How much of your life would you leave to fate and how much of it would you leave to fortune-tellers or self-proclaimed ‘psychics’?
I didn’t realize how my close friends were drawn to these things until I told them about how my resident psychic M accurately predicted some things in my life and they would badger me: “So who is she? What’s her telephone number and errr, how much?”
My kids would kill me if they knew Mom would pay P600 to have her fortunes told when they could have two gallons of ice cream instead. But I do see Madame M every semester or once every three months when the mood strikes me. There’s no rational explanation except that seeing her is a form of therapy sometimes and a follow-up serves to validate her previous ‘predictions’ (see how this thing can be addicting, huh!) I am very happy with the way things are going on in my life (including my lovelife, which Mme. M also ‘predicted’) but there are some things I still ‘consult’ her on such as business deals and work-related queries. Of course I’d be a fool to believe everything she says but listening to her read my cards and divine the future/present just gives me something to look forward to.
Of course not everything she says is really earth-shaking. Like the one time she told me my househelp is dying to have a vacation.
During a lull from work, I tease my housemate: ” I know Amy that you’re itching to have a vacation.”
And she turned to face me: ‘ Yes I do. How did you know Ate?”
Last week, I told my sis about Madame M. “She told me you would really like to go abroad now. Is this true?”
Older sis meekly admits to this and immediately gets curious about Mme. M. My Ate was so convinced about how my seer probed into her mind that she even asked me for her cellphone number, apparently bent on scheduling an appointment with her soon.
Some people think that seeking the help of fortune-tellers or manghuhulas is evil. I don’t have an opinion; I am amoral about these things. However, I have to admit that another person’s capacity to pinpoint certain details of my past with clear-cut precision impresses me; moreso if she tells me what would happen in the future and a few months down the road, it really does!
But as proven with some of my friends, you can’t prevent fate from happening even if you’ve been duly-warned by your fortune-teller. Take for instance my friend D who was advised against being involved with a married man. In a short while, she would meet Mr. Married and falls deeply for him. Or my friend S who was counselled to “take precautions or you will get pregnant.” True enough, she would meet this “accident” just from a one-night encounter with her long-distance boyfriend.
Recently, I met another fortune-telling fanatic in the person of Gie. She has in fact a separate folder in her mobile phone containing the names of all the psychics she knows in Manila, including one being employed by the police in locating “missing” or abducted persons. But unlike others overly concerned about their own lives, Gie is into the occult because she would like to know what’s happening in the lives of people close to her. In simple terms, nakikiusyoso.
Fortune-telling should be about having fun; it shouldn’t at all encroach on your religion or make you complacent and too dependent (magastos magpahula every week kung adik-adik ka na). If I remember right, Princess Diana went to see her psychic a few days before her Paris car crash; obviously, both of them didn’t have an inkling as to what would happen. Logic tells us that if these people gifted with the ‘third eye’ can see through everything, then this world would be such a peaceful, beautiful place. UnFORTUNEately, it doesn’t happen that way. These psychics are humans too.
i havent tried the services of psychics but i got the urge to try it when I was in Japan. Unfortunately the fortune teller declined as she can’t converse well in English. Kinunan ko na lan sya ng picture. My Japanese friend did by the way.
Hei JU, I believe that there are some things in this world that could not be explained but I think that we choose the road we tread. Of course it is human nature to be curious of the future but as for me, it is better to trust God and my present decisions and live from day to day than to go to psychics and have my decisions swayed. I believe that if I ask the Lord for guidance in everything I do, I do not need to worry about anything in the future.
I’ve nothing against people who consult fortune-tellers, and am not quick to judge that those who do are “evil.” However, being a Bible-believing Christian, I personally do not go to a “manghuhula” to, say, foretell my future or seek counsel. In my humble opinion — and I respect other people’s opinion, of course (let’s agree to disagree) — they’re just humans like us and are prone to err. So, why should I put my future in the hands of a ‘talented’ fortune-teller who can impress people with his/her prediction — even in the name of “fun” (how expensive naman if ever)? (Again, this is just my personal conviction.) That these people have “third eye powers” is not the point (many of them actually do; the Bible even says so). The point is, who’s the spirit behind it? Where do they get their impressive psychic powers? Are they (powers) from God?
