Julie's Trip to the Psychic

As I've been maintaining radio silence recently, here is another guest blog from Mad Irish Julie...

Layla, Mary and I went to see a psychic, called Deirdre, in Bray the
other night.  Deirdre reports back what the spirits are telling her, and
she also reads your tarot cards.   Perhaps unsurprisingly, my spririts
spent much of the time taking the p*ss out of me and making bawdy jokes.


The session began, somewhat unpromisingly, with the question: "who likes
Daniel O'Donnell?"

(For readers of an English disposition, D. O'Donnell is a crooner from
Donegal, who, while obviously gay, causes women of a certain age to have
naughty thoughts of getting up to no good with him in the confessional.
I'm always hoping they'll ban him as unrepresentative of modern Ireland,
but he's still strangely popular.  They even offer tours to his house,
and I think you can meet him for a cup of tea.)

I don't actually know anyone who likes him, but then it's really not the
sort of thing one admits to.

The main points to emerge from the reading were:

She could see races, or attending races and that there was money to be
made in either betting or investments.
(does this woman not know I have to be sensible now I have a mortgage?)

> She said she could see some connection with Limerick and the Cliffs of
> Moher.  Did I know people interested in moving there, or buying
> property around there?
(Part of my department is moving there, so I know lots of people moving
there.)

> Doves are important to me, and I'm going somewhere where there will be
> doves
> (really hope she didn't mean heaven.)
>
> Did I have any plans to go to Australia?  She could see an opera house
> and a bridge opening up.
(Are there doves in australia?  That would remove any worries about
heaven.  Though it would have been worse if she'd suggested I was going
to go somewhere where there would be burning pits and unimaginable
tortures.)

> Do I know someone who's having treatment around their neck or throat?
(have had a vague fear of vampires recently, but don't think I know
any.)

> There's a wedding coming up, and it's as if I'm participating in it.
> She asked if I was free to get married, and said it was odd, as it
> looked as if I had a role in the wedding.
(no idea on that one, unless I'm going to make a scene at my brother's
wedding.)

> As if computers are important to me.
(?)

> She could see me visiting old churches, cathedrals and ruins.
(called zara and top shop?)

> She could see a connection with Scotland.
(my inner quarter scot is obviously stronger than I thought.  And I do
like shortbread)

> My family history is interesting and it would be good for me to
> research it.
(I did have one ancestor who poisoned people, and I think we had a few
sheep rustlers, all in scotland.  God only knows what we have in the
northern irish branch of the family.  I'd rather not go there, to be
honest.)

> Rome is coming up.
(yipee!!)

> I'm going to be asked to stand for a child.
(all good)

> She can see a lot of travel and a lot of movement for me.
(fantastic, could do with the sun)

> Then she started laughing and asked me if I have two separate
> underwear drawers, for fancy and normal stuff.  She laughed and said I
> should buy more fancy underwear, that I'd have a use for it, and that
> she'd leave it at that.
(how cool is that!!  A psychic who tells you to buy fancy underwear!!
What a brilliant excuse!!)

> She could see a dress I haven't worn in a while.  I'll wear it again.
(cambridge ball gown??)

> I have good taste in clothes, but are shoes a problem?  She asked if I
> have difficulty getting shoes I like, or if I'm very particular, or if
> comfort is important.
(the only problem really is that there are so many shoes and not enough
money)

> Someone pinches or used to pinch me a lot - maybe on the other side.
(But who?)

> I'm going somewhere to ski.
(am I coming into money sometime soon?)

> I have a lovely selection of friends, but I'm careful who I bond with.
> I've a friend like a sister.
(aaaah, they're all great really)

> Are people going abroad to work?  There's a sadness connected with
> that.  Is someone trying to talk me into going abroad?
(I promise I wasn't wearing my work id card.)

> Am I patriotic?  Not in a fundamentalist way, but she can see people I
> know being proud of ireland but also respectful of other countries.
> There's a fun around it.  Something around this issue is important and
> to do with me.
(would that be representing ireland abroad?  I'm not remotely patriotic,
but can ceili dance in swiss german)

> She can see a man with a large Adam's apple, for which he might
> require treatment.  He has good bone structure.  He likes to use
> ordinary hankies, not paper ones.
(can you get treatment for an adam's apple??  What on earth does it
involve?)

