Wednesday, September 01, 2021

Tarot de Marseille: What is this meeting about?

This reading was done for my friend C.L right before she had a meeting she was a nervous about. She's in the process of preparing herself to leave the place she works at, and she feared this sudden meeting was about sending her away before she was ready to.

So I pulled 5 cards from my old Majors-only Tarot de Marseille and laid them in a Peladan Spread. I wanted to know, objectively, what the meeting was about and whether she had any reason to worry.

As soon as I looked at the cards, I knew she had no reason to worry.

What a slow reading. My first impression what that the meeting definitely wasn't about anything urgent. The Hermit, the High Priestess, the Temperance... hardly the material of a cataclysm.

My interpretation was that the meeting was about bringing a situation to light. It was not the moment to keep secrets (High Priestess in the negative position), but rather to shed light and reveal things. The Wheel of Fortune suggested that an opportunity might appear. It also gave me the impression that this meeting would set her situation in her job at motion, but that any changes that came would happen slowly and require careful planning and balancing (Temperance). She would have time to do her things her way. No catastrophe, nothing terribly urgent.

The Justice as an advice told me she needed to be very objective about whatever she had to say during this meeting. No appealing to emotions, only facts. And if any offers came, she needed to ponder about them rationally and be very clear about her choice.

After the meeting happened, C.L told me they wanted to offer her a new position of work – one that she had already rejected at heart, because it would involve working with the very people that were making her want to quit. She also said that she did most of the talking and that, indeed, the meeting ended up being an opportunity for her to show the reality of her situation and how she had been forced into isolation by the decisions of some people in her workplace (which fits the Hermit nicely). She brought up the injustices she had suffered, which also reflect the Justice card in the advice position.

So she said no to their offer, and announced she was going to leave by the end of the year. Her decision had already been made before the meeting, but revealing it publicly gave her the impulse to actually prepare to quit her job.

This reading was interesting because I got the feedback on the same day I did it. I still think I am a bit rusty. There were factors that I missed and that only became clear to me after the feedback. Still... I wasn't completely off beam and that's good too!

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