MAKE MINE A MEDIUM...
Take one cynical journo and send her for readings done with a psychic,
a psychic medium and an astrologer. Just how accurate are they? Jane Collins reports.
The
Psychic Medium
Agnes Freeman (020 7625 7180) is a former opera critic from Hungary
who comes from a family of mediums. Agnes has a suitably exotic background
for a psychic medium, but she is a professional when it comes to her work, seeing
it as a gift to help people. She believes those who set themselves up bogusly
as psychics or mediums in order to fleece vulnerable people should be reported
to the police.
Agnes also reveals that she will turn people away if they start
to become 'psychic junkies'. She explains that there is really no point in having
any more than two readings a year. She has over 30 years experience of giving
readings and is a member of the British Astrological and Psychic Society.
Prior knowledge: None, apart from
the fact that I am a journalist.
The reading: Whilst consulting
the cards Agnes begins by saying she can see a lot of books and CDs in my home.
True. She says I'm cool, calm and patient. I am. She says there's
a lot of love around me from my family. Not sure about that one. She
asks me who is speaking in French. I tell her my parents have just moved to
France.
She says my brother is thinking about going there. He is,
and I was talking to him about this the day before I see Agnes. She tells
me I'm lacking energy and need a holiday. Yep, I've been working pretty much
seven days a week for the past 18 months.
Agnes tells me I have mixed feelings when I look back on my
life - the beginning was difficult, but I'm proud of what I've achieved. This
is fairly general, but not wrong. She tells me more money will come my way
but not from the lottery - I'll have to work hard for it. Agnes tells me she sees
me working in America some time in the next three months to three years and I
should continue in journalism because I enjoy it and I'm good with words.
I have no plans to go to the US, but would like to.
She sees a man around me who is older, makes me unhappy and
is intoxicated all the time, which makes him boring. He gets depressed in the
winter and drinks because he finds life in the real world threatening and can't
cope. He thinks he's a genius when he's drunk. All spot on.
She tells me that I will move to a house, not a flat, and it'll
be about 20 miles from London. I'm not sure about this. And that in the
next six months I'll have good luck, but must avoid going to Australia at this
time as there there will be a plane crash.
Next, Agnes takes my keys and says a she is going over to the
spirit world. She asks me who Elizabeth is. I tell her my grandmother on my
father's side was called Elizabeth. But then she describes my maternal grandmother
accurately, down to the fact that before she died she had her toes amputated as
the result of a blood clot. Agnes says she is laughing, is looking after me and
her surname begins with S. My maternal grandmother's surname was Stokes.
The Verdict: Very impressed. Uncannily
accurate. In fact, Agnes appears to know more about me than I do!
Halloween Special, October 2001, Essentials Magazine
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