Hello Cedars,

Could I please have a reading from you? I would like an insight into 2010 especially regarding my career and love life.

Thanks for your time,
Skittles.

Hello Skittles

you are limiting your question(s) to a Yes or No possibilities and I, personally, would not like to give such readings. If the cards showed No for 2010, would you sit and do nothing about finding a job....... or even a lover for that matter?
As for finding love, oooooh... complex question my dear one.

In order to give an ''insight'' into 2010 I would need to do a yearly reading and I do not believe in such readings, as anything can happen, anything you may decide to do that may change the course of events. Moreover, we would like to handle one topic at a time. Therefore, would you please form a question either about your career or love and I will be happy to give you a reading for the near future. I cannot do both in one reading though.

Have you been looking for a job and not being successful with it? Are you currently in employment and looking for another job? There are so many variables to a situation and the way a question can be asked......
Are you doing what it takes to find a job or a lover?

I am saying all this in order that the answers/guidance/insight that the cards may show are more meaningful to you.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Hello Cedars,

Thanks for your reply. Could I please have a reading on my love life for the near future.

Skittles.

Hi Skittles

OK. We will look at your love life and see what messages and insights we get.
When guided, I usually try and connect with the querent’s energies and see what images and feelings I am getting about them. This is prior to laying the cards.

At first I got questions as to what are you doing to find love, if anything at all? But I wanted to get further into it and started getting images of you standing outside and facing very nicely decorated windows. But the emphasis was you standing OUTSIDE! This is the first and the initial feeling I got. You are not going in to become part of the glitter, colourful array or what’s on offer. I also see you with your arms folded over your chest sort of self-protective attitude or scared to jump in, as though in waiting mode. I got the impression that you are waiting for the glitter and lights to come to you instead. I know, sometimes love comes to us when we least expect it, but may be not always. I am seeing this vision of you standing OUTSIDE, in the dark, arms folded and wondering what could be in there in terms of social interactions. You are protecting yourself from something; your chest, your heart, your solar plexus. What you are protecting yourself from must have happened previously and it is not encouraging you to move forward and discover what may lie behind those colourful windows. There is that waiting and anticipatory attitude about you. There are times that you would like to go and discover who you could meet and what could happen, but more often you are defensive and stand back from taking that step.
I am getting this feeling that whatever has happened, has happened and you should put it in the past and not carry it along in your future steps. Easier said than done, but the same might happen again or may not. The feeling I am getting is one of: Take a chance! I see possibilities of support around you from friends and family members and this support mechanism I am sensing are all good hearted people – mainly all females. You do keep yourself at a distance from them though and not accept help from them?

Since your question was a bit on the futuristic side, I am not going to use the spread I had in mind, which was How to Find Love? I am instead going to use a different spread (a simpler one) with the question: What is the outlook on love and romance for Skittles in the foreseeable future?

I am using the Rider Waite deck. I shuffled the cards and then cut them into three piles and picked the third one.

The Present (now):
Page of Wands. Knight of Wands.
We have passionate people around you of different ages groups. Or, in the case of the Page, an adult but with the energy of a teenager within him.
These two cards can be different things. They could either mean people in your life right now with their characteristics and personality traits or that you have those traits and possibly need to adapt yourself; abandon or adopt, some of their qualities.

The Page is a young energy and it heralds opportunities, messages of either a new association, a new idea or a project being presented to you, the promise of building something out of nothing, or an adult with such energies about him. He is holding a sprouting wand while all around him is red soil ready to yield new life. Do you perhaps feel that urge to achieve something or extend your hands at something new?
The Knight of Wands is yet again a passionate and an energetic adult in his mid twenties to thirties who is always on the go and never sits still. His passion sometimes makes him unreliable, full of himself, all talk and no substance kind of a person.
He can be:
Charming and sometimes superficial.
He is very sure of himself and has a tendency to be cocky and brags about his achievements.
He can be daring but foolhardy at times.
He is passionate but his passion can get the better of him and he can become hot tempered and sometimes unnecessarily impulsive.

