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The lines “something is weird in here” and “I don’t kind of like the atmosphere in this place” are among the common things that we hear people say especially when they enter a place or room that is full of people for the first time. These feelings are created by the psychic forces around us and that these have been created in the Zodiac Zone.

These energies should not be left without being understood. Before we actually go on and engage the place, one must try to find out what these energies are. And this can be done by tracking the Moon as it journeys daily through the Zodiac Zone.

The Moon

The atmosphere is filled with the sign’s own energy as the Moon passes through it. This sign is considered as 30 degrees of space that is charged with a particular kind of psychic energy. Moreover, this energy is expressed as earth, fiery, watery, or airy.

To illustrate this, the atmosphere when the Moon is in the earth sign of Taurus is different from the atmosphere if it is in Aries. And these energies can be best felt when driving in the middle of a heavy traffic or a place where there is a lot of people and cars. Therefore, there can be times when one notices that everybody is driving like there is not tomorrow and there are also times when people are moving in traffic like they’ve got all the time in the world.

It must be noted that the Moon changes its sign every two and a half days. It is therefore important to be able to track the Moon’s sign changes in order to match the things to be done for that certain day based on the atmosphere around. As such, if the Moon is in Capricorn where the atmosphere is dull, no party should be held as people will not be having fun.

This knowledge can also be useful especially in running a business. If the person does not have the luxury of time to track the Moon’s movement, hiring an astrologer can help. Aside from the Moon, other planets that are useful for this purpose are Mercury, Venus, and Mars as these three change signs through the whole month. Based on these changes in signs, activities to be held will jibe with the atmosphere which will lead to its success.

It has to be noted also that each planet energizes the atmosphere in different ways that may affect one’s life. And having the knowledge on these trends will be beneficial for one’s business and life in general.

Astrology has influences on people’s lives and should be considered in many decisions. Though it is not believed in by certain people, it would not hurt to at least give it a try. For as long as these are not allowed to control one’s life, then it is alright to practice it.

Horoscopes are also helpful in telling some things about a person’s future. Free horoscope readings are available even on the internet today.

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What was almost impossible to find, at this orgy of intellectual curiosities, was discussion of the paranormal: ESP, premonitions, psychic powers, alien abduction and the like. This is a conference concerned with all sorts of supernatural and metaphysical claims. In panels, over coffee and during cocktail-hour quarrels, they talk of Moses at the burning bush, the virgin birth, Muhammad’s journey on a winged horse. So why nothing about, say, mental telepathy?

That is the question posed by Jeffrey J. Kripal, a professor of religion at Rice University in Houston and a renegade advocate for including the paranormal in religious studies. In his new book, “Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred” (University of Chicago Press), he tries to convince serious religion scholars that they ought to study, say, ESP or alien abduction.

Most scholars study traditions even nonbelievers are comfortable talking about, like Judaism and Christianity. And a growing number study kinds of “spirituality”: the belief in guardian angels, for example, or in an invisible force, not specific to a major religion.

But Dr. Kripal wants to go further, into supernaturalism that seems bizarre to most Westerners. His book is about four pre-eminent writers on the paranormal: the 19th-century psychical researcher Frederic Myers; Charles Fort, who died in 1932; the contemporary French ufologist Jacques Vallee, who inspired the character Claude Lacombe in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”; and his fellow ufologist Bertrand Méheust. None are widely studied, but Dr. Kripal says all prove that one can write in a sophisticated way about the paranormal.

According to Dr. Kripal, their omission is evidence of a persistent bias among religion scholars, happy to consider the inexplicable, like miracles, as long as they fit a familiar narrative, like Judaism or Christianity.

“There is resistance in the way our universities are set up, in the elite culture of higher education,” says Dr. Kripal, 48, who grew up in Nebraska and once planned to be a Benedictine monk. “Paranormal events completely violate the epistemologies around which we have formed our own knowledge.

“The sciences study objects and use mechanistic cause models to track them. The humanities specialize in subjectivity, meaning, consciousness, art, religion. Paranormal events violate that division. They clearly involve human subjectivity, and they clearly involve objects out there.”

