Will Your Side Project Succeed? — Tarot Pick a Card

Hello, my soul friends! I have a free psychic tarot reading today on whether a side project, like a part-time job or a hobby you want to professionalize, will succeed.

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. This is an 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 find out if your side project will succeed.

Pile 1: Frog

You’re Just Starting

Your side project is still in the beginning stages given the Ace of Pentacles card. This is a good sign because it’s the promise of potential, but you still need to form it. Even if you’ve been working on it for a while, it still hasn’t matured. Some things do just take longer.

There’s a lot you still have to learn or master before you can reap the ultimate rewards. However, I do sense an optimism within you that should help carry you forward.

Don’t assume there’s only one path to success with this project. Because you’re still in the beginning stages, it could transform into something you didn’t expect, maybe hoped for, but didn’t expect.

That’s the nature of a new project. You don’t know what you don’t know, and that can be a good thing. But because you don’t know the future yet, trying to force a future when you’re still at the beginning could cause problems down the road.

Hold True

One of the most important things you need to do is moderate your emotional attachment. The second card, Eight of Cups, is a sign that you’re too easily moved by temporary emotional states.

When things are great, you feel amazing. But the moment friction comes around you start to doubt yourself. That’s toxic. There’s always going to be some difficulty in anything, but if you take that sign of friction as evidence you won’t succeed… then you never will.

But it’s hard to tell the difference between friction and a bad fit, so I empathize with you. What you need to do is not attribute total, immediate success as the only condition for a good fit.

As an example, imagine a person who wants to be an author. They write a book and they send it to multiple agents, but they’re all rejected. Someone who is too much in their emotional doubt will take this as a sign to give up.

And if this person didn’t like writing and didn’t like improving their writing, that would be a valid choice. However, if this person does enjoy writing and does like to improve, the ordinary friction of a beginner being told to mature their skills is an expected part of the process. What they need to do isn’t give up, but go back and revise or write a second book.

This goes with your side project. If you enjoy it and you like improving your skills, you’ll eventually succeed. It’s just a matter of adjusting your approach until you find the right one.

Be Judicious With Your Time

Be wary of reputation hunting. The final card, Six of Wands, Reversed, is a sign to temper your preference for outcome over process. There are people with natural talents who can use them in a career. But that doesn’t mean they enjoy what they do for a living.

A good example would be child actors. Some parents will recognize this and push their child to pursue that profession. And while it’s fun to be a celebrity at first, the child actors who don’t actually enjoy acting despite their natural talent eventually become unsatisfied with their lives and unravel.

Don’t assume a natural talent or even a skillset you develop means you’re going to enjoy a side project or hobby as a professional career in the future. It’s important that you nurture talents and skills you actually enjoy rather than just the ones that will make you money or famous. Don’t push yourself too far without knowing the difference,

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Pile 2: Owl

Visualize the Future

This spread is a clear indication that your side project is not going to succeed. But let’s use the cards here to find out why and what you should do about it. Some may want to abandon the project altogether, while others will want to fix it and continue.

The first card is the Ten of Swords. This is about a painful end or even being stabbed in the back. You’re either going through this right now, or you will eventually unless something important changes.

But why has this card appeared? It’s a terminal card meaning an end. Something about your side project lacks growth or it has a natural endpoint. If it lacks growth, you’re going to find that your efforts will not be rewarded if you continue on the same path. If it has a natural end that you’re aware of, you may soon realize that it didn’t end well or you found it unfulfilling.

It’s important to pay attention to the process involved in any project, but sometimes we lose the forest for the trees. One strategy I find that helps is to do a logical future visualization. This is where you reflect on the project and then pair the trajectory with whatever research you can to visualize the likely future.

A lot of businesses do this to make sure their efforts aren’t wasted. But even creatives like authors will do this. Is the book their writing a natural match for an existing genre? If not, they either need to revise it or take a chance that their finished book may not be well-received. Some will happily take that chance even though the odds are low.

But are you? This project seems to have low odds of success. You need to refine your approach.

Be Open to New Information

I do think that you’re thinking too narrowly given the Three of Wands, Reversed card. You’re locked in and focused. This is good in many instances, but I think you’re so locked in that you’ve become stagnant in your creativity.