I agree with commenter Anna Lyn: it is better to put our trust on the Lord Who is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. It feels so secure to leave everything to the Lord — our past, present and future. We need not worry.
(I might have offended readers who are into the fortune-telling business or who consult “manghuhulas.” But I’m just voicing out my personal conviction here, and don’t intend to offend anyone.)
Peace, AJ!
ako naman, am too afraid to go to one. I do not really believe in fortune telling but methinks if I do hear something bad, I’d become paranoid!
Yeah Owen, useless naman if she told you her predictions in Nippongo. or, your Japanese friend could ahve translated it for you 😉
Your opinions on the matter are well-appreciated, Anna Lyn & Jayred. Let’s hope they will be considered by people who go to d’ manghuhulas, including me:grin:
Ironically, some people go to fortune-tellers to feel good AnP. I still have to encounter one who told me the really bad news. 😯 Do they possibly ‘filter’ what they say? Beats me. I think the danger in believing in these psychics is that 1) you expect things to happen when it possibly can’t 2) you start believing in the predictions – whether good or bad – as ‘gospel truth’ when obviously they’re not. So, in those few times, it was safer for me to view things from an entertainment perspective…
Ajay,
Every one of us has that latent psychic power: The hunch is one, the premonition is another.
A psychic who is able to tell what’s going to happen is simply blessed with special gift that she herself is reluctant to use. In the Bible, prophets are psychics. They can foretell the future. In the mythology, they have the oracle. Even the Matrix had that queer psychic.
The role of the psychic in the Philippines is more of that of a shrink. When you have problems or doubts, you go to your favorite manghuhula to know what to do and what to expect.
A good manghuhula will not tell you bad things but is going to advise what to do best to solve a problem.
Oftentimes, women consult about love life.
And most of the time, the women cast doubt if the psychic tells something that she did not want to hear.
A very good psychic does not consult a card but rather hold something personal owned by the searcher and from there she can tell you the past, the present and the future. Without you asking for them. Sometimes the cards are just mere props.
There are manghuhulas who just studied how to read cards. These are the manghuhulas whose batting average may be lower than 50 per cent. The positioning of the cards alone will make a difference in the reading and if that psychic depends on the individual meanings of the cards alone, most likely her hula is hula.
I am a psychic but I am not evil. I do not have horns, tails and fangs. I have blue fur though. Meow. cool:
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Cath, I have heard about your ‘gifts’ and I was actually hoping – as I wrote this post – that you would comment. Am glad you did ~ did you read my mind? hehe. Thank you for this insighful explanation. Maybe it’s the fact that am born under the sign of the Scorpio that am drawn to the occult and supernatural things.There are times that I feel my instincts are really high too. As for bogus persons who merely read cards, totoo din yan. Marami nyan sa Quiapo, hahaha. Mabuti na lang singkwenta pesos lang ang bayad sa kanila:grin:
Fortune-tellers do brisk business here in the Philippines. I always see a lot of them near Quiapo Church and they have a lot of customers! I was even thinking of starting my own fortune telling business! 🙂
Fortune telling is really a big business even here in the US especially the online “psychics” kuno which oftentimes are scam..
There is a university here in California which offers the course fortune telling using different tarot cards. Yes, there are 50 types of tarot cards. After the course, they hold a carnival of fortune tellers. Saya. Kaya ang fortune teller ay talagang manghuhula lang, nanghuhula kung ano ang mangyayari but a psychic is “visionary”.
I’ve consulted manghuhula myself when I was in the Philippines. Just to confirm and sometimes just to check. Some of them are engaged in Craft, you know, the potion, incantations stuff. Some are really gifted just like the woman I met in Pasay. She lived in a depressed area and she charged 20 pesos only. She’s illiterate and her batting average is 85 per cent. One man in Navotas could even tell you the names of your spouse and children. But this man is making a lot of money. He asks you to do some rituals which require a lot of money. I feel he is duping his clients.
His power would not last and time would come that he would just fake it. When it was time for me to consult him, he could not say a single word. I was positive that his power was from something else.
Sometimes psychic (you hav differentiate them form fortune teller) to give wrong interpretations of the visions they see.
