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sees tomorrow clearly, today's parking spot not so much.
means A person believed to perceive the future or hidden truths through visions or supernatural insight.
from Plainly literal at root: a 'seer' is simply 'one who sees,' from the Old English verb 'seon' (to see) plus the agent ending '-er.' The leap from ordinary eyesight to prophetic sight is old and natural — many languages bind 'seeing' to 'knowing.' The same instinct shows in the older English word for prophet, 'witega' (one who knows), and survives in the way we still say 'I see' to mean 'I understand.'
- word origin
- Literally just one who sees, fancied up.
- oracle method
- Delphi's seers may have inhaled volcanic gas fumes.
- royal payroll
- John Dee advised Queen Elizabeth on cosmic timing.
- hindsight clause
- Predictions rarely come with a refund policy.
nostradamus — french astrologer who published 942 quatrains predicting future events from 1555 onwards
edgar cayce — american psychic who gave over 14,000 readings claiming to diagnose illnesses and predict events in the early 1900s
jeane dixon — american astrologer famous for predicting jfk's assassination in 1963, though many other predictions failed