So, there are these passionate energies around you. These could be people or you, yourself dwindling in the middle of such qualities and a review of these qualities (if they apply to you) could be worthwhile to see which ones are serving you best and which are not.

Near Future (next three months)
Knight of Pentacles. Six of Cups.
We got another Knight of the same age group as the above, but this one has completely different characteristics to that of the Knight of Wands. He is not in your life yet, but may be coming soon.
He can be unwavering in his beliefs but at the same time he can also be stubborn.
He is hard working, takes his time, double checks everything before making a decision, but that can be led to a certain obsession whilst wanting everything to be in place. He is the ultra cautious type which may lead him to be unadventurous.
One minute he can be realistic and that may lead him to see everything in black (pessimism).
He has a good head on his shoulders and he can make things happen in his own way and style though.

Six of Cups. Hmmmmm… I couldn’t help the thought that sprung into my mind as I looked at these two cards. The Six of Cups is all about nostalgia and looking back at the past in one’s younger age, the puppy love experiences that one has had and sort of missing those innocent times……It could also indicate fun times, not getting too heavy about situations… enjoying yourself along with the associations and friends you make. Could this Knight be someone from your past who may make an appearance? Just an instinctual thought I am getting. The fact that these two cards appeared together, I get the feeling that you may make contact with someone from your past who may either trigger feelings of a kindred spirit or present you a bouquet of flowers trying to spark off something from the past?

Farther Future (next six months):
Two of Cups. Four of Pentacles.
Well, what can I say Skittles? The Two of Cups shows a couple exchanging or making a pledge of a partnership, friendship or a new association. It is like the engagement card; a couple exchanging rings. But this can also mean the start of a new friendship, the signing of an agreement on a mutual partnership in work or even declaring one’s love to the other.
The Four of Pentacles, on the other hand, is one of possible possessiveness of one’s belongings and a sort of a withdrawal from sharing one’s blessings. This is often described as the ‘miser’ card. Here is a man with four coins, holding and protecting them tightly and has only one thought in his mind: they’re all his and he is not going to share them with anyone else. Apart from possessiveness, this can also mean under a different set of circumstances being careful with one’s finances and spending your money prudently.  Being next to the Two of Cups, I fear it may tempt you to become reclusive, not sharing your new found friendship with others and probably wanting to keep them all to yourself. If this is going to reflect in your personal life and new associations, there is a caution here not to go down that route and share your good fortune and associations with others. If this concerns a business deal, then perhaps being careful with your money would be the wise thing to do.


Advice/ Things to come.
Five of Wands. Five of Swords.
We got two Fives here – Fire and Air elements respectively.
Petty arguments, a competitive element which may give rise to better things if the arguments and competitive spirit is put to good use. Five men have their wands up in arms and arguing with each other. It is not a fierce fight and the wands are not being used as weapons; but rather showing what each one can do which may lead to differences of opinion. If this is not controlled and done in the interest of progress, then I’m afraid it may lead to division of ranks and a sense of unaccomplished triumph as the Five of Swords next to it shows. A man who has defeated his foes (or even won over an argument with friends) and has control of the three swords out of a total of five, still looks unhappy and unfulfilled at his ‘triumph’.

I am going to say what is coming to me: I fear the possibility of a new association as portrayed with the Two of Cups, a new romance or a new friendship, may make you possessive about that person and I sense from the cards a tendency of you falling out with your friends and possibly losing them. This is why the last step of this spread is under the heading of ADVICE and I do hope this does not put you off from making new associations in the future to come.

This spread is on the futuristic side am afraid and it was something you asked about the year 2010. I’m afraid nothing is cast in stone and that is why I would not do a whole year’s reading. The cards foretell your involvement with people in the coming months and a possible blessing of a new beginning with someone.  I am sure you can understand the rest of the messages from the cards.

I hope these insights have been helpful to you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes for the future.

Hugs

Any comments, Skittles?