The answer is: not when you’re on the toilet unless you’re asking about the toilet. What I mean is that the best time to ask about a reading is when you’re in the thick of something and focused on that something. There’s no use asking for something you’re not personally interested in. Sure, you can ask a question “for a friend,” but the universe isn’t going to find an answer for you without any proper motivation.

While you wouldn’t want to call up a psychic from the operating table (if you’re a patient or the surgeon), the best time to get an answer to your question is some time when the situation is real to you. This means asking when you have a sense of how important the outcome is. A tarot card love reading for a prepubescent child is going to mean less – and be less accurate – than for an adult. A lonely adult will have a more accurate reading if than one that’s happily single.

Usually, you connect to the universe when you dream of or want something. Even if it’s in passing, if it’s strong, then it’s enough. This is why testing psychics by asking stupid or unimportant questions doesn’t usually work. Asking about a pet you don’t own or a situation that doesn’t exist isn’t going to yield any real results that show you that the psychic knows what they’re doing.