In other words, it is one thing to study a miracle a thousand years old — that seems a safe question for the historian or the theologian. But what to do with people who say they were abducted by a U.F.O. last week?

“The easiest way to deal with them is to dismiss them, or humiliate them, or claim they are fraudulent, or mistaken,” Dr. Kripal says. “That allows us to preserve our forms of knowledge. For not only do they violate the sciences and humanities, they also violate orthodox forms of religion, which often want to read these things” — like speaking with the dead or reading minds — “as demonic.”

Ann Taves, a past president of the American Academy of Religion, says that other scholars are interested in esoteric religion outside the major traditions, but that Dr. Kripal is different, because he is sympathetic to the possibility that the paranormal may be real — not just the product of people’s false perceptions.

“Jeff brings certain metaphysical commitments or leanings to the study that gives his work a certain intensity,” Ms. Taves says. “Some of the rest of us consider these kinds of claims like other religious and metaphysical claims. We don’t lean toward the metaphysical claims — we distance ourselves from that.”

And she is right: Dr. Kripal “leans toward” the paranormal — he does not dismiss it as the fruit of deluded minds. He thinks there is some external reality being talked about, something real out there. In this regard, he is like the four mystics he writes about in “Authors of the Impossible.”

In a previous book, “Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism,” Dr. Kripal discusses a mystical experience of his own, in 1989, in India. He describes being asleep one night: “Suddenly, without warning, a powerful electric-like energy flooded the body with wave after wave of an unusually deep and uniform arousal. I watched my legs and torso float uncontrollably towards the ceiling.”

Dr. Kripal says that night prepared him, in a way, to encounter his four “Authors of the Impossible” — like Mr. Vallee, whose 1969 book, “Passport to Magonia,” places flying saucers in a tradition that includes elves, fairies, sylphs and leprechauns.

“I suppose I’ve come to the conclusion,” Dr. Kripal says, “that one of the functions of those earlier experiences I have written about was so that I could write these books.” He is referring in part to his next book, to be published in 2011, about the paranormal experiences of the artists and authors of superhero comics.

What his fellow academics will make of that book, only someone with telepathic powers — Professor X of the X-Men, perhaps? — could tell us for sure.

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Numerology, which shows the relationship between numbers, people and objects, is often believed by many as a way to discover a person’s destiny. It is believed that numbers can be associated to the things that can happen to an individual’s life. However, there is no single perspective that can be used to accurately tell the future. These perspectives of astrology, numerology and tarot card also depend upon governing issues like history and territory.

Since numerology deals with numbers, its early concepts were begun by mathematicians. However, they may no longer be thought of as mathematically-based. And throughout time, there have been many types of numerology wherein the modern one is a combination of Babylonian teachings and Christian philosophy. It also contains Gnosticism and Hebrew superstition. But today, the most known types of numerology are Chaldean, Kabbalah, Western, Chinese, and Tamil.

Here are brief explanations for each.

1.Chaldean

It is the ancient civilization of Babylon that is the origin of the Chaldean numerology. Known as the “mystic numerology”, it is considered as the oldest form and has connections with astrology and Khabbalistic interpretation. The Chaldean has more similarities with the Khabbalah rather than with the eastern teachings.

The Chaldean believes that single numbers reflect the person’s outer personality while double digits reflect the inner one. It is also the name by which an individual is most commonly called by that is used for the interpretation. The birth number is based on the date of the month the person was born.

2.Kabbalah

Kabbalah, a sub-branch of Jewish mysticism, believes that energy can be found in everything in this world and that it is the one that gives life and power to all. This also goes true by saying that every person, including his name, has energy. When the Kabbalah is used for interpretation, a name is needed in order to come up with a person’s reading. The old Kabbalah used the Hebrew alphabet while the new one uses the Roman alphabet.

3.Western

The Western numerology is fairly the most popular and easiest to use among its kind. Thus, it is called the Pythagorean numerology in honor of the Greek philosopher, Pythagoras, whose teachings were used as basis.

In this kind, the person’s name and date of birth are very important. The digits used for the analysis are 1 to 9. Moreover, 11 and 22 are numbers which are not reduced and are called “master vibrations”.

