Improve Work-Life Balance — Tarot Pick a Card

Hello, my soul friends! Today I have a psychic tarot reading on how to improve your work-life balance. You deserve to be happy and financially at ease.

All you have to do is follow your intuition and pick the pile that sticks out to you the most.

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

For this reading, I’ve chosen my favorite deck for career readings, the Mystic Mondays Tarot (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 make your work-life situation better.

Pile 1: Duck

Overview

It seems like you need a long-term strategy that reflects the conditions of your environment. However, you should also be willing to start something new in the process that you’re excited about.

Ten of Pentacles

When it comes to work, you’ll do best either in a career you’re passionate about or with something you can pass down to someone like family or a person you’re mentoring due to the Ten of Pentacles card.

That’s because you’ll be happiest if you can build something that lasts. You want to make a mark on the world.

Because of that, you might be surprised when I tell you work-life balance is somewhat of a myth to you. That’s because your goal is to have a “job” or personal mission that becomes the main focal point of your life. So either a job you really love or a job that you believe must be done by you. It’s something you would be energized and not drained by.

This card in your spread is the kind of energy you’d find in a family business, a creative field, or someone who’s a visionary in their industry. You’re not meant to be a cog in the machine.

There’s quite a bit of responsibility here because you aren’t just working for yourself. You’re creating a mark on the world and you’ll have a greater consequence than you can feel in the immediate timeframe.

The World

There’s a strong, materialistic thread in your pile with The World card. I read it two ways here and both apply to you.

The first is that you need to appreciate the conditions of your environment. For example, someone may have a day job to pay the bills but then use their free time to paint. Technically they have no work-life balance, but an artist might be fulfilled by that lifestyle.

Understand that you need to fulfill your material obligations first and then fill in your passions second. Being poor is not a sin, but it often results in unhappiness. There’s a reason why so many starving artists are depressed. You won’t be happy unless you can pay your bills and live in comfort.

So you need to decide on whether or not you can realistically pursue your passion as a student or full-time job within the next five years. If yes, it’s okay to make some financial sacrifices with the intent of reaping the rewards later.

But if not, perhaps because there isn’t a huge economic demand for your passion or you have serious financial needs, consider separating your passion from your day job. At least for now.

Your passion will fulfill you on the side, but only if your needs are being met first.

Princess of Pentacles

Don’t give up on your dreams. Although there’s a lot of practicality in your spread, the Princess of Pentacles suggests it’s not too late to pursue a passion that’s not well-developed yet.

If you’re younger, this is a green light telling you that you can invest your full-time or part-time energy in making it a long-term part of your life. There’s also a good chance you can become an expert or master in the field if you put in the effort to learn and practice.

If you’re older, you may fear that you won’t have enough time anymore. It takes about ten years or ten thousand hours to become an expert in something. But this common advice on mastery often overshadows the fact that working professionals attain an income at lower levels than this.

This idea came from Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and it studied the deliberate practice of musicians (I believe violinists). At 4,000 hours (four years), one made a competent music teacher and a good musician at 8,000 hours (eight years).

Playing the violin is already very difficult, so depending on what you seek to pursue, you may reach competence and even admirable skill at a faster pace than expected.

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Pile 2: Frog

Overview

To get out of a tense work-life balance situation, you’re going to need to simplify your life and work on mastery. Don’t forget to seek spiritual support in the process.

Eight of Swords

I do see a lot of frustration in your spread. That doesn’t mean you can’t make your life easier, but that it will require a bit more effort or attention.

The first card in your spread, Eight of Swords, suggests willingly limiting yourself. Some of you may do this to simplify your life – you know you can’t do all the things, so you’ll choose to just focus on what’s more important.

Others may have limitations put on them that aren’t required. You may feel trapped, but you aren’t.

Either way, I see a lot more choice when it comes to your work-life balance than you think. I want you to remember this phrase: “Pick your struggle.”

Everybody has some struggles they can handle and others they can’t. I hate physical labor so I avoid it at all costs. But mental labor? I can do that.

You’re going to have stress in your life, but you can pick which stress you’re willing to deal with by focusing on certain things over others.

Seven of Wands

You’re in a good position. It’s not easily defended, but you have what it takes according to the Seven of Wands card.

