Tarot cards

Went to a Girls' Night In event tonight in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The organizers had set up all sorts of "fun activities" for us (all the proceeds benefit breast cancer research). Throughout the night I had a facial, feet pamper, back massage, and a colour consultation (I was previously not aware that there exists such a thing where people actually do consultations on what colours "suit you best"  but if there exists stylists, why not colour consultants though when I shop I just buy whatever that looks nice).

Highlight of the evening would have to be the tarot card reading as I've always been extremely intrigued about tarot card readers (and all the likes that tells you about your past, present, future). Having never had a tarot card reading session before, I was very curious as to what she had to say. 

Despite what I perhaps always had in mind, my tarot card reader wasn't a gypsy, nor did she have a bandanna tied around her hair. 

*This was not her. 

When my turn came, I went into the room to get my tarot cards read by the tarot card reader lady (TR) who has 18 years experience under her belt (or so it says on the door). I saw that her tarot cards were aged and worn (gives a better illusion than a shiny brand new deck I would think).

For the first reading, I was asked to shuffle the cards and separate them into 3 piles. For the second, to choose 10 cards which she then laid out into a Celtic cross formation (jumping onto Google the moment I got home told me this).

*In case you were wondering, this was not my actual reading.

Throughout the 15 minutes reading, she made 3 "great predictions", foresaw 3 rather major events that will happen in the future (major as opposed to what I'll be having for lunch tomorrow). 

The thought that I've always had about knowing one's future is now that you know, will that knowledge of "knowing" the exact reason said event happened in the first place or will that knowledge of "knowing" cause you to alter the events?
For example:
Case 1

If you knew that you were going to get hit by a bus tomorrow morning while you're crossing the road at the zebra crossing, will knowing that make you stop at the junction (even though pedestrians have first priority at the crossing) and because you stopped, the person running behind you accidentally crashes into you making you sprawl on all fours on the road and the bus hits you then, not seeing you at all.
Was it that knowledge of knowing the future the reason you got hit by the bus?
Case 2

If some future telling device told you that you were going to get 100% in your final exam, is that knowledge that you will get 100% make you slack off that crucial final stretch that will eventually rob away your perfect marks?
If you had not known, was there perhaps that one tiny thing that you would have done that would have made a difference between an A+ and an A?
Case 3

Suppose you got on a time machine, went into the future, and saw yourself married to Z. Coming back to the present, will having that knowledge make you not meet X and Y who broke your heart that eventually led you to Z, having searched for Z till you found him and not giving X and Y a second thought when you first met them and hence in the end not meeting Z after all?

Paradox is making my head spin.

Coming back to the "3 great predictions", here they are:
1. I will be getting on an aeroplane (flying somewhere over water) within the next 12 months.
2. I will be getting a choice of two new jobs in which I'll finally settle with one.
3. A "new" boyfriend is on the horizon.

FIRST PREDICTION
"I will be getting on an aeroplane (flying somewhere over water) within the next 12 months."

I have no idea where I might possibly be going within the next 12 months. That's sometime between now and October 2012. I wonder where destination x may be. If I do get on a plane sometime between now and then, I can imagine myself looking back to today and saying, "Hey, her prediction came true after all."
Knowing that I will supposedly be flying somewhere, will that knowledge make me pack my bags and get on a plane? OR out of joyful spite, will I stubbornly not get on a plane within the next 12 months just so I can say that her prediction was "way off base"?

SECOND PREDICTION
"I will be getting a choice of two new jobs in which I'll finally settle with one."

I should only hope that she's foreseeing me getting offers for vacation work (as required by my Engineering degree). That would make this an awesome prediction.

THIRD PREDICTION
"A "new" boyfriend is on the horizon."

When she first said this, my heart skipped several beats. After all these months, the mention of anything related to you still makes me feel like I've had the wind knocked out of me. I didn't know whether to laugh or not at this proclamation of "a new boyfriend". Conversation went something like this:
TR: You have a boyfriend, don't you?
Me: No.
TR: I see that there will be one soon.
Me: I just broke up with my boyfriend. I don't want a "new" one.
TR: I see love coming back to you.
She went on to talk about my previous relationship and all the things she saw about that (some/most were pretty spot on) though I rather not put any of that conversation down.

So, 3 great predictions. Bunch of baloney? Maybe. In the off chance that any one or all of the predictions come true, I'll remember what she said and will probably wonder again then if it was indeed a pile of hokum.