Your Life Story: Tarot Pick a Card

Hello, my soul friends! Today I have a psychic tarot reading on a narrative in your life. All good stories have a conflict the protagonist has to overcome and we’re going to find out what yours is.

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 the Muse Tarot deck (affiliated link). Remember that you have free will. That means you can manifest the positive and avoid the negative of any reading.

Now let’s read your life story.

Pile 1: Panda

Yang Out of Alignment

I see an oppressive force that has sabotaged your progress. Because of the masculine and feminine energies in this spread, I interpret this to originate from your parents or your personal identity imbalance.

Your first card, The Emperor, Reversed, suggests that the masculine energy present in your life was oppressive or not functional in some way. This meant you either didn’t feel adequately protected or that you felt unfair pressures.

If this was a father figure, then you likely felt as if they failed you in some way. However, some of you who chose this pile may feel as if you failed them in some way. You shouldn’t think this: there’s a conspiratorial element here against a child.

Don’t assume this only means abuse. Helicopter or laissez-faire parents may have generally good and loving relationships with their children, but when directed towards adult independence, it can leave much to be desired.

What if this is about your personal identity imbalance? This then suggests that you aren’t in healthy alignment with masculine or yang energy. Embracing that will help set things right for you and allow you to pursue what you desire.

I feel at least a lingering effect of this past on your life now. It may be why you sometimes struggle to succeed because your psychological framework has been compromised.

Yin Out of Alignment

I’m going to talk about the third card before the second. The Empress, Reversed card indicates either a faulty mother figure or being out of alignment with feminine energy.

Much of the same issues I talked about before apply, but I’ll address the nuance. A mother figure needs to show nurturing care, but not by smothering the child. Without this, you were likely to feel as if you had no one to emotionally rely on.

Children rarely feel the need for a protective figure in adulthood or a direct role model such as the case of father figures, but even adult children hope to have the nurturing emotional support of their mother. It becomes much harder to feel connected to your family, even those who aren’t a mother figure, because of the linking bonds maternal figures tend to forge between individuals.

What about if you feel an imbalance of feminine energy? This indicates that you struggle to gestate ideas or projects. You may also feel disconnected from emotional attachments or self-care.

How to Make Progress

The second card brings these two together. Eight of Inspiration, Reversed shows that there’s an obstacle to your life progress and this is likely something you felt acutely in the past or something you continue to feel now.

Your faulty upbringing or identity imbalance makes it difficult to feel confident in making decisions and pursuing opportunities. You may be afraid to commit to anything, even a simple to-do list, because you have no foundational belief that success is within your grasp.

While you can’t erase the past, you can foster these same energies now. Do a journaling or mindfulness activity about your connection to masculine and feminine energies. Are you comfortable with how you express them? What toxic traits of both are you falling victim to?

Identify three things you can do for each which are healthy and interesting. Perhaps it’s lifting weights for masculine energy or having a spa day for feminine energy. Or even accepting your ambition at work as appropriate or your desire to hug a friend to feel close to them.

The point is to get comfortable with expressions of both in whatever way you like best. Once you do that, your archetypal realization of both energies will be healthier and able to support your progress again.

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Pile 2: Unicorn

Don’t Let Things Get Too Complex

You’ve had some misfortune in your past. This caused you to lose confidence in yourself and not pursue what was your higher purpose.

I don’t necessarily see any indication this is still true, but even if it’s not, it likely left a scar on you that needs to be adequately understood so you won’t lose faith in yourself in the future when things get difficult.

Your first card, Strength, Reversed, means that you weren’t in a good position. This likely caused you to feel powerless in the face of uncertainty and that chaos was all around you.

The way to push through this is to simplify your life as much as possible so you can focus on what you do have control over. When you encounter future problems, ask how you can prioritize the most important things to you.

It may be necessary to pause some things in the meantime. You can always go back to them later when things have calmed down. It’s not always possible for anyone to be at 100% all of the time. Interruptions exist and need to be tended to.

Manifest Little Projects

With the Ace of Voices, Reversed card, I think you may feel as if you don’t have a voice or the ability to start new things. The scar I previously talked about may manifest as a lack of confidence in your ideas.

