I have been jobless since Aug 09 & im getting more and more depressed as the week goes by. I'm going to be 29 this year & im still single. It makes me feel lousy about myself being both single & jobless......Seems that everyone around my age is starting a family & busy with work. I just feel like a kid ..in Neverland.. Can anyone help me to do a reading to see when I will get a perm job pls?

My DOB: 4th Feb 1981.

Hmmm, Maple, I'd like to address your request on several levels.

First of all, if you feel you're getting depressed more and more perhaps it's better to consult a therapist. Nothing to be ashamed of. A good therapist can do wonders! (talking from experience)

Without negating how it makes you feel, which I understand, it's important to keep things in perspective. All over the world companies are still going bancrupt and many people lose their jobs. I have a friend who was a real good and widely experienced freelance copywriter of 36 who needed to find a fixed job as employee and had to search for 2 years. I'm not saying that you shouldn't feel the blues and bad over not having a job. Having a job, getting an income, a work status is one of those things from which a person can gain inspiration and satisfaction. But even if you cannot find a job that pays you, there are things out there in the world that you can do from which you can gain experience and don't make you feel as if you're being idle or worthless.  

Meanwhile everyone needs to feel they're loved and worthy to be loved, but when people are single that doesn't imply anything bad about them, let alone that they're failures. It might sound strange to you now, but you ARE young. I was basically single for 11 years. And at least 7 of those years were some of the happiest in my life. I'm not single anymore since I was close to 35.5 years, and I'm happy, but not happier than I was in those 7 years. I just took my time in meeting someone who fitted my needs, and when I longed for a partner when there was none I always told myself... better to be happy by myself than unhappy with two.

I'm not writing the above to help you feel less bad about yourself. But because it's simply the truth of the job market right now, as well as experience from life with regards to being single. And I think you need to be aware of both of these things.

As to you reading request, while I'm prepared to give you a reading, I cannot answer a "when" question in terms of dates and time terms. What tarot can answer for you though is to advize you what you can do to alter your life in the direction you want it to go, and most of the advice will involve how to change your view on these subjects (and it might not be an easy reading).

If you want such a reading, then all you need to do is give me the go-ahead.

thanks for the encouragement. it will be great if you could do a reading only when you are free please.
i will still continue to send in job applications and hopefully i get something going within these few months.

Hi,

I've done the reading for you, using the question "what you could do to alter your job situation" using the "reality shift" spread with my Crowley Toth card deck.

_ 7
4 5 6
_ 3
1 _ 2

I chose this spread because it's a very self-empowering spread. It shows you which negative beliefs you tell yourself and how that negatively affects your situation, and suggests what you ought to start believing about yourself or the situation, and it will alter the situation because of that, or at least how you deal with it and feel about it. It's better for yourself in the long run.

1: The instructions you are telling your inner self right now - The Tower
2: How 1 affects your outer reality - prince of staves
3: How to empower yourself - Death
4: Outer self reaction to 3 - 5 of cups
5: reality shift of life - Moon
6: what you will create - 7 of staves
7: new path - Adjustement

Anyone who's familiar with Tarot cards will be struck by 4 cards that are not easy: Tower, Death, Moon and Adjustment. I'm not surprised to see them, because as you told us you feel disheartened about not just your job life but your romantic life too. However, before I go into depth on all of these cards in this particular spread, I think this is a beautiful spread, and I think it will help you change your view and make you stronger.  

Here follows the reading:

1: The instructions you are telling your inner self right now - The Tower

The Tower is a Major Arcana card and clearly identifies how right now you feel as if your life is falling apart. All you thought to achieve or have seems to have become a wasteland of broken dreams and expectations.

Whether you are indeed struck by bad luck or not is beside the question. But there's no denying you feel as if your life is in ruins, as if fate is out to get you, you've been dealt a big blow of bad luck. And it hurts a lot to feel that way.

2: How 1 affects your outer reality - prince of staves

Now we'll see how it affects the way you act and how you're perceived, and therefore also the opportunities you create or block.

The Prince of Staves (= RW Knight of Staves) stands for an atmosphere. You come across as eager and hungry, like a storm coming. Notice the sun, which is often welcomed as a source of warmth and energizing. But the sun can also scorch the earth.

