Future Tarot

Maribel wrote in for a L-for-Love Spread. She offered no details on her current relationship or situation, but the tarot revealed insight into her deepest thoughts and desires, along with her best course of action to avoid the future she does not want.

Past Experience in Love – Page of Wands

The reading begins with our Page of Wands standing on the seashore looking off into a bright future ahead. Love was new, pleasant and full of surprise and wonder. Maribel spent hours planning the future with her lover, down to the minute detail, and had every expectation it would go as planned.

Current Experience in Love – The Sun

Things are still currently good and in a growth stage, as shown by the major arcana, The Sun. This card often indicates fertility, a birth or family planning, but can also relate to a spiritual breakthrough.

Maribel is ready to move on from the fresh new Page of Wands stage of the relationship to something more intense and serious. She seeks a spiritual connection from her lover but he is still only interested in “fun in the sun.”

Factors you’re not seeing currently – King of Pentacles

Maribel is not seeing the “King of Pentacles” traits in her lover. In her eyes, he hasn’t grown up. The tarot would urge Maribel to take a second look – perhaps he is the mate you dream of, a strong influence, a financial provider, a caregiver and partner in all things – spiritual and material. He could be the perfect partner to “set up shop” and maintain a home with – but you’re not giving him that chance to be. This is revealed in greater depth later, when we see that what you offer a relationship, Maribel, are the traits of the Hermit: deep thoughts, pensiveness, introspection. Don’t let your partner’s lighthearted ways fool you – he’s deeper than he lets on. I want to say “still waters run deep,” but your partner is anything but still waters. On the contrary, he is the Page of Wands in action – he’s poetry and dance and energy and fire.

What you Need from a Love Relationship – Three of Cups

More than anything else in this spread, this card tells us you’re so ready for marriage, children – that greater commitment. In fact, that need is so strong, you’re willing to sacrifice what you do have in the pursuit of the commitment your current partner has been, so far, unwilling to make. With the Three of Cups tarot asks you to examine things from all angles. A wedding is one day. A ring, only a symbol of love. Can your partner, perhaps, be your King of Pentacles even without those things?

Your greatest strengths in a relationship/What you Offer – The Hermit

No doubt, Maribel, you bring maturity to the relationship. More so, this card indicates your discontent, even restlessness. But The Hermit tells us now is not the time for hasty decisions – more thought and consideration is needed. The Hermit in the Robin Wood Tarot Deck is on a quest, his lantern above his head illuminating the way. Continue seeking what you need. It may be time, in the future, to move on, but don’t be too quick to give up what you have.

Maribel’s Hermit is a strong counterpoint to her lover’s Page of Wands. He’s in the spotlight, she prefers the dark corners of her mind. He loves action. She likes to think. Rather than being a bad thing, though, this could strengthen their relationship. Vive la Difference!

Possible Future Outcome – Three of Swords

Maribel, your restlessness, if things continue on this path, could end in break-up. It will be painful but, like cutting away a dead branch so the rest of the plant will thrive, you feel it would be necessary. In this case, the Three of Swords indicates that sacrificing this relationship is not necessarily the best course of action, though. There’s a thread going through this reading – psychic intuition, if you will – that the two of you are meant to be together.

Serenity Bly corroborates my thoughts on this: “The Three of Swords indicates the contention going on simply because he’s fundamentally unchangeable and she’s unsettled by his liveliness. But I don’t get any sense that this relationship is doomed. I actually feel like this man is perfect for her. She NEEDS his sunshine. Without it she’ll disappear into the darkness. She is more of herself, she reaches higher, goes further, and becomes greater, because of his influence.”

Clarification Card – Page of Cups

With this in mind, Miss Michele couldn’t let the reading rest in this way. She drew a final card to determine how Maribel may best avoid this outcome if careful thought shows it’s not what she truly wants.

