Psychic's business booming in tough economy [Excerpts]
The housing crisis will deepen, the country could fall into a depression and laid-off workers may need to start their own business.
If this sounds like the advice of a financial planner or an economist, think again. It's a reading from psychic medium Roxanne Usleman.
As the economy tanks, Usleman's business is booming.
"It's more types of people I have never seen before," says Usleman. "Men in the business world, high-powered jobs, stock market, Wall Street."
Since last fall, she says she began to see a new type of client -- a "logical, [A-type] of personality." Many of them are "just completely lost," says Usleman.
Relationship advice, typically the bread and butter of the psychic business, has been supplanted by something new.
"Should I merge with this company? Should I bring in a partner to my company," are the kind of questions Usleman gets from her clients.
This is not the fortune teller of popular imagination. Wearing a Diane Von Furstenberg dress, Usleman met with CNN at her sparse but tasteful office in midtown Manhattan. There was no crystal ball in sight when she gave a personal reading on the economy.
For a typical reading, she grips a client's photograph or set of keys and consults "the angels."
Business is good, she says. Usleman sees five or six clients a day and charges up to $135 a pop for sessions that usually last more than an hour.
Businessman Bruce Levy was skeptical at first but one of his clients pushed him to get a reading.
"What I expected was something like Ouija boards and someone looking at my palm and seeing my lifeline," says Levy.
Instead, he found a psychic who he says helped him find the answers.
"She helps me make better decisions," Levy says. "She is able to make me see things that I wouldn't otherwise see. I just think that she has this intuition that gets through to my subconscious in a way that I can't."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/02/05/psychics.economy/
[TBC: The Lord has a different view regarding trust in psychics. “You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from these things that shall come on you” (Isaiah:47:13Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.).]
