Ms. Lama is a "vedic astrologer" who charges 350 dollars per recorded "reading." She did deliver these readings -- in fact five of them over five years and in each one would make predictions that conflicted mightily with one another for the same time period. She also offered career advice that varied widely and was conflicting, from year to year; advised against following my interests and urged me to become a dental hygienist, opined that I had borderline personality disorder, and finally said in her last reading that I was going to die between the ages of 55 and 57.5, roughly five years from now. Her advice to me regarding my impending death was to "write down ten things I want to do before I die."
This woman claims on her website to be "professionally trained" in the art of vedic astrology, but she is not -- she is self-taught. She also claims she works as a "university instructor," but this is misleading: Ms. Lama teaches English as a Second Language at a university.
I will explain what I mean by *wrong* readings -- she said, for example, that my chart only promised two marriages when in fact I had been married three times. More oddly -- I *told* her this at one point so she knew exactly how many times I had been married.
When I say "wrong," I mean: she told me in 2011 that I would be working for a charitable organization doing fundraising. This is not what happened at all; my department was downsized and I became ill and did absolutely nothing really but be ill that year.
When I say "conflicting"; I mean -- she told me in 2011 that when I turned 55 I would have a very successful internet business after which I would become a famous writer into my sixties. She then told me in 2014 that I would die between the ages of 55 and 57.5.
When I asked Ms. Lama to explain why all her readings conflicted: success and riches for a specific time period one year and then illness and death the next year I received no response. I also asked her why one year she said I would make a great astrologer when in another year she said I would never be an astrologer because I was "not on the rainbow bridge" as she was, herself.
I contacted her with these questions about ten times and then finally asked for my money back. I received no response at all over the course of four months. I contacted the Better Business Bureau and she did not respond to them either.
Ms. Lama has also claimed that she is a "researcher in residence" in Vedic Astrology at Portland State University; that's just a lie. She is a part-time teacher in the Adult Education Program, not a "researcher in residence."
She also compares herself to a "doctor, lawyer or teacher," and says that she is a professional in high demand. I believe she is in high demand but she is not a professional *anything*. A vedic astrologer needs to have trained with someone and also needs to have some sort of basic training or ability in counseling and dealing with sensitive issues; she has none of this and no basis whatsoever to make diagnoses of mental illness; or in fact diagnoses of any kind; or give sensitive advice of *any kind*.
It's not that her predictions were wrong, it's that that were consistently conflicting over a period of five years. It's not just that they were wrong and conflicting, it's that she absolutely refused to clarify a single thing she said or explain why she was making different predictions for the same time period. And it's not just that she refused to clarify herself ( for "psychic" reasons, she says on her website -- convenient!) -- it's that the things she says in her readings are extremely sensitive and convincing. Her advice is financial, medical, marital...and she has *no* qualifications *at all* to offer it, which sets people up to make horrible mistakes with their lives based on this fake "professional" knowledge.
I am out two thousand dollars. But I am also out the chance to make different decisions about how I spent the past five years without her "advice". I would call the police if it would do any good but as it stands I will probably have to sue for a judgment against her for false representation and basically -- fraud; but I imagine she would ignore the judgment as well.
I have never written a rip-off report before and the only reason I am doing it now is because I don't have any other avenue to address it. This person took my money, told me all kinds of garbage, and I won't see that money again. Remember this when you hire a "reader" off the internet: there is *no* way to get satisfaction if you are unhappy with their services. It doesn't matter *what* you get in return; you can kiss your cash goodbye.
Barbara Pijan Lama Reviews
Ms. Lama is a "vedic astrologer" who charges 350 dollars per recorded "reading." She did deliver these readings -- in fact five of them over five years and in each one would make predictions that conflicted mightily with one another for the same time period. She also offered career advice that varied widely and was conflicting, from year to year; advised against following my interests and urged me to become a dental hygienist, opined that I had borderline personality disorder, and finally said in her last reading that I was going to die between the ages of 55 and 57.5, roughly five years from now. Her advice to me regarding my impending death was to "write down ten things I want to do before I die."
This woman claims on her website to be "professionally trained" in the art of vedic astrology, but she is not -- she is self-taught. She also claims she works as a "university instructor," but this is misleading: Ms. Lama teaches English as a Second Language at a university.
I will explain what I mean by *wrong* readings -- she said, for example, that my chart only promised two marriages when in fact I had been married three times. More oddly -- I *told* her this at one point so she knew exactly how many times I had been married.
When I say "wrong," I mean: she told me in 2011 that I would be working for a charitable organization doing fundraising. This is not what happened at all; my department was downsized and I became ill and did absolutely nothing really but be ill that year.
When I say "conflicting"; I mean -- she told me in 2011 that when I turned 55 I would have a very successful internet business after which I would become a famous writer into my sixties. She then told me in 2014 that I would die between the ages of 55 and 57.5.
When I asked Ms. Lama to explain why all her readings conflicted: success and riches for a specific time period one year and then illness and death the next year I received no response. I also asked her why one year she said I would make a great astrologer when in another year she said I would never be an astrologer because I was "not on the rainbow bridge" as she was, herself.
I contacted her with these questions about ten times and then finally asked for my money back. I received no response at all over the course of four months. I contacted the Better Business Bureau and she did not respond to them either.
Ms. Lama has also claimed that she is a "researcher in residence" in Vedic Astrology at Portland State University; that's just a lie. She is a part-time teacher in the Adult Education Program, not a "researcher in residence."
She also compares herself to a "doctor, lawyer or teacher," and says that she is a professional in high demand. I believe she is in high demand but she is not a professional *anything*. A vedic astrologer needs to have trained with someone and also needs to have some sort of basic training or ability in counseling and dealing with sensitive issues; she has none of this and no basis whatsoever to make diagnoses of mental illness; or in fact diagnoses of any kind; or give sensitive advice of *any kind*.
It's not that her predictions were wrong, it's that that were consistently conflicting over a period of five years. It's not just that they were wrong and conflicting, it's that she absolutely refused to clarify a single thing she said or explain why she was making different predictions for the same time period. And it's not just that she refused to clarify herself ( for "psychic" reasons, she says on her website -- convenient!) -- it's that the things she says in her readings are extremely sensitive and convincing. Her advice is financial, medical, marital...and she has *no* qualifications *at all* to offer it, which sets people up to make horrible mistakes with their lives based on this fake "professional" knowledge.
I am out two thousand dollars. But I am also out the chance to make different decisions about how I spent the past five years without her "advice". I would call the police if it would do any good but as it stands I will probably have to sue for a judgment against her for false representation and basically -- fraud; but I imagine she would ignore the judgment as well.
I have never written a rip-off report before and the only reason I am doing it now is because I don't have any other avenue to address it. This person took my money, told me all kinds of garbage, and I won't see that money again. Remember this when you hire a "reader" off the internet: there is *no* way to get satisfaction if you are unhappy with their services. It doesn't matter *what* you get in return; you can kiss your cash goodbye.