People are trying to bring you down. It could be coworkers. It could be family. Sometimes this is maliciously intended, but for some of you, it could be a justifiably demanding situation like a baby.

Either way, the reason you can be in a good situation going forward is that you can focus on what you do well. Let’s use an example.

A woman is a working single mother. She’s the breadwinner, and that’s her main specialty in her household. She can take on minor roles like homemaking or childcare, but it can’t be her focal point. She doesn’t keep a perfect cleaning schedule and sometimes she serves quick meals. Her kids go to daycare and public school.

She isn’t an expert at anything but her main focus. Because she saves most of her energy for that, she isn’t as tired when she gets home from work and can spend quality time with her children and relax.

That’s what you need to do: identify your priorities and save most of your energy for that.

Five of Pentacles

You may be in a difficult financial or health situation right now. Some of you may have messy homes. You may feel like you aren’t getting the support you need. And while I can give practical advice about efficiency or delegating, I want to cover another angle.

The Five of Pentacles suggests the lack of support you’re getting isn’t just physical – it’s emotional. There may be good or bad reasons why you aren’t getting this support, but one thing that will help you is spirituality.

One of the reasons why struggling people take comfort in religion is that the divine will be there when people can’t. Having a spiritual practice will get you in touch with that emotional support you’re lacking in life and boost your spirits.

It’ll probably inspire you or even attract good things in your life, but on an emotional level, it will fulfill you in your heart.

So if you don’t have a spiritual practice, work on implementing one, and if you do, make sure you’re incorporating it more into your life or that you’re doing practices that reflect your current needs. Sometimes you need to shake things up a bit.

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Pile 3: Cow

Overview

Do you feel like things aren’t going right or you can’t manifest your goals? It’s time to create a slow and steady plan and let the universe reveal your destiny to you along the way.

Ten of Swords

You’ve reached a natural terminal point when it comes to your career or personal life. The Ten of Swords suggests a hard stop or failure that’s quite disappointing to you.

For some, this indicates misfortune, and for others, it could symbolize immense difficulty you don’t know how to overcome.

The truth is that you can’t keep going in the same direction and manage to have a good work-life balance. There is an end-point here.

That said, the rest of your spread is positive and this card is also a sign of starting over.

No matter what you’ve done in the past, stop believing in the sunk-cost fallacy. This is where a person invests money or effort into something that isn’t providing the expected return. But because they invested in it already, they don’t want to abandon it.

An easy example of this would be watching a movie you hate. Most people, even if they hated the first twenty minutes, will still watch the rest of the movie because they want to finish their effort. Unfortunately, that is time they’ll never get back.

Identify what it is in your life that you aren’t getting a return on anymore and realize you need to let it go.

The Star

The universe is at work in your life with The Star card. There’s a lot of hope and destiny here. Having faith that your future will be as good as you always wanted it to be is important.

It’s possible that your previous actions were somehow out of alignment with your best life. You may have had a justified reason for pursuing the things you did and perhaps even succeeded to some degree.

But you’ve come to a wall now because what was meant for you on that path has already been met. You’ve got from it what you could.

Now I want you to look into your wants (not your have-tos). These are usually informed by your soul and reflect your destiny to some degree.

Journal your life wishlist. Be as fanciful as you want.

Then, analyze what you’re looking at and identify one thing you can pursue in the next three months that will manifest.

Example: a person wants to buy a chateau, but currently makes a low wage as a waiter. What they can do right now is save up for a trip to France or go to thrift stores and buy secondhand goods that remind them of chateaus.

So big goals are fine, but you’re going to contract that big goal into something you can achieve in the short term.

Knight of Pentacles

I don’t think you have the full revelation yet on how to pursue your destiny. Instead of making a detailed plan that you won’t deviate from, use your short-term plan to inform you about your work-life preferences.

For example, that waiter may realize they’re good at restoring old furniture and can refurbish them for sale, funding their seed money to buy a chateau. They may also realize that while they hate their waiter wages, they enjoy the atmosphere of a restaurant and will work towards creating a bed and breakfast in a chateau.

Keep a journal or some sort of record of your revelations as you go about your mini-project. What does it reveal about your work and lifestyle preferences? Once you know that, make adjustments through similar short-term projects until your life better represents what you want.

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