Future Tarot

As anyone who follows this blog knows, we launched Future-Tarot to help others through our intuitive abilities and knowledge of the tarot. We continue to offer extremely low cost readings because, when you get down to it, Future-Tarot is largely a labor of love.

Along with the one-year anniversary of Future-Tarot this month, we are also celebrating a very special first birthday. On July 28, 2008, Simon Gabriel (son of Mysti and Rob) was born at 24 weeks gestation, weighing only 1 lb 7 ounces and measuring 12 inches long.

In honor of Simon’s first birthday, for the next week, beginning today and continuing until Friday, July 31 (Midnight, EST) we will donate all money from tarot orders to March of Dimes, the nonprofit organization devoted to pregnancy and newborn health and dedicated to helping prevent infant mortality, birth defects and premature birth. We can think of no better way to honor Simon’s very existence, as well as his mom’s perseverance and strength of character.

Miss Michele will be appearing Live on the RadioXShow next Wednesday night, July 29, around 11:00 PM. While she will be offering free readings, as always, on the show, she will also graciously accept donations to the March of Dimes during her appearance.

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.