You aren’t thinking like a problem-solver, which is what creatives do, but someone who is just trying to force an outcome.

An example of this would be a scientist who wants to create a blood diagnosis device. It’s a good idea, but she’s so invested in that idea and forcing it into being that she ignores warning signs that the device isn’t addressing known issues in development. She assumes just pushing ahead through effort alone will result in innovation even though the necessary scientific innovations to facilitate that idea haven’t even been created yet.

Your project requires a series of steps. Each step requires reflection, analysis, adjustment, and even a change of the trajectory. Make sure you aren’t so locked in on your first timeline that you ignore the timeline your side project actually exists on instead.

Don’t Just Plan, Have a Strategy

Part of your problem is a lack of strategy with the Seven of Swords, Reversed. People make the mistake that their initial business plan is a strategy. That’s just a plan, and you need that, but it’s more like a wish list or a short-term to do list.

A strategy is flexible and reactive. It’s a living document or philosophy rather than a stagnant plan. Starbucks is a good example. Their business plan is to open a specific number of stores every few years and offer specific products.

But their business strategy is to create a third place for people to hang out. The more time they spend there, the more money they earn. Initially, this third place was morning or lunch socialization centered around work and school.

Yet when remote work came around, the third place became an office. People would take their laptops there to work while they had their coffee. Novelists also love to write their books there. Coffee shop writing is essentially an identity marker for a lot of writers now.

Think of strategy as an identity that evolves in reaction to current culture. How does your side project react to new things in the world? That’s how you make a strategy. It’s a philosophy, not a to do list.

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Pile 3: Monkey

Use Rest Strategically

You have a very good spread for success, but it’s going to come about in an unexpected way. The first card, Four of Swords, is about rest. This could mean that your side project works best when you use it as a restorative practice: a hobby, basically.

That doesn’t mean you can’t professionalize it, but it does mean they you need to lower your expectations and work more in flow.

This is because there’s a lot of divine inspiration involved through muses or intuition. You work best when you feel intuitively driven through your current and future steps. You don’t want to feel as if you’re doing normal work. It needs to be divinely important.

And that happens either when you’re having fun, in the zone, or doing something that feels as if it matters. So it becomes restorative.

That doesn’t mean you don’t get tired after it, but that it’s a tired that fills your soul with peace and contentment.

It Gets Even Better

Your next card, The Empress, is about a bountiful manifestation. So yeah, you’re going to be successful, but I think it’s important to note that this success can continue on.

Some who chose this pile may only want to pursue their side project in the short-term. And that’s okay. But you need to know that this project can grow to a bigger success and take up more of your time if you would like it to.

That’s because you have so many ideas to make it even better or to expand your side project into a full-fledged business or lifestyle. For those who are retired, this would be like starting a painting hobby and realizing you can spend most of your day doing it happily and really enjoying the portfolio you make.

And herein lies the lesson of your spread: you’ve discovered something in this side project that is really good for you. Even if it doesn’t take the exact same form, something about it should continue on and take over the rest of your life.

Example: let’s say someone does a side project where they deliver groceries. They’re good at it or they really enjoy it, but they don’t want to deliver groceries forever. They analyze why they like it and realize they enjoy making life easier for people who can’t go to the store. So perhaps they decide to start a meal prep business and deliver meals to people each week.

There’s so much here that you need to look at because it promises a lot of happiness for you.

Let Yourself Be Unique

Your final card is The Sun. This is a card of happiness, but also creativity. You need to engage your creativity if it hasn’t already been engaged with the side project. This goes back to the grocery delivery example.

Analyze why this side project is working. Generally speaking, capitalism works best when you identify a problem (or invent a desire) and provide a solution. The reason your side project succeeds is that it’s solving someone’s problem.

You can use your creativity to shift that solution to be in a form you really like and helps you to express yourself. That grocery delivery person might realize they can meal prep a specific cuisine they love cooking. Or the retired painter might realize that they solved their own problem of boredom and lack of meaning by creating tangible artwork that never existed before.

The reason your side project will succeed is that it’s inherently good for the world. Now you just need to personalize it.

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