I was re-reading your reading for me back in November.  I realized a lot has changed since then.  I've started meditating on a more regular basis.  I'm trying to find time daily but sometimes forget.  I've cut a lot of stress and drama out of my life.  That includes not moving out of state.  

However, the one area I'm still having trouble making peace with is my love life.  If you could give me a reading regarding that I would greatly appreciate it.  Thank you.

Namaste

Dear Songstress,

Love predictions (fortune telling) where there is not yet a relationship to base them upon are generally worse than useless in my opinion; frequently giving too many false positives or false negatives.

Unless you are already in a fairly regular and stable face to face relationship (in contrast to one which has been conducted so far exclusively by telephone or via the internet), any reading which I am able to offer you would necessarily be only of a general advisory nature, and therefore may also be too vague to be of any practical use to you.

Readings as given by me on this board are only thought to cover the period of approximately the next six months.

Could I suggest in the possible absence of an existing relationship that you might ask instead for any positive insights about how you could significantly increase your chances of finding true love by early August?

I will wait for your instructions, before taking any further action with regards to giving you this reading.

L&L,

EoT  

This would be fine.  I appreciate your honesty as well.

Songstress,

Your first drawn or focus card for this month's reading (using the modified question above) was the Nine of Pentacles (or Coins in some alternate Tarot packs).

The NINE card of any of the four different suits in the Tarot is thought to represent the end of a phase, while any member of the Pentacles suit is believed to either be a symbol of money itself, how best you could conserve and manage what money you already have, or how to increase the amount which you earn each week by honest means, generally either through getting a new and better paid position or by being promoted in your existing job.

This particular card only confirms my initial impression that money or to be exact a lack of available funds may be at the core of your current difficulties in getting your love life off the starting blocks. You are clearly about to enter a phase of your life, where financial challenges could potentially multiply several fold.

In an existing relationship the two most likely subjects to cause conflicts and a noticeable lack of trust developing between the two people concerned are sex and money. Usually the fighting revolves around the fact that the needs of each individual for sex or money when compared to the other is vastly different.  And I feel that it is anything but a coincidence that these sensitive issues are also at the top of the list when we are in the process of attempting to begin a new relationship.

This reading assumes that you already have a fairly good idea as to what qualities of character you are wanting in your man, and the general advice is still to prepare two written lists to help you get this clearer in your mind. One list is for the positive qualities which you are wanting, while the other is for listing the negative or more irritating qualities which you simply could not stand for more than 24 hours of living under the same roof with them.

Then once you are completely satisfied with both lists which must be written and not merely remembered to get the intended effect you are asked to balance one against the other, and finally create a typical personality profile for the man of your dreams.  Regularly visit the places where you would most expect to find the type of man best described by that personality profile, and you are over half way to finding your partner.

Normally when a man or woman is experiencing difficulty in forming a new relationship, it is mainly due to a serious lack of self confidence. But in your case although developing more self confidence certainly would do no harm to your chances of attracting a mate during the next six months, it is felt that your job satisfaction level including how much money you earn by doing it are a higher priority than rebuilding a shattered sense of confidence in yourself, or in your work abilities.

And let us be honest about this, forming and keeping a relationship going these days often requires considerable sums of money in order to make the best impression which you are able on the recipient of your affections. In the good old days (?) this behaviour with the express intention to get in their good books was called courting or courtship, while in the 21st century it is instead often called a severely maxed out credit card, or a huge bank overdraft.  

But seriously now and in summary, your reading is telling me that until you are reasonably satisfied, personally, financially and spiritually with your current job/career (do not wait until you are 100% satisfied as it never happens), then beginning and maintaining new relationships is always going to be a challenge.

Whatever you can practically do to help yourself to feel more confident with the opposite gender, as well as to positively boost your levels of satisfaction in or more of these vital aspects of your job between now and early August should in turn go a long way towards also significantly increasing your chances of finding true love, which of course was the changed question on which this reading was based.

Hoping that your level of satisfaction with this reading is also high.

Take good care of yourself,

EoT  

I'm sorry it took so long to respond.  I appreciate the reading.  It makes sense for me currently.  I am currently unemployed and have been applying to places.  I've been kind of feeling like I need to prove I can take care of myself financially before I would feel comfortable getting engaged.  I suppose that could be hindering me from being confident enough to actively look for love.