Your True Life Purpose: Tarot Pick a Card
Your intuition led you to this tarot pick a card so you can better determine your life purpose. Perhaps you feel confused or you want confirmation about your current dreams. Either way, the universe is reaching out to you through tarot.
It’s easy: all you have to do is select one of the piles above that sticks out to you the most. That’s the universe telling you which message is for you.
After you select your cards, choose below or scroll down to your pile.
In this reading, I’m using the Everyday Tarot and the Work Your Light oracle decks (these are affiliate links that support my tarot reading). I’ll be asking the universe three questions: what’s your life purpose, how to pursue it, and what you may not expect to happen.
Now let’s see what your true life purpose is!
Pile 1
What’s Your Life Purpose
The first card in your spread is No with the wisdom message to “Wait. Postpone. Pause. Say No.” Do you see the storm in the background, lit up by lightning? I sense that you have a lot of turmoil in your life, so you want to have a clear direction, but the universe is telling me that you have no clearly defined destiny.
This can happen for many reasons. The first is that, when you were born, you were given a lot of options, more than the average person, in the way your life could go.
But another possibility is that you had a destiny, but you chose to reject it with the power of your free will. This isn’t a bad thing. If the universe didn’t want us to co-create our destinies, we wouldn’t have been given free will.
It can be frightening and exhausting to face life without a guided fate. No wonder why you’re looking for guidance now. You probably want things to be a bit easier and less confusing.
However, look at the card again: do you see how there’s a direct path into the storm? The storm also lights up the night around it, and the direction of focus is towards a pyramid, pointing towards the heavens.
Even though you aren’t following a divine plan, you do get to follow your plan. Whatever form that will take, and however that will change, you’re on a journey towards the destiny of your choosing.
How to Pursue It
The second card in your spread is the Page of Cups, Reversed. This is a card that’s frequently considered an indication of blocked creativity or creativity that you keep to yourself.
In your case, I sense that it’s confirmation your destiny is not one determined for you and it’s time you accept that. Once you recognize how different your life is going to be, you’ll find it easier and more liberating to embrace this karmic freedom. It’s people like you who push the universe forward by expanding what’s possible.
No doubt you’re creative in some sense, whether it’s artistic creativity or a problem-solving intelligence. You think about the universe differently, but this can be overwhelming at times. You have no prior experience or expectations to back your ideas, and I sense that you’re somewhat disconnected from your past lives.
Few people remember their past lives, so this isn’t surprising, but for you, this break from karmic destiny suggests you also lack the emotional connection to your soul’s previous lives. Your maturity in this life may leave much to be desired.
That’s not always a bad thing. You’re not trapped in a soul chain that will influence your thinking patterns or intuition. But you do need to be aware that you may be selfish at times, focusing only on your needs and material comforts.
The best way to embrace the liberality of your circumstances is to have a curious mind. Make sure you also have a spiritual practice of some form so you can remain tethered to the universe. You may struggle at times to co-create with the universe instead of just for yourself.
What You Might Not Expect to Happen
Your reading is likely already surprising, but what’s going to be even more unexpected for you is found in your third card, the Eight of Cups, Reversed. This card directly expands on your previous cards, suggesting that you’re departing from a current path, and you don’t have a clear destination.
Unfortunately, your ability to choose your future doesn’t mean you’ll just choose one. You’ll probably pursue a lot of different opportunities, never finding the right one. This is because you don’t have a clear destiny, so nothing will ever “fit.”
You will constantly feel as if you don’t fit in anywhere and nothing you do speaks to your soul after a while. This doesn’t mean you should just pick one and stick to it – you’ll probably never find just one thing you want to focus on. That’s why this card is such an interesting contrast to your first card.
Rather, you need to realize that the untethered feeling you have is a sign of how much freedom your life path contains. You’ll want to explore different paths, sometimes retracing your steps, simply because you can.
Fighting your desire to try new things will only make you unhappy. It’s okay to explore and it’s okay never to feel like you’ve found “the one true passion” because that’s unlikely to ever be true for you. When you enjoy something, smile, and cherish the moment.
But when you feel like moving on, don’t beat yourself up. You have nothing tying you down to a particular path, and your creative soul will just want to try new things sometimes.
