Your Roadblock to Success: Tarot Pick a Card
On the journey of life, there are many obstacles. If you’ve been directed towards this reading, the universe has a message for you on how to overcome one of your personal blocks.
All you have to do is look at the piles of cards above. Which rose stands out to you the most? That’s your pile and that’s your tarot reading!
After you select your cards, scroll down to your pile or choose below.
Today I’m using the Santa Muerte Tarot and the Angel Guide Oracle decks (these are affiliate links that support 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 let’s find out how to break through the roadblock to your success.
Pile 1: Black Rose
Your Beautiful Dreams
Your first card is The Sun. I get the distinct sense from this card and your overall spread that your goals and dreams are so magnificent that it’s overwhelming to even think about. Imagine trying to look into the eye of the sun – it’s not possible. Not without going blind, anyway.
Recently, I heard that vision scientists studied runners to determine how they completed their athletic feats. What they learned is that good runners don’t focus on their environment or even the finish line that they don’t see, but on what’s directly ahead of them. They’re singularly focused.
The reason you have a roadblock to your success is that your dream is blinding you. Not that your dream is a bad thing, but that you need to break it down into mini-goals to make manifesting it more tangible and immediate.
Find Your Energy Match
The second card in your spread is Composure. I get a stoic feeling from this card because of the meditator balancing energy in his two hands.
It’s not going to be easy to break your goals into a step-by-step process and then act, but it can be done.
The meaning of the word composure is that of being calm and in control of yourself. Although you may be tempted to pursue productivity culture, you need to understand the limits that tools and artificial routines can truly achieve.
Don’t plan too far ahead. Instead, having a general sense of your direction and then focusing on the next step right ahead of you is best.
As you do begin to achieve things in life, look at commonalities in your daily living and tweak those into habits that you master. By doing this, you’ll approach getting things done with intentional, calm productivity that matches your natural energy levels.
Someone On Your Side
Your third card is Guardian Angel. There’s a positive, beautiful spirit that’s protecting and guiding you through this particular obstacle.
See how the angel on this card has a stunning, multi-colored halo? Despite the extravagant beauty of this halo, it’s somehow subtle in its effect. I believe that your guardian angel will have a powerful effect on your life, but in ways that will seem almost hidden at the time.
But I do think you can see the angel’s work in your life already, either in the past or right now. Where things are right or starting to fall in place, that’s the quiet composure of this guardian angel.
The woman on the card has her hands in prayer. So I do think your guardian angel wants the best for you and does intercede, but most of their work is through quiet nudges.
Trust your intuition and gut instinct – especially in the quiet moments or when you’re drifting off to sleep. This guardian angel doesn’t shout, but whispers. Rely on them in your time of need.
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Pile 2: Tan Rose
A Powerful Time
The first card in your spread is the Five of Pentacles, Reversed. This indicates that you’re either coming out of a crisis (especially one of financial, health, or spiritual emptiness) or will avoid the worst of one soon.
See how on this card a person is walking on a pit of skulls? A few of those skulls are crystal skulls which represent spiritual powers. I believe that your key to success right now is finding a connection to the divine.
Be careful not to tread on dangerous ground, however. Your connection to the divine is going to be particularly strong soon and you may manifest things you do not mean.
But don’t be frightened by this power. Instead, see the inherent potential. You’re on the precipice of a liminal space – think of a portal to a spiritual realm. This may be because of the crisis you experience or because of general supernatural powers at work in your life.
Negotiate With Yourself
Your next card is Harmony and Resolution. I get the sense that you need some sort of closure. The primary reason you have a roadblock to success right now isn’t a crisis itself, but the way the crisis or potential for encountering a crisis (even if you avoided it) altered your psychological state.
When bad things happen, they can leave wounds. These wounds can become infected or become scars. And when that happens, your psychological state could throw up a roadblock even when physical ones no longer remain.
What you need to do is come to peace with yourself. See how the angel on this card is channeling what appears to be fire? That energy is transforming into her wings.
You can use the lessons you learned from the most difficult aspects of your life to empower you. There’s a reason why the most successful people often had childhoods with adversity: once you survive one problem, it becomes a blueprint for surviving the next.
Embrace that lesson and let it become your wings to uplift you. You might as well get something positive from the experience! No reason to come away empty-handed.
Show Love to Yourself
The last card is Compassion. Self-care is important. You should treat yourself like someone you’re responsible for. A parent needs to teach and discipline their child, but every child not only needs love, they deserve it from birth. It’s not something that’s earned. Love is the default expectation and right.
You deserve to be loved, especially by yourself. That doesn’t mean you don’t take the lessons of life to heart or push yourself to do better, but first, you must treat yourself with real compassion.
What is something you can do for yourself today? Perhaps you need to say an affirmation that you love yourself. Maybe you need to do something you enjoy. Find whatever it is you need to confirm that you have compassion for yourself.
Once you know that you have at least yourself on your side, you can begin to face any obstacle that comes your way.
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Pile 3: Red Rose
The Power of Fire
With your first card being the Five of Wands, Reversed, it seems as if you’re either overcoming some sort of personal stress or you’ll avoid it soon,
In most decks, this tarot card features a fight between many combatants. However, in this one, we see a person holding a box of matches. I interpret this to mean that you hold power in your hands and you’re going to use it – but effectively without getting burned.
Perhaps this power that you now have did burn you in the past. In that case, you may be wary to try new things or use what you already have to your advantage.
But know this: that worry is no longer something you need to have. Your power is entirely yours now. As long as you use it responsibly, it won’t become a wildfire that burns down everything in its path. Instead, it’ll become a tool to light your world.
Your Mind is On Fire
The next card is Intuition and Downloads. There is a significant amount of fire energy in your spread. Fire has a spiritual quality to it, so I sense that you’re being empowered by a connection to the divine.
This card in particular suggests you’re going to receive divine messages from the universe. But these messages will be filtered through your body via your mind. Think of divine inspiration. Less so gut instinct – you’ll have a much clearer idea of what you should do.
The cloudiness you do experience will come from self-doubt. Deep inside of you, you already know what you should be doing. What’s preventing you from doing that is the fear of getting burned by your own decisions.
Right now you need to allow yourself to receive these divine messages. Consider setting aside a few minutes each day to meditate quietly or to journal any thoughts that come to your head.
Some Fires Are Meant to Burn
The final card is Trust the Universe. I see a divine fire, likely the creation of a star, on this card. Although there is free will in the universe through living things, that which is not blessed with life was set into motion by the creation of the universe.
There are tools around you that the universe has left in place knowing that they can be used by people like you. Even as chaotic as the universe is, some things were meant to be.
I believe that the universe has trusted some part of its plan within your own consciousness. The divine inspiration you feel is the universe nudging you to act on part of its plan. The fire within your hand is both your free will and the universe’s plan in total alignment.
Trust that the universe wants to achieve something through you and let that fire burn into the creation of your own brilliant star.
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