How do you enforce time limits when you are reading? I'm wondering about both when you are reading for one client and when you're doing events. I just feel like a timer is abrasive.
A new-age shop I used to read in had a kitchen-timer on the reader's table. Thing was, if I chose to give a client extra time that didn't just impact on my income, it impacted on theirs, too, so enforcing set times is necessary. However, the kitchen timer had a nasty, disturbing buzz. So I bought myself a thirty-minute sandclock/hourglass. Like
this, but with nicer turned woodwork. Looks fantastic on the table - has definitely become a part of my aesthetic setup just on its looks! - AND keeps time. Clients love it. And I turn it over at the start of the reading, when it gets low I start tying up loose ends, and I usually end around when it runs out.
Honestly, I feel more inclined to charge based on how many cards/
There's a problem with that. Sometimes you can talk for twenty minutes about one of the cards in the spread, other times just a sentence or two. People may object to paying for five cards if they can see you've only focussed deeply on three of them, even though the other two might have been totally necessary to you, to unlock the meaning of those three.
How big the reading is? Is that a number-of-cards thing, or a time-thing? I can't think of a third way a reading gets larger or smaller.
