Your Career Obstacles — Tarot Pick a Card

Hello, my soul friends! Today I have a psychic tarot reading for those who want to workshop problems in their career or with making money. You can also use this for hobbies or a personal passion.

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 Dark Mirror 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 it’s time to find out what career obstacles you’ll overcome.

Pile 1: Jug

Obsession

I see a lot of assertiveness in your spread that has turned to aggression in a negative sense. The reason this has taken place is Obsession. Now, I’m someone who works very well when I’m enraged (unfortunately I’m almost never angry), but I do tend to be single-focused and I’ve seen this in every person who becomes aggressive with work.

Right now, it seems as if your deep and sincere desire to succeed has caused you to latch onto something. Perhaps it’s your career itself or to a particular thing in your career.

Sometimes, that single-focused determination is useful, but right now, it seems as if you’re circling the drain. You need to do something new or different, but you’re stuck repeating the same things again and again long after your approach stopped being effective.

You’re losing necessary perspective and originality. It’s time to pull back and forcibly commit yourself to something new, whether it’s a different approach, project, or job itself.

Aggression makes it difficult for you to see the nuances of a situation. And you’re at the point where nuances are important. Note aggression takes different forms for different people. Some shout and scream, and others silently seethe or feel agitated which causes them to act assertively.

Sacrifice

With your obsession comes a tendency to Sacrifice. But since your current obsession is no longer providing the returns you need it to, then your sacrifice is in vain.

There’s some good news in this revelation though. What you’re disappointed that you’re giving up is not actually something you should be giving up right now. If you don’t know how to do something new in your career, go ahead and give yourself some of what you previously sacrificed.

That will heal your soul, but perhaps whatever you sacrificed is the source of the new perspective you need to succeed.

Anger and Chains

Now I’m one of the rare people who thinks anger is useful for productivity, but since I know how to use it well, I also know what it means to use it incorrectly.

The last card in your spread, Anger and Chains, is an indication that you’re trapping yourself in unhealthy patterns.

The real reason why anger is helpful for productivity is that it increases assertiveness in individuals who lack it. But not every problem needs assertiveness to solve. More introverted tasks or creative tasks often manifest better if you’re in a higher vibrational state (happiness essentially).

It might be helpful to play a competitive sport or game. You could also try acting out emotions (privately in your own home if you’re shy). This will help you to cycle through different moods such as anger and contentment.

Once you truly know how you feel about both and how to initiate them artificially, you’ll be able to turn them on and off depending on your needs. That’s especially helpful if you’re obsessed with something and need to tamper your drive and rest. Or, on the flipside, if you’re feeling taken advantage of and need anger to drive you to be assertive.

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Pile 2: Plant

Envious Gluttony

The truth is humans are jealous creatures who can never be satiated when they compare themselves to others. Your first card, Envious Gluttony, suggests you’re witnessing someone else succeed in your career and you want that.

First, know that it isn’t a bad thing to want to succeed. Humans evolved to survive, and survival is about doing things well, so you’re always going to compare yourself to others so you can see what’s possible.

The reason this is a career obstacle for you right now is that you aren’t being objective when comparing yourself to others and it’s causing antisocial behavior. This is causing you to attribute other people having perspectives and opinions about you based on your success.

You need to not only succeed, but you need to succeed more than anyone else has before to justify your success. Everyone needs to look at you and tremble. See how that’s antisocial?

But more than one person can succeed at a time. Instead of trying to take all the success that is available in your career, focus on making your own success.

Artificial Heart

When you’re so focused on taking success, you’re going to aim for things that don’t matter to you. This will cause you to have an Artificial Heart. It’s true that doing something and being competent can usually result in you liking the thing – but not always. And I think that’s happening here.

Something when it comes to your career you’re unhappy with no matter how good you get. For some it could be your career itself, perhaps the office you’re working in, or a project you’re on. Don’t make any hasty decisions to drop something until you know which of the three it is.

