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What actually happens at a reading
You sit down, I shuffle, I pull cards, and I tell you the story I see in them. You talk as much or as little as you want. A short read is five to ten minutes. A full sitting is thirty to forty.
Nothing is lit on fire, nobody goes into a trance, and you will not be told anything frightening about your future, because I do not do futures.
Before you sit down
You do not need to bring anything. You do not need a question ready, though if you have one, good. Most people arrive with something they have been chewing on for weeks and have not said out loud to anybody, and that is usually the reading whether they name it or not.
You also do not need to believe in anything. Plenty of people sit down sceptical. Being sceptical does not break it, and I am not going to try to convert you.
The sitting itself
I shuffle and lay cards out. Then I talk. I will say what I am getting from the spread, and some of it will be specific and some of it will be an image that means nothing to me and everything to you.
That happens more than people expect. I pulled a card once and started talking about birds, because that is what I had, and I did not know why. At the end the woman told me it was about her daughter. I did not know that. She did. I brought the image, she brought the meaning, and it landed because I was not aiming.
So when I say something that does not fit, say so. It is not a test I am failing. It usually means the thing belongs somewhere else in your life and we have not found it yet.
Do I have to talk?
No. Some people say almost nothing for forty minutes and it works fine. Others want a conversation and that works too. The only thing that genuinely helps is honesty about whether something lands. A polite yes when the answer is no sends us both down a hallway with nothing at the end of it.
What if I cry?
People cry. Not most people, but enough that it is unremarkable and I am not going to be startled by it. There is no reaction you can have that will embarrass me, and nothing that happens at the table gets repeated to anyone.
How it ends
I stop when the story is finished, not when a timer goes. Then we talk about what to do with it, because a reading you cannot use is just a nice half hour.
The first reading is free. At the end you tip whatever you want, including nothing. After the first one, you pay what you think it was worth, with a thirty dollar floor and no ceiling. Cash or CashApp.
If you book online instead
It is the same reading over video. I send the link when you book. The only real difference is that you get to be in your own room, which some people strongly prefer for a first one. Readings for anyone under eighteen have to be arranged by a parent or guardian, who needs to be present, and that matters more online than it does at a table.
First reading is free. In person in Ocean City, or online from anywhere.
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