We live in the ever-present, and we draw upon our past experiences, with the overarching objective to do well in the future, but the future is something unknowable by us, yet we deeply desire to know it, so that we can subsequently prepare ourselves for it, for it is always these unknowable future events that places that fear and doubt within us, which we wish to ameliorate to the best of our abilities. Yet, despite these desires to know the future or to at least get a hint as to whether we are on the right path, whether our future is bright or not, it seems to be eternally hidden from us.
All of the above stems from a deep desire within our psyche, to receive guidance in our life choices, as well as to receive acknowledgment or approval from our peers or mentors that we are performing well, or if not, constructive criticism that we can act upon so as to make better choices, rather than to continue down a path that is disastrous or mistaken or fraught with bad choices.
For many people, whether they consciously act upon it or not, they want to do the right thing, or at least understand that what they are doing is basically good, for they know intuitively that bad decisions, bad actions, and bad thoughts, will ultimately produce very bad consequences. The most straightforward response to this, is simply to do good things, but life throws us all sorts of complications, all sorts of choices, and it is within those choices, that people will suffer, for each choice has its own merit, yet you cannot choose all of them, and thereby you fear making a choice that is less than desirable, and that consequently may have woeful consequences.
This then indicates, that you wish for a hint, perhaps more than a hint or more than a suggestion, even, as to what you should do, or what you should consider, and ultimately are in somewhat of a dire need for relevant feedback for your situation, for you trust not your inner being or intuition to make the right choice, though you probably should. This means, for some people, that rather than meditate upon it, rather than to consult with people that love and respect them, they desire instead to seek out an "independent" party such as a psychic, or a spiritual advisor, or a witch, or a guru, or the occult, or a prophet, or an astrologist, or an oracle, to help them to see what the future holds and to thereby have that advance knowledge to utilize for their favor.
The problem, though, with the meeting of the mind with this independent person, is that you know not who or what they are made of, in which, perhaps you will get meaningful and prophetic enlightenment, or instead just get scammed into hearing something that you want to hear, which often plays upon your human vulnerabilities. So too, this can be looked upon as the inevitable shortcut that so many people are enticed to take, that rather than taking the time and showing the concern to honestly evaluate who and what they are, and then to thereby make amends or modifications as necessary, instead wish to know the end while ignoring their all-telling signs, of which it is the signs, that foreshadow what will be.
While the future may indeed be uncertain, our inherent destiny is held within our control through the choices that we make day-by-day and our reactions to events as they unfold, as earth is the crucible for the testing of our true character.