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Mr Lau tells fortunes at the Temple Street night market with the help of his extrasensory birds. Choose one from a cage of four, tell it your problems and it will pick a card from a deck of 30 which Lau will interpret. Price: $30 for each question. Lau can be found most nights after 7pm opposite the rubbish collection point on Market Street.
Blind astrologer Wong Kam-toi has been advising top businessmen and tai-tais for 30 years.He shakes three coins inside a tortoise shell and interprets the outcome using Chinese astrology and details of the client's time and date of birth. He charges $350 for questions about work, $400 for relationships and family affairs and $660 for the whole year's fortune. 11/F, 6-12 Shing Lee Commercial Building, Wing Kut Street, Sheung Wan, tel: 2543-9963.
For a cheap tarot-card reading, try talented amateur Gladys, who charges just $40 for 10 minutes ($30 for students). The 23-year-old New Age fan starting teaching herself how to read the cards at nine and claims to be most accurate at predicting the outcome of love affairs. Call 2301-3186 or visit Room 115, Rise Commercial Building, 5-11 Granville Circuit, Granville Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui.
Want to learn more about your horoscope? Astrologer Roselyne Lee holds regular talks at the YWCA (No 1, Macdonnell Road, Mid-Levels, tel: 2522-4291) at which she explains how to read your horoscope and how best to use the information.The next sessions will be held on September 23, 10am-midday, and November 18 7pm-9pm.
Lee Ying-choi is one of Hong Kong's top fung shui, face- and palm-reading masters, but he ain't cheap: a one-hour palm- and face-reading session costs $2,500. A fung shui reading costs $800, plus $13 per square foot for the home, $18 for an office, and $28 for a shop. He also runs the Lee Ying Choi Physiognomy Research and Development Institute Company (Room 2203, Wu Sang House, 655 Nathan Road, Mong Kok, tel: 2309-7477 or 7773-9017), where you can learn fung shui, or palm- and face-reading: $500 for an introductory course of eight, 90-minute sessions. There are also longer courses 16-session courses on both palmistry and physiognomy ($700 for four beginners' lessons; $850 for four intermediate lessons; $1,000 for four advanced sessions; and $1,150 for four masters sessions). A beginners' palm-reading course starts on September 8.
