Behind you: 10 of pentacles - Riches, acquiring a house or business
Above you: 7 of wands - Success against opposition, you have a position of advantage
Ahead of you: The moon, reversed - Storms will be weathered, peace will be gained at a cost
Your fears: Page of swords - A message, or perhaps a child
How others feel: 9 of swords - Suffering, loss, misery
Your hopes: 3 of pentacles - Gain in a commercial transaction
Final outcome: 5 of cups, reversed - Return of enjoyment, an old friend or lover
Interpretation: You have big dreams and hope that a commercial enterprise will be successful - have you recently acquired a business? Gotten a new job? Or perhaps come into some money? You’ve gotten busy lately, and this will be the basis for your success. And it looks like you should be successful. You won’t have it easy but you have a good chance of doing well, which will finally end in a more enjoyable life for you. Your biggest problem is going to come at you from a completely unexpected direction; be alert to the possibilities.
On a sidenote, someone near you is suffering from very grim feelings - perhaps you know someone who is ill or depressed? And don’t be surprised if an old friend or lover shows up unexpectedly!
Thank you so much for your time and insights, Zyada… Not sure how this possible future will play out, but it does sound very intriguing… I’ll keep this all in mind and let you know what happens…
Your cards:
Surrounding you: King of wands, reversed - An intolerant, prejudiced or ill-natured person
Crossing you: 8 of cups - Misery and repining without cause
Beneath you: 4 of pentacles - Success, or a miserly, ungenerous nature
Behind you: 5 of cups, reversed - Hopeful expectations; return of an old friend or lover?
Above you: Ace of cups, reversed - Instability, hesitancy to nurture love
Ahead of you: 5 of pentacles - Loneliness, dark knight of the soul; unemployment?
Your fears: Knight of Swords - coming or going of misfortune
How others feel: 6 of cups - Meeting with childhood acquaintance. New knowledge and new opportunities
Your hopes: 3 of cups - Happy issue of an undertaking, fortune, victory
Final outcome: Magician, reversed - Indecision, weak will
Interpretation: When I got my divorce, I told people to congratulate me, not feel sorry for me. It looks like you probably should feel the same way. There is a rather unpleasant person that you are involved with; intolerant, ill-natured and miserly - does this sound like your soon to be ex? (Or her lawyer?) If so, you are feeling miserable without cause, you are better off without her! Don’t let this person keep you from being able to love in the future. You do have loneliness in your near future; accept this as a necessary stage. I hope that you don’t have unemployment in your near future, but I suggest you be prepared for that as well. Your final outcome of indecision or weak will probably has to do with the possibility that you may be afraid to love completely in the future - again, don’t let bad people keep you from having a good life. Have you met an old friend recently? This showed up twice in your reading - if you have, this person will play a key role in your life.
BTW, sometimes I will re-do a reading if I don’t like the cards I see and don’t feel like I was in the proper frame of mind. I did this with yours and several cards that were in the first reading were also in the second. Most notably, the ace of cups reversed was in the exact same position (potential future) so I feel like this is the most important message of this reading!
Note: in order to cut down the post-one-reading-get-another-request trend, I am going to start mailing readings where possible. I swear, I will do all of the readings!
Johnny, I don’t even want to think about how far away you are!
Ferggie - your reading has been emailed to you, if you didn’t get it, email me or post here.
You didn’t say if you are a guy or a girl. I assumed female only because you handmade chocolate. Mmmmm, chocolate.
Your cards:
Surrounding you: The high priestess - Hidden influences at work
Crossing you: 10 of cups - Contentment
Beneath you: 4 of wands, reversed - Romance that is not quite what it could be
Behind you: 8 of wands, reversed - Stagnation in business or affairs of the heart, jealousy
Above you: The moon - Intuition, imagination, deception
Ahead of you: Page of pentacles, reversed - Dissipation and excess; too great pleasure in the material things in life.
Your fears: Ace of pentacles - beginning of wealth and material gain
How others feel: The world, reversed - Fear of change or travel, too great an attachment to one’s place of residence or job.
Your hopes: 9 of wands, reversed - Obstacles to be overcome
Final outcome: 5 of pentacles - unemployment, loneliness; affinities discovered through similar troubles.
Interpretation: Everything rests on your romantic relationship - and you are right to be dissatisfied. It is not quite what it could be. Contentment is working against you; that could be your SO’s contentment keeping your relationship from what it could be, or you could be comfortable enough in your current situation that a change requires fighting inertia. There are hidden forces at work in your life right now - something is going on that you can’t see, but that will have a direct impact on what is going on. Has your SO been jealous recently? If so, this may indicate that something is going on with him. Otherwise the cards definitely indicate that your life has been stagnated recently, although this has changed.
I won’t say whether you should stick with your SO, but I will say that you need to look carefully at what you want from a relationship and make sure you do whatever it takes to get that.
As far as your first question, it looks like you prefer a challenging life, and are even afraid of getting too prosperous(?) Imagination and intuition is indicated in your potential future; perhaps you need to look at the path which allows these free reign. In the near future, you will have a period of dissipation (partying too hard) and the final outcome indicates unemployment - this may not be such a bad thing, if you choose to continue in the academic world.
Your cards:
Surrounding you: Ace of pentacles, reversed - A false start
Crossing you: 8 of wands - great haste, too rapid advancement
Beneath you: King of cups, reversed - a powerful, crafty person, or double dealing
Behind you: Justice - Justice has been done; excess baggage, wrong ideas have been eliminated to create a balanced mind
Above you: King of wands - An unexpected heritage; a good marriage
Ahead of you: 4 of cups - A stationary period in one’s life, re-evaluation of one’s earthly pleasures.
Your fears: 5 of wands - Violent strife, competition, obstacles
How others feel: 10 of cups - Contentment, Perfection of human love; great friendship
Your hopes: 5 of swords - Conquest of others
Final outcome: Restlessness and a desire for change; an unethical victory
Interpretation: You are dealing with a setback in plans right now; this is because you have tried to do things too fast. Perhaps this is because the powerful, crafty person was rushing you. But recently you have made some changes to get more balance in your life, which put the project back. You look like you have a rather contentious streak; you want to conquer others, and you don’t like competition (spend much time in GD?) You are about to go into a stationary period, this is a good time to review what is important to you. This period will lead to a great deal of restlessness for you; that’s probably not a surprise. I don’t know your marital status. If you are unattached, there is a person near you who is attracted to you - this could lead to a good marriage. If you are married or in a relationship, your SO is concerned with the quality of your relationship - work with her and this will greatly improve your marriage and your life.
Wow, Madame Zyada, I am impressed you are still keeping up with this. Just so you’ll know I just finished giving you a standing ovation for your committment to this thread. I am glad to hear about the marriage part, I was starting to think I would never find a better half for myself. Also, I do not spend much time in GD, but if it helps with the above, I will start gosh darnit.
to let everyone know that Madame Z. kept her promise. Got my reading yesterday through personal e-mail. Most of it was pretty foreign to me but the point is: there’s hope. Be patient. Good things generally come to those who are (unless you get a lousy hand…:)).
