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Phone, Online, or In Person — Which Reading Is Right for You?
I read three ways, and people ask me constantly which is best. The honest answer is that one is not better than another — they suit different people, different questions, and different weeks. Here is what each is actually like, so you can pick rather than guess.
In person
You come to the house, you sit down, and we take whatever time the reading needs. This is the fullest version of the work and the one I would choose for anything heavy — grief, a decision that will reshape your next decade, anything you have been carrying so long you have stopped being able to describe it.
Part of the reason is ordinary rather than mystical. In a room, I can see you. I can see the pause before you answer, and the question you approached twice and moved away from. That is a great deal of information, and it is the part a phone cannot give me.
It is also the only format where a full cleansing is possible, because the candle, the sage and the quiet all belong to a physical room.
By phone
The most popular option I offer, by a wide margin, and the one people are most surprised by. You call, we talk, I read. Nothing is lost in the reading itself.
What the phone gives you is the thing people quietly want most: you can do it from your own kitchen, and you do not have to arrange your face. A great many people ask braver questions by phone than they ever would across a table, because they are not being looked at while they ask. If there is something you have never said out loud to anybody, the phone is frequently where it finally comes out.
It is also simply practical. If you are in San Jose at six o'clock on a weeknight, the drive down is an hour you do not have. The call is twenty minutes.
One free question by phone — that is not a promotion with conditions attached. Call and ask. If it goes no further, that is a perfectly good outcome.
Online
For people who want to see and be seen without the drive, and for the ones who are simply more comfortable on a screen than on a call. In practice it sits between the other two: I get back some of what I can see in a room, and you keep the convenience of staying where you are.
It is also what most of my out-of-area clients use — people who moved away and still want the reader they have always used.
Does distance weaken a reading?
No, and I have been asked this for more than forty years. What I work with is not proximity. My grandmother read for people who had left the country and never came back, and she was not worse at it from a distance.
What distance genuinely changes is what I can observe — the hesitation, the flinch, the thing you glanced at and did not mention. That is why I steer heavy work toward the room when I can. It is not about power. It is about attention.
So which should you book?
If it is heavy, come in person. If it is urgent, call — today, now, whenever this reaches you. If you are unsure whether you want a reading at all, call and use the free question; that is exactly what it is there for. And if you are far away or the week will not open up, we go online.
You are also allowed to move between them. Plenty of people start on the phone, come in once for something that needs the room, and go back to calling. That is a perfectly normal way to work with a reader over years.