Future Tarot

This week on RadioXShow we had an anonymous listener request a free three-card reading asking about her love situation. Reading for ‘anon’ can be challenging. We have no details, we don’t even know their gender and it can be harder to ‘tune in’ to a querient without their name. After the show, anonymous ordered the more detailed L-for-Love Spread. With more cards, more detail, and a greater connection the three-card spread makes complete sense but here is what the six-card spread tells us.

The Lovers as the last card indicates a choice and now I see what choice you have to make. Hopefully this L-for-Love Spread will shed additional light on the situation for you.

Your past experience in love: Judgment: The Major Arcana, Judgment, supports the fact that you have a difficult choice to make. You may be judging your current lover as someone (your ex) judged you in the past.

Your current experience in love: Queen of Swords: You are being very analytical about your situation, perhaps to try to mask your true feelings. Your emotions for your ex are also making you feel cold toward your current lover.

What you want from a love relationship: The World: There is no compromising your expectations or settling for second best when it comes to romance. You want “all that and a barrel of monkeys, too!” A lover, a partner, a best friend… someone who, quite literally, completes your world.

What you need from a love relationship: Eight of Pentacles: You need someone who will put up with your demanding nature, who will fulfill all your needs but will also “school” you—teach you the art of compromise, give and take, and mature love. At the same time, the Eight of Pentacles is the “work” card — you need someone willing to work as hard as you are at the relationship.

What you have to give your lover: Six of Cups: The Six of Cups calls to mind the phrase, “The Halcyon Days of Old.” Are you idealizing your past with your ex, at the expense of your relationship with your fiancé? This card shows that what you have to give your lover is “the way things were,” but better, because you have learned from your mistakes. If you choose to stay with your fiancé, you will be entering the relationship smarter; you won’t repeat the same mistakes. In fact, as a result of your resurfacing feelings from your ex, if you work through the problems with your fiancé, your relationship will grow stronger. However, the Tarot seems to indicate that is not the choice you will make…

Possible future experience in love: The Fool: The Fool represents jumping headfirst into the future, new experiences (or old experiences revisited) with little regard to feelings or emotions of those left behind. You don’t mean to hurt your fiancé, but you must do what is best for you. If you do leave your fiancé, you can expect a fun and passionate relationship with your ex that feels, in fact, more like a “new love” than your current romance does.

We have another request for an L-for-Love Spread for Laura–a different Laura this time, Miss Michele should note.

Laura wants to know her future prospects for romance and how she can encourage love into her life.

Overview: A glimpse at the six cards in Laura‘s L-for-Love Spread show a woman who wants a relationship, but is focused more on the practical aspects of “being in a relationship” than on sharing love with someone. Laura, open your heart and what you want will fall into place.

A preponderance of Pentacles and Wands in a love spread show us that either her mind is elsewhere and now is not the time for love, or she views relationships as simply another “thing on her to-do list,” as in Find Career: Check, Find Boyfriend: Check, Get Married…

If love is what you truly want, Laura, we encourage you to open your heart to the many wonderful things romance has to offer.

Serenity Bly comments on the lack of Cups, as well: The lack of ANY cups in this reading has me feeling that you’re not ready to focus on relationships. You’re in a strong creative mode and might be craving family because of it but could find more balance turning your creativity into a new project. And don’t forget, love often finds you when you stop looking.

Your past experience in love: Three of Pentacles: You’re coming at relationships as “work,” and that is understandable based on your past experience. Dating and romance has never been easy for you, and, as a practical person, you approach romance pragmatically, as well. You may have had relationships in the past where it was never easy—and no, love is not easy, you do have to work for it, but it doesn’t always have to be a challenge, either.

Your current experience in love: Eight of Wands. In your current relationship, things are moving rapidly… too fast for your practical mind to accept, and it’s scary. Slow down a bit. You have time. (I say this with no hint at your age… whatever age you are, there is still (always) time!

What you want from a love relationship: Six of Pentacles Again. The practical aspects of your personality are coming out in your needs for a love relationship. You want a husband, father and, above all else, a provider. You want stability.

What you need from a love relationship: Three of Rods: Issues and conflict occurs when what we think we want, what we are seeking, and what we NEED differ. You need something fresh, and someone who will be a ‘life partner’ for you, nurturing your creativity. You need someone intelligent, strong, and who will complement you in every way.

Serenity Bly adds: Laura, your best course of action is to let go of your expectations and accept what comes into your life without judging it too soon.

What you have to give your lover: Two of Pentacles Laura, you are a well-balanced, strong woman who is adept and keeping many balls in the air. As a head of household, you will keep things running smoothly and give your lover a “safe haven.”

But the lack of Cups in this reading leads Miss Michele to remind you not to forget about passion. Embrace the fire shown in the Eight of Rods. Let your lover take you to new places, take chances, embrace love.

Possible future experience in love: King of Pentacles: The outcome card tells us you are on the right path… you will settle down with the man who complements you in every way, who is a strong leader, father figure and steady provider. Just be careful not to be dominated by this powerful “king”—you are a strong woman yourself and have plenty to offer in a relationship/partnership.

