About 20 polished and professional women, most who'd never met, gathered in the hostess' beautiful living room with their plates ... and curiosity.
Many of us were in some kind of pain - inner our outer - and enough emotional turmoil to take this chance - this opportunity to attend a "Ladies Psychic Luncheon."
The closest I'd come before was a tarot card reading at the mall for three minutes and the quarter I put into the Sophia Prediction machine, where a mannequin in tons of make-up and scarves shot out a card saying, "You will seek the path of light."
Wow. What an eye opener.
Those in charge of the Psychic Luncheon invited Angela Moore of Marion, who has been billed on radio as the Psychic Hillbilly and is now a regular on WNCW at 7:45 a.m. Thursdays, presenting "Metaphysical Matters." She'll be a featured presenter at Barnes & Noble the first Thursday of every month at 7 p.m., where she'll do her thing and discuss topics related to her line of psychic duty.
She has a reputation for nailing national tragedies such as Sept. 11, telling a friend three days before the act she saw planes "going down everywhere." A year or so before 9/11, she told another group she saw a great explosion in the Northeast that would reverberate throughout the world. Both predictions, she said, are on tape.
Last Saturday, as we ate and waited, she came bustling into the home out of breath and full of apologies.
"I'm late, I'm so sorry. I blame it on my husband," she said, smiling, taking a seat in the center of the circle. She wore an orange top and blue jeans, looking more like a kind-hearted mother than what I'd imagined from TV and the movies.
We went around the room introducing ourselves and giving her our birthdays. She'd pause, breathe deeply, and tell a person point blank what she thought or had received about her troubles or personality.
"You're out there. Out of reach and closed off," she said to one of us. "I see the beach. You need to travel. That's an assignment. Go to the beach, and I ain't taking that back."
She has a distinctive southern accent, which charms and disarms. She starts sentences with "I'm not making this up" and finishes with "That's non-negotiable, and I ain't taking that back."
I called her after the session with a few questions, mainly if religion and her abilities to predict clash.
"I'm an ordained minister," she said. "I consider what I do a calling, a gift from God. I don't charge, but take donations."
She said everyone from Baptists to Jews, from Buddhists to criminal investigators and even preachers have come to her for advice on a range of topics. She didn't realize she was psychic until she was 34 and began commenting on her boss's private life, matters she couldn't possibly have known.
"You know what you are?" the boss asked. "You're a psychic."
It was then Angela knew all those strange things from her childhood, the dreams and visions, the things she'd hear and later come true, meant she wasn't crazy. There was a label - psychic - and most people can tap into it, she said, especially artistic and creative types.
For more information, copies of her book, and her schedule of appearances, go to www.angela-moore.com.
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