Amber to Open Your Money Safe

And I have a very good story to tell you. Look at this pendant. This is not amber, this is pre-amber. It is called copal. I got this from a friend of mine, who is actually a well known fortune teller, or astrologer, in Taiwan. He’s one of the top four. And the interesting thing is that I had known him for a long time, like 10 years, and I didn’t know he was a fortune teller. He hid that from me.

I made friends with his wife. His wife has a jewelry business just like mine, so we always saw each other at trade shows, and he always came to the trade shows to have fun walking around looking at things. That’s how I got to know him. I didn’t know he was a fortune teller until his wife finally told me. But you know, the problem is, once you let people know you’re a fortune teller, people come to you and say, can you tell my fortune? Can you tell my fortune for free? I guess that’s why they didn’t want people to know he was a fortune teller. But when he found out that I knew, he started telling me more and more about my fortune.

So of course I asked him to tell my fortune properly, but he said oh, you don’t need it, you don’t need it. He didn’t want to do it. Then finally one day he decided he would do it for me, for a fee. But that was more like a red packet, because in Chinese culture we believe if you tell someone’s fortune, you have to get something back from that person. So I gave him a red packet, which was not his fee at all, because he’s quite expensive.

And so he told my fortune, and he told me I have two “money safes” that I have not opened. That’s not literal; figuratively speaking, I have money waiting for me. The first one I can open gently and take a little bit out, something like that, but the big one I have not opened yet. And today I still have not opened it (laughing). It is in my future, and I hope he is accurate. I believe he’s accurate. And I hope he is accurate. So after the fortune telling, he said that to open my “money safe,” I can wear a piece of amber.