Career Advice from the Cards

 31 December 18:00   

    Career Advice from the Cards   by Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D.

    As a career consultant, I accommodated humans who feel they are continuing at a angle in the road, gluttonous Advice on whether to about-face appropriate or left. Acquire this job offer? Abandon from a arresting job? Acknowledgment to school?

    "I understand the acknowledgment is aural me," they say, "but how do I accretion admission to my close wisdom?"

    Besides journaling and meditating, I generally about-face to tarot cards, using a simple, single-card method.

    As you drag a deck, ask your question. Abstain yes/no questions, auspicious phrases like, "What will appear if I " Or just, "Give me an consequence of aftereffect X."

    Pull a individual card. Generally the angel will allege to you immediately. You ll accept a faculty that your intuition has been embodied in this individual card. For instance, Marie had just completed interviews with two companies. She was aswell because a acknowledgment to alum academy for a new career altogether.

    Marie drew "Death" for both of her accumulated options. She realizes that this agenda can announce a rebirth. However, as anon as Marie saw those cards, she acquainted her intuition was confirmed: "I sensed bounce all through the interview."

    For her third option, a new career , Marie drew the 5 of Cups. About the 5 of Cups agency "regret." Marie was confused: would she affliction the accommodation to acknowledgment to school?

    However, I suggested, this agenda ability announce affliction from not allotment this option. It could beggarly that she bare time to ache her accumulated career . Alternatively, it could beggarly that she would affliction the accommodation initially, but would feel abnormally later.

    I apprenticed Marie to reside with the accommodation and the agenda a little longer, accumulate added information, and use brainwork and journaling to enhance her intuition. And, I suggested, she could draw addition agenda later. In my own life, I accept begin that a two-card arrangement corresponds about to a banausic sequence. Alas, the cards do not crop Advice about breadth of anniversary sequence, but you understand there s achievement ahead.

    Another client, Mike, was not accustomed with tarot cards, which he associated with store-front clear balls. Mike had been laid off from a advantageous authoritative position, with a acceptable severance package..

    Mike drew the Three of Cups from a Rider-Waite deck. I encouraged him to abstraction the angel first, afore axis to appear interpretations. Mike batten of three women who seemed to be proposing a toast. They appeared actual focused on the cups and on anniversary other. Mike acquainted fatigued to the symbols of autumn and harvest: pumpkin, grapes, fruits, orange and chicken colors.

    Perhaps, Mike thought, he bare to autumn the fruits of his antecedent career . He could bless what he had stored up and use the fruits of the autumn for a new life.

    Mike had little absorption in belief acceptable meanings of this card. His own acknowledgment acquainted appropriate to him.

    Besides this method, I apostle the card-a-day adjustment to clue advance of a activity transition. Accumulate a tarot agenda intuition journal. Address down the question, draw a card, and almanac your card, After you can clue the capability of tarot cards for your own life. You may apprentice new meanings: "I anticipation this agenda meant abandonment but it absolutely meant I was declared to be waiting."

    My Rider-Waite accouter has become one of the alotof able accoutrement in my career coaching. I animate you to use your own cards to accumulate automatic acumen and enhance intuition as you adore career and activity change.