I've had various professional readings but not in person for ages, I used to get a lot online but I find doing them here and using AT fulfills my needs and some people on AT have given me amazing readings!
I once bought a reading online from a bit of a "celebrity" astrology / tarot reader in the UK. It was an automated reading entirely, it was pretty expensive as well. A dreadful reading and so disappointed
it was the same as going to astrology.com but 4 times the price! It was so robotic and general in tone and came as an email immediately after I bought it, big warning sign
It was not sold as being computer generated though
I once had a reading from a lady at a tarot fair who was a bit crazy and she suggested a self help book that would solve all my problems. A friend had a reading after me and she suggested a different self help book. I think nothing in her readings came true for either of us. However the books were helpful ultimately (I was suggested
you can heal your life and she got
feel the fear and do it anyway).
I once had a reading from a gypsy lady (She identified as that and even had a cute caravan) at a fair. She told me at the end of the reading to not tell anyone for 6 months or it won't come true! obviously there is no way you can keep it secret and told a friend within an hour of the reading lol! I don't remember anything from the reading.
I had a reading online from a man who was a bit out there, I thought he went over the boundaries of being a reader and made strange assumptions from the small history I had told him about myself. However I think they came from a positive place and maybe ignorance about LGBT folk rather than offence. However he made definite predictions and it's too early in his time frame to say if what he says came true or not. However he made definite long term predictions that I will have a South American (probably Brazilian) husband and they saw a lot of colours in my life and global travel. None of those are part of my life yet but recently someone told me they thought I should be a colour therapist in a reading. This threw me, like backing up the first guy. I have no interest really in that area yet or no knowledge yet, maybe I should study colours more
I would see myself more in divination professionally but let's see how this turns out! If he is really accurate I can forgive the weirdness and go back
How do we measure how great / bad a professional reading is? I think lot's of people measure about how many majorly important future events they predict that come true or seems to fit or how many amazing facts they know about us that we didn't reveal before. But I have had amazing readings which sort out a situation, tell me how to handle something or the choices on offer. They are not the glamorous "big predictions" but still pretty important. Also if I learned one thing from readings, it's not how famous the reader is or how much they charge but how you get on with them and also how much experience they have in the area. Readers are all different, so you will get a mix of bad and good one's! If you find a good on, hang on to them