(CBS DFW) – Many businesses have been closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but fortune-tellers appear to be doing quite well. So why are more and more people turning to psychics during this health crisis? In a world of uncertainties, people are looking for predictability.
“With the covid and everything, I was stuck in a bubble,” McKinney resident Premila Patel said. She finds that predictability at SoulTopia. And she’s not the only one who is looking for assurance. The New York Times recently highlighted increased online traffic for horoscope and psychic consultations.
Astrologers and tarot card readers have also reported an increased demand in their services. “Since the pandemic, it’s just been an explosive amount of people coming in our stores and also through Zoom and on online and also on the phone,” Michelle Welch said.
Welch said her business has gone up over 70% since the beginning of the pandemic. “It’s a broad, broad variety of reasons but it starts primarily with the uncertainty, but then also the fact that people are at home a lot so that creates some issues when we’re at home and we’re with our family a lot,” Welch said. “And then the uncertainty with jobs. And then people that are just maybe, unfortunately, going over in that despair.” READ MORE
