Last Wednesday I decided to check off an interesting life experience and spend some time with a close friend as well. Rachel, one of my closest friends, mentioned a monk in Houston that supposedly has psychic abilities. His name is Cau Chin (aka Uncle 9). Rachel has a way more open mind in this area than I do, but I love my friends. I also like being spontaneous and I never want to look back on life and regret not doing something fun. This is why I woke up at 5:45am last Wednesday so we could wait in line for a reading.
Waiting for Cau Chin / Uncle 9
We ended up getting to his office/mini-temple at 6:45am. We were given numbers 25 and 26 and took a seat in the waiting area. Every 45 minutes or so, Cau Chin would come out and tell a sermon/story in a heavy-accented English that boiled down to the fact that if everyone would be nicer to everyone and less selfish, the world would be a better place. He would then take the next group of people. I completely agree that entitlement is screwing everything up, so at this point, I am having fun talking really quietly with Rachel and people-watching.
But I am an impatient person and we keep waiting and waiting and waiting. Then I was put into the very end of one group and Rachel was set at the beginning of the next, so I had to wait quietly in the back with a handful of people I didn’t know while each person was escorted out one by one to have their fortunes told. I will have to say, I was bored. It was 10:45am, I was tired, and I was antsy.
Meeting with Cau Chin / Uncle 9
So I was caught a little off guard when Cau Chin asked me to follow him out of the little office we were waiting in and then literally, but lightly, pushed me into a little room with a throw rug and a lot of clutter. Then he left again, so I was just standing in this little area wondering if I should sit down or not. I heard him start a reading with someone else in the hallway outside, so I settled down to wait.
When he did wander in, he was finishing up a plate of fruit and started just talking while messing with the stuff around him. Watching him was like watching a kid with A.D.D. So while he is moving around the clutter, he also starts streaming out my reading. Apparently I spend money that I don’t have, 2012 and 2013 will be happy, and we will be travelling alot this year. My husband loves me, my mother wants me to call, I look like my father, my sisters want me to call, my brother wants to hear from me, I will have two kids, and I will live to be 88. Finally, someone close to me will lose weight, someone will get married, someone will get pregnant, someone will buy a car, and someone will buy a house. Then he asked me if I had any questions for him. I asked how he was doing and he said “Fine but I wish everyone would stop fighting!”.
My Thoughts
I left thinking that I had more fun just hanging out with Rachel. I don’t spend money willy-nilly and I don’t have a brother, so I took everything in the spirit I had intended – a fun waste of time. And when Rachel came out, she said that she apparently had two close friends and one of them needs to stop gossiping so much – and stared straight at me. Well fine. 
PS I forgot to mention that Cau Chin / Uncle 9 doesn’t technically charge anything for these readings. He accepts donations and it’s up to you to put it in a bowl or box in one of two rooms that don’t seem to be monitored by anyone. I saw a lot of people leave without donating anything other than food. And Cau Chin’s space is rented to him for free. I threw $7 into the bowl just because…I figured a 5 minute reading was worth something, lol.
Have you ever visited a psychic? What’s your views?
Definitely goes against all that I believe, so I won’t be spending my money there. But it is interesting to get a glimpse into what these people do, and how they make money at it.
I don’t really believe in this stuff, but I have a friend who visited a woman who is supposedly the real deal. She doesn’t want to make money off her ability, so she only does readings at certain times. Anyway, she told my friend that she would meet her husband that year, and told her what his three initials would be. That year, she met and started dating a man she only knew at first by a nickname. It wasn’t until a couple of years later that my friend remembered the psychic’s reading, and realized that her ( then fiancé) had the exact right initials. I’m not telling the story well, but it gave me goosebumps when she shared it with me.
Good job of doing something spontaneous-just for the heck of it
I did it at a fair a few years ago, and I thought “oh man that is SO me, she KNOWS me!” the next year, I did it again and I got the exact same reading…and so did my friend : (
haha, sounds pretty interesting crystal – glad you didnt look at it too seriously!
Next time you want to pay $7, call me. I will do a much better job, believe me. lol I was laughing reading your post. Hilarious. I am guilty of going to a psychic a long time ago. I think we paid $20!
I read tarot cards for fun- and honestly, at least with the tarot, you can be really accurate by knowing what questions to ask and when to shut up and listen. (When I was an assistant coach for speech and debate, I used the tarot to counsel the kids- they would ask questions of the cards/say things during readings that they otherwise wouldn’t have been.)
At the same time, the most off reading I’ve ever had was a tarot reading with guy at a psychic fair (free admission, there killing time) who determined that I actually didn’t care about C, I was just biding my time with him until something better came long. Considering we’re still together 10+ years after that, I’m gonna say he was pretty far off.
