I dumped my bloke, lost my business & ditched my best mate because my STAR SIGN told me to – it was a total mistake
STAR sign lover Sandra Stachowicz was 27 and had it all - a thriving marketing business, best friend and doting man.
So for a special treat ahead on her 28th birthday she decided to get a full psychic reading costing £26.50.
“I was really excited about it,” Sandra, now 35, from Edinburgh, Scotland, says. “I had always been into star signs and would always read my horoscope.
“So I decided, for my birthday, I would get a special reading. I went the whole hog and got an annual forecast for the year with special monthly reviews. It was a bit more expensive than what I would usually shell out but I loved it.”
Aries Sandra, travelling at the time, says her love of the stars was in contrast to her star sign. “Arians usually don’t go for stuff like that,” she says. “They’re too sensible. But I have Pisces rising in my sign - a star sign which is far more likely to believe horoscopes - and I think that element of my sign plays a part in why I love the stars.”
And when she got the psychic reading from a US-based certified astrologist and numerologist, one of the most famous and credible in the world she was “stunned” - by how accurate it immediately proved to be in predicting her love, work and personal life.
But this was her undoing as she was so desperate to fit into the path her star sign had set out for her she dumped her bloke of three years, ditched her best mate and let business fall by the wayside.
List of 12 star signs
The traditional dates used by Mystic Meg for each sign are below.
- Capricorn: December 22 – January 20
- Aquarius: January 21 – February 18
- Pisces: February 19 - March 20
- Aries: March 21 - April 20
- Taurus: April 21 – May 21
- Gemini: May 22 – June 21
- Cancer: June 22 – July 22
- Leo: July 23 – August 23
- Virgo: August 24 – September 22
- Libra: September 23 – October 23
- Scorpio: October 24 – November 22
- Sagittarius: November 23 – December 21
Now she’s warning other people not to fall for psychic readings. She says: “I thought my entire destiny was written in the stars - it turned out I had some control too..
“I am a capable woman but I believed so strongly in what the psychic told me would happen. I just allowed bad things to happen.
“I thought I was helpless to my destiny - I’m not!”
Sandra, now happily loved-up again with the ex she dumped, Chedli Harira, 43, told how she was “stunned” when she first got the reading. “It was so accurate,” she says. “I was over-the-moon to have my whole year laid out ahead of me.”
There were some good things which lay in store such as travelling, which she was already doing, and meeting “Prince Charming.”
So days after getting the reading she split from her long-term partner.
“Admittedly we were having some problems but I didn’t fight for our relationship at all,” the now 35-year-old says.
“I left him because the horoscope said ‘you will meet the new love of your life, Prince Charming, and I had just met a man a few days earlier.
“I think he loved me so I put all the eggs in one basket. But he wasn’t the one at all, it fizzled out very quickly.
“Luckily my ex took me back. He is wonderful”
She was also warned she would have a fight with her best friend of many years - and she was so prepared for it she let it happen.
“The psychic said me and my best mate were going to have a disagreement - and we wouldn’t get past it,” she says.
“She was my dearest friend and I was really close to her.
“At the time both of us were going through a difficult time with relationships, it wasn’t an easy period for either of us.
“We had a row, a few things were said which were not nice.
“This escalated into a major disagreement but rather than try to work things out I decided to listen to my stars and part ways.
I left him because the horoscope said ‘you will meet the new love of your life, Prince Charming, and I had just met a man a few days earlier.
Sandra Stachowicz
“But I really valued her and I shouldn’t have listened to my psychic reading.”
Again, she managed to patch this up - but says it should never have happened.
“Sadly I never managed to patch up my business, which my reading said would fail,” she says.
“When my marketing business experienced some hiccups rather than try to salvage it I allowed it to disintegrate and fall apart.
“I did this because my psychic reading said my business would not survive.
“My view at the time was ‘why bother if I am destined to fail?’”
Happily she has now relaunched a successful career as a publisher. But says she wishes someone at the time would have “shaken her”.
“It seems mad I accepted all these hiccups in my life - and that is all they were - with such ease.
“But I believed they were pre-determined because a psychic had told me.
“Now, looking back, I realise how mad it seems.
“But I am a capable woman and can predict my own destiny.”
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