How to Love Your Work — Tarot Pick a Card

Hello, my soul friends! Today I have a psychic tarot reading on how you can love your work more. This is targeted at your current job or passion project.

All you have to do to receive this message is pick one of the piles above using your intuition.

After you select your cards, scroll down to your pile or choose below.

For this reading, I’ve chosen the Work Your Light Oracle deck (this is an affiliate link that supports me if you make a purchase). Remember that you have free will. That means you can manifest the positive and avoid the negative of any reading.

Now let’s see how you can make your work a more enjoyable experience.

Pile 1: Heels

A Time to Take Chances

Experience is the best teacher. The first card, Leap, has the wisdom message “You go first. The universe will catch you.” This is a sign that your preconceived notions about your job or what makes you happy aren’t right.

To correct this, you need to throw yourself into work or a personal project. This will allow you to review what’s happening and introspect. You’re trying to base your feelings and expectations on ideas you’ve heard from elsewhere rather than what you know yourself to be true for you.

But, crucially, it seems like the universe believes enough good fortune is on the horizon at work that even mistakes or wrong turns can be turned around if you change your mind later.

That doesn’t mean you won’t have frustrating days – on the contrary. But that these frustrations are small and serve to instruct you about what you do and do not like at work.

In other words, this is like the safe playground of a child. You’re being watched and protected so you can make discoveries and mistakes without any truly negative long-term consequences.

This is a great time to take advantage of that energy. If there’s always something you wanted to try, now’s your chance. You’ll pay a lower price if things go wrong (and they might not go wrong anyway).

Trust Your Heart

We often do things when it comes to work that we feel we should do rather than what we want to do. The second card, Inner Temple, has the wisdom message of “Devotion. Tune in to the portal of your heart.”

This can of course deal with deeply held dreams, but it can also deal with temporary decisions. A teenager looking for their first job might choose a location simply because it pays more or seems prestigious even though they know they’ll hate it more.

Don’t just look at loving your work purely from one perspective, but a holistic one. Maybe you’re in the right industry, but the wrong position. Maybe you’re in the right position, but the wrong industry. Or perhaps your coworkers are just terrible.

Leaping into your work or personal project will let you compare your feelings and consider if you’re making decisions based on how you feel or what you feel you “should” do. Loving your work doesn’t come merely from success but from enjoying the process. Are you enjoying everything? Why or why not?

There’s something you can change to make it better.

Joy Matters

I think you’re going to make a decision from the heart. The third card, Trust Your Path, has the wisdom message of “If you knew you would be supported, what would you do?” This suggests you’ll be acting in defiance of a previous decision.

I’ve said this a lot, but just because something is logically true for most people most of the time doesn’t mean it applies to you. When it comes to loving work, you’ll do your job better if you actually like being there.

This could mean making a compromise in how much you make or where you live. But if you get the biggest benefit, enjoying your daily work experience, it’s a good trade.

You’re going to make a decision that differs from something in the past. It may be small for some of you, but huge for others who chose this pile.

Know that it’s designed to make you happier. So take it.

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Pile 2: Fairy

Time to Participate

The universe is stepping in to bring you opportunity. The first card in your spread, Yes, is calling you to “Just say yes” and see what happens.

No doubt this will be both exciting and scary. You’ll find yourself trying new things. The novelty will be interesting and you’ll learn a lot about yourself.

Know that you’ll discover new paths you’ll want to travel and others you’ll want to avoid. So while you should be eager to try new things, if you find something isn’t that great, it’s okay to push on the break.

Be open and honest with yourself and the universe. Speak to your spirit guides or journal. This introspection and communication with the divine should help the process be more enjoyable and in your control.

Just because you’re saying Yes right now doesn’t mean you can’t say No later.

Do What Feels Right (And Is Interesting)

For you to love your work, you’re going to need to have it in alignment with your life purpose. The second card, Imrama, has the wisdom message of “Where are you being called to journey to?” This means the universe will be sending you a message – so listen.

You’re being guided to live out your life purpose. When you do that, you’ll be happier because you’ll be fulfilled at a soul level.

This could be adjusting or even changing your work or hobbies – but not always.

I once heard of a Christian who knew that he was skilled in business. He could’ve chosen to go in ministry, but by earning a lot of money, he’d be able to fund charitable causes far in excess of the time he could individually provide.

