Tuesday, October 9, 2007

parrot astrology is expensive

Yesterday I was supposed to go out to a village and interview the local astrologer/priest/black magic practitioner. Sadly, his older sister died. Because of this he won't be doing horoscopes for sixteen days (during this time a family member of the deceased is thought to be impure). It just so happened that yesterday afternoon the kili josiyam (parrot astrology) man happened to be going through the neighborhood offering his services, so we called him in for a reading.

The cost for a reading is 5 rupees. He first did a reading for Tamilarasi, who wanted to know her husbands fortune. He asks the name, age, and star of the person and then starts to chant. The parrot then comes out of the cage and stars pulling cards out of a stack. Finally it settles on one particular card and hands it to the man. Her card was Mahalakshmi, a highly beneficent and lucky goddess.

When it came time for my fortune, I'll be damned if that parrot didn't pick the absolute worst cards in the pile. First it was "HOSPITAL" - a picture of people sick in beds with IVs in their arms and nurses roaming around frantically. He then threw the shells and six of them were pointing up. Analysis? I had crossed the path of a widow and she had cursed me. The next card was a COBRA. When my friends saw this, they gasped. Not a good sign. Cobras are holy but sometimes they are bad. In this case it was bad. But by this point my friends started to get suspicious that this astrology was fixed. I also got over my initial panic, so by the time that COURTROOM and POLICE STATION were drawn, I realized this guy was trying to pull one over on us.

I had to tell him my favorite god and I said Shiva. Then he said he would pick one card, Tamilarasi would pick one card for me, and the parrot would pick a card. If "God decided to show up and help me" one of the cards would be Shiva. If not, I am in big trouble and have to pay him 4000 rupees to save myself!!! And here is how people get cheated by the parrot astrologers.

Call me crazy, but I bet you 4000 rupees
that parrot wasn't going to pick any Shiva card for me.

13 comments:

hiiiiiiiiii said...

you are absolutely right. once this happened to me in papanasam temple and we ended up giving him 500 rupees. since my mother my disturbed by these parrot astrologer. they are spoiling the name of parrot astrology.

hiiiiiiiiii said...

you are absolutely right. once this happened to me in papanasam temple and we ended up giving him 500 rupees. since my mother was disturbed by these parrot astrologer. they are spoiling the name of parrot astrology.

Unknown said...

Today it happened for me...the parrot picked a card..it showed a widow pic..he told me 2 pick one..i picked..it also showed something lik tat and a snake holding a thali..he asked me 2 give 350 to resolve my problem...I just left and sd dont want...bcas we ve already experienced the same once in chennai marina beach..we paid 200 and came for one of my frnd..this time its cent % confirmed its fake..

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Unknown said...

This happened to me today. I was so very upset until I read all your comments. Thanks friends. Really feeling bad just for the sake of money these parrot astrologers exibit this cheap attitude.For Gods sake please enjoy nature and return Do not even try to appreciate these parrot astrologers. They ruin our day.

Unknown said...

It happened to me today! It is true that they put our mind in dilemma! Dead body picture came and another also something bad picture came. I was very upset seeing all this. He asked to give 1000 Rs to solve. Please don't go to these parrot astrologers and get confused like me.

Unknown said...

Yes.... This happened to me today in Thiruvanmiyur beach..... The same sequence as u all told.... 3500 RS he asked.... I didn't give and escaped.... My mind was so much confused.... They strongly puts that thought in our sub conscious memory.... Oh shit .... Just for money ...

Anonymous said...

