Dear Cedars,

I read some of the threads here that you reply and i see the depth of your answer. Would you please help me do a reading? Especially for the next coming new year. Actually right now, i have some difficulty involving money and my career. So can i have a reading for both area (money/luck and career).

Thanks in advance for your time and just do the reading if you are not busy.

and BTW i'm sorry if you confuse reading my request since english is not my primary languange.

Warm regards

fisk

Dear Fisk

there is nothing wrong with your English. I will post your reading as soon as possible.

Happy New Year!

Hello Fisk

You asked for a reading for the whole year of 2010. Let us suffice with the near and the medium-term future. I don’t believe in giving a whole year’s reading as you have the freedom to change things as you go along and, moreover, you should not build your life on what someone says to you about the whole year ahead.

I first tried to link in wit your energies without picking any cards yet and here is what I got:
From your posting, I couldn’t catch whether you are male or female, but somehow I get a female energy about you. I am sorry if you’re not but that is the energy I am getting and gender is not important; it is the energy that I am getting. I am also getting this feeling that you have tried your hand at a few things in the past and not having had much success with them, you find yourself now in a situation you don’t know what else to do or where to turn to. I get a sense of seclusion, solitude, and loneliness around you as though you are on your own, or you don’t want anyone to be part of this situation. For some reason, like a monastic state of mind where you are contemplating what needs to be done and in that effort you have turned your back to your surroundings. You are not doing this with a sense of animosity to others, but you may be doing this just to see things on your own. OK, just be careful not to become too solitary.

You also seem to be consumed with the thought of job, career and finance and every time you see an opportunity pass by you, you panic that if and when the next one will come. I don’t feel you should go down this route of panicking. I feel you are doing everything you can and turning your back to your surrounding may not be the right thing to do because you may get support from them.

I don’t feel you will be in this situation for long; I feel something may be coming to you by way of a new opportunity. I get this feeling that you are viewing things speedily passing by you. I know I’ve said this above, but this is different. I just see you behind a window watching vehicles passing in front of you; there is some kind of a motion in front of you which denotes speed to me. Could it be that you are on the road, you travel a lot….. I just see things passing in front of you going at a speed….. trains cars, aeroplanes… not sure. This may be a symbolic message and I hope it makes some sense to you.

Now let’s go to the cards.
Since your question was more of a futuristic one but based on job/career/finance, I am not sure if I should use a simple Present, Future, and Further Future spread or just a Vocational Spread.

I will use the second spread and try to avoid a predictive one. The Vocational Spread may shed more light about the things happening around you and may also give the advice you need right now. The question I asked: What is the outlook for Fisk in terms of career/finance in the foreseeable future?

Deck used: Rider Waite.

What is going on in your Job/Life now?
Six of Pentacles.
This is one of the complex cards of the tarot and it indicates a giving and receiving situation. We see a benevolent and a well-to-do person giving money to someone on his knees with one hand and holding a scale with the other, whilst another person to his left is on his knees as well. If I go towards the feeling I am getting, I would say that you have not been getting what you deserve from a current situation – would that be an employment situation? I sense you may be giving but not getting back the rewards you deserve. This card has two sides to it:  a giver not receiving back for their contributions and a receiver not giving back enough. Sometimes it does not feel fair that this should happen, but the scales being held with one hand of this benevolent person tells me that we always get what we deserve.

What you want?
Three of Cups.
This is the card of celebrations, friendships, party time and in general having a jolly good time with friends. I feel perhaps you have been cut off from your social life and not seeing people or spending time with them. Yes, you may feel things may have been unfair to you and may not be being recognised, but you also want (and need) to have some fun. You may argue without money how can I have fun? It is not always about the money aspect, is it? The Three of Cups shows three women raising their cups and dancing around in merriment. Perhaps you should make contact with those friends that you have neglected and start making yourself visible and available to them.

What you need to focus on?
The Hermit.
No, not to become a hermit and cut yourself off from the rest of the world; but rather go within and find the answers that you seek. The Hermit can be our inner self that needs guidance and enlightenment and the only way for us to attain that is sometimes to withdraw. The latter is the ‘withdrawal’ within our subconscious in order to see the mistakes we have made and shed light over them. The Hermit is all about education and finding the right path for ourselves. It is a Major card and its message is also prominent in your current situation.   It is telling you to listen to your inner self rather than what’s going around you or what others say. Everything about the Hermit is the Inner You, whether it is self healing that you need or whether you need to decide your own path. Please be honest with yourself while in this frame of mind and when you get the answers, start tackling them.

What blocks you (hidden factors)?
Ten of Wands.
We see a man here carrying ten wands all on his own and not looking back. He can hardly see where he is going. I feel that your past efforts and probably not ‘reaching your goal’ have created a brick wall of a thought process whereby you feel, it won’t do any good; it wont work again. When the burden is heavy and we feel on our own and find it difficult to carry on, we give up and can’t see anything coming out of our efforts. Whilst being number 10, this man is getting to his destination and achieving his goal, but at times the weight of the heavy burden may blind and put all the barriers up for our further progress. It is like you are there, but not quite there yet. Whatever you have done in the past or even in the present time that gives you this feeling, please be aware that perhaps another few steps will get you what you want to achieve.

