Fortune telling is not one practice. It is a family of practices. Palmistry reads the hand, astrology reads the sky, tarot reads cards, and omens read events. Each method claims that visible signs can disclose hidden patterns or future outcomes.
People use fortune telling for many reasons: anxiety, entertainment, grief, romance, money, uncertainty, and the ancient human dislike of waiting to see what happens.
The critical point is the claim. A symbolic reflection exercise is one thing. A confident prediction of marriage, death, wealth, illness, or destiny is another, and far more suspicious.
