This review is for Embarcadro Psychic, also listed on some sites as Embarcadero Psychic, located at 17 Drumm St.
Here's my backstory: I'm an R&D & consulting scientist/engineer w/a grad degree in the sciences, and a mystic, spiritual teacher/healer & intuitive. I've had cold readings from 295+ psychics in my life. Since I'm a mystic, my life is filled with Divine love & grace; b/c my mind is calm & quiet, and b/c I am open and very well-grounded (these latter 2 qualities are essential for a good reading), it's very easy for a good psychic to read me, but a poor psychic won't see much b/c there are no dramas in my life to cause big blips on the psychic radar screen.
Please note that when I visit psychics, I'm NOT seeking help w/problems, nor w/wishes, nor seeking answers or advice, nor spiritual guidance. Rather, I visit them because God/Source asks me to & b/c it's fun to connect w/supernatural readers.
BTW, I'm VERY good at setting boundaries w/people like pushy salespeople & unethical psychics who might try to con/upsell me. So, when reading my reviews, it may be VERY HELPFUL to bear in mind what I wrote above, b/c your own experience w/a psychic may differ from mine; your mileage may vary! Also, my reviews of psychics are for readings only, and never for extra services they might offer (e.g., healings, clearings, guidance, etc.).
On July 13 at ~11AM, I climbed the 3 steep & seemingly-never-ending flights of stairs to this shop at 17 Drumm St. and knocked on the locked glass door for a reading w/Victoria. The reading was done at a small table in the front reading room of the shop.
Prior to the reading, Victoria quoted me a fee of $40 for a combined palm reading (both palms) and psychic life reading. I felt that this price was too low, and so I paid her $60 up front. As I always do w/readings, this was a totally cold reading: I told her, prior to the start, only my first name, which was all that she asked for. I also mentioned that I was staying at a hotel in SF for 8 days, and that I'd grown up in the NYC area. I told her nothing more about myself until after the reading had ended. I also told her that I was not very interested in predictions about the future, since the future is difficult to predict, due to free will & retrocausality.
Victoria turned out to be one of the 3 most powerful and accurate psychics whom I've ever met; she definitely has "the juice" (psychic ability). From the start of the reading, she made only very accurate statements, most of them very specific and detailed, on a number of aspects of my life, past and present, and including the following [a (*) denotes I've been told the same thing by many psychics & mystics]:
- (*) that I am a mystic and spiritual healer.
- (*) that I travel each year to many cities across the US for my spiritual work.
- (*) that I am a very old soul, and that many of my past lifetimes were involved w/the mystical or supernatural realms.
- (*) that I seem to have great expertise in a wide range of realms, including the sciences & engineering, but particularly in mystical & spiritual realms.
- (*) that I seem to have a number of gifts in the paranormal (supernatural) realms, including intuitive/psychic abilities, but that I rarely bother to use them b/c my life is very blessed & filled w/miracles. She mentioned that my intuitive abilities are very strong.
- (*) that my life is filled w/many blessings and w/amazing levels of good luck, good fortune & miracles.
- (*) that I have surrendered my entire life to the Divine (that is, to Supreme Heart, Holy Spirit, and Divine Mother), and that I allow the Divine to handle everything in my life.
- (*) a number of very accurate statements about some unique aspects of my marriage and my relationship w/my wife.
- (*) that I will likely live a very long lifetime.
- (*) that I have zero patience for fools and for people who try to waste my time, or who try to manipulate me.
- (*) that I have no problems, dramas, bumps, crises, nor any unfulfilled wishes or needs in my life, and that she can see none in the future no matter how far forward she looks.
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Unlike many storefront psychics, Victoria did not attempt any upsells or cons with me, and rather, she was very open, honest and, clear and there was also something very humble, kind and warm about her.
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As I noted earlier, Victoria is among the 3 most powerful and accurate psychics whom I have ever met. The reading that she gave me was one of the most accurate and deep of any of the 295+ cold psychic readings that I have had in my lifetime. I am amazed by her abilities! Victoria has a great gift from the Divine, and uses it wisely.
After the reading had ended, I insisted upon paying Victoria an additional $60, to bring her total fee up to $120, explaining to her that her reading was worth at least $120, rather than the paltry $40 fee that she had initially asked.
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