Your Talents.
The World.
Another major Arcana card not to be ignored. The World is the ultimate attainment of the Major Arcana suit – the last card. Achievement and Attainment. You are an achiever, you can make things happen; the world is yours and nothing can stop you. So, why doubt yourself? You may go round in circles, but you always get there in the end.

What you are in need of? Advice/Help.
Four of Swords.
Please note here the difference: above we had ‘what you want’ and here we have ‘what you need’. These are two different scenarios. Swords are the element of Air; the spoken words, ideas, thoughts, the mind and all the electrics of our thought process. Here we see a man lying down – looking almost as if he is dead – and taking some time out to recollect his thoughts and recharge his batteries. He has three swords hanging above his head and one underneath him. He has put all aside and just needs time to gather his thoughts. This is only a temporary situation and he will soon be ready to come out and face the world; but for now he needs time to review things and get a clear mind. Perhaps this is what you need for a brief period rather than that panic I felt about you above.

Near Future, if things stay as they are.
Page of Swords.
Another Sword card but this one is of a young energy, inquisitive mind, finding answers to situations, solutions to problems….. This is a court card and as such it can indicate someone coming into your life, either a young person or an adult with such young energies about him/her, or such qualities that you need to adopt in order to move ahead. I always sense an element of immaturity about this Page, but that is because of his age. However, let this not deter you; he/she is of a sharp mind and I feel this kind of personality or thought process will benefit you to find your path ahead.
I also picked two clarifier cards for the Page of Swords and got:
The Lovers and Wheel of Fortune.
Two Major Arcana cards, one indicating choices to be made and the other one indicating turn of events. I feel with the sharp mind of the Page of Swords, you will be able to make the right choices for yourself and then your life ahead will take a new turn. Choices are our own and we still have a responsibility to make the right choices. This last bit may sound like mumbo-jumbo to you my dear friend, and it is important to note that our choices bring about the direction of the Wheel of Fortune in our life.

I hope the above made some sense to you and that you can take from it what resonates with you.
I hope to hear from you.

Dear cedars,

Tx for your kindly reply. What you tell here is very close to my situation sadly and you are true also that i'm a female
BTW i just curious, are there any difference in male and female energy in relation with the reading itself?

 

Yeah cedars, i was doing so many things in the past... but the things not work as what i want to be... I work hard even too hard, harder then many person that i know :D... but still i don't get what i want... and sometimes feel my life just like a failure. I'm doing some contemplation to find out what's wrong with me by doing some self analysis ^.^ still i'm stuck to find the answer.

You're right too about that solitude thing. I prefer myself to be alone. In the outer look, people see me as a very socialize person but as for my self i keep my distance from others even from my own family. As a kid i learn to defend myself from the outer world, learn how to grow and evolve my own value, i don't depend much on others nor my parents or family. I think that's how i ended up on this situation ^.^



I describe my own life as a status quo... a place where you stay there and stuck in there, confuse how to out of it ^.^... That kind of the feeling and it really consume me. Seriously if there are any new opportunity i will really grateful for it. My daily routine makes me travel from one place to another.




I work in the field that involve direct relation with other human. I help them and they pay me. It should be like that but the problem, sometimes i don't take the pay and do my job for free. My family always tells me that sometimes i just too naive that i'm giving so many but don't take the pay that i should get because of my idealism and my soft heart. They told me to be more realistic in this life and stop living in my dream world. Some friends also tells me if i pretend to do things like that, i will end up on economic catastrophic.

It is so hard to let myself to accept the fact that without money we can't make a living :(. But i promise to my self to be more realistic on this new year.



I still do some social thing like hanging out with friends but i choose where and when ^.^. Actually as i post before that i kinda to love a solitude life. And what you post is very true "You may argue without money how can I have fun?". And you're right also that i neglect some of my important friends. Sometimes I feel that their lifestyle really different from mine.

But i will try what you suggest me cedars... tx for your suggestion. For the last half year period, i'm doing so many contemplation, doing meditation to know my inner self and do some self healing from so many scratch and pain from my past. I will see the answer that i want to find there ^.^




I will keep this as a notice to myself... tx to remind me



Dear cedars, i heard before that people choose their own life and destiny. Sometimes it's just too hard to make decision to ourselves because we don't know yet whether the decision is good or bad. I have this tendency to avoid to decide something to avoid the result and be responsible for it. Let this life bring whatever it is to me. My resolution this year is push my self to do some choices and being responsible for the result also ^.^.

In the end thank you again for your time and the reading. It gives me some insight and help me to evolve it.

Warm Regards,

fisk

You are welcome dear Fisk. I think you have already grasped your situation without the reading and the reading has only come to reaffirm what you already know or should do.

On the money side, I believe strongly that we should all get paid for the work we do. There is an exchange and should be one for the things one gives and the other one receives. Unless you've got millions in the bank, I dont you can live with just a good heart and a charitable spirit.

Many blessings to you and best wishes.