> Did I know I was a servant in Victorian times?  That's why I've a
> thing about ironing.  Do I like embroidery?  I'm particular about
> seams and clothes.  Quality is more important to me than price.  I
> like things to be neat and tidy.  I like having precious things around
> me, to make up for what I lost out on as a servant.
(that might explain my thing about corsets)

> I should be choosy around men.  Respect is important to me.  I can't
> be bought - money is irrelevant.
(indeed I can't.  I'm very respectable)

> Next year will be better than this one.  It will be more my year.
> This year is good, but I'm more supporting others.  At this stage a
> spirit said, "she's still in service".  I'll be using my intelligence,
> and opening up, in stronger ways.  My brain will be expanding and it's
> positive.
(so get in all your requests this year)

> I have a dowsing ability, which I should use with food.  I also have
> an ability to read the cards, and will be able to read playing cards
> too.  However, I should be prepared for positive as well as negative
> results, and she thinks that's why she saw churches, because I could
> be touching the walls and sensing spirits.
(zara?  Top shop?  Vampires?)

> Do I have a summer home, or the use of one?
(do I look wealthier than I am??)

> She sees a man with a long face and high cheekbones.  I should be
> careful for the next while.  There are one or two she's not keen on
> around me.  Someone makes me feel bad.  I shouldn't go along with
> things to please people.
(he sounds like a vampire)

> I'm stronger than I think I am.  Someone is trying to undermine me.
> They know my weak spots.  It's unpleasant when they know I have other
> problems.  Possibly a work situation?
(oh no, I work with vampires!!  Bullying vampires!!!)

> I have to realise my strengths.  The spirits then said, "sometimes our
> greatest weakness is our greatest strength."  I should sit with the
> phrase and think about it.  It's not just said.  I should see what the
> universe gives and talk to friends.
(my weakness is buying shoes, unavailable men and drinking too much
wine.  Are these really strengths?  Fantastic!!  What a wonderful
psychic!!)

> I've to stand up for myself.  I'm not a servant anymore.
(indeed I am not)

> I'd be good with antiques - "especially as I used to clean them", said
> a spirit.
(quite)

> She sees a guy, "a shiney *rse".  The spirits were joking about his
> shiny pants.  He's very nice, but doesn't spend money on clothes.  He
> has sex appeal, is clean and likes food.  He's very talented and well
> spoken.  He grins to one side of his mouth and his eyes are alive.
> He's nice - she likes him.  He's caring and affectionate, and can
> joke, but not take a joke against him.  He's very private.  You'll be
> close, but then the shutters come down.  He doesn't lie, but he's his
> own worst enemy.  He's very sensitive.  I shouldn't wrong him.  If you
> do, you're out and there's no going back.  There's a lady around him -
> a mother figure.  She's sort of a dictator, or maybe he hasn't got
> over his mother.
(step forward, mr f-w)

> Financially I'd sort things out.  I'd be better at managing things
> than I thought.
Great, great, but bear in mind, this woman seems to think I'm paris
hilton, with multiple underwear drawers, holiday homes and lots of
travel)

> March next year is important - she wouldn't be surprised if I was
> engaged or making a commitment by then.  I'll be in control of a
> romantic situation and know where I'm going.  I won't marry the wrong
> person.  My heart will lead me in the right direction.  The spritual
> path is important to me.  The person I marry I knew in a previous
> life.  She doesn't think I married him then.  We were in love but
> couldn't marry.  It remains to be seen if I know the person I'll
> marry.  Keep an open mind.  People will say we're like two peas in a
> pod.  I'll know who it is by the end of the year.
(I wonder if he was the master in the house I was servant in.  Also, I
wonder if I get to pick the person at midnight on new year's eve.)

> Children will be very much planned.  I'll definitely have a girl.
> With the next one or two, a lot of thought will go into it.  It will
> be according to how I'm planning my life.  The second will either be
> very quick or put off.  My daughter will be gifted as well.   It's up
> to me re kids.  The first could be quite soon.
(eek - becky, could you knit some pink booties when you've finished my
corset??)

> My guardian angel is there.
(laughing, making fun of my underwear and slagging me off for being a
servant.  Fantastic.)

Layla was told, for the fourth time in five years by two psychics,
that she's having triplets, or twins and one soon after.  She's also going to
by a dark man with a signet ring.  She thought it
might be the floorer, so she dressed up for him and blushed when he
handed her the bill.

Mary was told she used to be a monk in a previous life, and that she's
going to marry twice and have five children.  As mary's anti-divorce,
she's now praying one of her husbands will die.