Young mum Gemma Martin found a new career after struggling to conceive a baby - as a fertility psychic who now makes £10,000 a month from her readings.
Gemma, 31, uses tarot readings to predict the date a woman will fall pregnant and says she has an 85% accurate strike rate. She learnt to read the cards after a psychic correctly predicted when she would fall pregnant with her daughter Abigail, now three.
She began offering fertility readings as a hobby until it started to become popular and she launched as a business in April 2019. By November 2019 it became her full-time job and now she spends her days doing up to 70 readings to help women find out when they might fall pregnant.
Gemma, from Dundee, Scotland, said: “I predict when people will have a baby and most of the time it’s spot on. I might be a few days out but the number of responses I get saying, ‘I fell pregnant when you said I would’ is so lovely.
“I had a reading which predicted I would fall pregnant in June 2018 after 18 months of trying – and I did. I found it so fascinating, so I wanted to learn how to do it myself and help other people. I didn’t expect it to ever become my full-time job and be so popular.”
Gemma explained she became interested in tarot reading after joining a support group for women struggling to conceive. “I got chatting to the lady who ran it and found out that she was a tarot reader and would predict people’s pregnancy dates,” she said.
“I found it really interesting and asked her to teach me. She did my reading as well which said I’d fall pregnant on June 28, 2018 - and I had a positive test result on June 25 so she wasn't far off at all.”
Gemma also does tarot readings on loved ones, and guidance on relationships but her most popular service is fertility predictions.
"I do a prediction of when they will fall pregnant and often predict the gender as well,” she said. “It’s not 100% but all my responses are positive.
“I can only look two years ahead so sometimes I have to say that I can’t see it happening in the next few years. People can be disheartened when the pregnancy date is further off than they would like but I reassure them that I can be wrong.”
Gemma does up to 70 readings a day - consisting of 55 mini ones and 15 detailed readings via email and zoom calls. She charges £18 for a fertility reading and £7 for a gender prediction.
"In recent months the company has taken in around £10k a month but this is then split between everyone who works for me and our costs," Gemma said. “I love doing what I do."
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