What a reading is actually like.

I booked this mostly out of curiosity and ended up taking notes for an hour. What stuck with me was the framing — he kept saying the chart describes tendencies, not verdicts. My Mercury placement explained a lot about why I over-prepare for everything. I've re-read his notes twice.

Honest review: I don't fully believe in this stuff. But I had two job offers and no way to choose, and talking it through with someone who wasn't invested in the outcome helped. He flagged a window in March that I'd already been circling for other reasons. Took the second offer. Docking a star only because the call ran short.

No doom, no "you must do this ritual by Tuesday". I'd had a reading years ago that scared me off the whole thing. This was the opposite.

We came in half-joking and left with actual language for the same argument we've had since we moved in together. He didn't tell us we were "compatible" or not, which I appreciated — he described how each of us processes conflict and let us draw the line ourselves. We've since booked a follow-up.

Sceptic here. The part that got me was when he asked about 2019 before I'd mentioned anything about that year. I'm still not sure what I believe, but the conversation was more useful than most therapy sessions I've paid double for.

I'd read about Dasha periods online and understood none of it. He drew the whole timeline out, sent the file afterwards, and answered three follow-up questions by email a week later at no extra cost.

Every astrology app I've used treats Saturn like a punishment. Hearing it described as a slow teacher rather than a character flaw genuinely shifted something for me. I cried a bit, which I wasn't expecting on a Tuesday lunch break.

My birth time isn't on my certificate, so I almost didn't book. He was upfront that the house placements would be uncertain and worked with what we had instead of pretending otherwise. Would have liked more on relationships, but that's on me for not asking.

I was about to push a product launch through a month that everything in me said was wrong. He didn't tell me not to — he asked what I'd lose by waiting six weeks. Turns out: nothing. We launched in April and it went fine.

He said "the chart can't tell you that" at least three times. In an industry full of people who'll answer anything for a fee, that's the reason I'd recommend him.

A year later and I still think about how he explained my Moon sign. It's become a shorthand my partner and I use when I need quiet.

My family has spent a lot of money on gemstones over the years. He talked me out of buying one and explained what remedies can and can't realistically do. I did not expect that from someone charging by the hour.

Nine hours of time difference and he took the early call without complaint. English isn't my first language and he slowed down whenever I asked.

I've had four readings from three different astrologers. This is the only one that felt like a conversation rather than a recital. Booking was a little clunky — I had to email to reschedule — but the session itself was worth it.

I asked about one year in particular, 2016, without saying why. He described a period of being stuck somewhere I had outgrown and having no clean way to leave. That was the year I stayed in a marriage six months longer than I should have. We spent the rest of the hour on what comes next rather than what went wrong.

I run a small agency and I was about to take on a partner. He did not tell me whether to do it. He asked what I would do if the arrangement had to be unwound in three years, which nobody else had asked, including my accountant. We signed a much better agreement.

My mother booked it for me and I went in ready to be annoyed. Forty minutes later I was writing things down. The part about needing to finish things privately before showing anyone was uncomfortably accurate.

Someone in Dubai had told me a specific year would bring a serious loss and offered to fix it for a fee. Abhishek looked at the same chart and explained what that period actually indicates, which was a heavy work phase and nothing else. He charged me for one session and did not offer to sell me anything.

The time difference meant a very early start for him and he never once sounded rushed. He explained the sidereal business properly, which I had never understood, and then got on with reading my actual chart.

Useful and level-headed. He mapped my next four years against a plan to go independent and flagged where the two disagreed. Only reason for four stars is that I wanted more time on the later years — my own fault for booking thirty minutes.

We booked it half as a joke for our anniversary. What we got was a clear description of why he needs to talk immediately and I need a day first. It has not stopped the arguments but it has shortened them considerably.

I am an engineer and I expected to find this annoying. He was careful about what the chart can and cannot show, which is the only reason I stayed. The timeline of periods lined up with my career history more closely than I am comfortable admitting.

He read my Moon sign and I recognised myself in a way I have not managed to explain to my own family. I asked him to repeat it so I could write it down properly. The notes arrived that evening.

I came in expecting to be sold something, because that has been my experience. He told me plainly that the stone I had been advised to buy would not do what I had been told it would, and that the honest answer was sleep and a difficult conversation I had been avoiding.

Thorough and unusually honest about uncertainty. He said 'the chart cannot tell you that' more than once. I would have liked a written summary of the houses as well as the notes, but I got what I paid for.

I had two offers and a deadline of four days. He did not pick for me. He described what each period tends to reward and let me work it out, and by the end I knew which one I actually wanted. I had known for a week and had not admitted it.

Clear, patient, and free of the drama I associate with this subject. He asked about a stretch in my late twenties before I had mentioned anything about those years. I still do not know how to explain that.

My father has consulted astrologers all his life and I have always kept my distance from it. This was the first time it sounded like an explanation rather than an instruction. I have booked a session for my sister.

We are from different countries and we fight about money in a way neither of us recognises from previous relationships. He described what each of us treats as security, which turned out to be the whole argument. Worth far more than the fee.

I had been told by someone else that a particular year would end my marriage. I paid for this session mainly to get a second view. He was direct: nothing in the chart says that, and anyone giving you a date like that is selling certainty. I slept properly that night.

English is not my first language and he slowed down without ever sounding like he was explaining something to a child. He checked I had followed each part before moving on.

I wanted to know when to expand the business. He told me which of the next three years suited building quietly and which suited launching, and explained why the two strategies fail when you swap them. That framing alone was worth the hour.

I have used astrology apps for years and understood none of it properly. One hour with an actual person was worth more than all of it. He drew my timeline out and sent the file afterwards.

I had a reading last year and came back once the thing we discussed actually happened. He remembered the chart, picked up where we left off, and charged the same rate rather than treating me as a returning customer to be upsold.

I was nervous about being judged. I brought a decision I already knew had been a bad one and he treated it as information rather than a failing. Nothing I said left the call.

My family has spent a great deal on stones and pujas over the years. He walked me through what remedies can realistically do, said he does not sell them, and did not refer me to anyone who does. That is not the norm in this business.

Careful and kind. The reading of my Moon placement was the part I keep returning to. I docked one star only because I would have preferred video and we ended up on a call.

He refused to give us a score, which irritated me at first and then turned out to be the point. Instead we got a description of how each of us handles closeness. My partner has quoted it back to me twice since.

I'd been putting off leaving a job for two years. The session didn't make the decision for me, but it gave me a date to work backwards from, and that was apparently all I needed. Handed in notice in August.

If you want to be told who you'll marry, look elsewhere. If you want ninety minutes of someone thinking carefully about how you're built, book it.