bigcaat
I did my first psychic faire today. I've read professionally, via phone banks and such, on and off for years, but have never done a faire.
I did it because I took a healing class and they required you to do the fair. Ironically, they didn't let me do healing for practice (don't ask) but I did tarot and psychometry.
For those of you "faire vets" I have a couple of questions, because it seems to be a viable option for making some decent money.
First of all, this particular faire, since it was for students, was extraordinarily structured to 10 minute readings. (It annoyed me.) My thought is that when I do a faire where I am more in control of my own readings to do 15 to 20 minute readings. It seems more reasonable to me. I don't like cutting people off when there is more to be explored. I'm thinking to sign people up for 15 minute readings, but schedule it at 20 minute intervals. How do you do schedule your querents and does this seem a reasonable format?
Second, how much do you charge? My normal fee is $5.00/card with a 4 card minimum. I quickly realized today that a 4 card spread was the max I could do for a 10 minute spread. My thoughts are to do between a 4 and 6 card spread for the 15 minute time limit and keep my same pay structure of $5/card. So we're talking $20 - $30/reading. If it's a busy fair, at 20 minute intervals then, we're talking about $60/hour. Sound reasonable? What do you charge, how do you schedule?
Third, I found it interesting today that no matter how well I shuffled the cards between clients, many of the same cards kept appearing. Does this happen to you? Now, I didn't like it today that there was absolutely no time in between clients to cleanse and re-center. Would this card reappearance be more because of that or would it be something that I personally am bringing to the reading?
Since I was unable to cleanse, was I influencing the readings in some way? I think out of the entire day, there were only 2 readings that I felt I either didn't connect very well, or that (more-likely) they were putting up some sort of resistance. Does this happen to you? Where do you think it comes from and how do you handle it -- these two situations: re-occurring cards and people for whom you feel like you aren't connecting satisfactorily?
Thanks for any input you might have.
Sincerely,
Caat
Edited to add: I forgot to ask, if you want to offer full readings, say a 10 card hour reading, along with the mini readings, how to you schedule it? Do you have sign-up sheets for people? How do you organized the sheets so that people can sign up and know when to return for their reading at the proper time, if not all readings are the same time frame?
Thanks,
C.
I did it because I took a healing class and they required you to do the fair. Ironically, they didn't let me do healing for practice (don't ask) but I did tarot and psychometry.
For those of you "faire vets" I have a couple of questions, because it seems to be a viable option for making some decent money.
First of all, this particular faire, since it was for students, was extraordinarily structured to 10 minute readings. (It annoyed me.) My thought is that when I do a faire where I am more in control of my own readings to do 15 to 20 minute readings. It seems more reasonable to me. I don't like cutting people off when there is more to be explored. I'm thinking to sign people up for 15 minute readings, but schedule it at 20 minute intervals. How do you do schedule your querents and does this seem a reasonable format?
Second, how much do you charge? My normal fee is $5.00/card with a 4 card minimum. I quickly realized today that a 4 card spread was the max I could do for a 10 minute spread. My thoughts are to do between a 4 and 6 card spread for the 15 minute time limit and keep my same pay structure of $5/card. So we're talking $20 - $30/reading. If it's a busy fair, at 20 minute intervals then, we're talking about $60/hour. Sound reasonable? What do you charge, how do you schedule?
Third, I found it interesting today that no matter how well I shuffled the cards between clients, many of the same cards kept appearing. Does this happen to you? Now, I didn't like it today that there was absolutely no time in between clients to cleanse and re-center. Would this card reappearance be more because of that or would it be something that I personally am bringing to the reading?
Since I was unable to cleanse, was I influencing the readings in some way? I think out of the entire day, there were only 2 readings that I felt I either didn't connect very well, or that (more-likely) they were putting up some sort of resistance. Does this happen to you? Where do you think it comes from and how do you handle it -- these two situations: re-occurring cards and people for whom you feel like you aren't connecting satisfactorily?
Thanks for any input you might have.
Sincerely,
Caat
Edited to add: I forgot to ask, if you want to offer full readings, say a 10 card hour reading, along with the mini readings, how to you schedule it? Do you have sign-up sheets for people? How do you organized the sheets so that people can sign up and know when to return for their reading at the proper time, if not all readings are the same time frame?
Thanks,
C.