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Today’s question is from a querant who asks “What is preventing me from moving ahead at work"?
I cleared and shuffled the deck, and for this one have assigned the positions as follows:
Card #1 – What about my querants personality is holding them back?
Card #2 – What about the way my querant works is holding them back?
Card #3 – What does he need to change in the way he communicates?
And the cards drawn are:
Card #1…The King of wands
The question here was “What about my querants personality is holding them back?” … Kings are leaders and teachers; they lend strength to those around them, and wands represent what you fight for, or what you make happen. This tells me my querant is a leader, an entrepreneur & a visionary person. He is confident and forceful in pursuit of his goals. He’s dramatic, daring & bold…and unafraid to rock the boat. These are great things for people who are in a position of leadership, but – and this is speaking from my professional career as opposed to my work as a tarot reader – these are things that can *at times* be truly exhausting in an employee. This card in this position is a signal that if he wants to advance, his best options would be to look for a new role or company where those skills are more valued at his level, or to really work on choosing his moments to bring out that passion and strength in his current role, and focus on tempering how he’s choosing to address his ideas with his managers/co-workers; perhaps he’s coming across as TOO strong, TOO opinionated, and not working well with others as a team player. If his relationship with his boss is good, I would suggest having a direct and honest conversation about the boss’s needs and expectations and how to move things forward in a positive way.
Card #2…The Ten of cups
The question here was “What about the way my querant works is holding them back?”. Tens are considered karmic cards, and they represent nearing the completion of a specific phase of your journey (after which a new phase begins, of course); when they appear, it’s a message to think about what you’re putting into the universe from a “your soul is a mirror” kind of perspective. The ten of cups specifically is about fulfillment, harmony & belonging and domestic (or in this case, we can assume office) happiness. In combination with the first card, I read this as a continuation of that message. I think this is a good sign that my querant is actually close to achieving part of the things he wants to achieve, but first he needs to work on building that sense of community and harmony with the people he’s interacting with. I’m going to guess he prefers to work alone, and by reaching out to connect with others and working more as part of a team and less as an individual contributor he’ll impress the folks up the ladder more.
Card #3 …The Devil
And our last position was “What does he need to change in the way he communicates?”. The Devil is an interesting card on a communication style position. The Devil card isn’t about the devil in the biblical sense, but is about things that tie you down, emotionally, spiritually, or physically – in many cases it represents addiction, obsession or unhealthy relationships – but in all cases are bonds that only we can choose to release ourselves from.
From a communication perspective, this would be a signal that my querant is or stays too focused on things, that he may be dismissive of truths that he knows but would rather not know, or that he may be blaming something (a scapegoat/devil) for his problems (it’s not me, it’s my boss/co-workers/company), rather than owning that he is the cause. This card here tells me he needs to take a hard look at how he communicates with others, and probably should invest time in more carefully thinking through what he says/writes before he expresses it, to make sure he’s not being passive-aggressive, refusing to let go when it’s not helpful to stay on a topic, or playing the blame game instead of working on how to move things forward in a positive way.
Whenever the Devil card comes up, I think of the message in the screen shot below. We’ve all made errors in our lives – no one advances to adulthood without screwing a few things up. We are all broken in various ways, and we all have our own personal devils in the things that we should (or wish we could) change or do differently. The important question is not whether or not you have any flaws. The question that matters is what are you going to do about them? What are the choices you can make today that make you stronger and more beautiful because of the cracks, rather than in spite of them?
So my final advice to my querant is to open himself up to honest feedback from the people at the office he’s having challenges with, refuse to get defensive and really hear what they’re saying, and make a decision to stay and move towards becoming the employee his company needs him to be to succeed there, or get working on moving on to someplace else that’s more suited to the way he is before he allows the current situation to make him bitter and angry.
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Wishing you all a most blessed day!
Paula @ FibonacciTarot
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