Third-generation psychic sees skeptics and those who are curious

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“I tell them they’re wasting their money,” she said, “because they’ll get the same reading.”

She’s a third-generation psychic, following in the footsteps of her grandmother and mother. “It’s something I was born with,” she said.

Nurses would visit her grandmother while she was in the hospital to ask about their love lives.

“She went to her dying bed helping people,” Williams said.

Williams opened her business from her home on Timberlake Road less than one month ago after receiving her fortune-telling business license from Campbell County for $500.

Calvin Massie, the commissioner of revenue in Campbell County, said the business license was just one of many business licenses with the fee set by the Board of Supervisors.

He clarified: “We aren’t picking on fortune tellers.”

Williams understands there are some who are skeptical of psychics.

But she doesn’t mind seeing skeptics or those who are curious.

She also knows that there are psychics who are not exactly what they claim.

“There’s a lot of them — just like there is in other kinds of business. There’s good and bad in all.”

She said her grandmother taught her how to enhance and use “her gift” of picking up on people’s energy, which she describes as coming in flashes and similar to being in a dream.

“It’s hard to describe — it’s like trying to describe a scent, like how you smell,” she said.

She began giving spiritual readings at 16 in Florida when she started to help her grandmother after she took ill.

“I was telling people about their love life before I ever had one,” she said.

She moved to Campbell County last month, where she already knew some people, to start her business because it’s “peaceful” here.

Her reading room is peaceful, too.

It isn’t what you might expect. There’s no dark curtains, candles or even a crystal ball.

It’s actually quite bright with two windows, soft-color walls and a small table near the window where readings take place.

Her daughter, Nicole Williams, 20, also gives spiritual readings at the home.

The prices range from $25-$100.

The cheapest is a palm reading, which she said, “is very general — it tells you a lot of yourself, your surroundings.” Things, Williams said, people already know about themselves.

She also offers psychic readings for $60 if people want to know about other people — living or dead. All they need is to bring in that person’s photograph.

The two main concerns people come to her with are questions about their love lives and their careers.

She mostly uses tarot cards, she said, which costs $50, that tell a person’s past, present and future.

She said she thinks this is why customers come to see her. “It helps them, it gives them answers. People don’t want to be in the dark; they want advice.”

Before a reading begins, Williams asks if they want to hear everything that comes up — the good and the bad, such as potential medical problems.

However she always tells her customers to get a doctor’s opinion. “I’m not a doctor,” she said.

And also like a doctor, she is unable to operate on herself. Williams said she sees a spiritual reader for herself.

“I have to,” she explained, “because I can’t read myself.”