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Charlie Brown wrote: ↑24 Mar 2019, 06:16 Thanks for the reading. It actually does make sense. Joan Marie did a reading for me recently and, since then, several readings have seemed to reinforce what hers said. I think that's what's happening here.

For the horizontal line, which I understand as describing the situation is right on. I did have an overabundance of burdens that caused me to metaphorically hibernate, putting myself 'on ice' so to speak. I feel like it's finally time for me to come out of that, which is not without its challenges. That's what's behind my question.

As to the vertical, advice line, stability and abundance are things I'm blessed with at the moment or at least a steady flow of money coming in. This leads to the book, which is where those other recent readings I've gotten come in. What I keep being told is that I need to start learning new things and/or get some further education in order to start moving forward again in life. So seeing the book come up at the end of the advice/solution line makes perfect sense here.

This question was about short term happiness. As it turns out, I've been having a very fulfilling time learning a new skill between when I asked the question and now. So the advice to channel my luxuries of time and money into knowledge seems to be accurate.


p.s. I've done your reading, but need to get the chance to do the write-up.

Charlie Brown wrote: ↑24 Mar 2019, 22:19 n.b. I'll update later with a picture

So what I've learned this month is that it's much easier for me to describe a situation with the cards that it is to interpret them as action. That is, this month everyone wants verbs instead of nouns. Therefore, I used a spread called "the mirror," which is used instead of a five-card line in situations where the cards are going to be read as instructions for action rather than descriptions of a situation. It's laid out from the center 4-2-1-3-5. The center card is the main theme or lens of the reading. Then cards 2+3 and cards 4+5 are read as pairs.

As an aside, your question made my mind go directly to this old classic from the 80s. I was definitely letting trying to get some of this energy into the reading for you.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vcvg4


What can Kare do to help get herself "right on track?"

Bear - Snake - Fish - Key - Ring

With the fish at the center, we can see that the reading is going to center around the idea of abundance. Alternatively, given the context, it might also be about your general "flow." Putting those two notions together might suggest an attitude that's sometimes known as an 'abundance mindset.' Let's see if that makes sense when we go through the rest of the cards.

Snake + Key: complicated answers? The certainty of something treacherous or duplicitous? How does that play out as a verb? To complicate? betray?

Bear + ring: maybe to force a commitment? Ring could mean to do something repeatedly? Bear can also be investment. Repeated investment as a verb might mean to practice something. Getting a sense of Snake/Key, which comes first, might help. Also, because we should read this through the focus of the fish, it seems probably that the bear's appearance is at least partially related to its financial meanings. The bear can also be protection, so this might mean that you should protect what's been promised to you.

I put the above stuff down rather than give a more comprehensive interpretation because I'm hoping that some of that will stimulate you when put into combination with the knowledge and context of your life that I don't have.

Now, given that I don't have your context, let's see if I can make some sense of this:

Because of the two financial cards and also the ring (and also because it's what I know about you from last month), I'm thinking that this reading has to do with work.

Last month, I read for you about your job situation. The cards, as I understand them, told you to stay in your current position. There were two caveats. One, the question as I understood it was primarily motivated by external considerations. What's going to give you good money, what's going to not fall through, etc. Two, really an extension of one, the presence of the man and child card in the top line contextualized the reading as being heavily influenced by the family as a whole, not just you personally.

Later in the month, I saw that you were asking another reader for more information about that job situation. I didn't read the thread too too closely, but the impression I got was that whether or not staying in your current position is the most sensible thing to do, that it isn't sitting particularly well with you personally. Regardless of what might be the externally 'best' choice, you're feeling the need for something different.

So...if that's the greater context within which to interpret these cards, then it would make sense to see them as encouraging you to approach the situation with an abundance mindset and come up with some with some innovative solutions. The key normally suggests that something is locked into place, but the snake is devious and finds a way. "Betray" that "certainty" and find a new way forward.

Honestly, I don't have a super firm sense of that bear. Either interpretation makes sense to me. Last month, the cards did encourage you to keep your present position. With that in mind, I these would say "Find an innovative way (snake+key) to make the job more to your liking whilst protecting your contract (bear+ring, alongside the fish's income)." On the other hand, if you've already decided that the present job just isn't for you anymore, then I think that I recall you saying that the problem with the potential new job is that they can't/won't commit to retaining you when you go overseas. In that case, they may be telling you to find a solution that forces that longer-term commitment onto them. That second interpretation could just as easily apply to a job that we haven't yet discussed.