The Universal Mind will not give an exact message. That is too much. The meaning solely depends on the interpretation of the receiver. Wrong interpretation, wrong vision.
Hahaha, you’re right Sidney. Fortune-telling is one (monkey?) business where you don’t invest any capital to earn money. Maybe they should franchise it soon:wink:
Cath, your anecdotes are really interesting. I have to admit I unwittingly interchanged the terms psychic, manghuhula and fortune-teller in this post. But what I really mean, based from experience, is that psychics are of a higher grade and possess a vision as you said, in contrast to manghuhulas who just learn the trade. Also, it’s probably better for one to encounter a psychic who will tell the future without demanding money than those who make a business out of it. But I guess that’s a rare occurrence. Thank you for contributing to this discussion:smile:
hey ju, does your psychic do phone/internet reading? 😛 i’m a bit of a sucker for things —hmmm…paranormal myself. i don’t think it’s wholly bunk, but whatever it is that makes it not entirely bunk is also oftentimes exploited to the detriment of the…ummm…craft? (as in witch? kidding) i consult a numerologist/love adviser via phone in new york. she’s good, but at US$60 a pop it got to be too expensive for a “hobby.” where is your friend cath? could we hook up on the phone?
more later dearest… in private…
Paging Cath, paging Cath. I was thinking along the lines of Lei myself. Could we hook up on the phone or sa YM man lang? teehee.But Lei, $60 for an astral craving is too much (and how impersonal to do it over the phone or the internet)
but ju there’s nothing personal about a psychic reading. it’s psychical – not “physical”
whatever. i hope your friend cath responds.
Good morning Ajay!
Once I went to a manghuhula, but then she got angry when I said it was impossible to happen, that of her premonition on me.
Anyway, I feel there is nothing wrong in going to psychics too. There are really things in this world that we could not explain. There is also what we call pseudo psychology.
All I can say is that we like reading horoscopes, so consulting with a psychic is almost the same as that.
tita ajay ang saya ng discussion ah…
i feel like there are so many who take advantage of those who are feeling low and vulnerable…like they tell you what you want to hear? then if it (coincidentally?) comes true…you’re hooked and will keep coming back. the most a gypsy fortune teller got me for was $20 and she did get it almost (98%?) right. di na ko feeling lugi hihi.
have you seen the movie “the gift” written by billy bob thornton, directed by Sam raimi, starring cate blanchett? sige na try…kilabot at least for the first half.
and yes i think Scorpions and Geminians are so keen on “the gift” and its manifestations!
hi Ms. Annalyn, I would like to know the name and the contact number of your Mom’s favorite psychic. I was dying to know mine…just hard to find the real one. i would really appreciate it. thanks!!!
Hi Lei. I’ll send you an email about Cath’s feedback. Even though you say it’s psychical, I just don’t know..it’s just too impersonal if I do it over the phone or the Net. I prefer seeing them face to face because while they’re ‘reading’ me, I get to read them back too, hehe.
Stel, thanks sa inputs mo. Buti naman feeling mo di ka nalugi sa iyong psychic experience. I’ll try to watch “The Gift” even if I haven’t seen a movie in 10 years, lolz:razz:
I’ll email you G. Have a nice day!
ju, you’ve become a psychic referral hotline.
HAHA! Next time ano kaya ang magiging racket nitong si Ju aside from psychic referral hotline?
Nyahahaha. The comments I get on this blog 😛
Friends, I am trying to imagine what’s a more lucrative racket than a psychic referral hotline:lol:
so, what’s her number? hehehe
If ever I come across one, I would probably be curious to ask what lies in store for me. But I doubt it if I would take his/her advice. matigas ulo ko e.
interesting post, AJ. I’m interested in anything 3rd eye and I believe my wife has one.
Can you send me her number and other pertinent rules of engagement with her?
