Apollonia
LOL. This is a pipe dream that has nothing to do with the reality of being a full time professional reader. If a person is totally clear minded, what on earth will they come to you for? Whose ethics? Yours or theirs? You won't be much of a reader if you impose your own ethics on others. Will you make them fill out a form before you read for them?I would insist on only reading for clear minded people on ethical topics. Its my reading, I'm in charge, and i will happily turn away anyone i judge to be of bad character. There's plenty of professional readers who will glady take their money, so i presume. I'm not their jesus, and if they start getting shady i will quit in the middle of it too. My game, my rules.
But for the clients that *do* need a good interactive reading, i will be that reader. They can cry, get mad as long as they participate and show self growth from reading to reading. And i know we all know the difference here without pointing out specifics.
When i started, i was more than eager to read for anyone on anything. And it was all friends and friends of friends. All in good nature. I never encountered a negative reading situation but I've had plenty of hostile and negative customers to give me a decent amount of experience to apply in handling difficult sitters.
I've been reading for about 20 years now. I have read for a great many wonderful, sincere people. Some of them had ethics that were 180 degrees from my own. Some of them had severe mental illnesses. Some of them were illegal immigrants so they were breaking the law. Not many of them had bad characters, and the ones who did probably fooled me into thinking they were saints, because a true sociopath is a charming liar.
This is a business where referrals are your bread and butter, and the way you grow your business. If you stop a reading in the middle because someone got “shady” you bet they will talk about you, and I imagine you will feel very pleased with yourself for maintaining your rules, but you won't get any repeat or additional business from that reading.
You are not being realistic if you insist on self growth from reading to reading. I've had clients who have grown tremendously in the nine or ten years I've been reading for them. Some of them grew consistently, and some were stuck where they were literally for years and then found the strength to take huge leaps in just a few weeks. But you wouldn't have given those courageous folk a second reading?
My advice is to keep your day job, maintain Tarot as a hobby, and stay out of it as a profession. You are not suited for it, not because of your insistence on your rules, but because your insistence on your rules will severely limit your customer base and therefore your ability to make a living at it.