Make This Career Change — Tarot Pick a Card

If you have a job or passionate hobby, the universe thinks there’s something you need to change to make it so much better.

To find out what 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 used the Queen of the Moon Oracle deck. This is affiliate link, and it helps support me if you love this deck and want to buy it for yourself too.

Remember that you have free will. That means you can manifest the positive and avoid the negative of any reading.

Now it’s time to make a career change!

Pile 1: Squirrel

Something In Your Way

There’s someone or something in your career that’s giving you Resistance. That word is important here when defined because you’re wanting to achieve something in your career, but there’s an obstacle.

Now the rest of your spread isn’t super negative, meaning this resistance could be ignorance or malevolence. The point is, the feeling you have that you’re being blocked and unable to do more is accurate.

And that blockage isn’t because you don’t have the ability to succeed, but that something is standing in your way. So the goal isn’t to get better at your job, wait things out, or change what you’re doing, but to get rid of the obstacle.

The Past Isn’t Wasted

What I find especially interesting in your spread is that the obstacle isn’t clarified, so it could be different for everyone who chose this pile and the essence of how to tackle it is what we’re trying to pick at.

In particular, a strategy you need to consider is Gratitude. Resistance, even when it’s annoying, isn’t universally negative. In fact, it can push you to refine what you’re doing or redirect your attention. The point is that it’s instructive even when it’s painful. Not all negative things are like that, but in this case, your struggle has been productive.

Without this resistance, you wouldn’t have gained the skills, desire, and perception you needed to succeed in your career.

You’ve heard of the practice of gratitude before, and you should do it. But the point of gratitude isn’t to be grateful for your suffering and rewrite your entire life to be a fantasy. Instead, it’s about noticing the little (or big things) that have lifted you up or will help you in the future.

For example, someone who is at a terrible job may recognize over those long months that they’ve learned what sort of boss to avoid and how to work with difficult people. Collecting that evidence of gratitude helps them shape their future to be more beneficial.

So everything you’ve encountered in the resistance has also offered something to be grateful for either in blessing or instruction. Take some time to consider it because those lessons will shape your future success.

Advocate For Your Own Path

But you’re no longer meant to persevere in a state of resistance. The final card, Sovereignty, is a sign you need to move on and seek independence and autonomy. There are no longer any lessons to be gained from the resistance you’re experiencing. Now you need to make a clean break.

However, I sense that you’re uncertain of your ability to be a leader in your life. You may feel trapped in your current circumstances or that you don’t know enough to succeed.

Consider all the leaders you’ve had in your life. Were they all super skilled? No! But the people or group they were leading didn’t implode. That’s because there’s a certain level of breathing room. You don’t need perfection to succeed. And honestly? You have enough raw skills in your career to succeed on your own.

That means you can be self-employed, be trusted to do projects independently without as much oversight, or even become a leader yourself. You’ll improve your skills over time through lived experience. So it’s time to get started.

Do you want specific insight on what’s resisting you or a game plan for how to become independent? If so, you can book a detailed video private tarot reading with me to find out more.

Pile 2: Elephant

Be Aware

This is a warning from the universe. The first card, Change, indicates that a decision you’re about to make or, if you don’t make decisions in your workplace, a change that will be made for you… is not right.

But why do people make changes? That’s an important lesson to consider when it comes to your spread so you can avoid the warning the universe is sending your way.

Changes in career normally come as a reaction to something, someone seeking novelty, or someone trying to scale using the wrong approach for their business.

However, your current career situation is best left unchanged. That doesn’t mean you can’t make a lateral movement (changing your team or workplace), but changing the essence of your career will cause lower earnings, a bad workplace environment, or even unemployment.

What to Notice

Now this spread isn’t designed to scare you, but to help you avoid that future and you can definitely do that. The second card, The Path, is a sign that if you made this bad change, you’ll lock in.

The phenomena that causes this is sunk cost fallacy. You’ll invest time, effort, or resources into the change being made and be too afraid to go back to what worked previously. You’ll hope that it’ll get better over time… but it won’t. Some changes don’t have a path that leads to a reward no matter how much effort you put into it.

