{"id":3716,"date":"2026-08-27T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2026-08-28T01:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:07:31","slug":"state-license-for-fortune-telling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/state-license-for-fortune-telling\/","title":{"rendered":"State license for fortune telling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to tell fortunes in Massachusetts, it requires a state license. It also applies to psychics. To talk about the great beyond with customers also has\u00a0a 12 month residence requirement before a license can be granted.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Legislature has not successfully removed this outmoded law. Here is what State Representative Susannah Whipps says, \u201cTo be honest, there is not a very active or powerful fortune-teller lobby in the state that I know of, so there hasn\u2019t been a big push to get this over the finish line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/policy\/want-to-tell-fortunes-in-massachusetts-first-get-a-license\">Governing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to tell fortunes in Massachusetts, it requires a state license. It also applies to psychics. To talk about the great beyond with customers also has\u00a0a 12 month residence requirement before a license can be granted.\u00a0 The Legislature has not successfully removed this outmoded law. Here is what State Representative Susannah Whipps says, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3718,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}