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How much is a freebie worth to you?

The Joker may be crazy, maniacal even, but he’s not wrong: If you’re good at something, never do it for free.

So why is the metaphysical industry absolutely plagued with deal-seekers, craving fix after fix, card after card, and all for FREE?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and I think the answer comes down to VALUE. 

Perceived value.

Miscommunicated value.

The cold truth is that if they didn’t put some skin in the game in the form of cash, that person is probably not going to find a lot of value from your services. No matter which services you provide.

Nuggets of truth may be taken with a heaping dose of salt because hey, that piece of truth was bought with nothing, with thin air. It was bought with less than peanuts. 

And damn good readers (tarot, psychic, or otherwise) are killing themselves bending over backwards providing freebies for people that will never EVER pay for a reading. And then they’re wondering why people won’t pay.

Because you’re giving away the farm, m’dear, and you know what they say about the cow giving away that milk…

I’ve paid my dues, and given away too many readings to even count, especially when I was just starting out: this is an excellent way to grow your tarot chops, and I’m not knocking it in the slightest.

…But it’s no way to run a business once you are out of the practice zone.

Blessings,
~*~Hilary~*~
www.tarotbyhilary.com
hilary@tarotbyhilary.com

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HILARY PARRY HAGGERTY is a tarot reader, witch, mentor, editor, and teacher. She has been reading tarot for over 21 years (13 years professionally). She was the winner of Theresa Reed’s (The Tarot Lady) Tarot Apprentice contest in 2011, and has taught classes on tarot and spell-work at The Tarot School’s annual tarot conference Readers Studio and at Brid’s Closet Beltane Festival. She writes a weekly blog on tarot at her website www.tarotbyhilary.com and has been featured in Maxim Magazine and BuzzFeed.

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Weekly Round-Up: It’s a New Year!

Holy moly moo, it has been the longest short work week ever, am I right? Here’s a round-up of links and things I’m digging on, with a new year’s slant to it!

Gala Darling just released a new yearly tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique) program called Magnetismo (that’s Italian for the word “magnetism”). When I saw the announcement, I zipped over to the site, and lo and behold, here I was extolling the virtues of this new program in a testimonial! No worries though: I’ve used Gala’s tapping routines before in her other program Illuminated that I did back in July, along with her original program on “power tapping” Tap That. I’ve severely cut down on my sugar intake, and have switched from drinking soda to seltzer or water. I’m also enrolled in her Radical Radiance book, which includes plenty of tapping routines in it… so while I won’t be picking up Magnetismo, the endorsement I provide about the power of learning tapping with Gala is absolutely 100% approved! (I’ve included it below.)

I’ve only been using the Orisha Tarot for the past 4 days, and man oh man, it has been kicking my butt in all the right ways. I’ll be reviewing it here at the end of the month, but if you just can’t wait to pick up a copy, you can see for yourself.

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🔮🃏Card of the Day for 1/3/19: 6 of Swords [The Orisha Tarot]: In the most simple terms, this card is depicting a simple tool that can bring deep insight. Don’t be fooled by something that seems to be simple, and don’t poo-poo or belittle something for its simplicity… in fact, today is a day where you should pare things down to their very essence to find the answers you seek. But don’t ask if you don’t want to know.⠀ ⠀ 🙌🏻 💞 Like the card of the day? Please share it with your friends! ⠀ 🔮Want a personalized reading of your own? http://tarotbyhilary.com⠀ ⠀ 🃏 #tarot deck: The Orisha Tarot by Andrew McGregor⠀ ⠀ tarot #cardoftheday #TheOrishaTarot #tarotbyhilary #taroteverydamnday #witch #witches #psychic #intuition #fortunetelling #divination #cartomancy #6ofSwords #tarotreadersofinstagram #witchesofinstagram #psychicsofinstagram

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I just want ALL THESE PINS from the Mystic Mondays website. Especially the Empath Club one.

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Readers Studio Rundown, Days 1–3

All 3 days of the Readers Studio Conference in one large post!

Otherwise known as Day 1 1/2: the half stands for the fact that I arrived at the hotel on the Thursday afternoon to make sure that I was there for Heatherleigh Navarre’s Crystal Ball by Candlelight evening study group that I had been planning on attending for months. The reasoning? I have a crystal ball already that I will sometimes place on my reading table when doing party readings, but is more decoration than actual divination tool for me. I wanted to change that by attending Heatherleigh’s class.

On Thursday the Tarot and Psychology conference was going on (one-day conference), so I drove to the hotel after finishing up beauty appointments (hair and eyebrows, respectively), checked in, put my stuff in my room, and came back down to the lobby area to scan and see who I knew that was already there. Lo and behold, the lovely Jaymi Elford immediately finds me and hands me my copy of her tarot deck, The Triple Goddess Tarot (if you want to check it out, it happens to be my deck of the month for May’s card of the day pulls on social media). Squees and hugs ensued, but we quietly made our way out of the way to not disturb the tarot and psychology attendees that were still in the ballroom taking their classes.

During one of the breaks, I snuck into the ballroom to cruise the Merchant Faire tables that are situated around the perimeter of the room, taking special note of what was where and trying very hard not to start my shopping spree right then and there. Said my hellos, and went back out into the lobby area to hang out with other people arriving for the main conference the following day.

Some of us made our way to the bar area where dinner was being served, and I had an early dinner with people there for the main conference, and also attendees of the Tarot and Psychology conference who took advantage of the break time between the 2nd and 3rd session of their conference to eat before returning to the ballroom. I returned to the lobby area to kill time before the cocktail reception happening at 8pm, and the start of the evening study groups at 9pm.

Crystal Ball by Candlelight: Divination in the Depths

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