Aidan Moffat’s A Good Thing To Lose #4: Psychic Light

A Good Thing To Lose #4: Psychic Light

For some reason I’ve never turned to telephone psychics to help me overcome life’s hurdles. Oddly, it turns out all you need to do is black-up and you’ll be fine…

Hello?

Hello?

And what’s your name, please?

My name’s Aidan.

Right, Aidan, you’ve come through to Joanne…

Hello, pleased to meet you, Joanne.

…and what would you like me to concentrate on?

I’m not entirely sure, to be honest. I’m wondering what the future holds; like everyone, I have concerns about money and career right now.

It’s a bit unsettled…

Yes, and I think I’d like to concentrate on that if possible.

…with the world being sort of turned upside down.

Well, mine was quite probably upside down as it was…

I think you like to go with your heart with things, don’t you? You like to go towards things that have got great meaning for you…

I think so, yes…

I think that’s how you get your energy.

I certainly do like to pursue things, yes.

Mmmmm. It gives you energy if it’s got meaning for you. Everybody’s different. Some people keep pursuing financial things, I think, which is quite meaningless really. You’re a very spiritual person…

Oh. Sometimes I wonder…

No, you are. I mean, don’t lose that – you have to be good to get good things in life. If you go to the other side and you’re bad, you’re just going to attract badness anyway…

That’s very true, yes…

…and you’ll destroy yourself if you do that. You go off your path, that’s what happens to people, and they have to struggle again, they’re knocked right back to the beginning…

Mm-hm…

…I just see you going on this path and you’re not going to come off it for anybody.

I see.

Now, I’ve got… there’s a contract around you… do you want a new job?

I would certainly like a better job, yes, or at least one that’s more lucrative than the one I have. I’m not quite sure that I’m capable of a completely new one…

Yeah, there’s something going to come up though, you’ve got a new job coming your way. And you’ve got irrational fears coming out, you’re getting a bit paranoid sometimes…

Mm-hm…

…and that usually happens when you’re not getting enough sleep and you’re not looking after yourself properly. That’s your own health causes that…

I certainly haven’t been getting a lot of sleep, I have a little baby who doesn’t really allow me to…

Aw, have you? Yeah. You need to sleep in between, even now you just need to fall asleep, don’t you?

I’ve had quite a relaxing day so far but maybe a little nap could be quite good, aye…

We usually find ourselves getting upset about things which are not normal.

I do tend to overreact to stuff, yes…

Yeah, cause sleep is food for the brain as well and that’s you getting all confused and everything and you don’t know why! So lots of health improvements around you and the people in your life…

I think that would be wise…

Yeah. And also, do you want a house move?

I’ve been thinking about that recently, yes…

Yeah! It says you’re going to go towards a new lifestyle too…

Well, with the baby we’ve been thinking about moving somewhere else, yes…

Make sure you give this baby a lot of love…

We certainly try…

I know you do. Because it’s when they grow up that you get all the love back again, they remember. They do! And if you’ve not give it them, you’ve had it…

Well, I’m sure we’ll be fine there…

Yup. Now I’ve also got a male friend here and I feel as though this man’s going to come towards you, he seems to need you in his life and he looks a good person. He’s good for you anyway, put it that way. Anyone who’s bad for you, go cold with them. You know, give them the feeling you’re just not getting on…

Okay…

You know, I mean what’s the point of having friends when you don’t know where they’re coming from? Just go cold with anyone like that.

Right. I can’t think of anyone just now but…

There’s a nice man, he’s a nice man, he looks like a friend, like one of your friends who’s around. If he’s got the time, he’s going to come towards you…

Okay.

Right, now I’m also seeing… You’ve got to start taking more risks, you hold back a lot…

Yes, I probably do…

…you think too much sometimes…

That’s certainly true, yes. I definitely think about things too much, I spend too much time dwelling on things…

Mm-hm. You should write down a few this year, what you want to achieve this year. It might just be a happy home, you might just want to be happy every day and that’s your achievement. Because love doesn’t need any help anyway, everything else does, just don’t get excessive about everything else in your life, not overly… um… what’s the word for it? Over-indulgent about things. It’s like a person that needs several cars at the front of their house, do you know what I mean? To make them happy – and that’s what you call over-indulgence and that leads to… depression, actually.

I don’t have any cars just now, mind you…

Ha ha! You’re probably happier, then, than the person I’ve just described!

Ha ha! Possibly, aye…

People give up a lot of happiness to get these things and there’s no happiness at the end of that either…

This is true. I think we should concentrate on love…

Yeah! Now, do you like Al Jolson, the film?

Umm… I’m not sure I’ve seen it…

Well, my dad thought he was Al Jolson…

Right, okay…

…he really believed he was him, you know. So I was brought up in an Al Jolson film! It’s family entertainment. If you can hire it, get it, or even order it from the library…

Okay…

…and get it and it’s wonderful, it’s so uplifting, it’s just unbelievable. It’s so inspiring!

Al Jolson was the guy with the blacked-up face, right?

Yeah! But his whole life was geared towards… happiness. And if he was happy, he knew he made other people happy.

I see. And was he a spiritual man?

Yeah, definitely, he definitely was, yeah. But it’s just so inspiring, his story…

I’ll look into that. I think I may have seen it when I was younger…

My dad was like that. You know, when my dad walked down the road, because he looked like Al Jolson…

He certainly would’ve stood out…

…when my dad walked down the road, everyone would shine. They’d say, God! He’s the happiest man in the world! They thought it was him, you know? Off the film…

Well, he would’ve had a big smile painted on his face, wouldn’t he?

Yeah, yeah. Well, my dad was like that. That was coming from a family of eleven. But people didn’t know that.

Well, Joanne, I think you’ve helped me a lot tonight…

Right! Well, you’ve got a fantastic year coming…

Well, thank you. If there’s anything else you could let me know…

Just keep towards pleasant people and you’ll have pleasant times as well, and all the family.

Well, it’s been good talking to you, thank you very much.

Bye-bye.

Joanne is one of the readers from Psychic Light, who specialise in live psychic readings and telephone tarot. She had a thick Yorkshire accent and sounded like she was either smoking a fag or sucking a boiled sweet during our entire conversation. Calls cost £1.50 per minute.