4.Chinese

The Chinese people are known for many beliefs about predicting the future. The Chinese astrology is among these. When the old Emperor Wu saw a tortoise, whose shell had a grid containing 9 squares, the idea of this unique numerology was born. The grid was eventually called the Lo Shu Grid wherein the numbers when arranged horizontally, diagonally, or vertically would all total to 15. The significance of this number is that it takes this much number of days to shift from new moon to full moon.

5.Tamil

The Tamil numerology is also known as the Indian numerology. The concept of this type plays around a person’s three numbers namely the psychic number, the destiny number, and the name number.

The destiny number is the way by which a person views himself. The destiny number is the way to see how one is viewed by other people. Lastly, the name number is what describes the way a person has relationships with others.

Regardless of which type of numerology one gets, the fact remains that life is a matter of choice.

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Tarot cards have been used since time immemorial primarily as a tool for divination. And today, it has been used to predict or have an idea of what the future holds. Tarot card reading are already very popular that its reach already includes the internet.

When doing readings using the tarot card, the deck is spread in order to achieve a reading or analysis. And these spreads are varied and necessary for particular instances. For example, there are spreads that are used for general readings while there are those that are used for specific areas which include life, love, and career.

The most common spreads are “3 card Past”, “Present or Future”, “Celtic Cross Spread”, and “21 Past Spread”.

Here are the explanations of these spreads.

1. Celtic Cross Spread. This is very common and popular. It is normally ideal for a general overview of a certain situation. However, it can be used to ask specific questions. The Celtic Spread can actually give a general outcome of the situation if the person keeps his hopes, as well as his relationships with other people.
2. 21 Card Romany Spread. This card is also as useful. When using this spread, there are 21 cards that are laid out in three rows, each with 7 cards. Each of the rows represents the past, present, and future. Each of these is part of telling a continuous story. The only thing about this spread is that it can only give a general overview of situations.
3. Identify Money Blocks Spread. From the name itself, it deals with money issues. It allows the seeker to get to the bottom of blockages about money. Using 18 questions for a 3 x 3 layout, the sources of the limitations and blockages will be identified.

No matter what the spread is used in a reading, the more important thing to focus on is doing the spread the right way. The tarot card reading will not be successful if the procedure is not followed. To achieve effect, follow these steps.

1.The lighting is important. Effective tarot card readings are done under sieved light rather than daylight.

2.Silence and peace in the surroundings also promote effective readings. That is why readings must be done in peaceful and quiet places.

3.Concentration is necessary.

4.Crossing one’s legs during a reading is discouraged. This goes for both the reader and the seeker.

5.It is the seeker who is supposed to cut the deck. It must always be the left hand as this is the hand that is closest to the heart.

6.The tarot deck should not be recklessly kept after a reading. It must be kept in a dark and quiet area.

Tarot card readings are useful tools for knowing our futures. It may not be giving definite answers; however, the thing is that we are able to catch a glimpse of what is in store for us.

But someone else did.

One night at a bar, late in 2007, a woman claiming psychic abilities approached Mr. Paterson, then the state’s lieutenant governor, saying she was overcome by powerful vibrations radiating from him.

His aura, she told him, was in transition.

As he recalled in a recent interview, Mr. Paterson could not resist a retort. He pointed to his drink. “My aura is in transition,” he told her, wryly, “because my blood alcohol level is going up.”

The woman warned him not to mock her. Could he think how he might soon be promoted?

Yes, he said, he could. Perhaps Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton would be elected president the next year and Governor Spitzer would appoint him to succeed her.

No, she said. What she was sensing was more immediate. Then she told him: “I think you will become governor.”

“I wanted to laugh,” Mr. Paterson said. “But there was just something about it that seemed serious.”

Four months later, Mr. Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal. Mr. Paterson, as foretold, became governor.

He said he had put the encounter out of his mind as he coped with the tumult of taking office. Then it suddenly returned to him with a jolt. “I said, ‘Oh, wow!’ ”

He never met the woman again, but, he said, he could not help thinking of her sometimes.

Mr. Paterson knows the tale sounds a bit fantastic. “People tell me these stories and I laugh at them,” he said. “But it actually did happen.”

