What questions to ask a fortuneteller
What kind of questions can you ask? Here is a series of ideas. Let’s start with four classical questions, and then move on to other types. Basically questions can divided into areas of concern with love, money, health, and work. But they can also follow more specific themes.
‘Does he love me?’ can turn into a question about resentment, dependability, or about how to cope with a parasitical, unrealistic thought about what’s expected.
Questions about work can also follow the more specific theme of how to create and experience a symmetrical relationship, as in the situation when you extend yourself to making two steps towards fulfilling your duties over and above what’s stipulated in your contract, and you want to see that your boss also makes two steps towards acknowledging your particular effort that goes into it.
Health questions can follow the theme if causality. What if it’s not a physical condition that causes you to shit blood? What if it’s stress? And if that’s the case, what particular area in your life has become so resisting to knowing it, resisting your conscious mind, that you can’t even put your finger on it? As a general rule, what you don’t know, you can’t control, so it’s a problem.
Questions about money can easily follow the theme of mobility, migration, and transition. A good question to pose in this direction is one that helps you realize that it’s not here that you’ll make more money but somewhere else. Where is this place, and what must you fulfil to get there? More money is not always about how to ingratiate yourself so you get a raise, but rather about how to eradicate your fear of changing lanes or geographical landscapes.
Questions can also be of predictive nature, or of a more metaphysical nature. You can go from: ‘What will I have for breakfast tomorrow?’ to pondering on ‘what’s the meaning of life?’ while you’re also eating cornflakes, a choice that you’ve just divined for yesterday.
Questions can have a descriptive character. Asking a ‘what’ question will give you insight that describes a situation: ‘What’s the situation here?’
Questions can be analytical. Asking a ‘how’ question will give you insight into the necessary steps you can take towards solving a problem: ‘How will I cope with no income in the next month?’ can point very concretely to what is a good idea to perform in order to remedy the situation.
Questions can be of reflective nature. Asking a ‘why’ question will give you access to depth and understanding: ‘Why did he leave me?’ can make you reflect on what went wrong, comprehending why you’re feeling the way you do.
Tangible and intangible questions. Generally, you can also ask questions that combine the field of emotion with a practical level. Faith in getting a job is intangible. A question about the actual motion towards getting the job as it relates to your confidence in your skills is tangible. You can use deduction to connect both visible and invisible dots or to create connection to others. You can use questions to strengthen your trust in others or to strengthen your faith in your own clear judgment, perhaps even about the value of self-reliance, in which case trust in others becomes redundant.
You can use a question whose purpose is to transmit knowledge to yourself about a situation that you’re unsure of. By formulating a coherent question related to a context that resists you, or you’re unsure of, you participate invariably in making clearer what is vague in your head.
Questions have a coping or a strategic character, most of the time, as we often want to know something about the modality of doing things. So we ask: ‘how do I do this, concretely?’ But it can also pay off to pose some questions that have an investigative nature, when we want to probe into the underlying premise and structure of what ‘this’ is to begin with.
‘How do I put up with my imbecile boss?’ is a question that presupposes clear knowledge of and insight into another person’s motivations, actions, and psychological mindset. Now this this, too: are you sure that when you deem the boss to be an imbecile that is also the case? What if the boss’s imbecility is directly a manifestation of the way in which you are acting on the job?
Questions are encounters with the unknown. Asking questions is easy. Asking the right questions is hard. Then there are the questions that arise from the encounter with the fortuneteller, with the beauty of her words, inspiration, and sincerity – not to mention her ability to also answer this question: ‘will I meet the Devil at the crossroads, if I went there on a dark and story night…?
