A psychic reading is someone foretelling the future. Psychic readings can be given for a group as a whole or an individual in particular. While scientists associate psychic readings with events withheld by the subconscious of the psychic many believe that psychic readings are in fact messages from the god himself and answers to questions someone is looking for. The latter although just a belief goes on to explain the mystical appeal of the art followed by ancient cultures for centuries till today.

Every culture, whether it is European, African, Chinese, Egyptian or Indian has evidence of powerful psychics dating back their inception. Psychics in these cultures were treated with respect and given an authoritative position in the society as they were considered to be the average person's connection with the almighty god himself. Psychics are people who are considered by many to possess magical powers to foretell the future and a lot of people believe that through psychic readings a psychic can find the solutions to the most complex of problems.

Psychic reading has always been mystical and even though those trying to find scientific reasons to support a psychic reading have arrived to no concrete conclusions, the faith of people in psychic readings has never fallen short. In fact, people from across the world today are finding a new way to get a psychic reading in the form of the Internet and online psychic reading s by readers who can be reached though their websites.

The non believers have long claimed that psychic readings are not divine messages nor something that can never be explained by anyone or supported by science, but a psychic reading is merely a clever deduction of facts and circumstances. With the inception of online psychic reading service let these people explain how someone sitting thousands of miles or continents away from the subject person can give them a psychic reading. This is something that can actually not be proved by anyone or supported by science as it is above scientific explanations.

There are quite a few types of psychic readings and different people claiming to have psychic capabilities follow different methods to provide a psychic reading. The latest to that list is online psychic reading which many scholars would claim to be an extension of distant reading, while an online psychic reading can also be done using other types of psychic readings such as numerology, astrology and horoscope, with active involvement of the subject himself, a psychic reading can even be given by using palmistry.

The most popularly known forms of psychic readings are Astrology readings or horoscope readings both of which are more or less dependent on the same calculations. Then there is numerology which again is similar in its methods to astrology and horoscope readings, these three methods seem to be more popular in the eastern and the central part of the earth compared to the western world. Palm readings can be classified as different as it involves estimating and calculating by taking into account different method. Then there is past life reading, aura reading, distant reading, psychometry and yes the very popular tarot readings which due to its nature is very popular and has a huge following in the western countries.

The list of psychic reading methods might be never ending and many professionals may have their very own unique methods of providing psychic readings. A professional psychic reader may also specialize in more than one method of the above as different persons may need different approaches to connect with their subjects. Or like a physician may need to hand out different prescriptions for different kinds of people, a psychic may need different methods to reach out and find what they are looking for.