Do I do Fortune Telling?
I've been asked this question a few times now. The short answer is no, I don't.
There might be times where I'll see where a certain event is headed, but that is based on current events.
People will sometimes ask me, will I get together with this person or will I see so and so again. The fact is, I don't know.
The future is not set. It's being created every moment, every second and by every thought and every choice. I don't believe there is a thing called destiny, save that which you have chosen for yourself.
I can sometimes tell you where are you at but don't ask me if you really don't want to know. :)
I used to see the odd fortune teller from time to time. Most are just frauds who will tell you very general information.
One of the most amusing predictions they give is that 'You will live a very long life'. This is a pretty good thing to predict because if they don't, they can't exactly come back and call you a fraud! It seems to be a stock in trade line, though.
People tend to have many common things happen to them. They often have relationship problems, things that need fixing, monetary issues, unhappy job, or whatever. You can make a general prediction about such things and be pretty accurate about it. It's very much like saying, I think it's going to rain this month, and the chances are that you might be right.
A good fortune teller is said to be about 20% accurate and one worth their salt will never tell you something must be.
I saw a few when I went to America back in 1990. My curiosity go the better of me. The one that stands out most in my mind, mainly for the amusement factor, was this lady who told me that people were plotting against me at work and that I must come to her every week and with faith, I might be able to thwart them. I just nodded and though that if she was so good, how come she couldn't see that I was only in Los Angeles for a couple of days.
In Manhattan, New York, I came across several street psychics who all pretty much rattled off the same lines, though none of them were correct. One even insisted that I take off my sunglasses because she needed to see my eyes. No doubt in order to gauge how close she was to hitting the mark.
Mind you, not all fortune tellers are frauds. Some aren't too bad. I once had one I saw at a mind body and spirit convention mention the name of a significant person in my life at the time. As this person was the reason I happened to be there, I was pretty impressed. Mind you, it was only the name that she got, which was pretty pointless as I couldn't do anything with it.
One thing I have found that people ask the future because they have certain desires. They aren't really interested in what will happen, they are more after a confirmation of what they personally want to have happen to them in their future.
Many years ago, I used to consult the I Ching, but if I didn't like the answer, I would ask again until I got one that I wanted to hear, and while it was accurate to start off with, it, of course, lost its accuracy. Eventually, I came to realize that just because I didn't wish to hear the answer, it didn't make it so.
You have more chance of changing your future if you acknowledge where you are at in your present.
