Hi everyone

I just read the cards for someone, yet all they say isn't very well at all, especially since the "outcome" card is The Star Reversed. Apparently, this person wants to set his/her life back on track and has had many problems in the past. What should I do about this?

What should YOU do about this?
Why you?
You read the card to him/her. It is their choice ......

I dont understand your question buddy.

It is a difficult decision when someone comes and asks me how to set their life back on track and the cards say that they cant (reversed star).

Should I just keep quiet or should I reveal this?

Ok. The reversed Star frightened you off. What do you think it stands for or what does it tell you? Perhaps I should have asked you that question first.

The Start is a beautiful, hope-inspiring card; one that also says that along with the hope, a person's inspirations, dreams as well as aspiraions, there is need for some nurturing, looking after those dreams. In the Rider Waite we see a naked woman, pouring water out of a pond on to dry land thus creating new life in the soil. What is she doing? She is nurturing the soil with love, care and, if you like, some sort of a motherly instinct.

What does it tell you in the reversed position? I feel your friend wants to bring his/her life into track; either he/she does not know how to go about it or does not want to work at it. Sorry, but if they asked for guidance, they should be told what the reading revealed. It is not saying it will be impossible to get him/her on track, but willingess alone is not enough. He/she needs to work at it. If the stars at night were the light for the traveller, I think your friend and his/her views for healing are blocked.  It does not mean there is no hope, but just that their vision and their outlook is marred or blocked with pessimism or cyncism about their own situation.

The recovery may take time; it may not happen as swiftly as your friend wants it, but I dont believe anything is a dead-end.
You can tell him/her that the journey ahead is going to be difficult, but he/she will get there.  I dont know what spread you have used and what other cards were there in the meantime. If you used the Celtic Cross spread, I think you were being too ambitous with your efforts and you have ignored all the preceding positons and their advice.

I understand your feelings of doubt and fear about telling the querent the outcome of a reading, but if you are going down the route of giving readings to others, you should also be ready to tell them what is the end result of a reading and here comes tact and diplomacy as well as never being economical with hope and positivity.

P.S. out of curiousity, it seems to me in your readings you are getting a lot of reversals. Do you intentionally make this happen?

Yes, I did. It's because I learnt the method of shuffling from Youtube over here

To me, not using reversed cards is not having the full meaning of the tarot deck.

Also, well since you replied, I guess I'll just tell the seeker what she needs to hear then. Thanks. It's because I feel our duty as tarot readers is to empower the Seeker, and not to tell her that things are really bad at the end and you're powerless to do anything.