Jon22: The Website of Jonathan Dobres

Lately I’ve had the itch to explore things like Tarot readings and the like. I’ve looked into places like the Tremont Tea Room, which is one of the oldest psychic studios in the country (since 1936). It’s a bit pricey though, so I wasn’t going to do it any time soon. Then, out of nowhere, the Shelton dining hall was advertising cheap Tarot and palm readings. So here’s what I remember from a half-hour palmistry session with Skaya. Her thoughts in italics, my reaction follows. During the session, I tried not to do or say anything that would guide her in any particular direction.

• In at least two past lives you died in childhood. Not too hard to believe, especially considering that I would have died immediately after birth if not for modern technology. Without me telling her this, she later went on to say…
• You were a complicated birth. Yahtzee. They don’t get much more complicated than mine without incurring media coverage.
• Around the age of 8 or 9, maybe 7, you became aware of a significant physical medical problem. Pretty close to the mark there. At age 6 I underwent some pretty massive surgeries, so you could say I “became aware” in the years following them.
• As a child you were pretty hyperactive, but not very talkative. Bzzzt. Survey says no. As a child I was physically reserved, well behaved, but notoriously talkative.
• You have “philosopher’s fingers,” or as I call it, “Hamlet Syndrome.” You tend to over think things. Can’t really argue there, though you could say that about a lot of people.
• You’re slow to anger, but once you actually do get angry, that person better watch out. Yeah, pretty much. It takes a lot to get me mad, but once you cross that threshold with me, it’s Mad with a capital M.
• I see you as pretty jealous in relationships. Though I’ve had little experience with relationships, particularly romantic ones, I definitely see what she’s talking about here.
• In a few years I see a woman with long blonde hair and brown eyes entering your life and having a significant impact on it. This may be someone you once knew who comes back. Well, maybe. Even if it’s not someone totally new, it could be Allison (but yeah, Allison has hazel eyes).
• I see you being extremely busy between 27 and 31, around there. Money won’t be much of an issue. I see you helping a lot of people deal with trauma. Not as a doctor, but definitely some kind of healer. I also see you surrounded by children in the future. Skaya and I had met previously, and she usually doesn’t like to read people she knows because “it tends to skew things.” Though we probably discussed my Psychology major at some point in the past, she said at the end of the session that she thought I was an English major. So she pretty much had no idea I’ve been thinking of doing work in counseling, which makes the whole non-doctor healing thing…interesting.
• I see a forest green room with white molding and a lot of tan, rustic furniture. It’s a place of isolation, but a reflective isolation. Perhaps out in the country. I see you as a kind of local celebrity. This is in later life, before 50. No comment. Who knows?
• I see a lot of travel in your future, particularly during that busy time. During your more isolated time you become sort of a local celebrity.
• At age 50 you’ll suffer a significant medical problem, but it will lead to a lot of creativity.

It’s true that Skaya was simply dead wrong about my behavior as a child, but she was dead right about a lot of my past and present details. Even considering our one prior conversation, I couldn’t possibly have told her so much about my past and personality, never mind that she certainly wouldn’t be able to recall it so well. Some of her observations and predictions seemed vague or unlikely, but only one was outright wrong, and who knows what curve balls life will throw me in the coming years? On the whole, most things were specific enough to convince that there’s something genuine going on here. I’d be interested in getting someone else to read my palm to see if it matches up. Maybe I’ll be visiting the Tea Room sooner than I thought.