Ok so I have ready with Shelly a few times over a period of time. I initially read with her on a recommendation from a friend. It seems to me like it takes a while to figure out if a reader really works for you or not. Sometimes you'll get what seems like an initial hit and you get excited and nothing pans out after that. Sometimes the first prediction doesn't happen but it turns out it was just delayed. Here are some parameters that I use to evaluate a reader:
A) Readings are a tool for me to get more of what is good for me and less of what is bad for me. I don't (ahem, try not to) use it for a pick-me-up when I'm in the lows or a way to keep feeding an addiction to a situation that's unhealthy for me. That means the reader has to be willing to tell me things I may not want to hear (ideally in a compassionate way).
B) I care more about outcomes than timelines - if they get that he's going to call tomorrow, but miss the big picture, that's not helpful to me. However if a reading helps me to understand the overall picture but don't know the timelines...well honestly that's for the best sometimes. There are times when expecting a particular timeline gets in my head too much.
C) Similar to the timeline, the big picture matters more to me than the details. For example if a reader sees me wearing a green shirt when the thing happens but it comes to pass and I'm wearing a blue shirt, that's fine by me. On the other hand, a reader who gets the color of my shirt correct but the content of the event or conversation wrong is less helpful. It's a fun parlor trick to be able to see those details, but doesn't really help me (except maybe I start obsessively wearing green shirts around lol).
Ok, enough about that. So Shelly's review. I'll start by telling you about my journey with it. At first the marker thing really made me nutty. I was CONSTANTLY looking for markers. It didn't help that the friend who had recommended her also had markers happening and I think her stuff was on a shorter timeline than mine was. So every day I was hoping for markers, getting excited if they happened (or kind of happened, I got pretty loose with what I considered an occurrence of a marker) and then being down if they didn't for a few days. I was in a weird cycle with it where the markers almost became as big of a deal as the actual thing I was calling about in the first place. Well, eventually that slowed down. Markers didn't happen as often (my thing was a long ways out) and I sort of forgot about the whole thing. That's when I feel like it actually started to be useful, when I wasn't constantly obsessing about it.
The Positive:
Shelly got a couple of crazy predictions right where she predicted the exact date that two different major life events (she says a major life event is a birth, a death, a marriage, a job change, etc) would happen. I have heard that if she throws out a date (ie July 15th) it is very likely to happen and that was my experience. It wasn't anything I asked about either time, just things she got and volunteered, and one of them seemed very unlikely, but she got both right on to the day (one was a death of a loved one and one was a wedding -- neither of which were known to me at the time).
Once I got over the hump of not combing my life for markers all the time, things began to fall into place. At the same time, things seem to be on track for predictions to be correct (things are definitely trending in a positive direction). I have gotten a couple of uncommon markers (one was a song from 50 years ago that while I knew, I don't hear often - like this was the first time in 7 months I'd heard it) and another was a specific unusual action for someone to be doing outdoors that I did not see for months.
She's also had hits of unusual things happen. She predicted seeing someone in a specific costume as meaning positive things with my man. I thought this happened and counted a marker when I was in my overdoing it with markers phase, because I had seen this costume in a movie. Nothing happened. Then I was traveling and three people in this specific costume sat down next to me. Completely bizarre and had never seen anything like it. I got up to go to the bathroom and had a text from my guy that matched her prediction to accompany the markers.
The Negative:
When she gave timeframes that were not specific dates (ie saying things like "in the next 3 weeks", "around the beginning of January", etc) the things did not seem to come to pass during that timeframe, or if they did, they were happening in the background without any evidence I could see. My guy is pretty expressive in his own way and so normally I have clues to what's on his mind. So for example, it's possible he was having thoughts of me during a particular timeframe, I can't rule it out, but I saw no evidence of this like I normally would. So, I found that I needed to not pay attention to timeframes. I do believe in the Law of Attraction and that things normally come when we are not focusing on them, so perhaps I pushed them out. I will say I pretty much find this to be the case with anyone I've read with. Anymore I pretty much automatically discard any timeframes given from any reader. They don't seem to help me manifest what I want.
Some of my markers were extremely specific, to the point that there was zero possibility of confusion. A few were things that come up a lot. For example, skiing (it was a winter reading). So probably one of the 100 times skiiing came up was my marker, but it was tough to tell which one. Or, maybe it hasn't happened yet and those were all too casual of occurrences of skiing and there's going to be something more direct, like me skiing or something. Hard to say. This isn't a knock on Shelly specifically, just a hazard of the method.
CONCLUSION:
I would call Shelly again now that I better understand how to make use of her services, but I still have some pending predictions so I'm going to wait. The best advice I can give others who want to try her is:
1) Focus on outcomes and ignore timeframes unless it's a specific date you didn't ask about (this basically goes for any reader in my experience - maybe it's me
2) An occurrence of a marker seems to be something that's a big enough deal to stand out to you. If it's something that shows up for half a second in a movie you're watching, or something you casually see when scrolling through social media, to me those have not turned out to be markers and there's something more definite coming later. Maybe it means the energy is building, or maybe it's just coincidence. And goes without saying, but you can't make a marker happen. For example if my marker is George Washington, I can't open my wallet and pull out a dollar bill and call it a marker. It has to be something that occurs on its own and is not just a part of your normal routine. This means that some markers I've just had to give up on as the thing was too common to identify when it was really happening (ie hearing the name Mike when I work with someone named Mike).
3) Predictions she gives without markers seem to be extra important to pay attention to.
4) Call her when you want to know a long-term path and what to look for, but not when you want to know what's going to happen in the next week and the exact play-by-play of how the next 3 days will go down. That kind of reading isn't useful to me anyway.
5) I ask a general question ("Tell me what you see with ____.") and let her go. I do not tell stories or give a bunch of background. Basically she seems to just need a name and off she goes. The more I get specific with posing this question or that, the less useful the reading becomes. She's a consultant and I want to get the best results for my money - I'll save the fawning over details for my girlfriends.
6) The timeframe between marker and event is longer than you might expect. I had some (and so did my friend) that were a matter of minutes or hours so we got kind of over-excited. I believe I've read (maybe on this forum) that it can be 6-8 weeks. Now I just take it as a general positive sign and don't send out the search party for the prediction to happen just because I saw the marker.
7) Her advice is pretty good. I never know what to make of it when readers give advice. Is this your personal opinion or a psychic revelation? What she has generally told me about specific people and their frame of mind or the way to deal with them has proven to be largely good advice, even if it didn't make sense at the time.
Looking back, these tips are basically what I would say about most readers (with the exception of the markers being unique to Shelly).