I see this card in this position after the Tower as a sign that people can see the warm and passionate person you normally are, but at present it is a bit too much, and it makes them hesitate and draw back in fear.

3: How to empower yourself - Death

The way to empower yourself is by embracing the meaning of the Major Arcana Death card. We often fear Death, because we pine over the loss, of what used to be and cannot be anymore. But without the end of something sometimes we would be unable to let go of what is not our path and start something new. Without Death there is no Rebirth. This card advizes you to learn this important lesson: let go of what does not work for you anymore, even if you may regret and fear it, and you will be free for new things in your life you may not even have seen coming.

This also heavily relates to the Tower. The Tower is a painful process of being forced to let go. However, once you do, this is the strongst path to find enlightenment and come out reborn, stronger, and on the path of life you ought to be, rather than the one you were on.

4: Outer self reaction to 3 - 5 of cups

When you deal with the Death card then you will start to work through your disappointments. The 5 of cups sis called like that. And when we feel pained and hurt from life events, we need to allow ourselves to feel our grief and regrets before we enable ourselves to look ahead again. Other people will notice you going through this stage, but if this is how you feel, then sometimes it's even better to show it honestly, rather than appear like a sun shining too brightly out of despair. It will create a situation where people will point out to you what cups are left standing, what opportunities are out there. And from the disappointment with life, somethign actual fruitful, a seed may drop that will make life beautiful again.

5: reality shift of life - Moon

When you will go through this stage, you will experience the gates to the unconscious, your intuition, your inner higher self and your dreams open. The Moon is another Major Arcana card, and certainly in this deck heavily related to the Death card. In a way, it's as if the gates to the secrets and mysteries of the land of the dead will open up. And it will be scary. You will experience new perceptions that have a tremendous effect on both your inner self as your outer world, that will have an uncanny accuracy that you cannot explain with reason and rationale. The world of the Moon is the world where nothing can be appraoched with "reason" and does not make sense, but it makes sense emotionally and intuitively.

While it may seem like the darkest period, as if you're feeling your way in the dark, it is actually the end of the tunnel, dawn of the day. It is at these times you will confront your inner fears openly and enable yourself to conquer them.

6: what you will create - 7 of staves

OUt of all this you will come out on the high ground with the 7 of staves. You will have gained the skill and experience to battle, to be courageous and save what seemed a lost battle. You will come out of it strong.

7: new path - Adjustement

When I see this card, it never precisely tells you exactly what the situation's circumstances will be, exept that it's the "right" one. Justice is about doing and getting what is right for you. If we knew beforehand what this "right" thing is, before we are ready to accept it, we might reject it and continue on the wrong path for us. But being told you will end on the path you belong if you do what life expects you to do (accept things must end before new beginnings) right now is the most positive message you can get.

Conclusion, it's a painful period in your life right now, confusing, with things you need to say goodbye to, things you will regret, that will make you feel as if you're grasping in the dark. But if you go through this ordeal, allowing yourself to feel the regrets, allow yourself to mourn what could not be, then you can also bury it and eventually move on to the path in life where you're supposed to be.

I wish you all the strength and courage to start this process, but I know that once you take that step towards embracing Death even it may not seem as if the situation solves itself rapidly that you will come out of it stronger, wiser and in a happier place too ultimately.

All the best to you  

Hi SS,

Now, this is where it becomes so interesting in the reading you did for maple.

Looking at the images, I have no cognitive assimilations whatsoever! I think if you "grew-up" as reader with them, you would really have the insight needed.
Another interesting point is your "interpretation" of the cards. I must say, that I have a more "plain life"--troubles or happiness attitude. Salt, Pepper, vinegar!

The five of Cups tells me that the person is looking at the majority of his failures and, as you said not recognizing that there may be a positive insight in this whole lot! So yes depression, please, a must have?

Maple, You have very good advice, If you follow the advice, I think your life will change. In everything bad, there is always the good, you just need to find it!!! Use a spyglass and broaden your horizons.

SS, If I interrupted here, please forgive!!!!!!!!!!!

Blessed be.