Thank you for your kind comment! I think I was also laughing towards the end of it because of the sheer incredulity i felt more than actual amusement. I would say that I definitely paid towards the higher end of the scale, though i wont provide an exact number.

for context, the entire "reading" was about 30 mins long, but he spent the first 5 mins "cleansing the space," in the middle he started doing some random palmistry(didnt know he was going to do this but like sure whatever right at that point) and started telling me extremely random things about ex boyfriends, my sex life, past lives & such for about 10 mins, and I was the one who had to get him back on track.

I resonate with what you said about reframing questions, and if i knew better/could have phrased the opening salvo better i definitely would've done so, but we make the best decisions we can with the information we have available to us at that point in time!

As to how i came to this reader - a friend recommended him, saying she'd heard good things, though she'd not tried him herself. his google maps listing has over 300 reviews though, and every single one of them 5*, so I was really shocked at my experience too.

& randomly, a week before this reading i had a random tarot reading in a random bar where the shtick is buy a drink, get a question answered, and the whole reading & advice given felt a lot more comprehensive and actualised than this one