SOMETIMES TAROT.COM'S POSITIVE OUTLOOK AND SAGE-LIKE ADVICE ARE THE ONLY THINGS THAT KEEP ME GOING

... KINDLY ALLOW ME TO SHARE IT WITH YOU ALL.. MAYBE IT WILL BE HELPFUL TO SOMEONE ELSE.

[ALL CAPS IS THE NEW NO CAPS.]

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Near Future: Five of Cups

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POSITIONAL (MAIN) MEANING
Situations change and setbacks occur. While you accept that as the nature of the game, it doesn't mean the outcome will be unsatisfactory.

The card in the Near Future position indicates which way the wind is blowing with regard to your situation. If you follow the Advice card, however, you can improve on or neutralize tendencies.

With the Five of Cups in this position, you are called upon to temper inflated expectations. Whatever motivated you in the past no longer applies, because it's now apparent the situation is not going to turn out as you had wished. That doesn't mean it's destined to turn out badly. Reality takes a bite out of every dream. It's a natural adjustment to any ideal or vision. Occasionally we have to accept a humbling development.

Although you have some disappointment to work through, don't let it undermine your enthusiasm. You have not done the wrong thing, walked the wrong path or followed the wrong guidance. A zigzag path is just the nature of the path. You win some, you lose some. Don't let setbacks take you out of the game.

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P.S. I WAS ALSO ADVISED TO "have confidence in [my] natural divinity" and "throw off any cultural conditioning that keeps me from being authentic with myself", which is quite interesting, particularly in light of ..... well, everything. i don't have time to get into it right now, but it's big.. and it's great.. and it's so strange, because i've spent my entire life 'looking ahead' -- i spent most of elementary school thinking about becoming an opthamologist and an egyptologist; i spent most of middle school researching private high schools; i spent most of high school thinking about college; i've spent a lot of time in college looking at graduate programs ... i was always so much more concerned with where i was going than where i was... (and with who and what i was going to be, rather than who and what i was [am]) and i just assumed that to be some fundamental part of 'me'; that i couldn't [and would never] be happy in the present any time i felt like there was nothing but giant question marks looming on the horizon ..

but suddenly... right now... i am.

not just happy with the present, either, but actually excited about the fact that i have absolutely no idea where anything might go from here ... and maybe that's not so bizarre.. i certainly know people who absolutely thrive on change and open-endedness s ,but i've never been one of them ... or, rather, i've never considered myself to be one.. crazy... and just when i thought i had it all figured out ...

who knew?


[everybody but me, it seems like]