Hi! Very new to tarot and this is my first and only deck. To start, the court is replaced with non-hierarchical names so for the purposes of this spread the Guide of Wands is equivalent of the King of Wands and the Explorer of Pentacles is equivalent of the Queen of Pentacles. (the name of the deck included for anybody interested! It’s Asian American girl going road tripping themed)
The spread I chose was a Past, Present, Future with a question of “What should I do next in my career?”
Cards:
The Hermit
King of Wands reversed (Guide of Wands - displayed upright in this photo for better understanding of the imagery)
Queen of Pentacles reversed (Explorer of Pentacles - displayed upright in this photo for better understanding of the imagery)
Context: I work in mental health as a private practice therapist. But I feel increasingly burnt out by it each passing day and although in my day to day with my clients, I thoroughly enjoy the work and the impact, I am burnt out. My body is even feeling it; I went to a massage therapist recently who exclaimed that I was the TENSEST person she’s ever massaged.
I want to end my private practice but I don’t know what else to do next. I enjoy the flexibility of being my own boss and helping others but it’s 1) not paying well and 2) again I am burnt out. I toyed with the idea of creating something else but not sure what.
My interpretation:
Ok be gentle because I am super new to this but I’m assuming that the Hermit for past kinda speaks to why I was drawn to mental health in the first place — to better understand my own upbringing, my own family, my own experience with mental health. But in the present, I am too caught up in perfectionism or maybe doing what I think is expected of someone with my degree/career history. For future, I absolutely love how the Queen of Pentacles is portrays in this deck as lounging in a green flora-filled bath. It feels like an invitation to stop trying to grind and find rest. However, I don’t understand reversals so I’m not sure what the two court cards reversed is warning me of. This deck’s guidebook tries to paint reversals of “releasing” and what needs to be released.