It&rsquo;s comforting to think that someone is watching after you. Say, a guardian angel.</p><p>Or two.</p><p>&ldquo;Yes, we all have two assigned at birth,&rdquo; hypnotist Magda Blanco said Saturday during a free lecture at Kansas City&rsquo;s 39th annual Fall Psychic Fair.</p><p>Forty of us sat in molded plastic chairs under stark, fluorescent lights in a &ldquo;room&rdquo; walled off by blue and white drapes as Blanco explained that Angel No. 1 is something of a nag.</p><p>&ldquo;He or she pushes you to make choices you need to make,&rdquo; she said.</p><p>Whereas Angel No. 2 is like a BFF with a half-gallon of custard ice cream &mdash; a metaphysical shoulder to cry on when we feel sad or lonely.</p><p>With that established, Blanco had us close our eyes and talked us into a trance of about 15 minutes&rsquo; duration so we could hang out with our very own GAs.</p><p>&ldquo;Breathe in relaxation and exhale tension,&rdquo; she said.</p><p>Now, I cannot for a fact say that I met either of my guardian angels while under hypnosis. But I have since become a very big believer in the whole guardian angel thing.</p><p>Because the very next morning, while walking the dog, I found two $20 bills in the grass.</p><p>The grass was within a few yards of my neighborhood bar. So it could have been that the cash fell out of some drunk&rsquo;s pocket on Saturday night.</p><p>But I&rsquo;d like to think otherwise.</p><p>Way to go, guardian angel!</p><p>The find also reminded me that my hours spent at the psychic fair yielded other benefits.</p><p>I got to meet a very nice shaman from Parsons, Kan., named Jerry Steffenhagen, who teaches tai chi and performs raindrop therapy (this involves scented oils in some way) when he&rsquo;s not sewing pouches of lavender, sage and quartz crystals into the linings of his fleece &ldquo;medicine blankets.&rdquo;</p><p>I also met Bonnie Sommerville from Higginsville, Mo., who was eager to spend $50 on an &ldquo;intuitive painting&rdquo; of herself and drop half that much on a reading from a psychic who calls herself Rainbow Woman.</p><p>&ldquo;I have a passion for past lives,&rdquo; Sommerville said.</p><p>And one other thing I learned:</p><p>People are desperate for answers in tough times.</p><p>A woman who gave her name as Deanne K. waited three hours to get a 15-minute reading from a psychic named Jacqueline just so she could ask whether it&rsquo;s a good time for her and her husband to start a floor-laying company.</p><p>They don&rsquo;t have much money in the bank.</p><p>&ldquo;Green light on the business,&rdquo; Deanne K. told me afterwards, but she seemed skeptical.</p><p>A guy selling pictures of people&rsquo;s auras at $20 a pop said his business was down.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the economy,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>And in our session on guardian angels, a lady in the back raised her hand when Blanco asked for questions and offered hope to others by saying she once desperately needed a job, but didn&rsquo;t get one until she broke down and ask her angel for help.</p><p>&ldquo;If you don&rsquo;t ask your guardian angel,&rdquo; Blanco agreed, &ldquo;she&rsquo;s not going to do anything.&rdquo;</p><p>Something to hang on to, anyway.