SoHo Psychic Shop

My original review for this shop was for a reading that I received in late 2011 from a young woman at the shop, whose baby was in a crib about ten feet from the reading table for the duration of the reading. This update to my review is for a reading that I received in July of 2014 from a different reader, a youngish woman named Tina, who, while likely in her late 20s or early 30s, was at least 6 to 8 years older than the very young woman with the baby who had given me a reading at this shop two and a half years earlier.
I asked Tina for a full deck tarot reading plus a palm reading. As is almost always the case when I ask for a reading from a psychic who does not know me, I wanted a cold reading, and so I told Tina only my first name, date and place of birth, and the fact that I now live in Maryland and was visiting NYC for about 10 days. I told her nothing else until the reading had ended.
Unfortunately, during this visit to the shop, there was no sign of Prince, the beautiful black cat who had hung out with me on my lap during my earlier reading here two-​plus years ago. That is a shame, for I feel that every storefront psychic shop should have a friendly cat who will hang out with clients!
Tina delivered a very good reading. She accurately saw a number of things, including the fact that I am a mystic and a psychic, and that my work primarily involves the spiritual path. She also reported accurately that I do not have any children, and have never had any children, and will never have children, because I live my life in a monk-​like devotion to serving Divinity, and thus have no time for family-​related duties or chores. She also perceived accurately the fact that I am slowly working on two spiritual books that are somewhat on the back burner due to my other spiritual work.
Tina also correctly perceived and reported, without any relevant input from me, that I was seeking only a general life reading, and that I had no pressing questions or issues, nor any problems, in my life.
This reading from Tina was quite exceptional in that during the entire 30-​minute-​plus reading, she said nothing that felt inaccurate, nor anything that felt so overly-​vague that it could have applied to a good percentage of men my age (this is a favorite trick of some lesser-​skilled psychic readers), and rather, everything that she said to me was extremely specific and very accurate.
Among other things, she accurately described (in terms of hair color, eye color, facial characteristics, height, nationality/​ethnicity, and other physical characteristics, along with the first letters of their first names), two younger women who have been close friends of mine for years, and who are still friends to this day.
In light of what some other Unilocal reviewers have noted about their readings at this shop, I will report that at no time during my reading did Tina ever try to get me to «upgrade» my reading by adding any kind of expensive healing work or other related expensive services. Rather, she did not try to upgrade/​upsize my reading at all, and did not try to sell me on any other services.
Of course, I am also a rather unconventional person. Since I’m a mystic, spiritual healer and intuitive myself (in addition to being a scientist), my life is very much filled with Divine love and grace, and my life always flows well, and I am very happy and very much at peace. Thus, it is possible that other customers/​clients might have a rather different experience.
I want to stress the fact that when I make visits to local psychics during my travels, I am not seeking help with any problems, nor am I seeking spiritual guidance, and rather, I seek them out and ask for a general life reading simply because God asks me to do so, and to have a fun way of connecting with other practitioners in the realms of the inner mystical/​spiritual and metaphysical arts, for I see them as my spiritual sisters and brothers.
So, when reading my reviews of psychics here on Unilocal or elsewhere, it may be helpful for you to bear in mind that I did not visit any of them with any problems or serious questions or wishes in mind, and, due to this fact, your own experience with the same psychics might be somewhat different than mine.
In closing, I will note that I had, in my original review of this shop for my late 2011 reading with the very young female reader (that is, the one with the baby in a crib, and with the cute young cat named Prince), given this shop a 3 star rating. In light of my excellent experience with Tina during my most recent (July 2014) reading, I am raising my star rating for this shop to 4 stars; this 4 star rating applies specifically and only to the reading that I received in July of 2014 from Tina. For the reading that I received at this shop back in late 2011 from the very young with the baby, my rating for that reader still stands at 2.6 to 3 stars.

what a waste of time and money. Classic rip off. Ohhh you have bad energy and it prevents you from being in a healthy relationship but i can remove it for $ 500 otherwise you are stuck! Thank you so much!

Unreasonable rip off

DO NOT GO HERE!
Saying a psychic is a ‘rip off’ or ‘scam’ is like calling the cops to say you got duped by a drug dealer and the cocaine that was actually baby powder. I know!
These are just the WORST rip off psychics, they could not even fake it.
First off, I read somewhere that ‘Tina’ was the best there (a yellow page review, probably written by Tina). So I called a cell # and got the rudest, most unprofessional woman ever! «Yeah?» Is how she answers the phone. Goes like this:
«Is this Soho Psychics?»
«Yeah, who’re you?»
«A potential customer. Is Tina there»
«Maybe. When’s the last time you had a reading?»
«I haven’t. This is for a friend’s birthday»
«Then how do you know Tina??»
«I read a review»
She laughs.
We discuss price and options and she says that for $ 80 we can get a one hour session with «Tina» including a face & palm reading and Tarot.
I hang up the phone completely intimidated, but my friends assure me that maybe ‘real’ psychics are rough and tumble and not full of pretense and niceties. Hmmm, maybe. .
We get there and say we have an appt with «Tina», the lady says «yeah, I’m Tina» and it was all downhill from there.
As she takes the bday girl to get her readings in a side room we wait in the lobby for a bit, when another customer comes in w/​an appt with ‘Tina’ and another ‘psychic’ greets them saying «I’m Tina». Coincidence, I think not.
Our bday friend emerges before we have even decided where we are going to spend our hour. DONE. literally 7 minutes! She went in at 4:00, out at 4:07.
I’m not even going to discuss the inaccuracies of the reading, that is silly and unarguable really.
B’day girl did not know what we paid or that it was supposed to be an hour. «Tina» gave her a ½ deck Tarot reading, which there is no such thing –my friend knows the cards a bit, and she flipped some bad cards & ‘Tina’ would say «oh, things are looking up» — too clueless to even fake it. Then looked at her palm and kept saying she would get a marriage proposal in a year. THE END.
When my friends left, though I knew it was fruitless, I went to ‘Tina’ and said we were shorted about 50 minutes, and she just said something about psychics only can read what is there– they know when the time is up or something (read: we have your cash, we dont expect repeat customers at our sham operation, get outta my face) And they are so intimidating — I couldn’t do anymore — except Unilocal.
PLEASE DON’T GO HERE. They don’t even provide the cheesy ‘Madame Ruby says «look in the basement of the Alamo“‘ side. They are not ‘real’ or ‘fun’ just complete and utter ripoff that are mean and do not even attempt to give you what you paid for.
UGH!
$ 80 poorer, depressing friends b’day & a notch in my ‘losing faith in humanity’ belt.

Fun (ny) experience. She said a lot of contradictory things to my friend. When my friend bargained (not for the sake of saving money, but she really didn’t care enough to pay $ 60 for something she didn’t take seriously), the woman asked her, «Do you know how much rent costs in SoHo?» Haha.