Pile 2
What’s Your Life Purpose
I didn’t expect to pull two cards for the first question, but I did. The first is Keepers of the Earth with the wisdom message that “You are not alone. Ancient ancestors stand beside you” while the second is Transformation with the wisdom message of “Things are changing at a cellular level. Deep healing.”
This means that your life purpose is tied to an ancestral quest. Perhaps you’re following in the path of your parents or another recent ancestor, but I think your life purpose is deeper and more ambiguous than that.
Long ago, someone in your family was given a soul purpose that would take many lifetimes to complete. Because of this, some of your ancestors, especially those who continued in this soul purpose, stayed to serve as spirit guides for those born into their line.
The Norse pagans had a concept called hamingja or “luck” in which a quality that could be considered part of the self was embedded in descendants across time. Luck was an inherited trait, or in your case, a life purpose. Interestingly, luck could be “loaned” out to other people outside of the family. Similar concepts exist in other religions and cultures.
You’re meant to change and heal throughout life to match this luck, but also give your own spin to it. Just like the Norse pagans, each reincarnated life was different from the last, and what you do with your luck is ultimately going to be unique.
Just remember that you aren’t alone and what you do is likely to create a legacy within your lineage far after you’re gone. This may be in your descendants or the descendants of your other family members.
How to Pursue It
I find it interesting that your second card is the Ten of Cups. This is somewhat different from another card I would have expected here (Ten of Pentacles), but it suggests a particular tone to your individual life purpose that’s important for you to understand.
This is a card of domestic bliss where family, romantic, and friendly relationships are most important. Instead of focusing on material legacy, you need to think about the here and now.
What I sense is that you will receive the greatest benefit to your life purpose by making sure that you have a positive relationship with the people you’re closest to. Strongly consider getting married at some point in your life, but also make sure that you put the time and effort into your family, including extended family and in-laws.
If you don’t have a close family, you can make your own. If you have a best friend, it’s time to consider making them a family member: even if they move away for work, they’re forever part of your life and someone you try to have frequent conversations with and spend vacations with.
You need the comfort and security of family so you can fully embrace the life purpose that has been influenced by your ancestral line.
But this also means getting in touch with your ancestors too. This will differ depending on your spiritual practice, but find a way to include your ancestors in rituals, worship, or as spirit guides. It will help you feel like they’re part of your family in the here and now, which will help you become an ancestral guide long after your death.
What You Might Not Expect to Happen
Your previous cards were focused on family, but less so on the exact life purpose. I think this is because your iteration of that life purpose is going to be unexpected. Perhaps you’ve already discovered this, but it’s going to be different from what you anticipated when you were younger in the shadow of your parents.
Your third card is the King of Cups, Reversed. This is an interesting contrast to your second card, as it suggests a lot of emotional turmoil which is unnecessary.
I think you want to do something different than what’s expected of you, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. With your first card suggesting a transformation at the cellular level, I believe your life purpose is that a trait, rather than a specific mission, has been passed down through the ages. Some families are known for creativity, strength, intelligence, or other traits.
This can cause them to follow a particular path, but that trait could easily be used in different professions or passionate hobbies.
However, contemporary family often don’t understand your drive to do something different, which can cause you to feel like the people who care the most about you don’t truly understand you. This can be painful, and you’ll likely believe you can’t pursue your life purpose effectively. You wouldn’t want to let them down.
Don’t think this. Your ancestors, the ones who have decided to stay as your spirit guides, are there to provide the familial support you need. They acknowledge your trait in its new iteration and will help you pursue that path in whatever way they can.
Pile 3
What’s Your Life Purpose
The first card is Align Your Life with the wisdom message “What is not aligned or needs to change?” This tells me that you already have a good idea of what your life purpose is, and just need confirmation that you’re going down the right path: and here it is.
I sense that the universe is trying to help you overcome personal hurdles to emotionally accept the path you’re looking towards. Your obstacles are your previous expectations. It’s not easy to make a change in your life, but that’s what you need to do.
Look at the woman on the card: her face is shattered in the image. She’s beautiful and looks to be gentle and good. That means the shattered imagery is the breaking of her own true identity. And it looks as if she already knew what it was by the quiet certainty of her expression.
