'Love Psychic' Jill Dahne to speak today at convention in Lauderdale
Hollywood woman to share vision at Expo of Heart convention
By Robert Nolin South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The future unspools before Jill Dahne like a movie preview of coming attractions that can range from world-shaking events to celebrity pregnancies.
Or so she says."It's like a video camera," the Hollywood psychic says. "I see things right in front of my eyes."Whether you believe in prognostication or not, one thing is crystal-ball clear: Dahne, 45, has achieved some local renown as a clairvoyant. She hosts a weekly radio show, The Love Psychic, has been featured on television and in newspapers and pens a weekly horoscope column.Sunday, she will sit on a panel and lecture at the Expo of Heart convention at the Broward County
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The event offers such programs as Soul Transformation Process, Oneness Blessing and Spiritual Rules of Engagement.
Dahne claims her prophecies are 98 percent accurate. She has foretold more than 1,000 marriages, she says, earning her the "Love Psychic" label, and forecast the capture of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the terrorist bombings in Madrid. True, she also said Hillary Clinton would win the presidency ... and name Bill Clinton her VP. "In my eye she was supposed to win," Dahne said. "I believe that still could come to pass."
"In my eye she was supposed to win," Dahne said. "I believe that still could come to pass."
The high-cheekboned soothsayer with the flaxen locks charges $200 for a psychic reading in her wood-paneled home office. "When the person's in front of me I can see all about them," she said. Bargain hunters can get cut-rate divinations for $40 via e-mail.And in these financially doubtful days, you can safely predict the fortunetelling business will be a bull market. Dahne is upbeat. "A lot of people are worried about the economy. I'm not worried," she said. "By 2012 the economy is going to be back on its feet."Dahne's husband, Ely, and two children have learned to co-exist with her psychic gifts.
She once warned her husband not to wear his necklace and bracelet to the car wash he owns after she dreamed he would be shot by robbers. He ignored the omen, and days later was beaten on the head and robbed.
Dahne said foretelling sports outcomes is a specialty, but one she won't take advantage of.
"I never do sports bets, I don't believe in gambling," she said.Another taboo subject:
"I never mention death to anybody." Florida is full of professional prognosticators, said Rosemary McArthur, founder of the American Association of Psychics & Mediums, who insists her title, the Celtic Lady, be used in print. But they can't all be trusted, she says."There are a lot of people who are desperate right now, and they're reaching out [to psychics]," she said.
"There are a lot of people who are being taken for a ride out there."
Folks seeking to know the future should avoid psychics who promise to double their money or renew a lost romance, McArthur said from her Estes Park, Colo., home."I recommend that people really find out more about the person who's going to read for them," she advised. "They have to be careful."