Consider creating models or proofs of concept before pursuing or abandoning an idea. Writers, for example, may choose to write a few chapters from a book before they scrap an idea. An aspiring business owner may create a few candles and sell them on Etsy before thinking it’s impossible to work for themselves.

Sometimes your ideas will be failures, but never assume so until you have a proof of concept first. This will allow you to brainstorm and manifest your ideas in the real world. You’re not fully accepting right now that your ideas can be good ones. You shoot yourself down too early.

You may also want to do multiple proofs of concept. The writer may do multiple drafts of those chapters approaching the story from entirely different angles whereas the candle maker might try different designs instead of just selling one.

The first iteration of something is rarely a success, so let your ideas take shape in multiple ways before you abandon them entirely.

Your Past Can Be an Advantage

The misfortune you’ve faced put you off course of your destiny. The Star, Reversed suggests this misalignment of higher purpose could have placed you in difficult circumstances that make it tricky to change course. You may even know what you should be doing right now, but fear it’s forever out of your grasp.

As an example: perhaps you went to college for art, but discovered a love for economics. However, those years in art school and all the debt you incurred make it difficult for you to change careers. You may also not be confident in your math ability. Is your dream dead?

Nope.

Instead, see your initial misalignment as an opportunity. Perhaps you could create instructional comics on economics or illustrate videos. That way you can still study economics and combine your previous experience. If you get to the point of being financially comfortable, you can always go back to school and become a formal economist.

But who knows: you may want to integrate your whole self, including the part that went off track, into the future you.

The point is that you choose to let your previous experience out of alignment with your higher purpose give you an edge and make you distinct from others who pursue similar paths.

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Pile 3: Lion

Deus Ex Machina

You either have a villain in your story or you’ve hurt yourself in the past. The good news is that your spread indicates that you’re already in the process of growth or you’ve defeated this villain.

Your first card, The Devil, is either about an evil threat or bad behavior on your part. If it’s an evil threat, it could be a person or an environmental threat like war. I also sense that this evil threat could be an interloper who tries to put a wedge between you and someone else.

Because this card is associated with the Genesis story that means that some divine figure or person sent by the universe will intervene to save you (this was the promise of God in Genesis)

Similarly, those who feel this card references their own bad habits will also have that same saving grace. So even if you ultimately feel responsible for the misfortune in your past, the universe will intervene to turn things around for you even though you may not feel you deserve it.

A Just Struggle

The second card in your spread, Five of Inspiration, is one of productive conflict. It’s very hot and passionate, so when paired with the devil I do expect you’ll wrestle with your demons before those demons are overcome.

But, at the same time, I think you’re going to enjoy the journey out of that temptation. That’s because you’ll have a reason for hope and will gradually see things get better.

I do want to say that if you’ve already overcome the evil threat or bad behavior in the past, the universe will do what it can to make sure you don’t fall to it a second time. This doesn’t give you an excuse to give up or slip up, but it should comfort you to know that the universe has your back.

Also, notice the mirrors on this card. Even in the case of the evil threat being someone other than you, I think its negative effect likely warped your mind. Because of that, you may have traits or quirks you don’t like about yourself.

The journey away from The Devil card is also about looking within and eradicating the parts of you that you don’t like.

Know Yourself

Your final card is the Page of Emotions. This is a very positive card and one of its meanings is surprise. There’s intense novelty and even a bit of strangeness when it comes to what this card represents.

The universe is going to rework you and set you on a positive path, but this path is going to be full of twists and turns. What you expect for yourself is likely not the full revelation meant for you.

Be prepared for curiosities to tempt you in a positive direction. These temptations are not temptations of evil, but those towards something higher and more innocent.

One way to determine whether your interest in something is in alignment with what’s good is to have a clear idea of your values. Traditional religions and cultures help you figure this out, but even within a more regimented framework, there’s space for individuality.

Values alone are not just morality, but preference. When you go against your preference, that’s a personal evil against you. You have a higher purpose, not just any purpose.

For example: it’s wrong to become a thief, but there’s no moral distinction between being a daycare worker and an architect. However, choosing to become a daycare worker when you’d rather become an architect is an evil against yourself.

Learn the difference so you can integrate morality and preference into your decision-making and increase your happiness and alignment with the universe.

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