Make Your Career Fulfilling — Tarot Pick a Card

Hello, my soul friends! I have a psychic tarot reading today on how you can make your current career more fulfilling. You can also use this for a future career you haven’t entered yet.

To receive your message from the universe, 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 Mystic Mondays Tarot deck. The pile images come from a Refustar sticker pack. These are affiliate links, and they help support me if you choose to 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 what you need to make your career more fulfilling.

Pile 1: Stars

Weighing the Cost

There’s something difficult about your career path you need to accept that you haven’t yet. The Five of Cups is an indication that you’re not happy with some aspect, but it’s not like your career is a complete loss.

I don’t see a particular difficulty in your spread so it’s likely different for everyone who chose the pile. What comes to mind is that it may not pay enough, the people are terrible, or some other disappointing reality.

Even so, the reason you chose this career or some other benefit makes it clear that this career is one worthy of keeping. But you have to accept the poison pill that comes with it.

Doctors have to go in hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and spend many years in school just to work sixty hours a week for the majority of their youth. But something about that path tends to be worth it for them – the prestige, the challenge, the wealth, or maybe just helping people.

This is the dilemma you’re facing and why you haven’t felt fulfillment yet.

Your Intuition Was Right All Along

With The High Priestess, it’s clear that you know the truth and what you want when it comes to staying or leaving your current career. But you’re waffling – you want someone else to tell you that the difficulties you’re experiencing will go away.

But, truthfully, you know that’s not the case. Yet you persist in this dream. No doubt because you’re used to hearing a career you’re fulfilled by should be one where you feel exhilaration most of the time.

There are careers like that, but not everything meaningful and fulfilling is like that.

What you’re seeing in your career and the difficulties that you’ll face are exactly that. There’s good and there’s evil in every profession. The universe wants you to know this isn’t going to change. You need to accept your evaluation of that is accurate. Both the good and the bad.

Know Yourself First

You’re going to make the best choice for yourself, given the Justice card, but that choice will be in the context of higher good. Now before you think that means you should sacrifice yourself and pursue a career purely for other people, let’s go back to the doctor example.

It’s true that doctors help a lot of people. And if you managed to graduate a medical program, then you’re have the raw skills to do so. But sometimes a doctor develops a disability or discovers that some aspect of the career is too difficult for them. Maybe it takes away from their family time, perhaps they’ve developed depression, or maybe they didn’t realize that just because they can do the job, doesn’t mean it’s the best job they can do with their current skillsets.

When you evaluate your career path in determining whether or not it’s fulfilling, you need to ask yourself if you’re motivated to continue for personal reasons. If you don’t have personal reasons, than the higher level reasons won’t satisfy you either – since you could do good elsewhere.

Some who chose this pile are going to stay in their career because they now know, that despite the difficulties, it’s a match. But others who chose this pile – take this reading as permission to change your mind.

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Pile 2: Wizard

Look at the Whole Picture

You’re not feeling inspired in your career, yet you’re putting in a solid effort. The Ace of Wands, Reversed indicates that this could be temporary given the other cards. It’s normal to have down periods in any career and it’s rarely a good idea to make huge decisions that change the path when that occurs.

But let’s dig deeper. For you to feel fulfilled in your career, you need to have that spark again. What is a spark? It’s feeling as if you’re living out your purpose by pursuing that career.

It’s possible that what you’re dealing with right now is being out of alignment, but you need to consider if that feeling comes from a certain place. An artist isn’t going to feel aligned when they’re doing their accounting or marketing to find new customers. Nor will an artist feel great about their job if they take on a client and really hate what they’re being asked to do. But that doesn’t mean they’re in the wrong profession.

Never assume what you’re feeling in the moment is automatically the continuous pattern. For that reason, you should develop a practice of memorial introspection. In simpler terms, this is meditating on the past or keeping a record to look back on objectively (like a journal).

If the career really isn’t aligned, then your introspection will reveal that in a continuous pattern of misaligned moments. But if it is aligned, then what you’re feeling now is aberration, not the norm.

An Exercise to Try

Every career has different parts. It’s important to weigh the parts to determine what you evaluate for alignment. The Queen of Swords indicates you have the ability to do this on your own. There are a lot of ways to structure this, but here’s a suggestion to get you started.

