martyD...sure, call me for daily predictions..however, I am afraid they are much the same each day...*grin*..The World Series? I firmly predict that the team with the most runs will probably win....unless there is a 27-2 game, and/or a hurricane during game 4....in which case, I predict lots of bookies will take the money & run.

(Crazy Eddie...actually, I am a Taurus...a friend once got out her books on astrology and asked for my stats...date & time of birth...etc...I gave them to her, remarking with tongue in cheek that I "...didn't really believe much in things like astrology"...."ah, yes," she says sagely, thumbing thru the texts, "that's just what your chart says you'd say!" arrrgggghhhhh!~!!

so, you take all the Tarot readers in the world and have them synchronize their watches and do a reading simultaneously and fax the results and opinions to a central clearing house. THEN we see how well they agree.

The thing is, IF your readings of Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, Tarot cards, crystal balls, Astrological charts, bumps on the head, Ouija boards, tea leaves, goat entrails and chance encounters with visions of departed saints in the garden seem to be connected with some later event, you remember it...if nothing in particular happens, you forget about it.

Wolfgang has made the relevant point.....the mind is capable of finding connections and significant points whether or not any actually exist. We WANT answers and satisfaction and closure to our mysteries, so we create them, leaving out what DOESN'T agree with our careful analysis.......

(.....say, have I told you that I am doing a statistial analysis of Catspaw's postings, and I find that at times of highest incidence of scatological references, George Bush's grammar and coherence get worse?...I'm SURE that transmission of farts in the Phlogiston are responsible... and the letters in my alphabet soup spelled out 'sngwladpss' the other day, which is an anagram of 'catbush' to base 8 in Sanskrit transliteration....watch out, world!)