grimoire-of-geekery:

nicstoirm:

limunette:

I always feel worried that I am fake, that my readings are fake and that I’m just fooling myself and my clients and it’s worse knowing that I might be doing the latter because I never want to take advantage of anyone.

I mean watching videos about “Fake psychics” and “Cold Readings” and how about cold readings are vague and apply to everyone..and now i’m paranoid that my readings are too vague even though I try to put as much detail as possible with whatever I get. 

I guess this is a very common feeling with diviners and a feeling you may never get over with???

I don’t know. How can I trust myself?

I feel this so hard.

I don’t know if there is a solution, but I worry about this constantly. And I worry that people are too nice to tell me that my specific details don’t match up? 

I just try to ignore it and wait for some clear evidence that I’m wrong, and address it then.

Also, I want to point out that if you aren’t intending to be a “fake psychic”… then you aren’t one. There’s self doubt, and then there’s purposefully misreading the cards and reading just body language to get a quick buck out of someone. You don’t seem like the latter, so you probably aren’t.

I’m kinda rambling haha. But I hope you know you at least aren’t alone in the first feeling: in feeling like your readings aren’t accurate. 

Also also … If someone asks for a general reading, I find they typically get general advice back. It’s hard to be specific if the client isn’t being specific, you know? So keep that in mind.

At any rate, I wish you luck handling the self-doubt ><

In my experience, often what a reader reads is more on point than they realize.  The Fates have a way of revealing themselves in their own time, even when we read.  My advice is to tell your clients to ask a specific question if there’s anything specific they want to know that they don’t get out of the reading itself.  Lots of times, my clients get answers to questions they didn’t even know they had, when they let me just “do my thing,” but I always remind them of that caveat when I start.