Write down everything you need to do in your career however often or infrequent. Now I want you to divide a piece of paper into three sections: what you love doing, what you don’t mind doing, and what you hate doing.

Not everyone who finds their job worthwhile will have a long list of what they love, but when they look at their lists, they should be able to say that what they enjoy the most overshadows what they dislike. Some of you may only have one or two things you love and a long list of what you hate – but still what you love overshadows what you hate.

Is that the case for you? I suspect it is for most, but let’s get into the last card of your spread.

Facing Reality

We idolize certain careers. The Six of Cups suggests you look at this career with rose-colored glasses. You hope it’s everything you dream it to be. It’s why you’ve stayed interested in your career for so long – you want to forget the things that bother you.

But sometimes, the rosy picture obscures reality. Many people become teachers because they want to change the world, only to realize the bureaucratic nightmare of schools and the poor behavior they must deal with students. Instead of content mastery, what truly defines a good teacher these days is discipline management.

I think you may be describing and envisioning this career with a fantasy that may not be the total truth. So even when you wrote down your lists, you may have written things you enjoy that you wished could happen to you.

If that’s the case – it’s time to go back to your list and only write down what you actually experience. Not what you hope to experience.

Most of this pile will still find their career fulfilling, but if you just realized you’re stuck with rose-colored glasses, it’s time to free yourself from the daydream and either accept your career as is or examine what you do enjoy on your list and try to find it elsewhere in a different profession.

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Pile 3: Bottles

Shift Your Thinking

To have career fulfillment right now, you need to restructure it in a yin way. The Empress is a feminine card meaning gestation, abundance, and receptivity. That’s very different from a more masculine yang energy.

This isn’t a time to work really hard on a project or to even start something new.

A good analogy of this in action would be creatives. Did you know that when you start something and leave it unfinished it creates a cognitive loop in your mind? You can’t help but to keep thinking about it.

For creatives or anyone doing something that requires a lot of thought, this can be really helpful. The time in-between work sessions allows your brain to restructure ideas and make it better. This is also kind of what ADHD procrastinators are doing when they’re productive, but last minute productive. It’s not that they aren’t working on the idea in their mind. It’s that they need to think about it a lot first.

That’s what fulfillment in your career needs right now – thinking time. And to do that, you need to reorient your approach to be more receptive.

Get Cozy

One of the best ways to increase your productivity is to change your environment. So when I see The Hierophant as the second card in this spread, that’s what is called for to increase your career fulfillment.

What can you do to improve your environment? This can be as simple as decorating your cubicle or getting new work clothes you enjoy wearing. But it can also be more involved, like making a lateral move from your current job to one just like it – but in a better environment. Perhaps to be around new people or in a more pleasing environment, like the beach.

Take some time to meditate on the question “What do I need to feel comfortable at work?” and then make some changes.

On this card we see the pyramids and that evokes Egypt. Those who studied Ancient Egypt noticed their mythology was more focused on cycles and was somewhat more optimistic than other fertile crescent societies. They believe this is due to the environment that led to more predictable flood patterns and a geography that reduced the chance of invasion.

Environment can dramatically later your perception of the world – and your fulfillment at work.

Never Go Too Far

The final card in your spread today is the King of Swords, Reversed. I see this as the temporary rejection of ambition.

One of the problems with focusing on what’s next is that you don’t appreciate what you have now. It also tends to lead to the Peter Principle: which is when people are promoted beyond their ability.

That’s not to say you can’t do better, but you need to focus on the now and consider whether the future you hope for yourself is based on what you want or what you think you’re supposed to do next. Many a professional have been happy in this position and then promoted to management only to discover they hate managing people instead of doing the content mastery of their profession.

Consider what lifestyle you want and ask yourself if doing more, getting promoted, or even starting a business would facilitate that.

I often see this in creatives. They love creating, but it’s not just about the act of creating itself. Some artists are happy to take commissions because the physical act of creating is what they enjoy. But other artists have a vision, so if they’re forced to create art for other people, they’ll just be unhappy.

It’s time to ask yourself if you’ve ever really considered if the future you have planned for yourself is actually one you would enjoy. If not, it might be time to make some changes. And that change might just to be persisting with what you’re currently doing instead of working towards something you don’t actually want in the future.

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