You need to critically examine your life and cut out what doesn’t serve you. This rarely happens overnight, so every month or so, figure out one thing that you need to change to better align your life to what it should be.
Once you start doing this, you’ll start picking up the pieces of your shattered life and start putting them into the proper order.
If you’re still confused about your life purpose, I sense that it’s already present in your life, but there’s a lot of clutter. The same monthly technique of getting rid of something which doesn’t serve you, especially if it causes anxiety or makes you feel bad, is a good way to reprioritize.
But also try new things or revisit that which seems to be made of light to you. The more you do this, the better you’ll be able to rearrange your life appropriately.
How to Pursue It
Your next card, Ten of Pentacles, is very promising. This is a card of legacy, family, and material wealth. However, it takes on a more material focus than a relationship one and this makes sense as it’s in the suit of earth which deals with more practical matters.
You need to make sure that you’re comfortable in how you live your life. I don’t think you’ll do so well pursuing your life purpose unless your life is in order. See this card as “cleaning up your room” and “getting things done.” Some people thrive on conflict and in the worst of situations, but you’ll always need a cozy home base as a refuge.
Do what you can to accumulate wealth and build up your family. The man in the card, who likely had a major role in his family’s wealth, acts differently from the traditional Rider-Waite tarot deck. Instead of sitting in comfort and gazing upon his family, in this deck he pets the family dog and appears to be having a conversation with his daughter and grandchild.
Whatever your life purpose is, you need to build something that lasts. Either it’s something you pass down to other family members, like a business, or it’s something that makes the people around you proud of your success.
You need to act with ambition, but integrity, and you need to take your life purpose seriously. A writer, for example, shouldn’t be content with just writing for fun, but in producing a piece or body of work which will last the ages. That’s how you pursue your life purpose.
What You Might Not Expect to Happen
The third card, the Six of Cups, features an older child giving a cup of flowers to a younger child. They are in an idyllic small town and appear to be at peace. The traditional meaning of this card is nostalgia, play, and happy relationships – sometimes romantic.
Because I sense a materialistic orientation to your life purpose, you may find it strange that there’s so much emotion and so many relationship connections in your last two cards. This is because your life purpose is about more than just material success, but what that material success allows you to do with your life.
It’s not your destiny to be rich, though that may happen, but to enjoy the abundance created from your life purpose with others.
I sense you’ll need to return to something in your childhood. Your life purpose may be a hobby you enjoyed or a place you visited.
But you may also feel drawn to spend time with a peer. This peer could also be from your childhood, but for others, they may be in the same field as your life purpose. Basically, you’ll have a lot of fun together.
You’ll likely be surprised to find that you won’t always be alone when it comes to your life purpose. You may get married and work alongside your partner or they may be more supportive than you could have ever imagined.
Regardless, be open to relationships, platonic or romantic, when pursuing your life purpose because those relationships will fill you with unexpected and lasting joy. Like the older child in the card, you’re going to share your life with others.
I’ve a question, how do I use traits? If I understood correctly I’m supposed to have luck as a trait or something??? And how do I connect with my ancestors?? I would like to find out more about this “purpose”…..
The full understanding of luck is lost to us, as luck = a trait and not just good luck, but here’s an example: let’s say that a person’s ancestors tended to be courageous. This is a trait that would often be passed to their descendants, but it’s also something that could be given to someone they respected.
It’s in essence a spiritual trait that’s inherited over time. For this reading, a life purpose is the luck/trait that’s inherited. So you’d share a similar life purpose to your ancestors. It would be modernized for the current day, though.
There are many ways to connect to your ancestors. One you might really enjoy is to search “meet your ancestor meditation” on YouTube. Journaling and writing down your dreams is also a common method.
Probably the most accurate reading I’ve ever had – and I’ve had some. I’ve always been interested in psychic phenomena and the occult. I do find some of the reading disturbing. Any way to go deeper?
I usually find that a guided meditation after a tarot reading is really effective. It helps you process the reading but also connect your intuition to higher planes. I usually just use random meditations I find on YouTube or Spotify. 🙂