To understand that, you need to wake a real heart within you and that’s something which can be done through reflection. Meditation, journaling, talking through it with someone – all these reflective activities will work.

You can do it at the end of each day, once a month, whenever you finish something – it doesn’t matter. The point is that you reflect and remember your reflection so you can take those realizations into your work activities in the future. It’ll help you to change your behavior and live out the career you actually want for yourself.

Hiding Your True Self

Remember how I said there’s some element of anti-social behavior in your actions? That can manifest as physical or social aggression, but it can also take the form of a mask. The last card, Hiding Your True Self is exactly how it appears.

Some masks make sense: an introverted teacher will pretend to be more extroverted with students. But others, like a teacher who pretends to be a quirky scientist instead of the scientist that just loves to do experiments because it’s cool, don’t make sense.

Your personality is special. Sometimes it’s not as “high class” or stereotypical for your career, but it does give you an edge and it helps you live out the right behaviors to be happy in your career.

The teacher who pretends to be a quirky scientist is more likely to put on an act of a weird genius in front of their students instead of doing what they’d really like: science experiments. Maybe they’ll look less serious and more interested in explosions, but it works.

Your personality isn’t an accident. Some part of it led you to the career you want to have. Embrace that.

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Pile 3: Backpack

The Child I Was Meant to Be

When you’re a kid, you have a limited understanding of the possible jobs there are in the world. You also have limited opportunities to explore your interests.

That’s why the first card, The Child I Was Meant to Be, is an obstacle. You’ve made the assumption that child you could make a better career decision than present adult you. Pretty silly, right?

But let’s workshop this. Imagine two artists whose life purpose is to make art. The first artist loves to make money from their artwork. As a child, they liked selling their artwork to other students. So it would be no surprise for that same child to want to do it as an adult.

However, the second artist loves to make art that means something. But they also became skilled in math. It may seem like the best career for them is to be a professional artist, perhaps with their own business, but that same person might be happier with a secure day job and pursue their art as an evening passion. They have no customers to limit their self-expression when art is a hobby.

There’s a kernel of truth in your desires as a child, but I think you’re trying to match child you too closely and that’s causing you to pursue a career that is not currently optimal for your success or happiness.

Know that whatever you wanted to be as a kid will manifest somehow – but probably not exactly as you expected when you were a child.

Calling the Storm

When I saw this card, Calling the Storm, I thought of procrastination. Some people work best under pressure or they think they work best under pressure. You’re probably the latter.

You want urgency to compel you to action so you’ll either leave things to the last minute or allow some element of chaos into your work life. For the non-procrastinators, this would be someone who changes their job a lot or takes on too much work even if they get it done on time.

I believe you’re courting disaster because you assume the desire to avoid impeding disaster will help you succeed. But I think it’s just stressing you out and leaving you no room to pivot.

It’s okay to have urgency, but not emergency. If you don’t like to start writing an essay until the last minute, okay, but try writing it a few hours earlier at least.

You don’t have to change your entire approach overnight, but try to loosen up the pressure a little. It’ll give you more room to relax and an option to change your mind if you get halfway into something and realize you’ve done it wrong.

Fragmentation

The last card in your spread is Fragmentation. The first two cards aren’t related, which is somewhat unusual for my readings as I can’t help but think and pull cards on a main theme.

That you have two obstacles show up with this third card tells me you compartmentalize. That’s not always bad, but sometimes, fragmenting yourself too much can cause problems. All your interests is taking up too much mental bandwidth.

I think you’re spreading yourself too thin and not seeing the option for synthesis.

For example, someone whose career is to write may also have a hobby to play video games. But because they view it as a separate identity from their main identity, they’ll tend to attribute unrelated goals to it (like finish 24 games per year).

To synthesize that separate part of themselves, they could limit it to 12-18 games and then write a review on each using their writer identity. Psychologically, this helps unite the different fragments of your identity.

What you do will depend on the different parts of yourselves, but I think uniting more aspects of who you are into a single identity will help you to be successful in ways you haven’t considered yet.

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