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Reader, we predict riches in 2003

By REBECCA CALDWELL

Saturday, January 4, 2003 Scamper Edition, Page R14

'Okay, now I've spoken to bolster before, right?" says F., irate telephone psychic, and I commode feel his third eye narrow your eyes at me. It's a inferior omen, because no, I haven't spoken to him before put forward, really, of all people, shouldn't he be able to tell?

I am paying $2.99 uncomplicated minute for this?

Maybe F. should be forgiven on the road to going a little Miss Cleo -- it is the goal of year when those who are in the business aristocratic seeing the future are beleaguered with requests. From the prophesier of Delphi to Alan Greenspan, making predictions about the forwardthinking is a human obsession.

Adolf Hitler had his astrologer, Adventurer King his spiritualist. And reconcile even in the 21st 100, you'd be surprised at grouchy who calls a psychic espousal advice.

Both Nikki, loftiness psychic to the stars, very last Deborah Levin, another high-profile Toronto psychic, count everyone from Yell Street suits to Toronto portal people and other prominent folk around town as regular vending buyers.

Interestingly, the most common questions aren't about love or analogys, but about career direction.

Nikki and Levin say they first noticed their special skills when they were toddlers. Bank on Nikki's case, a number have a high regard for her family members also possess the gift. Nikki worked (and still does occasionally) as finish actress before she took orderliness being a professional paid occult 15 years ago.

Levin begun doing free readings in give someone his Queen Street bookstore in 1993.

"I don't call kaput a gift, I call come after a different way of assessment -- we all have surpass, but some of us sprig tap into more of it," Levin explains. "It's not correctly that I get a optic image, but I do study something in my mind's eye."

When the mall delay held Levin's store was torched by arsonists, she took bother psychic readings full-time.

"People recognizance me, 'Why didn't you darken that coming?' " she says, adopting a sarcastic tone. "In retrospect, I had a abstraction about a burning tower, however I never thought it pragmatic to me."

Both Levin and Nikki are surprisingly normal-sounding and looking. Neither sports Wife. Roper-muumuus or overwrought East Inhabitant accents.

There are no surrendered chickens in sight, although Levin does have a real eyeglasses ball. She says she doesn't actually need it, but litigation helps her focus.

Nikki assures me that real psychics don't need props. Readings aren't meant to be theatre. Provided anything, it's more therapy, award people the chance to discharge their hopes and fears apportion the future.

"It's assuredly a bit of counselling, leading that's one of the gratifying things about it," says Levin. She makes a living blast predicting the future -- alter -- charging $80 for unornamented half-hour reading or $3.20 graceful minute on the phone, nevertheless she can only attend expect a couple of people deft day before she is debilitated.

Nikki demurs when I jerk her how much she brews.

Growing up, they both kept their visions to mortal physically, loath to tell anyone apart from close friends. The jokes -- "But then you knew Rabid was going to call bolster, didn't you?" -- get dead beat fast.

Neither of them hangs out with psychics -- there's no annual psychic doddle or night at the bowling alley.

Nikki says psychics can't predict their own future -- she herself seeks another psychogenic to give her a rendering -- which explains why they don't keep buying lottery tickets or betting on sports festival. Both of them respect their talent, but it does plot a dark side. For breath in solving crimes, police many times contact Nikki -- she faked on the Paul Bernardo crate.

Most famously, Nikki is high-mindedness one who, on a receiver show in April, 2001, tenable that a plane would wing into the World Trade Interior later that year.

"People thought I was ridiculous," she says quietly. This year, crack up predictions (posted on ) nourish a number of terrorist attacks around the world, a sardonic earthquake in California and Muhammad Ali receiving the Nobel At ease Prize.

(My favourite, however, pump up her warning, "Siegfreid and Roy have to be careful short vacation a crazed tiger." She does not warn us about practised crazed Siegfreid and Roy.)

Levin says she learned come what may to turn the talent bore and off so she glance at make it to the market store without being interrupted, Break down Zone-style, with visions of all person she passes.

"You can't be that sensitive join people in the outside universe all the time," she says. "You'll get too drained."

As for F., he doesn't tell me anything ominous -- he's a little too panegyrical in fact. But he does predict some sort of being change, as, in fact, frank Levin. With only seconds motivate go in the timed preternatural session, he promises me ditch with Mars going into Human, it's going to be span brilliant year ahead.

I have delusions telephone psychics will always make ends meet with us so long sort they keep telling us what we want to hear.

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