"The recent economic downturn has had a ripple effect into most businesses, including those in the psychic/astrological consultation sector. Most people are cutting back on life's little extras and are spending their money more consciously. Are psychic consultations considered a necessity, or are they considered entertainment? The long-standing debate has rolled for years, but in any case, the need for intuitive experts has seemed to spill over even into the pool of skeptics. More and more people are looking for a light at the end of the tunnel, and the current state of the economy has prompted psychics and astrologers to pull out their intuitive calculators since career and finance questions now trump love and romance queries.

The business of being a psychic or an astrologer during tough economic times is nothing new. Wealthy people regularly consulted the ancient pythia, or oracles, of Delphi to ensure that their personal finances would remain intact. Money, to most seekers of the ancient oracles, was a source of power. The biblical story of Joseph, the famed dream interpreter, shows us that even ancient Egyptian Pharaohs relied on psychic services during tough economic times. One night, Pharaoh had disturbing dreams that even his court magicians and augurs could not interpret. The word of Joseph's abilities to decode dreams got back to Pharaoh, who called for Joseph's expertise in solving his dream dilemma.

Joseph listened to the Pharaoh's dream about seven fat cattle feeding in a meadow, and how seven lean ones came and ate them up. Pharaoh also had a dream of seven ears of good corn on one stalk, and how seven blighted ones sprang up and devoured the good ears of corn. Joseph told Pharaoh that the dream predicted seven years of feast that would be followed by seven years of famine. Joseph suggested that the Pharaoh place someone in charge of the land that would take care of the gathering and storage of food in preparation for the upcoming years of famine. Pharaoh was so impressed with Joseph's advice that he elevated the former prisoner to his second-in-command and Joseph was put in charge of the future food holdings for all of Egypt. When the predicted famine came, only Egypt had enough food stored up (including enough to sell to other countries, making for a nice profit).

J.P. Morgan, noted financier of the twentieth century once said,
“millionaires don't have astrologers, but billionaires do.” Morgan had an astrologer by the name of Evangeline Adams. She successfully predicted the Windsor Hotel fire in New York City, the stock market crash of 1929, World War II, the deaths of King Edward VII and opera singer Enrico Caruso, and her own death.

The street corner fortune-telling parlors, psychic telephone lines, and metaphysical workers, all who may have been previously dismissed by the mainstream, are now the most sought after commodity on the market.
As our financial markets have soured, many people are looking for their own personal Yogi in hopes of finding a better future ..."

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I believe that the most valuable service I can provide for my clients during good times or bad, is a heightened sense of their own personal power. In my experience, the first rays of light at the end of any tunnel tend to be spiritual and they emanate from within ourselves.