Some Parties Get Remembered. Others Get Retold.

Anyone can hire a string quartet. Lovely, forgettable, gone by Monday. What you want, what you've always wanted, is the evening your guests bring up unprompted at dinner parties for the next decade. "You weren't there? Oh, you should have been there. She took my hand and..."

That's what I do. I'm Eva May, The Sequinned Psychic: palmist, tarot reader and psychic with more than half a century of craft, a gold star membership of the Inner Magic Circle, and enough sequins to be visible from orbit. I don't perform at your event. I become the thing your event was secretly about.

Here is what actually happens when you book me. I move through your gathering like a rumour. One guest sits down with me for a lark, and stands up pale, delighted and slightly changed. By the time the third guest has had their palm read, there's a queue, and the queue itself becomes the party: strangers comparing fate lines, old friends daring each other, your most decorated sceptic loudly declaring it's all nonsense while quietly joining the line. I have watched this happen in ballrooms, marquees and drawing rooms for decades. It never fails, because it's the oldest entertainment there is: someone who sees you, telling you what she sees.

Private Celebrations

Birthdays with a zero in them. Anniversaries worth the name. Garden parties, dinner parties, midwinter gatherings, or no occasion whatsoever beyond your excellent taste. Tell me the feeling you want in the room, and I'll calibrate everything to it: pure glitter and mischief, something deeper and quieter, or my signature blend, which is laughter out front and shivers just behind it.

I arrive polished, I run entirely under my own steam, and I am discretion in a frock: what your guests confide in me stays with me, permanently. What they say about your party afterwards is another matter entirely, and it's the reason you're hiring me.

Corporate Occasions

To the person charged with making the company event unforgettable: I am your unfair advantage. I've read in boardrooms and ballrooms, and I know exactly what you need from me. Sophisticated. Inclusive. Zero risk of embarrassment. Something the CEO and the newest hire can queue for together, and something that makes the person who booked me, that's you, look like a genius. Consider it done.

My palmistry workshops deserve special mention, because they solve the unsolvable: networking. No icebreaker ever devised comes close to a room full of colleagues discovering what's written in each other's hands. People who wouldn't approach a stranger with a cannon behind them will happily compare heart lines with one. I've seen mergers of the corporate kind and otherwise begin this way.

Wedding Entertainment

The vows will be remembered. The first dance will be filmed. But the stretch between ceremony and dinner is where receptions go to die, and that is precisely where I am at my most magnificent. Couple's readings, palmistry between courses, a thread of silver enchantment running through the whole afternoon. The flower girl's mother and the groom's great-aunt will finally have something to discuss, and it will be me.

One clarification, so we don't muddle my hats: this page is my glittering hat. If you want someone to actually marry you, within the stones at Stonehenge, in the home of magic itself at The Magic Circle in London, or anywhere your heart insists upon, that is my solemn hat: Life Ceremonies & Rites of Passage. Some couples book both hats. Those couples are having the best wedding of the year.

Why This Works Every Single Time

Because I am not a novelty act; I am a woman with fifty years of reading people, certified by the Inner Magic Circle itself as someone who knows precisely how all of this could be faked. Your sharpest, most sceptical guest isn't a problem for me; they're my favourite. They arrive to catch me out and leave having had the best conversation of their evening. And because underneath the sequins I understand the actual job: you are not buying tarot readings. You are buying the moment, three weeks later, when someone clutches your arm and says, "I still think about what she told me. Where on EARTH did you find her?"

You found her here.

Claim Your Date

I take a limited number of engagements, and the festive season and midsummer go first, every year, without exception. Tell me the date, the setting and the feeling you're after, and if I'm free, the evening is as good as legendary.​