Current Influences

Justice

Justice is a very good card to find in your spread if you have acted with kindness and fairness towards others and especially if you have been a victim. It is a significant indicator of a positive resolution, although how and what sort will depend on your own experiences. If you have been unfair, abusive, or otherwise shady and immoral in your dealings, be careful. For the unjust, this card is, at best, a dire warning to change your ways before retribution falls upon you, and, at worst, a simple statement that it is already too late. In neutral cases, it may simply be telling you to seek out balance in your life.

Key interpretations:

  • Balance
  • Equality
  • Fairness
  • Justice
  • Law and legal matters

In this position, the card reveals:

Some decision in your life must be weighed carefully. The burden falls on your shoulders to decide what is right.

Obstacles

King of Wands

The King of Wands may signify an upcoming financial windfall for you. It can also represent an association with a masculine authority figure, a leader and arbitrator. You may find yourself aided in solving a dispute. Be open to the advice of those with more experience than yourself.

Key interpretations:

  • Authority figure
  • Financial gain
  • Honest and trustworthy
  • Mediation
  • Professional

In this position, the card reveals:

You will find unexpected success through help promoting your ideas.

Past Foundations

The Sun

As an inherently good influence, finding the Sun is a positive development. It suggests personal gain, and that personal goals and joy are within reach, if you are willing to invest the effort to actualize them. If you are embarking on a new personal venture, such as marriage or beginning a family, the Sun is of particular influence.

Key interpretations:

  • Abundance
  • Achievement
  • Joy
  • Productivity
  • Success

In this position, the card reveals:

Your past success has set the stage for your future joy.

Past Events

The Wheel of Fortune

Symbolic of life's cycles, the Wheel of Fortune speaks to good beginnings. Most likely, you will find the events foretold to be positive, but, being aspects of luck, they may also be beyond your control and influence. Tend to the things you can control with care, and learn not to agonize over the ones you cannot.

Key interpretations:

  • Change
  • Destiny
  • Good luck
  • Life cycles
  • New direction

In this position, the card reveals:

You will not make progress until you accept the way things have changed.

Goals and Destiny

Five of Wands

The Five of Wands is never a welcome card, as long tradition suggests you will be in line for struggle and aggravation. Pay close attention to the surrounding cards to discover clues about which areas of your life will be subject to these conflicts. Expect them to be rooted in competition, and console yourself that a positive solution is not outside your reach. Just be prepared for the possibility that the victory will come at a personal cost.

Key interpretations:

  • Anxiety
  • Conflict
  • Disagreement
  • Strife
  • Struggle

In this position, the card reveals:

You have mountains to climb in front of you. The obstacles ahead of you will only make your victory sweeter.

Future

Queen of Pentacles

The Queen is a card steeped in the tradition of family, and reflects a person, usually a woman, who is financially adroit, and possesses a very pragmatic, practical, nature. This person will come to your aid in some financial matter, most likely advice on how to better manage your money.

Key interpretations:

  • Abundance
  • Financial help
  • Practicality
  • Prosperity
  • Wealth

In this position, the card reveals:

Your own prosperity will arise from good use of your own practical talents.

The Querant (you)

The Tower

Dark and foreboding, the Tower is the embodiment of disruption and conflict. Not just change, but the abrupt and jarring movement caused by the unforeseen and traumatic events which are part of life. The Tower in your spread is always a threat, but life inevitably involves tragedy, and you must decide whether you will face it with grace.

Key interpretations:

  • Destruction
  • Dramatic change
  • Loss and ruin
  • New start
  • Unexpected events

In this position, the card reveals:

Conflict is not always a negative thing, and you will gain new inner awareness through a coming upheaval.

Friends and Family

Five of Cups

This card is a dark omen. Like the rest of its suit, it is bound your emotions, and it brings with it a warning of loss and disappointment. Expect a setback in your life, almost certainly emotional. It may be a project or goal you are particularly invested in emotionally. In certain positions it might also refer to events of the past which continue to cause regret or heartache. The only solution is optimism; this too shall pass.

Key interpretations:

  • Avoidance
  • Detachment
  • Loss
  • New hope
  • Regret

In this position, the card reveals:

You will form a new friendship or romantic entanglement, but it will never form the true bonds that withstand the passage of time.

Hopes, Fears, and Ideals

Seven of Swords

Another card which indicates forces opposing you, the Seven of Swords points to there being a single source of your frustration. This is both positive, in that you may be able to identify that source and change your circumstances, and negative, in that this source may well be aware of you and deliberately sabotaging you. The road to your success does not lie in direct confrontation, however, but instead in guile. Instead of attacking the obstacles raised against you, find ways around them.

Key interpretations:

  • Avoiding confrontation
  • Failure
  • Incomplete
  • Theft
  • Unknown opponents

In this position, the card reveals:

You must guard against false pride. If you do not, it will stop you from taking advice from others at a critical moment.

The Final Outcome

Ten of Pentacles

Your financial security and emotional well-being are both positively indicated by the presence of this card in your spread. This is only partially your own doing, however, as these positive aspects are inextricably bound up in your close relationships with friends and family. It may also foretell an inheritance.

Key interpretations:

  • Close relationships
  • Family
  • Fortune
  • Inheritance
  • Prosperous

In this position, the card reveals:

Your creative project or business endeavour will benefit others in the future.