Windsor’s psychic weekend

By Danielle Gagnier

Windsorites got their palms read and fortunes told at the Windsor Psychic Expo this January.

Over 30 different exhibitors set up booths at the Caboto Club Jan. 27 to 29. The expo has been travelling to cities all across Ontario since 1988.

Linda Fulcher is the event manager and co-creator of the Psychic Expo. With the help of her husband, she started doing 12 shows per year in Ontario. Although bigger cities like Toronto already have similar expos, Fulcher wanted to bring the same experience to smaller cities.

“When we come to the shows, it’s really rewarding because [people] come and they get different readings from the psychics. It’s just really fun to see people connect and get more information and get help and healing and inspiration,” said Fulcher.

Booths were set up around the perimeter of Galileo Hall and the centre of the room was filled with books, crystals and other new-age products on display and for purchase. Psychics, mediums, palm readers, clairvoyants and many other types of exhibitors held private readings, but there were also hourly lectures and demonstrations for first-timers to help them better understand the psychic world.

“If you pay attention to everything around you, you start understanding a lot more,” said Sheila Watson, an exhibitor at the expo who has been interested in the psychic world since she was a little girl. Watson is a medium, clairvoyant and palm reader. According to Watson, being a psychic is “an unending journey.”

“It takes time to develop but you just keep working at it,” said Watson. “The best way to develop as a psychic is to sit down and do a meditation every day because it gets you in touch with what you’re feeling.”

Almost 1,000 people attended the event. Although there was a great turnout for the weekend, there are many people who are extremely skeptical of what the exhibitors can allegedly do. Karen Cake, a retail worker, did not attend the event because she does not believe people can have psychic abilities.

“I don’t believe people can predict what is going to happen in the future or talk to dead people,” said Cake. While she does not believe, she respects other people’s opinions. “We all have the right to believe what we want and no one person’s belief is better than the others.”

The expo will be back in Windsor this summer from Aug. 11 to 13 at the Caboto Club.