Some Psychics Are Making More Than Some Lawyers (but, angst-ridden lawyers, you can become your own psychic)

How will my performance review go?

Will the delayed start date wind up a rescinded offer?

This legal market for laid-off associates as well as in-house legal is brutal. How can I get an edge?

Are they forcing me into early retirement?

To get the answers to those questions, New Yorkers are willing to pay psychics and other representatives of the occult up to $997 an hour. You bet, they are earning more per hour than some elite lawyers. And, reports the New York Post, business is booming.

Some psychics have doubled their weekly business - and revenues - in 2020. Meanwhile, New York Magazine's column Madame Clairevoyant is very popular. That's a weekly free read.

But what's driving the psychic-industry surge aren't only the uncertainties generated by COVID-19. As those in the occult loop explain, the wildness was expected right from the get-go in 2020 since there was a conjunction of Saturn and Pluto.

Outside New York, psychic readings are more affordable for the Main Street kind of insight-seeker. That's the person who taps into the occult once a year. And is only willing to invest peanuts.

For example, online phone-reading service Psychic Interactive bills at $19 per 15 minutes. Credit cards accepted.

In-person and phone service in Salem, Massachusetts Angelica of the Angels costs $30 for 15 minutes and $40 for 20 minutes. Credit cards accepted.

In-person readings by Shadow at Once in a Blue Moon, Toledo. Ohio go for a buck a minute. Credit cards discouraged for in-person. But more welcome for phone readings, which also bill at a dollar a minute.

However, the reality is: Anyone can be his or her own psychic. Any lawyer can bypass the $1,000 intuitive hour. 

After all, all the answers are within oneself.

To be able to gain access to those insights requires shaking off being a closed system. Buddhists call that returning to a "beginner's mind." Essentially that's what babies experience. And that might account for some of their rapid overall growth. 

As I counsel those I coach about careers and job-search materials/interviews, likely it was their success in school and later on the job which caused them to, well, shut down. They felt they had to set up a wall to ward out the distractions of the world.

Those possible intrusions might have been thought of as Barbarians at the Gate. 

The result, of course, is that so many professionals retreat deeper and deeper into being a closed system.

But, then a curve ball comes. And there is no cognitive, emotional, and spiritual wiggle room for the unusual problem-solving needed - and old-fashioned resilience.

The first step in prying the system back open is reflecting on the zen mantra: Clear Thinking, Don't Know. You really don't know, do you. What a relief to align with that reality.

Along the way to becoming your own psychic you can calm the monkey mind by taking in free YouTube tutorials by American Buddhist nun Pema Chodron. Here is the classic on fear and fearlessness.

Reflection: The more tightly wound the culture, the more business for psychics. 

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