A card that has been sharing many different messages with us lately comes up: the Page of Cups. And so we’ve come full circle with yet another new beginning, another Page. Like the Page of Wands, the Page of Cups is full of adventure and wonder. Highly-creative, he is also as pensive as the Hermit at times. This Page of Cups is telling Maribel to look outside herself, and to also look at her lover with new eyes. Is he giving you what you need? Let loose, have fun. Remember how to play again.

Serenity Bly adds: “The Page of Wands might be difficult to tie down but he will listen if she can communicate without blame. Yes, she needs to experience the Page of Cups first, introspection, look within herself for any issues she might have that are internal rather than external. When she’s come to terms with what she truly needs from him, talk to him about those needs because he has the fire and love to want to make her world beautiful and he will do everything in his power to make her happy.”

OrganizedWriter asks: I have a feeling I may see some new developments on the relationship front. Is my boyfriend planning to propose soon?

The past, or heart of the matter, shows a card that clearly represents the boyfriend–a stable force in OrganizedWriter’s life, who has been there for quite a while. The King of Pentacles provides financial security, and may also indicate that boyfriend has been saving for a ring…he’s doing this the smart way!

This card also indicates positive changes regarding organization, business plans, and devotion to entrepreneurship going on in Organized Writer’s life. She may have recently undergone a self-improvement program–okay, Miss Michele *knows* she has–that is bringing financial and business success.

We often find that when we make improvements in our life, taking matters into our own hands, it comes to pass that we get what we need and want from others, as well. This is the situation here!

The near future shows the Six of Cups, a card often indicating “the good old days.” In this case, what OrganizedWriter wants is not her *own* past, per se, but a typical happy family unit, complete with marriage and possibly even more kids. It will happen… actually, it IS happening…but not with the conventional symbols (ie, proposal and marriage) just yet.

The Nine of Pentacles in the Final Outcome supports the tarot’s assertion that a pregnancy/new child could be in the future. The Nine of Pentacles is the card of fertility. It also represents newfound self-sufficiency, which is what OrganizedWriter is experiencing right now. Emphasis seems to be on business and finance. I would say financial obstacles may be blocking the proposal at this moment, but it will happen when the stars align and the timing is right.

Mysti trades car advice (“go with a Honda!”) for a Tarot reading. She poses two questions to Miss Michele:

Is this marriage going to finally happen? Will our family finally grow?

So Miss Michele asks the tarot, “What will be so between Mysti and her significant other?”

What a great reading to begin a New Year! Miss Michele started with a three-card spread, but felt called to draw two more cards. The short answers to Mysti’s questions are: yes and yes.

Temperance, a Major Arcana, in the past indicates an equilibrium in the relationship. Life is moving on, both parties are happy. They have learned the art of compromise, sharing and all that a happy relationship entails. They are content.

The present, the Queen of Cups, indicates Mysti’s desire to give more. In fact, the card represents Mysti herself, the nurturer and caregiver. Mysti’s intuition tells her it’s time to take this relationship to the next level.

The Tarot’s advice comes in the Page of Rods. Pages often indicate the delivery of good news. They herald change of a good sort. The Tarot advises Mysti to use her intuition, keep her eyes open for hints and indications that her significant other is ready to take the next step. Rods indicate the final stages of activity before a change. The Tarot advises Mysti to be patient. This card may also symbolize Mysti’s son, who will play a role in this next step of their life… perhaps he will figure in to the proposal or be a ring bearer in the wedding?

Hidden Influences show all good things in the future. The World card, the epitome of the Major Arcana and all that is complete, reveals itself. The hidden influence isn’t that hidden at all. The Universe has a desire to give Mysti all she wants. This is the end of a phase and the start of a new one. The Tarot tells Mysti to prepare for the next step in life.

The Outcome, logically following the culmination of all that is good, is the Ace of Cups, a card of new beginnings. This card can indicate gifts, the next stage in a relationship, or a pregnancy.

The Tarot didn’t give us a time frame, but coming as it has at the beginning of the New Year, Miss Michele is inclined to say the events will be put into motion in 2008.