So what I want you to be hyperaware of is when the direction you start going in doesn’t give a return. You should never expect an overnight return on your investment, but if it’s been some time down a specific path of change and you’re not seeing the outcome you wanted… revert back to the beginning.

You may be able to make another change then, but you need to be aware that something you’re considering or being considered for you on the horizon will have a negative outcome.

Educate Yourself

Part of what’s involved is short-sighted and survivalist thinking. Just because something works for other people doesn’t mean it’s going to work for you. The final card in your spread, Darkness, is a sign that the bad path doesn’t align with your desired future.

It may be a lack of income, but it could also be a misalignment of values. Don’t just consider whether something is profitable, but if the process is enjoyable enough or if the outcome is actually what you expected.

Right now, there seems to be a shadow. What you expect is not what’s going to happen: that means you can’t work under the assumption your fantasy will manifest just because you want it to.

This reminds me of teaching. A lot of people get into the profession because they assume they’ll spend all their time inspiring students and imparting their knowledge. But when teaching children, a lot of what you’re doing is behavior management. And if you teach adults, you spend a lot of time grading and looking at the same detailed answers again and again and again.

Those who do best in these professions are those who enjoy redirecting student behavior and guiding students towards base level content knowledge.

So consider if the path you’ll go down actually matches your vision. You may need to ask people who are in that path already what it’s really like.

Want to know what to do next after avoiding the bad change? If so, you can book a detailed video private tarot reading with me to find out more.

Pile 3: Cat

Commit Yourself

You need to take Action and wait for a return on your career investment. Not everything that’s worth doing has an immediate return. Not everything that’s profitable pays you back right away.

So the change you need to make is having faith in a necessary action you’re about to take… and not stopping midway or changing course after making that commitment.

This will require some level of trust in the process. When I draw, I get really frustrated in the beginning stages. What I want to make isn’t anything close to the initial sketch. I have to build the art in layers. And sometimes, I just don’t have the skill to create the specific art I have in mind.

Which means I must commit to finishing the piece and taking away the lesson from that sketch so I can make a better drawing next time.

The lesson you need to learn is finishing what you start. You can make a new version of your project in the future, but you have to see things through now.

Teach Yourself Through Stages

The second card is The Void. You’re suffering from perfectionist tendencies. But perfectionist skill comes through expertise, not effort.

Going back to the art analogy, art teachers have discovered that having students work on multiple pieces throughout the year will result in a better final project than just assigning one project that a student spends all semester on.

Even if they started over, they probably didn’t learn new skills to apply to their art. So it’s not just about starting over… it’s about having a diverse set of skills that you can apply in new ways. It’s about seeing and understanding at a more advanced level.

This is, by the way, why starting fresh hasn’t helped you in the past. You’ve been assuming that starting over will help you to do the same things in a more perfect way. But that’s the fallacy you’re being misguided by.

You have to be comfortable to wait through the process and collect data. What worked? What didn’t work?

Humble Yourself By Doing Something Different

Recently, I’ve changed the way I’ve sketched. Before, I tried to build the sketch with basic shapes. But everyone’s mind and circumstances are different and it’s why artists have different styles.

The Unexpected card here is a sign that the standard method you’ve been applying to your career isn’t working. But seeing your current project or phase to the end will introduce a eureka moment from the data you collect that will cause you to change your approach.

In art, I struggle with proportions. By approaching a sketch by outlining and dividing the negative and positive space, I can then go into the outline and divide it by geometric shapes. This means I use loose, sweeping gestures rather than tight, small gestures. It’s less rigid and mechanical. It’s also not how you’re taught to draw in most basic art lessons (remember drawing boxes and spheres?).

You need to experiment after your current project or pursue more education so you know how to approach your career differently. This professional development could be more school or self-study.

But there’s something you don’t know, and you aren’t aware of that misunderstanding because you keep trying to start over. Finish your current project or phase and then look at the whole with a critical eye. If you can’t see the unexpected yourself, ask a coworker, manager, mentor, or friend.

But be prepared to be surprised.

Want to know more about your blind spot in your career? If so, you can book a detailed video private tarot reading with me to find out more.