Serenity Bly adds: Regarding the King of Pentacles: While you might be looking for a man who is well off, settled into his career and comfortable/confident in his life, try to relax the hunt. You have nothing to worry about, whoever comes into your life will be the person you need and sometimes ‘looking’ for it blinds you to the qualities you don’t know you need in a man. Sometimes the beer goggles come into play and you may be fooled into seeing something in a date that isn’t really there. For example, if you’re looking for someone who lives in a trick apartment you’ll find someone who lives in a trick apartment, but you WON’T see the double mortgage and the gambling debts.

Open up your mind to the idea of loving, giving, FIRST. Being open and unconditional in your expectations brings your energy to the level where positive, healthy relationships can come in and return that love.

Laura asked Miss Michele a specific question: “How strong is my long-term relationship?”

While Laura requested an L for Love spread, the 9-card Relationship Spread gives us more clear answers and insight into a specific relationship…

So, dealer’s choice…  Before we begin, Miss Michele would like to note that the money from this spread goes straight to Supporting Simon, and his mother Mysti so that she and her family can move to Denver to be with Simon, a preemie born at only 24 weeks gestation. Simon celebrated his one-month birthday very recently, and we continue to pray for his increasing growth and strength.

Thank you, Laura, for your contribution.

The first card, How You See the Other Person, is the Five of Rods. This minor arcana indicates a battle of wills. You view your significant other as thick and stubborn. While you love him, his inability to compromise is beginning to wear thin, and you are becoming weary of minor fights and squabbles over petty causes. You view him as always ready to do battle.

The second card, the Three of Swords, is a powerful card of change that exemplifies how he sees you. While you take these petty squabbles to be part of life, he may be viewing your current difficulties as “the beginning of the end.” This may not be a bad thing… your relationship—as you know it—is going to end. That doesn’t mean you won’t find a better relationship with the same man… just that things are coming to a head. This change will hurt you both, but will be for the best.

Right now, he views you as constantly sticking daggers in his heart… when you give in and fight him on his petty squabbles, it hurts him as much as it hurts you. Neither of you is happy with the current situation.

What you need is shown in the Ace of Cups. You *need* this new beginning forecasted in the previous card. You need someone who you can show all the love in your heart—several cards in the spread support this. You are overflowing with love, but you need someone who will accept this.

What the other person needs is shown in another five… the Five of Swords. To shift to numerology for a moment, as the Tarot utilizes ancient archetypes, numerology, intuition and astrology to tell its tales… the number five indicates a restlessness. He is an adventurer and it was quite a feat to get him to settle down in the first place. But he’s feeling that restlessness, leading to his need to always do battle. The Rods and Swords associated with his name show he is not in the same “love” place as you right now. As the Five of Swords can also indicate deception, he feels a need to stop fooling himself (and you) at the present time.

Where the relationship is now shows a very odd card in this position, the Nine of Cups. Typically the Nine of Cups would indicate all your dreams coming true, which, obviously, is not where the relationship is right now. Instead, you are both in a holding pattern, fooling yourselves that everything is fine. You are both putting a lot of energy into wishes and dreams… but the forces that are blocking you are preventing this from coming true. …

Serenity Bly adds: There’s a sense of “this is as good as it’ll get.” It’s a sort of fatalistic thought: You’ve done the best you can and what you’ve had is the best you’ll ever have. I also get the impression someone is waiting in the wings. Laura, you might already be thinking about this person and your emotions are adding to your confusion.

You and your current love are both wearing masks in this relationship, putting up a front for the sake of peace.

In addition to soliciting Serenity’s insight, Miss Michele also drew a clarification card for the Wish card (Nine of Cups) asking, “What factors are blocking you from your wish…what aren’t you seeing?”

The card was the very powerful major arcana, Judgment. You’re both holding onto your expectations for the other person, without seeing them as they are. And you’re both also holding onto expectations of what a relationship should be… and you’re tired of waiting for yours to turn into that. Your best course of action is for you to both stop holding onto the past and either make the decision to change your relationship into what you want it to be—or walk away from it with no regrets.

The sixth card, where you would like the relationship to go, supports your feelings with the Ace of Cups, in the Queen of Cups. You are a nurturer—he thinks he doesn’t want nurturing. You are warm and soft with love to give. He feels unworthy of it. All you want is to give all your love to someone who will accept it! He doesn’t appreciate your femininity.

Where he would like the relationship to go is shown in the Four of Cups, a card of emotional poverty and lacking. Again, he feels he doesn’t deserve you and, at times, would rather walk away than make this work. The clarification card, the Three of Pentacles, supports this. Miss Michele asked the Tarot, again, what factors are blocking him? The Three of Pentacles is the work card. He is simply afraid that if he works at it, he will still fail—and where would that leave you both? He wants the easy way out.

The Hanged Man offers the factors to be considered in this relationship… you are both tired of waiting, waiting, in this holding pattern. It is time to make a decision, for both your sanity. Miss Michele can’t say whether that choice will be stay or go.

Serenity Bly adds: The Hanged Man supports the “fatalistic” thoughts shown in the Nine of Cups. Laura is afraid to let go of her current relationship, but a new person offers a great deal of joy for her future if she’ll take the chance.

The End Result, the Page of Cups, supports Serenity’s assertion, showing a new opportunity to share your love. All things now seem possible with the Page by your side. You will have a new lease on your romantic life, possibly even talk of deeper commitment and an eventual family. You will KNOW with this person that it feels right, and you won’t need the Tarot or anything else to quell your anxiety or tell you he is “the one.” He’s waiting for you, Laura.