CHARLEY CASTEX doesn’t look like a psychic, and so I don’t say hello. In his crisp tan pants, leather jacket and hip spectacles, he could masquerade as a gallery owner, a finance guy, a restaurateur. He’s early for our tea at Santa Fe’s bohemian cafe, the Teahouse. Flames roar in a kiva fireplace, combating the cold gusts of air coming in through the door. I must look more like a writer than he does a psychic, because after studiously contemplating the magazine rack for 10 minutes, he approaches, squinting mildly. “Are you Robin?” he asks.

The man on the Web site had long hair, but Charley sports a close-cropped silver hairdo and neat beard. Should I be skeptical of a psychic who can’t discern which woman he’s supposed to meet with? I barely have time to think it before he says: “I did have a hit on you, but you looked at me like I was wrong. And I didn’t want to be that guy who goes up to women in cafes.”

We settle ourselves around a battered table. “Should I call you a psychic?” I ask. “Is that the politically correct term?”

Charley shrugs. “You can if you want,” he says. “That’s the generally accepted term, but sixth-sense counselor is a more accurate depiction of the job. Psychic conjures these images of crystal balls and dark rooms. I find all that repulsive. I mean, that sort of thing is right up there with the oldest profession.” He’s delightfully candid, his blue eyes clear.

We’re here to talk about how the economic downturn has affected the business of soothsaying, but I learn many interesting things before we get to this. For example, he does a lot of his work by phone, and he comes from a family of telephone company employees. I like the symmetry of this.

When he was 6 years old, his sister found him behind the piano, focusing on his third eye. “My number is six and my color is red,” he declared. I can imagine the sister wrinkling her nose, rolling her eyes. When he got a little older, he said, he could focus on teachers and make them forget he had detention.

Eventually we circle back to the idea of the economy. “I get annoyed when people suggest my business must be booming these days,” he says. From 1997 to 2007, Charley was pulling in almost six figures a year. “Not bad for a guy with a home studio and a telephone,” he says. He was living in Hawaii when the markets crashed. The price of gas skyrocketed, and caused food shortages on the islands. His practice fell by 40 percent to 50 percent. It took two years to stabilize. Business is better now, but not as good as it used to be.

The readings have changed in style and substance, too. He tells me about a married couple he used to consult with individually. Now the woman calls for herself but tacks on questions about her husband, who is out of work. People are trying to get more bang for their buck. It’s more tiring to work like this, but he understands the rationale.

He tells me that it has become more difficult to deliver bad news. People have had enough bad news. These days, part of his job is to locate the silver lining.

Before the downturn, Charley’s clients were primarily concerned with relationships and spiritual growth, but these days, he fields a lot of questions about practical matters. “People are concerned about jobs and money,” he says. This manifests not only in questions about career, but also in questions about place.

“People get sacked from a factory and their security is lost. They start to wonder if they have greater prospects in Ohio. People are willing to move on a dime now,” he says. “That didn’t used to be true.”

Place is one of Charley’s specialties. He will write the various possibilities on cards, and one will simply leap out at him.

I grow momentarily distracted. Should I ask him to read my cards? After all, I’m dogged by a feeling of profound dislocation. I’m living in a temporary sublet in Portland, Ore., visiting friends in Santa Fe and wishing I had all of my belongings that are still in storage in Las Cruces, N.M. I’m hiding a worn sweater underneath a recently purchased purple scarf in an effort to look a little more put together. If he read my cards, would Portland jump out? Las Cruces? Santa Fe? Or would I be surprised by a curveball like Florida or Guam? What if he influences me to do the wrong thing? Or worse, what if he tells me I will have to pack all my stuff again?

So instead of getting personal, I broaden my aim. In effect, I am doing exactly what the wife does when she asks for information on her husband, looking for the Costco-sized read. I ask Charley if he can tell us where we’re heading as a country. He begins to shake his head before I can even finish the question.

“Readings are interpersonal,” he says. “A person has an energy field and I can tap into it. How can you tap into an energy field for an entire country?” He looks at me gravely. “Large insights like that have never been successfully given.”

Of course that makes perfect sense, but I find myself longing for a large insight anyway. After all, I can’t help it — I’m looking for the silver lining, too.

Robin Romm is the author of “The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks.”