Today i went to see this guy near hospital. The parrot picked lizard then the guy said i will be dead in three ( he said it in days i don't exactly remember the number) that my bones will be crushed. I should give him 250 rs and he will give me some ver(plant ku adila irukum la antha veru) its some kind of magical (very powerful he said)
I should pray with it for three days and drop it on water after rotating it three times around my head (moonu thadava thalaya suthi thanni la podanumam) he said after that veru will burn (in water????) and my curse will be removed. I said i don't have 250 rupees he said i should do it else i would die its upto you. It really Fucked with my mind. I said let the parrot pick the cards again. In fact he said it and asked me to rearrange the cards however I want. It kinda gave me a hope. So i put that card well below everything and rearranged with my eyes closed. The thing is that card number is 30. He and i both know that. This time same process. He picked a grain (gothumai) and opened the cage. Parrot started picking cards one by one and started looking at him. For every card it picked it saw him then dropped. This happened continously. After a while it picked the exact card. There has to be some signal he is giving to parrot or else why would the parrot looks at him for every card. He said i should really buy his ver for 250 rupees. I said i don't have money. He said give what you have i said no and walked away. But i must admit it really Fucked with my mind. I started googling if parrot astrology is true or not. I figured i should go talk to another parrot astrologer. So i went to anther one
This time its a lady. Her parrot name is vikram(i dont remember that first guys parrot name) vikram parrot started Picking cards and this time it was narasimmar god. Then she started telling all the positive things to me. I was very quiet didn't tell anything after finishing her astrology she said. Now pick one randomly.(that guy didn't let me do this) i was surprised and picked one randomly. It was lord vinayagar. Then again she started everything positively. Nothing not even a single thing negative. After finishing her astrology she said. If you have any questions ask. I said don't mistake me i went to the other guy few hours ago he said i would die in 3 weeks if I don't do what he said and remove my curse. She said it's a well known trick that they would signal the parrot to extract money. And asked me did you see any signals from me? I said no. Because this time i was curiously observing right from the beginning. She asked my name at start opened the cage and said vikram come pick a card for (my name) she then searched for her optical glass in her bag. The parrot just picked one randomly. The whole time she was facing the other way around and searching for glass. She then weared it opened the card and started reading my astrology.
So i firmly said no you didn't signal the parrot. She said some people say bad things so that they can extract money. That i shouldn't believe him. My cards are good i don't have to worry. I left after giving her bit more money than agreed amount.

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Unknown said...

I just came to do this stupidity to me today. Initially my uncle saw and i was capturing video of his so that we don't forget things what the astrologer say. When I was taking video itself he asked me not to take and if i take video things will not happen. But u dint leave and i took a video of it. Then my mom saw and he said all good things to her also. That day I never kept a bindi and also i was having my kid in my hand. He had monitored everything. Later when my uncle compelled me to see this i said know. But the astrologer said u have got very big Yogam u really need to see. I too thought he will say positive things and accepted. But when he noticed my appreance without bindi he had signalled parrot to take a card and he told all kind of rubbish things to me. The parrot exactly took a card where a girl is alone with her kid, group of people crying and a snake picture. He said this is not ok. Ur husband and kid are going to be in problem. And all my mind went and i was so depressed. After he went i googled and came to know these are frauds and again i went and saw the video that he took. In the video , surprisingly i found that he is aware of all the cards and he is clearly signalling the parrot to take cards. In each card he is having multiple images and based on reading us he is taking the images out of these cards. And finally he said i need to give 200 rupees for the next step. I said no i dont like to continue and he came leave the place. This is all seriously spoiling out peace of mind. If they need money they can go and work and earn. Playing with emotions like this is not good.

Anbesivam said...

Thanks for such blogs, helps many more understand the real fraudulent practices. I came across something very similar today, it's a shame we gave in too......I would say it's a momentary emotional trick that works especially when tricked with husband and children related stuff. It did confuse me for a while and soon I came to realise it's a scam......I chose to see this for fun, instead turned out to be a victim. Regret doing this.....

Anonymous said...

Oh my god.... i seriously donot expect there are so many people are experienced the same.... today the same happened to me exactly as what you people have described here.... and how cheap those astrologer says bad things just for money....

Anonymous said...

Pls don’t ever believe this unethical parrot astrologers… they totally fake n play with emotions for money… they know their cards wel hence, even if u pick the card, they know to misplace it magically with the card he wishes to show..n every card is having multiple images… it’s a clear way of cheating….