How the US$49 deposit works

What it covers

The US$49 covers the acceptance assessment and historical calibration: verifying birth data and calculation method, and testing whether the chart fits the case against things that actually happened to you.

If accepted: credited in full

If the case is accepted and proceeds, the US$49 is credited in full toward the US$388 consultation — you do not pay extra for the deposit.

If not accepted: returned

If the case cannot proceed under the published acceptance rule (for example, calibration doesn’t fit, the question is out of scope, or your area isn’t enabled), the deposit is returned to the original payment method.

Refunds follow a predefined process and are not conditioned on a subjective sense of “accuracy.”