What's in the Cards?
For Life
The Tarot's advice to help you live a life with conscious meaning.
Today's Theme for Daily Life
Being part of a con game
Something in your life is being influenced by flagrant dishonesty and emotional manipulation. Someone may be using your regard for him or your feelings for your relationship with him to grossly unfair advantage. The resources he may be commandeering with this weasely behavior include your time, your energy, your money, your caring concern, your love, and your material and physical possessions.
Often the "message" you are receiving from this person is along the lines of ... "If you really loved me," or "If you were really my friend," or "How can you think of hurting my feelings?" or "If you confront me on my dishonesty, I'll throw a tantrum."
The even less attractive possibility of this card in this position suggests you may be treating someone else this way. Whatever the case ... it's time for some new ground rules, for everybody's sake.
An extra piece of advice:
Knowing how you can be "played," conned, or manipulated is your best defense against unscrupulous tactics ... no matter who is trying to use them.

While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
~ Carol Gilligan ~
for Life
for Love
for Money
What's in the Cards?
For Love
The Tarot's advice to help you work constructively with
the challenges of relationships.
Today's Theme for Relationships
Healing
In the next few days, you may find yourself dealing with loss, disappointment, grief, and sadness -- but in a positive, healing way. Almost certainly the issue you are processing is "old news," and the information you will receive is evidence that you are healing, stronger, and better able to manage your life now, less impeded by past injuries than has been the case for a while.
You may also go through a period of reassessment, examination, and reverie regarding a time of injury and loss, and in doing so discover the strengths you gained and the important things you learned from the experience. It may not yet be enough to convince you the original experience was "worth it" ... and, in fact, that may never happen. But this is one way you can find "meaning" in something dreadful. And knowing there was meaning to something does make it more bearable. What you are really seeking is more comfort ... and by looking for that, you're liable to find it.
An additional thought to ponder:
Just as times for physical recuperation vary, so do periods of emotional recovery. The mind and heart have their own wisdom and their own cycle of change in such an experience, and while you can support and encourage emotional restoration -- just as you can physical healing -- you would be wise to honor this simple, but often ignored, fact of life.
Depending on the severity of a deep loss or emotional trauma, it can take a minimum of two years to return to "normal." Sometimes it takes longer. Sometimes, of course, you will never be completely "normal" again. But telling yourself to just "get over it" and "forget" is as futile, cruel, and potentially crippling as telling your broken ankle to "get it together" and then walking on it anyway ... as if nothing ever happened.

In the hour of adversity be not without hope
For crystal rain falls from black clouds.
~ Persian Poem ~
for Life
for Love
for Money
What's in the Cards?
For Money
The Tarot's advice to help you work with issues of
worth, value, survival, practicality, and pleasure ...
as a spiritual being in a material world.
Today's Theme for Money and Practical Concerns
Being focused in the wrong direction
You may soon confront someone hot-tempered, intolerant, unreliable, and undisciplined. The collision of personalities may be over an issue of money, "territory," possessions, financial management, economic concerns, income, or even "personal values." This kind of pushiness, of course, always gets on people's nerves.
If this person is you, notice how it may be time for an attitude adjustment. Even if your complaint is legitimate and your cause is just ... you may not be expressing yourself effectively. You may be just "griping" to everyone in general, rather than to the person who can help you fix the problem. Or you may be griping instead of acting. Or, you may be complaining about the wrong things ... leaving your problem intact in spite of help and adjustments. You need to examine your tactics.
If this person is someone else, notice the kind of response he provokes in you and everyone else around him. Consider how he might be better served with different strategies ... and consider this an object lesson for you to study without having to go through the problem first hand. Life can arrange those, too, you know.
An extra piece of advice:
Knowing your true worth and asserting it with confidence is not the same thing as arrogance. In fact, knowing what you can and cannot deliver as an important quality of genuine character. This is especially true in your relationships.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
~ Theodore Roosevelt ~
for Life
for Love
for Money

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