Rating 2.3 stars; rounded to 2. Here's my backdrop info if you haven't read any of my other reviews…read moreof psychics. In addition to being a scientific/engineering consultant, I'm a mystic, spiritual teacher/healer & intuitive. When I travel, I often get readings from psychics. I've received readings from 250+ psychics in my life.
Since I'm a mystic, my life is filled with Divine love & grace, and my mind is calm & quiet; this makes it easy for a good psychic to read me, but a psychic with limited abilities won't see much b/c there are no dramas/crises/problems in my life that would emerge as blips on the psychic radar screen.
Please note that when I visit a psychic, I'm not seeking help with problems, nor with any wishes, nor answers to questions, nor am I seeking spiritual guidance. Rather, I visit them because God asks me to do so, and to have a fun way of connecting w/ supernatural practitioners. Finally, I am very good at setting boundaries with people, including pushy salespeople & unethical psychics who may to con me or upsell me.
So, when reading my reviews of psychics, it may be VERY HELPFUL to bear in mind what I wrote above, b/c your own experience with the same psychic might be very different from mine -- your mileage may vary (from mine)! Further, my reviews of all psychics are for psychic readings only, and never for extra services that they might offer, such as healings, cleansings, or spiritual guidance.
I visited Susan for a tarot reading on 12/16; I prepaid the $150 fee online. As I always do when getting a reading, this was a totally cold reading: I told Susan, prior to the start of the reading, only my name and date/place of birth. I told her nothing more about myself until after the reading ended. Susan did ask me for 3 questions before the reading, but I declined.
I also noted that I did not expect any future predictions (fortunetelling), because, beyond a few immutable events that are fixed in space and time, it is difficult to accurately forecast the future (because humans have free will).
Overall, the reading was not at all accurate in terms of Susan's reportage of my life; as I told her several times during the reading when she asked for feedback, I felt that the reading was 95% inaccurate, with another 2% that was vaguely accurate but also misleading, wherein two things that she had presented as happening in the present had occurred 27 years ago.
The few things that she managed to report accurately, although they were almost always somewhat vague, were that I seemed to be an old soul, that I seemed to be very healthy, that I would live a long life, that I have a very good and loving relationship with my wife, and that animals (which I love) are strongly attracted to the love that emanates from me.
Susan also offered the observation that my tarot card spread contained an unusually large number of major arcana cards, and that the spread contained almost exclusively only very positive cards (and yes, that is an accurate meta-level snapshot overview of my life). She also briefly and very vaguely mentioned that one card indicated healing energy around me (which, while very non-specific, was accurate).
Overall, she seemed to keep the reading at a very vague, generalized and philosophical level, never offering specifics or details about anything (in any case, as noted above, 95% of what she said was inaccurate).
Incidentally, I must mention that strangely, Susan kept referencing my birth signs (in Western & Chinese astrology) to offer bland and generalized claims about me that were often inaccurate. Worse, these boring and uninvited philosophical ramblings about astrology were not from tarot, nor from any other supernatural sources.
The reading at times became tediously annoying, because Susan often strayed into uninvited/unsolicited philosophical discourses about tarot, and it felt like she was attempting to turn the reading into an academic class on tarot, rather than giving me information about my life. This was NOT what I paid for!
Even more strangely, she asked me three times if I would like to learn more about reading tarot cards or other cards so that I could do readings; each time I firmly declined. I later realized that these repeated and entirely uninvited/unsolicited overtures were sales pitches to try to interest me in purchasing her books/courses on reading cards.
Incidentally, unlike many psychics, Susan did not attempt during the reading to push any upsells on me, beyond her multiple unsolicited attempts to interest me in lessons on reading tarot/angel cards, nor did she try any cons on me.
LEGAL STUFF: FULL TRANSPARENCY DISCLOSURE RE POTENTIAL COMPETING INTERESTS:
Shortly after this review was published on Yelp, Susan contacted me via email & offered me a full refund of the fee if I would remove this review. I declined her ethically-questionable offer. This unethical offer caused me to derate her original star rating by 0.3 points, from 2.6 down to 2.3.