Lol! It sounds like it really was a fun waste of time! I guess you won’t spend $7 on that again.
I haven’t/won’t…but The Wife had a medium & a psychic come to our house for a girl’s night (I was luckily kicked out)…
Turns out that she will force me to do something I don’t want (either move far from my family or have more than 2 kids) and I will just leave her.
Needless to say it was annoying to come home to that.
You really should call your non-existent brother
I’ve never done the psychic thing, but I think that tarot cards and palm reading can be a fun way to waste some time, especially if you don’t take it too seriously.
I love this! There’s a psychic in my town that is known for her spot on assessments of people’s futures. She’s predicted miscarriages, births, genders. It’s pretty cool, but since she has a great track record, I’m wary of going. I don’t really want to know my future, I want to hear some crazy person spout random stuff!
Woo Hoo, two kids. That means two grandkids for me! (just kidding) It’s obvious this guy doesn’t know you when he says you spend money you don’t have. Your grandfather is tight, and he says you two squeak!
If nothing else, you can check it off the list and take it as an entertaining experience. Sounds like fun, get a few laughs and stories out of it.
@MoneyforCollegePro, I was fine with this guy since he only accepts donations and it was all in fun for me.
@Emily, that is creepy cool.
@Steve, thanks!
@Newlyweds, lol, I felt the same way when I heard a few of his readings through the thin walls…
@Jeff,
@Aloysa, you can do my reading at FINCON12.
@shanendoah, I’ve never had a tarot card reading before, could be fun.
@Shondell, nope, got that checked off my list.
@Evan, LMAO…I am imagining the bitching you got for something you hadn’t planned on doing…like when I get a little mad at Mr. BFS for something he did in a dream of mine…then I feel stupid and have to apologize for the mean look…
@Christa, I’m doing that right now.
@Kris, I don’t really want to know my future either…
@outontheveranda, LOL. Of course this would be the first post you ever leave a comment on, hahaha. We don’t squeak. We just aren’t spendthrifts either.
And if you want two grandkids, just let me know and I will gladly adopt a couple and leave them at your door. 
@Squirrelers, yep, checked off and complete.
You Gossip Blogger Girl You!!!! LOL.
I’ve never been to a psychic … but did go to a numerologist once … twice, maybe even 3 times over the years. (Call me silly, OK)
The first time made me “take notice” of some things … trends. Each year I went back and did it again. (The guy is very well known – Hans Decoz).
I learned how to do my own chart (from him). Any chart really. It’s just number, and as “out in left field” as this may sound, I can’t really say “Oh, this is spot-on ALL the time” … but I can say that numbers do have a meaning. No 2 people were born on the same day, same exact place (as the GPS would show) or have the exact same spelling/name, etc. If nothing else … it is very “conversational about things and trends.” Entertaining might be the case. Psychic? No! But it would probably make you wonder HOW can it know those things … and it doesn’t predict.
HA! I’m wondering if people suddenly think … “What a nut case!”
Rest assured, I use a few grains of salt when I look over a chart. (and then it sits around for 11 months .. waiting for the next time I think I need a little clarity in certain areas).
It do not tell me that someone close to me wants to buy a hoiuse, or I need to contact family.
My wife’s sceptical but even she’s commented about some things that have happened to me over the 14 yrs. of our marriage. I’m sceptical too, but I don’t discount too many things … especially relating to Math, and the unknown. Otherwise, I tend to just be “I have to see it, to believe it.” Strange balance, eh? 
You had fun and can check it off your “must do” life list. And that’s hilarious that your friend made the innuendo that the “gossiping friend” was you.
That’s crazy. At least you gotta hang out with your friend and try something different. I’ve never been to a psychic before and don’t really believe in them. I’d try it though, I try to have an open mind. They would have to totally blow my mind to change it though.
I had a friend who had her palm read. Said she’d never have kids. She has one now.
. I’ve done tarot readings, but I don’t take them seriously – some folks have though! I think you were entertained (and got a blog post out of it!) so it was worth 7 bucks.
I totally want to go see a psychic. And get a starchart reading. I want to find someone I know is good, though. Or at least completely into it.
I have never visited a psychic before because I know myself, and I know that once they “read my future” I would either hate what they said and not believe a word of it, or be so moved to take everything they told me to heart and obsess over their predictions for my future. Although I don’t ever see myself getting a reading about my future, I would love to have a sit down with a Medium. Mediums are people who can communicate with spirits, and I have seen a lot of shows/clips of mediums giving readings to family members of deceased, using such specific detailed words, that I have a great belief these people are truly gifted. If I could talk to anyone it would be my mom’s Dad whom I never met, and my grandmother who passed away almost 4 years ago. I think that’d be AMAZING!
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