Red Hot Cold Reading Tip

Are you giving a reading about someone's past? If so, talk about fire. Think about it. Hasn't practically everyone's life at one point or another been touched by fire, sometimes positively, but more often negatively?

Reflect on your own life for a moment. Hasn't fire entered your consciousness, strongly, at some point? It could have been the terror of a forest fire to a cozy campfire with a new love.

From my own life I can think of several experiences, including these when I was a kid: a house on fire down the street where someone was killed (it haunted me for years); almost setting my house on fire when I was playing with my chemistry set unattended by an adult. Panic city! And having big bonfires with my friends at "woods parties". Good times, indeed.

Use any sort of "past" lines to talk about fire. These can get you started:

• "What's on fire?"
  
• "Tell me about the fire."
• Or, if you want to be really brazen, "Tell me about the fires."
  

The last line is good in that fire has usually touched (I accidentally typed "torched" ;-)) people's lives in more ways than one.

In the unlikely event that your sitter's life hasn't been affected by fire. You can always bring up a fire that was mentioned in the media that might have touched their emotions. Just fish and shotgun.