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.

An anonymous lurker comes out of the shadows with a question for Miss Michele.

She writes:

Please could you shed some light into the situation I have got myself into and if Pete and I will get back together?

Miss Michele threw the standard, three-card, past/near future/outcome spread.

The Five of Wands in the past indicates a battle of wills, one upmanship. Neither of you wants to let go and admit you were wrong.

However, the Eight of Swords came up, reversed, in the near future. It reveals that you will be released from these feelings of pride or possibly guilt. You will be the one who feels free to let go of pride and recognize that love is stronger. You feel as if there’s nothing you can do about the situation, but that’s not true. Don’t let him control what you know is meant to be.

Take a few steps back, try to reach a compromise, look at it from a more balanced, impartial point of view. This is what the Outcome, Justice, is telling us.

The Major Arcana indicates a significant change in the relationship–possibly a reconciliation. Justice will be served, you’ll receive what is rightfully yours. The road to reconciliation being with an apology, an attempt to make things right. If you were wronged, you will receive any apology and correction if you open yourself up to it. Otherwise, step up and do what is right.

Lots of luck!

A new visitor is curious about romance. Miss Natasha (it’s a tarot reader thing!) asks: My question is.. Will Steven and I get back together within 6 months?

Miss Michele drew three cards for this reading: Present or Heart of the Matter/Tarot’s Advice/Probable Outcome.

The Knight of Pentacles indicates some sort of contact between Miss Natasha and Steven. They are making progress since their break-up. They still view each other as a stable, secure influence in each other’s life. They still turn to each other.

The Ten of Rods shows hard work ahead as they work to correct their mistakes from the past. Miss Natasha may grow resentful that she’s putting more into their friendship than he is. The card also shows romantic maturity, so there is great potential here.

Finally, the King of Rods in the Outcome indicates that they will learn the ability to compromise and see each other’s points of view. From there, a strong relationship could develop and, if it does, it could be filled with passion and mutual attraction, which is what they had in the past.

The Wands in this reading show a very active phase for the next six months between Steven and Miss Natasha, and a huge learning period for their relationship. With no Cups in the reading, Miss Michele is hesitant to read this definitively as them getting back together, romantically, but, at the very least, a very strong friendship will develop.. and it could be more.

Miss Michele has been feeling called to her old Rider Waite deck lately, so she is pulling it out for a three-card reading for Siddow. The business-like plaid pattern on the back of the cards, coupled with the straightforward imagery, seems to fit for a question regarding law.

Can I get another three-card freebie? I’m in a situation with my stepmother over my father’s estate, and I don’t know whether I should sit tight or lawyer up.

Overall, the spread shows that you have tried your best to approach the situation with caring and understanding. Cups, not Pentacles, show up. This shows that the dispute is less about the material aspects, but the principle of it. How your stepmother is making you feel. As if she is someone trying to sully your image and memories of your father. I’m very sorry that she’s putting you through this. Miss Michele can’t even imagine how hard it must be, especially with you being such a good person through it.

The Chariot came up to show the past. You have tried to take the reigns of the situation and, until now, have maintained control. The Eight of Cupssnuck in behind the Chariot, adding further clarity. Someone is trying to pull something over on you–but you probably already knew this!

I meditated on the card in the near future, the Sun card. In three card spreads, Miss Michele often likes to think of the near future card as advice the tarot is offering. That is the situation here. Coupled with the Chariot, the Tarot is saying, Step away from the situation for the moment. Take a chance to cool down and relax. It could be a literal vacation, or just a day of R&R at home.

The King of Cups in the outcome *could* indicate a lawyer. But the lawyer would be compassionate, more of a mediator than anything else. However, the King of Cups also represents diplomacy, generosity and maintaining your calm. You will emerge the better individual in this, and get what you want. By drawing on the memories and strength of your father, you will find a diplomatic solution to the situation. It may require compromise, but you will come out ahead in the end.