The Fool is a pleasure-seeking, playful, and sociable card. If you are looking for love, it’s a great card to inspire your romantic adventure. Create your online dating profile, take some big social risks, and put your beautiful self out into the world. Your “one true love” might not show up quickly, but at least you’re going to have fun searching for them! If you are questioning your current romance, The Fool can be read as a person inexperienced in love (either you or your partner), or it can be read about the state of your relationship in general.  Maybe you need to be more playful and bring the fun back into your partnership? Reconsider your romantic life as a crazy adventure and find new and exciting things to try together. Rekindle the spark that brought you together by playing games, asking questions, and finding a hobby or physical activity you can share.

This is a particularly good card for creative problem solving. Use your intuition, creativity, and imagination for new solutions. Shrug off outside pressure and trust your knowledge, skills, talents, and experience. You know what to do, so trust yourself and don’t keep your solutions to yourself. If you are having problems at work, there is something unsaid or unknown about the situation. When moving forward, proceed with extreme caution and be very careful about what you do and say. Watch out for awful coworkers or colleagues who may be jealous about your success and skills. If they are talking behind your back, they may be creating bigger problems you will have to clean up later. Don’t let your anxiety get the best of you, though. Things aren’t necessarily negative. They are simply unseen and unknown.

If you are single and looking for love, The High Priestess guides you to go within yourself to find what you really desire. Are you looking for a committed relationship with a true partner or some no-strings fun with a handful of wonderful people? Or a mix of both? All answers are perfectly okay, but only one of them is the right answer for you. In a relationship, The High Priestess calls for you to trust your “feminine” instincts. Be receptive to the love you are being given and give open-hearted love in return. In all relationships (not just romantic ones), keep the secrets you are given and don’t go blabbing or gossiping about somebody else’s business. Being a secret-keeper is an honor, so be worthy of that responsibility by keeping your pretty mouth shut.

The Hermit card is a meditative and restive card. If you are looking for ways to increase your fitness, try yoga, tai chi or long walks alone. Rest, relaxation, and especially sleep are vital to your health. Reduce the stress in your life, say a strong NO to obligations and busyness, and take care of yourself. Put your own needs first. It’s very common to use “busyness” as a way of avoiding our problems. Keeping ourselves “too busy” means we never have to deal with the fear, pain, and suck of life. The Hermit requires a different way. When you eliminate all of the busyness and sit with the problem, you will eventually find a new way of dealing with it. Yes, it’s uncomfortable, but the only way out is through.

The Judgment card sometimes anticipates a loss through a lawsuit, or a final decision or sentencing. Do an internal audit of your finances to see if you are in danger of losing money through bad investments, debts, or past mistakes. Come clean and clear up your mess before it catches up with you. Take control, be humble, and do the work to regain the trust you’ve lost. 

If you’ve been spending more than you’d like, the pattern can’t continue. There is only one way to get out of debt and it requires you to stop spending more than you are earning. You need to face this fact and align your choices with reality. Pretending things will work out somehow isn’t a plan. Neither is avoidance, denial, or blame. Take charge of your own mess and clean it up yourself. No one can do this for you.