Having joined the Tarot Association of the British Isles (TABI), following my tarot reader's course with Suzanne Corbie, I'm all up for getting plenty of practice in.
Each month the TABI forum posts up a monthly question for peeps to give readings. This is the one for March...
I'm looking at a complete change of career, I have a couple options, can the cards guide me as to which path would be best for me
The pack is the Rider Waite Smith pack, probably the best known one for newbies. Pamela Colman Smith teamed up with Golden Dawn's Arthur Edward Waite to produce perhaps the most copied tarot design in the world. The Marseilles pack may be older and Sola Busca may be the 'bad boy' of Tarot but RWS has provided the most inspiration.
The spread is one I've taken from a playing card fortune telling book I picked up in a 2nd hand book shop some years ago. This one is attributed to 'Sepharial' otherwise known as Dr Walter Gorn Old, yes, that is his real name (now we know why he used Sepharial), a 19th century astrologer and one time editor of Old Moore's Almanac.
The spread takes the form of an astrological chart, houses 1-12 with five extra cards laid out in cross formation in the centre. The card in the centre (V Swords in this spread), is the significator. The general idea is to read the appropriate house(s) for the answer to the question.
The significator is the 'cut and run' card, which is flanked, to the left, by IX Wands and Ace Swords on the other side. Reading across from past to present it looks like the querent has had some serious battles on his/her hands and has decided enough is enough. The Ace card is a new beginning and is indicative of the new decision. The fact that the question is about a radical change of direction is supported by this card. the IX Cups is the pleasure card and points to the need of the querent for work to be rewarding and not just for money. The Hierophant card may indicate that some of the problems may be to do with relationships with those in authority. If this is so then one option may be to work for him/herself.
Looking to the houses we have XIII Death and III Cups in the 1st House, the house of self, well-being, health and mental health. I think this signifies that the querent is going through a period of radical transition, literally the ending of abundance. A rupture of relations, finding him/herself alone coming to the realisation that things are irreparably going to have to change.
The 2nd House is about finances, here we have IV Pentacles and XIX The Sun. The card of consolidation of wealth with opportunity for growth. From the question it is not clear what the options the querent is looking at but if it involves retraining or reinvesting into a new company or project then these cards are giving the green light for this. The 10th House is about career and long term goals and here we have III The Empress, a card ruled by Venus. Venus rules fertility, sex, beauty, hospitality, music and the arts. If one of the options refers to anything along those lines then the 10th House is well aspected for a career in the service sector dedicated to wellbeing, beauty and entertainment. This card is accompanied by IV Swords, depicting rest from a period of strife. Given the strife indicated in the other parts of this chart there is a healing process that is necessary for the querent and this may mean that a career in therapy or complementary healing may be of benefit for both the querent and her/his clients too.
There are other aspects but they do not relate directly to this question so will leave this reading here.
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