Melissa,
Yours will be a general reading, but will not specifically include either of those two subjects you have mentioned in any great detail, due to the absence of the required background information.
You appear to be attempting to juggle or find a more workable and sustainable balance between paying your living costs and still having enough money left over in reserve at the end of each week to allow you to do what makes your life seem that much more worth living.
Up to this particular moment in time so much of your income is being eaten up by you having to pay your seemingly endless bills and pay the high cost of credit, that there seems precious little of it remaining for what seems important to you in this current lifetime, outside of having to earn an honest living (working to earn more money on a regular basis).
Sometimes it might seem to you that your only real purpose in life is to work your butt off, and all too frequently many of life's little luxuries and simple pleasures are sacrificed in order for you to continue to keep your financial head above water, and stop you from drowning in a sea of debt.
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Two of Pentacles which was your theme or focus card for this month's general reading, being a member of the Pentacles (or Coins in some alternate Tarot packs), is either associated with money itself, how to better conserve and manage what money you may already have, and last but certainly not least with regards to earning more of it through your job.
Any of the four number 2 cards in the Tarot are commonly believed to emphasise the duality or dual nature of our daily existence, which this time in plain English basically means that our lives largely consist of a series of opposites or pairs where we need to constantly deal with both members of the pair at much the same time.
There is for example a fine line between love and hate, and between genius and insanity. It is all too easy to see everything only in terms of black and white with the solution to a problem appearing to be obvious, when the reality of the situation is that most things are much more complex than they may first appear to be on the surface. Often in trying to solve one problem, we unintentionally create more than we started with. Which BTW seems to be a good reason or excuse for doing nothing, and hoping that your problem will spontaneously go away by itself, without any further effort being required on your part.
Coming back to your reading (finally), surely the best way to solve your cash flow problems, is to either reduce your weekly expenses in non essential areas (which does not include you taking proper care of yourself and your health), to get a better paying job (either a promotion where you are presently working, or in a completely different company and position), or to perhaps instead hind an alternative source of income to supplement what you already earn from your existing day job.
But as so often happens in life, there is a very big difference between saying that this is the solution you have been looking for and actually doing what is required of you to gain the maximum benefit from your knowledge. In other words it is often easy to put down your plans clearly on paper. The infinitely more difficult part comes when you inevitably have to delay getting or buying something which you really wanted badly, so that you are able to cover the temporary shortfall in your finances and stay out of the poor house.
Do not misunderstand what this particular card is suggesting. It is not saying that you should stoop to doing something which is either illegal or immoral or a bit of both so that you can balance your weekly budget, but it is more likely saying that you do need to smarten up and start to live more within your limits, until you are able to expand what those limits are. If there is any term which best describes the wanting to be helpful message behind the Two of Pentacles (TOP) card, it must be CREATIVE BUDGETING. Or even more simply better juggling or balancing your cheque book or bank account.
Creative budgeting is the art of deciding what you need to buy or pay for now, and what things that you can always buy or pay for later when your finances have improved. Of course if what you need to pay for are bills, then you will only have a certain amount of time to pay them, then risk having your creditors take extreme action with the intention to recover whatever you owe them, plus a penalty for not having paid it on time. If you are in the habit of either not paying them or not letting the creditor know if or when the bill will get paid, then the law could soon get involved and things could suddenly go downhill for you big time.
More effectively managing your money and having to temporarily live more within your means is probably not that exciting compared to what this reading could potentially be talking about, but if you do not first make significant improvements in the area of more efficiently balancing your finances, then these more interesting and pleasurable areas of your life such as being able to have a close relationship with another person are going to suffer as a direct consequence of your lack of vision and practical action in this key one.
Now I would not wish to be seen as insulting your intelligence by telling you that this required period of financial restraint or that "tightening your money belt" is going to be an easy and simple task for you. Old habits do not often die as easily as we would like them to, and you will need a considerable degree of self control in not being tempted to say what the heck: why should I have to wait for what I want when everyone else around me does not appear on the surface to have to make the same sacrifices as myself? I deserve the same as the rest of them, and so on.
The advertisers and credit companies will love you for not being able to wait until you can afford it, but your financial advisor (if you can afford to have one of them) and your bank manager will be out for their 0.454 kilograms (one pound) of your flesh, if you do not quickly bring your current relatively wasteful spending habits under some reasonable level of control, VERY SOON IF NOT EARLIER. There is nothing particularly attractive about a financial advisor, bank manager or your own partner going on the war path because you were either unable or more likely unwilling to make these short term sacrifices now, so that the financial pain over the longer term will be significantly diluted or in some cases entirely avoided.
Not a very exciting reading by anybody's standards, but rather it is one which is highly practical and felt to be in your long term best interest (no pun intended about the word interest but I think that it still fits in rather well)). Even though the reading might sound as though it is stopping you from instantly having what you want (it is), the general, positive idea is that you will eventually get it when you can afford it in the light of your current financial state of play.
During the next six months thought to be covered by this reading your relative ability and willingness to temporarily delay your wants in order to allow you to get your short term needs more fully met are going to be tested on one or more occasions. Make whatever preparations you feel are necessary to pass the test when it almost inevitably arrives.
This friendly warning is not designed to frighten you into doing nothing further to help yourself financially, but it is meant to give you a new and practical and more optimistic outlook on your challenges in this area. You are much more in control over your money destiny when compared to how much you may presently imagine that you are. Maybe your original career reading request has been partially addressed by way of this general reading. Getting and keeping a job these days costs money?
Kindest regards and the best of wishes for a happier and more prosperous future, both for yourself as well as for any of your dependants.
EoT
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