That has always stayed with me because the things we choose to do at work, even if it’s completely unrelated to what we feel called to do at a soul level, can still facilitate that indirectly. That gives you many more options.

So if you have a life purpose to heal, but you’re a skilled artist, perhaps you could continue on in your career as is, but use what you learn to volunteer at a hospital for art classes.

Think outside the box even as the universe sends you signs about your life purpose. It’s the responsibility of both you and the universe to reconcile your life with your mission in whatever way is personally best for you.

Put Up a Wall Against Destiny

You should know that what you were born to do is later shaped by your personal experiences. The third card, Boundaries, has the wisdom message of “Where do you need to establish better boundaries?” You may feel called to have a particular job, but then discover you don’t like it.

That’s because of your free will and the free will of others changing the strings of fate all around us. A shadow of what you were originally born to do, and enjoy, still exists in your heart. That’s why you’ll be attracted to certain jobs and even tasks within a job that you later find out isn’t so great for you.

There’s nothing wrong with what you feel. People can and do change and their fate will need to be adjusted because of that.

So know that learning to love your work is about honoring what you were born to do by adopting elements of that and taking it to a different job.

Someone born to be a doctor may later find out that they want to prioritize family and choose a less intense job – so perhaps they choose nursing instead so they have more flexible hours.

Consider what you feel called to do and then set your boundaries using what you enjoy doing.

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Pile 3: Treehouse

Be Yourself

You’re really questioning yourself at work right now and this is causing psychological harm. The first card, Don’t Dim to Fit In, has the wisdom message of “How are you dimming your light in order to fit in?” You’re not being yourself.

There are certainly times and places where someone should suppress their natural personality. A shy teacher needs to be more gregarious and assertive with students, but they don’t need to be a social powerhouse around other teachers and staff.

You’re trying to fit a social mold in some aspect of your job that is causing you psychological harm. Maybe there are times you need to put on a mask, but you’re either wearing that mask in situations at work where this isn’t necessary or even taking that mask outside of work.

You need to be yourself to love your work. Because if you’re not yourself, you’re not able to match your identity with your job in a way that’s harmonious. Either change how you act or change your job.

The Mask, The Body

The good news is that you can be yourself and learn to love work, whether it’s your current job or a new one. The second card, Transformation, has the wisdom message of “Things are changing at a cellular level. Deep healing.” You’re going to become yourself and drop the mask.

One thing I’ve noticed in the way people describe their identities is that it’s something exterior to themselves. They seek to associate who they are with labels rather than a holistic view of their person with internally undefined borders.

This is harmful because part of the reason you’re wearing a mask at work is that, on some level, you’ve accepted the mask as your identity. And why not? We’re really used to understanding our identities with labels so masking is natural.

Personality is something that can be changed. Personality is also situational. What this means is that by assuming a label, you’re creating a static identity that both isn’t you and isn’t one that can grow. You may act a certain way at work because you assume you must act and feel that way to be yourself.

Part of learning to love your work is healing from that static sense of a masked self and embracing your changing nature.

This is, by the way, is why so many shy or even introverted people become teachers. They understand that who they are in front of students is a choice and one they can learn to enjoy without changing who they are elsewhere in life. It’s not a mask – it’s a different part of themselves.

Change Your Perspective

It will help you to simplify things. SMART goals are helpful for some, but open-ended goals, especially if you have yin energy or are “creative”, will aid you in being happy with things like work.

The final card, You’re Already Doing It, has the wisdom message of “Stop overthinking. Face your true north.” It seems like you have a lot of productivity and emotional overhead that is causing you to miss the forest for the trees.

To love work, you need to identify what your life purpose is. Make it open-ended. Instead of having a life purpose like “Publish four books a year and earn one million in royalties as an award-winning science fiction author” a life purpose like “Write science fiction novels” would be better.

Pick an action, or at least an identity action like “Be a science fiction author” and you’ll find that it’ll be easier to fit your life, and your work, in context to that life purpose – even if it’s temporarily unrelated.

By recognizing you’re already pursuing your life purpose in the now and it’s not determined solely by SMART goal achievement, it’ll change things for you everywhere else in life because you’ll make small adjustments in service of that goal.

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