Psychics and horoscopes

I often tell mum that I don’t believe in psychics, spirits or any other mumbo jumbo bullshit like that. In fact, this is a lie, I do believe in all that “mumbo jumbo bullshit”, I just don’t want her to know I do. I guess the reasoning for that, somewhat mad lie is that she is so excited about this whole other world and I don’t really want to have to discuss my beliefs or reasons for them, with her. For example, she often talks about her dead mother (my grandmother) and how she has talked to her via a medium/ psychic of some kind and how her brother had a dream that their mother told him to stop smoking, so he did.

I just laugh this stuff off with a “whatever mum” but in reality, I enjoy watching shows on TV such as “The 6ixth Sense” with Colin Fry or “Crossing Over” with John Edward where these men communicate with spirits, to the bewilderment of audience members, particularly the skeptical ones.

I also pay attention to horoscopes, it’s not a religious kind of devotion (although lately I admit, it has been), but whenever I’m reading a newspaper or a magazine, I flick to the horoscope section to see what is coming my way for that day/week/month/year. Sometimes they’re right, other times they’re not but it doesn’t really bother me either way but it can be interesting just to find out.

I’ve been doing some temporary work lately and on the first day I started work, my horoscope, straight from the mouth of some psychic the Dominion Post keeps in it’s closet was that I would have a dispute with someone because I like to do things my way and they want me to do things their way, a way I don’t think is correct.

At the start of the day, I thought “oh shit, this is bad news” as it could have meant my boss questioning the way I do my job, mind you, as my boss, it’s his prerogative to do so to ensure my job is done correctly but I’m stubborn.

Luckily, nothing bad came out of that day.

Today’s horoscope is something about dealing with the things that are depressing you because you cannot be creative at work and at home in that state.

That is a correct observation. Well done Dominion Post psychic.

V.