I was at a county fair in an out of the way county. I was with some friends, and we had swung the mallet, won some trinkets, had a corn dog, the usual. We were getting ready to leave and walking to the end of the midway when I spotted a sign for a fortune teller. I had always been fascinated by fortune tellers but never put much stock in them. I thought it was some gimmick as no one could tell the future could they?

The woman who was the fortune teller came out and said she only charged five dollars. At that time five dollars was almost an hours work. I told her it was too steep of a price for me, but I would appreciate anything she would tell me. She took me aside to the door of her little tent. There was nothing special about the tent, only a little table in the middle with a table cloth/shawl thrown over it, and a small candle in the center.

She did not do anything special, she did not even ask me to go in, or sit down. She did not look at my palm, or stare into my eyes, or anything of the sort. She said to me, “Your father died two years ago, in November.” I almost fell over! How could she possibly know this about me? I had never seen her before, nor did I think she really could read fortunes. She made a believer out of me just like that! looked in my wallet and I took out half the money I had in it, five dollars, and handed it to her.

I told her I did not need any more of my fortune told, but I would like to ask her a few questions. She agreed to answer some questions instead of telling more about myself. I no longer remember the conversation, but she did tell me a few other things about myself. She said she was not able to read anyone’s future as they had not made it yet, but she knew of some fortune tellers that could. She followed that up reading the future was tricky, because the future was fluid and had not happened yet. She told me a few other things about reading fortunes too.

She told me to know more would cost me another five dollars. I told her I would love to know more, but as five dollars was all the money I had for the next few days, I could not afford to spend any more. I thanked her for what she shared with me, and I said I hoped her future was a good one, and she did the same for me.

On another topic, we humans tend to use pattern recognition to make sense of our lives. Savvy marketers understand this, and create products that fit a pattern that may or may not be obvious to us. After they gain our trust, they speak a few key sentences, and we see a pattern unfold just like they want us to see it.

The Bible’s chapter of revelations is a good example. No matter what period in time, or where you live, and what access you have to news, the description of the beginning of the end of the world is obvious when you read the book of revelations. It is the same with Indigo children. The pattern was written down over a century ago, and every other generation sees the pattern and think they discovered something new or the time has arrived. Newspaper, book, and gum-ball machine astrology rolls, and fortune cookies are the same thing. They are general enough to fit almost any pattern, and personality. On the criminal side of fortunes, confidence men do this to separate the gullible from their money.

I suppose there is no real way to tell what is real from what is not, but when money is involved in the process it is time to start being curious about someone’s real abilities. Are they who they say they are, and can do what they are telling you, or are they professionals at parting you from your money?

Now that that is out of the way, let me predict your future, heal your spirit, or cast a spell for you….