that I couldn’t match up to anything. Like I said, at times she was really fishing at times except on the money and love topics, those she seems to zero in on. The first psychic didn’t do that at all until mid way through she said, I don’t understand all of these interconnections here, I see this and this and this and this, does that make sense, can you explain it. It did make sense and I did explain it and she was like, oh, now I understand and took off again, but as I said, I discounted anything said after that because she had info with which to make educated guesses on my life.

o Both psychics said this is going to be a very packed and exciting year for me. As I see things stacking up on my plate and possible things stacking up, I don’t doubt it a bit. ;o)

So I don’t know, they could be charlatans who I paid for some entertaining interesting conversation or it could be the future, I won’t know until it gets here. :o)

I thought I would post something since I keep getting harassed for writing so little lately and this is what was bouncing around in my head while I was working on unpacking and setting up the various “cool” glass/fragile doodads in my office and curio cabinet this evening.

   joe