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Later I thought I should at least segregate sincere seekers and people who see me as a mere entertainer. I thought I wouldn’t do it for free anymore, and gave a chance for the people to fix their fee. It led to another problem – people earning in lakhs will just come home when they find free time, talk for hours together and pay Rs 50 and go. I thought this isn’t working either.

There is a very thin line between charging for your services, and working for money alone. Given a chance I will always keep my astrological services free for sincere people, but then I am yet to find sincere seekers in the modern age. I also hate to sound like a vegetable vendor – where in people bargain on rates.

We bring many changes in ourselves depending on the situations we are subjected to. Recently a lady called me from Gurgaon saying she wanted a reading. I asked her to mail me her details, and also her preferred mode of transaction – she said innocently, “I just want answer to one question? Do you charge for one question too?” I accept her ignorance but I wanted to tell her – I would do a reading free of cost if you cannot afford me. But if you think astrological predictions are not worth your money – then sorry find another astrologer!

Though most people who get in touch with me know the seriousness of astrology and are kind enough to ask my service charges, there are few who still think I am desperately sitting in front of the computer to answer their astrological queries and that my happiness depends upon serving them.

Recently someone kept sending me mails - at least 6 to 7 – trying to persuade me for a free reading. Of course I refused – not because I don’t want to do, but because I hate the marketing smartness people try to use on anybody and everybody.

With experience it becomes very easy to guess what people are up to by just reading their mails or by reading the message they sent by messenger. There are many mails I still receive that sound very arrogant – My date of birth is …., my time of birth is…., my place of birth is…Send me my future report. I don’t ignore those mails. I send a mail asking for preferred mode of fee remittance – and there is no reply from them. It is fun.

Though I strictly charge for my services, I would somehow want to stick to the promise I made when I started reading for people or do some kind of justice to it. Hence I decided that on every Tuesdays I would keep my reading free. This isn’t applicable for online consultation or consultations over phone. Anyone who reaches my house with a printed horoscope on Tuesdays – I will do a consultation absolutely free of cost!