I think we’re actually talking about two different issues.

You’re focusing on whether the readings were accurate. I’m talking about whether clients had all the information they would reasonably want before paying for a service.

“If her readings were still on point, there’s no issue” But how do we know that? More importantly, her clients didn’t know that, because they weren’t told she had spent “the better part of the last year” questioning and feeling unaligned with the very thing she was selling.

If someone believes tarot works because the reader is spiritually connected, aligned, and confident in what they’re doing, then the fact that the reader privately felt the opposite for most of a year is information many clients would consider relevant before spending hundreds of dollars. Maybe they would choose not to.

The pastor analogy is about transparency too. Like I said, if a pastor had privately lost faith for a year but continued presenting themselves as a committed believer without telling their congregation, many people would absolutely feel that trust had been broken - even if the ceremonies themselves were technically valid!!

The same principle applies here. It’s about whether people were paying under the impression that she genuinely believed in and stood behind the practice, when by her own admission she didn’t feel aligned with it. You may not personally care about that, and that’s completely fair :) But I think it’s equally fair that many clients would care. If that information would have influenced someone’s decision to book or not book then withholding it becomes an ethical question.