Could I please have a reading focused on my love life? I'm currently single and am wondering if I will have a relationship in the next year or so? Thank you in advanced!

IF you will have a relationship? Why shouldnt you? Why do you doubt it? Why do you ask within a specific period of time?  What are you doing with regard to meeting someone? You see against your IF and WHEN, there are so many questions that come to mind and I am afraid, my dear one, your question is rather predictive and futuristic. The cards may or may not reveal the arrival of a lover for you in the time frame that you have asked (and I'd rather not do a reading on that basis). It will be so easy to pick some cards and tell you whether the cards showed a person in the foreseeable future or not.... Is that what you would like to do? A sort of Present and Future tense reading?  That 'fortune telling' style reading undermines the tarot and I am sure you will find people who may do that for you.

May be if you could reprhase your question in order for a reading to empower you perhaps about your inner self, your priorities in life.... ?

I have seen your request yesterday and was waiting if someone would take it up and I am sorry if you think my response is not to your satisfaction. But I do hope you see what I mean

Blessings to you.

Hi Cedars,

Could I have a general reading geared towards romance? Is that a better question? I seem to never be able to ask the right way. I understand what you mean about being predictive and futuristic. I just want to know what the cards say about romance in the future.

Also, as far as my love life goes. I have changed what I do as far as going out and meeting new people now. So, I'm putting myself out there more than I used to. However, I kinda want to know if there will be fruit to this labor. I hope you can understand what I'm asking.

Thanks!

My dear Mizgator

Of course I understand what you are saying, but my dear, let me put it to you this way: if the cards showed that there was no romance on the horizon for you in the foreseeable future or the immediate horizon, what would you do? Please answer that question to yourself honestly. No need to tell us here in the public forum..  I hope you understand what I am getting at.
Your question was a conditional one again.

Anyhow, I will ignore the IF factor and will ask the following for you:  What does Mizgator need to know (or do) with regard to her love life in the foreseeable future?

I asked the question and have not picked any cards yet. I wanted to connect with you on a different level to see what visions, images and messages I get from your energies. I am getting the feeling that despite putting yourself out on the social scene, sometimes you feel you don’t belong there. I see you looking from outside to the busy venues and you seem to be hesitant to go inside and even when you do, you somehow feel this is not for you. I am also getting the feeling that whilst you wish to have romance in your life, somehow your aspirations and aims are beyond the love and romance realm. I feel a depth and intensity about you which probably looks at life with a more philosophical and spiritual view than the physical one. It is as though, well, let me have love and romance and then I can still aim for those serious stuff. Can you handle both? Will you be able to chase your dreams when you have romance in your life? These are the feelings I am getting with my initial connection with you.

Now I will pick three cards for you with no specific placement names but the question is still same as above.
The deck I am using is the Rider Waite:
Eight of Swords. Temperance. Six of Cups.

Okay, here we go.
The cards are showing me a state of feeling trapped  within your own self and a feeling of inadequacy about your thoughts and the actions that you would like to take. In fact, you are so stuck up and held back, there is no action – in your current mindset –that you think can be taken. You feel it is all a lost cause, like the woman in this card who is blindfolded, and her arms tied with a rope as far as her waist and eight swords surrounding her from behind and on the sides. There are, however, no swords in front of her but can she see that? No. In her blind vision, she can only see the obstacles around her but not ahead of her. All this is in her mind and only she can see the possibilities that are head of her once she takes her blindfold and realises that the road ahead is free and all the obstacles were of her own making. In order to do this, she needs healing – Temperance – whereby she has to find the balance between the needs of her spirit and those of her material world, i.e. body. Healing will be offered and greatly needed and in the form of a Major Arcana card is imminent. You need to first take off the blindfold and the sense of trapped vision or tunnel vision that you have in order to start feeling that sense of balance and equilibrium in your life. Temperance does not serve the panicked mind or the desperate soul. It is there to give you balance and also moderation in what you wish to achieve in your life. I feel that after acquiring that balance and the inner healing, you will be able to start having fun, flirtatious encounters – Six of Cups – and the possibility of someone from your past  may cross your path. Whether this will develop into love and romance is hard to say, but to me the Six of Cups is also a time to start having light-hearted fun with people that you meet or people that you have known in the past.

I did sense a state of impatience and panic in your two posts in this thread and I believe the message for you is one of balance, equilibrium and moderation.
I hope this resonated with you Mizgator.

All the best to you and many blessings.

Thank you Cedars. It makes complete sense as I do feel a sense of panic over my lack of a relationship. I thought that I would be married or even in a relationship at this point in my life. I've never experienced falling in love or being in love and that makes me wonder if it will ever happen. As most (if not all) of my peers have been in love.

As far as my aspirations being beyond the love and romance realm I could see why you would say that. I  feel like sometimes I develop these aspirations/aims to fill up the void of a relationship. Could I handle both is a very good question. I'm not sure as I've never really had both. This is definitely something to think more about.

I do feel like my life path is not focused on a love life which frustrates me because I desire one.