😀 Tsk! Tsk! bEverybody seems to be asking my psychic’s contact no. Dapat bigyan nya na ako ng discount the next time magpahula ako:wink:
aber! kelan mo naman ako isasama diyan??? 😉
Hi there, ajay!
talk about suckers for psychics! i’m a certified addict! and i cant seem to get enough, though i have already consulted (and perhaps befriended) like four of them, including guess who???…stargazer (yes, that psychic who has been getting media mileage through such public affairs programs as imbestigador, MGB and rated K.) and you can just guess what prompted me to seek them out….ok, dont guess, i’ll tell you…marital problems! Just when my mom told me to seek out a marriage counselor instead, i came looking for manghuhulas. As of the moment, two manghuhulas are very positive that my problems will have a positive resolution, that me and my husband will get back together. but the two others are not that optimistic. so, im thinking of getting another opinion…hope you can help me by giving me your psychic’s contact number. I promise, she will be my last counselor, Surely, she will break the tie! thanks in advance
hi, i’m interested to know the tel # and name of that fortune-teller:?: i’m coming home in april 2006 and i really would like to make an appointment. thanks in advance
Hi! Like you, i love going to fortune-tellers and ask them what will happen to me in the future…my favorite psychic died 2 months ago, until now, i couldn’t find anyone who could tell me what my future will be. Baka you can share your fortune teller. I would really appreciate it if you could mail me or text me 09178833300 the contact number and address.
Thanks in advance! 🙂
I am a true believer in psychics and would appreciate it if you could please give me the contact details of psychic M. Thank you very much and more power.
Hi. I would like to know the contact number of Madame M. Thanks so much
Hello AJAY,
May I ask you somthing about one of the fortuneteller…. I have been searching for the contact number and the place where i can see stargazer. If you happen to know her, please do send me an email at sylvynavarro@yahoo.com about her contact details.
I have to admit im interested to know some personal issues about my life. Also, I have a Thailander friend who would want to see a fortune teller here in our country. He wants to ask stargazer when he visits Manila by September.
Looking forward for your reply…
much thanks!
sylvy
I know someone who knows Stargazer look for Brother Ed 09198241561 he is also a terrific psychic you could try him you won’t regret it.
actually i dont get yet into HULA or MANGHUHULA but at this time seems that i need them, maybe just for fun and curiousity also with a cause.ms.a can u share me a nos of your somewhat reliable MANGHUHULA…thanks..looking forward to have it soon..thanks a lot
Ano po contact number ni madame m? Interested po ako. Pls email me po at candyamor@yahoo.com thank you po.
What’s the contact number po of madame m? thanks po and pls email me at candyamor@yahoo.com
What are the contact details of madame m and stargazer?
please email me at mariceldomingo2@yahoo.com.ph
and I am also a psychic junkie..
thanks!
Hello! Would like to ask about the contact numbers of Madame M and stargazer. Thanks!
hi.. interesteddin po ako sa manghuhula na yan. hehe. will you pls shoot me an email of his/her contact #.. thanks so much in advance.. kwoods@gmail.com
I am also interested sa contact number and address ni Madame M. Please email me at:dzlou_am@yahoo.com. Parang from your story, mas reliable si Madame M.
I was scammed by so-called online psychic just recently, kaya masama ang loob ko.
so has anybody been given here the number of madame m?
please try brother gemsa for specific concerns and monthly readings… his contact detail is 09193144378. He is 75% to 80% accurate as far as I am concerned…
I am just interested in getting another reading for comparison that’s why I would greatly appreciate a reco with contact details please…
Stargazer’s number is 09208495948. Landline numbers: 5337240 to 42
happy new year everyone!
cheers!
Hello. And Bye.
hi there ajay.. i jez came across ur blog as i am looking for psychics.. i really hope that you can help me out and give me the contact number of Mme M.. i really hope to hear from u soon..
dude you know what I’m talking about! soy desole
is it ok for me to get the contact number of madame m? would like to consult sana.. please email me at annecortez20@yahoo.com
thanks
hi there,, may you please mail / text me stargazer’s and madam m’s contact numbers? please po.. me and my classmates rily need it.. you can also txt me po 0905 333 5389
nice blog 🙂 thanks
i dont know… i guess evrybody can read mind…ummm but its addictive looking for answers… i have it too but sometimes hard to use it i,m not opening… is it by power…i dunno,kinda confusing and yeah,y i have to pay knowing my future and foes?…
I’m looking for madame maribel a good psychic daw. Bka sya siu madame M. please give me nman her number.. thanx
hi! pwede ba malaman ung contact number ni madame M??? pls email me the details at jinxie08@yahoo.com thanks