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Reaching the Goal Reading
A four-card reading that explores your goal, the qualities you hold that can help you achieve that goal, what you are doing that may be hindering you from the achievement of the goal, and how you can reach that goal.  A nice reading for when you have a goal or need to make one, and you want to put things in perspective in order to realize the goal you've set for yourself.

The Reaching the Goal Tarot Reading is: $40

Creative Vision Reading
This reading is useful for when you are working on a creative project . . . either something you are just starting, or one that is already in progress, but is completed through a series of phases.  The information gained from this reading can help you examine your creative vision as each new stage of progress is ready to be launched or implemented.  Learn in advance, through this five-card reading, what you need to work on in order to find success . . . and how to make the most efficient use of your time, energy, and other resources.  As a snapshot of things to come, this is a very informative reading for your creative endeavors and goals.
This 5-card reading covers the following areas:

• Most Important -- The most important thing about your project or goal.  Information regarding your assets and help in clarifying your intentions.  Any problems or things things that you need to consider as you begin work on your goal.
• Abstract-- The abstract, intellectual, emotional, creative energy behind your effort.  Information on the solidity, practicality, or feasibility of your vision.
• Foundation -- Assets you have to build on -- especially if the "Abstract" shows problems.  Any serious flaws, problems, or liabilities in the basic support structure of your goal.
• Physical-- The practical, physical, concrete, real, and tangible results you can create as things stand now.  What you can produce if you bring your project to completion.
• Foundation-- An "ace in the hole" that may be available to help in bringing your project to a successful conclusion.  Something you can depend on for the real results that you are striving for . . . but can also point to something "shaky" or unreliable in the structures for which you would need to enhance or fortify in order to properly support your venture and gain the results you intended.

The Journey of My Endeavors Reading
If you are starting something new -- whether a new job, a career, a project, or even a relationship -- this reading will help you explore your endeavors.  It moves from the beginnings of the situation and the inspiration you find from this through the stages of learning/apprenticeship, actions to take, and what you will ultimately accomplish.  If the accomplishment in your mastery is less than desirable, then there will be things from the reading to look at closely to see where you might need to adjust your course . . . and if the mastery of your accomplishment is pleasing, then you can see how you are on the right track and what you want to maintain in the journey of your personal endeavor.
This 5-card reading covers the following areas:

• Beginner -- The basis of the question.  What you are starting.
• Inspiration -- What inspires you about this endeavor.
• Apprenticeship -- What you have to learn about these beginnings or what you are starting.
• Journey -- Action you need to take concerning this endeavor or situation.
• Master -- What you accomplish.

The Magician's Table Reading
When you are looking for the right "ingredients" and applications for a project or venture, this reading can show you the elements that are needed to create a balanced and successful endeavor.  The Magician's Table reading takes a look at how you can best use and develop your creative talents, how to successfully conduct relationships with children, family members, friends, or love interests.  It can show you how to make the most of what you have to offer in the things you love to do . . . the things you want to do or accomplish.

When you want to make things happen -- to turn ideas into reality . . . turn to the Magician's Table!  The Magician of the Tarot has all the tools available to him in order to manifest his will and accomplish a goal.  On his table lies the Sword of Intellect, the Wand of inspiration, the Cup of Emotion, and the Pentacle of Practicality -- all of which are tools from the Minor Arcana of the Tarot deck.  This reading utilizes one card from the Major Arcana of the Tarot in addition to one card from each of the four suits of the Tarot (Cups, Wands, Swords, and Pentacles).

If you have the willpower to direct your energy in the direction you want it to go -- and are willing to approach your life or situation with a creative and original attitude . . . this reading can help you.  Through your confidence, you can gain the the knowledge and the ability to tackle important issues that need to be dealt with so that success can be achieved.

This 5-card reading covers the following areas:

• Theme-- The theme you are working with in your efforts.  What you need to emphasize, strengthen, rely on, correct, or adjust.  This could either be an asset to you . . . or a problem area in your goals that will require some additional work and effort.
• Concept-- The idea, concept, philosophy, plan, or intellectual work that forms the foundation of your project.
• Emotional Energy-- The creative energy, love and care, effort, and background work that goes into the development and execution of your project.
• Inspiration & Leadership-- The leadership, inspiration, vision, promotional efforts, and personal investment that will go (or needs to go) into your project or venture.
• Result-- The final result, the tangible product, the real creation of your project.  The practical nature of this endeavor.

On the One Hand . . . and on the Other Reading
This reading will help you look back over your history and assess what you have that you can count on and build with for a stable, well-ordered future.  The concerns of this reading help you analyze what you have in life and how to use these components to create what you want in life.  It is designed to address how you can take the assets in your possession and use them to create the ambition, desire, conditions, lifestyle, or circumstances you want in your life.
This 5-card reading covers the following areas:

• Driving -- What is in your heart, the state of your desire, and what may be fueling -- or driving -- the ambitions you want to fulfill and the conditions you want to create in your life.
• Support / Interference -- Something else in the situation. Something that either supports the driving force or interferes with it.  May be something you haven't come to terms with or something you don't consciously know about.
• Past Resource -- A resource from the past that you have in your possession now.
• Present Resource -- A resource you are drawing into the present.
• Outcome -- This is what you will most likely create out of this desire, its foundation, and the use you make of the two major resources that can be invested toward its creation.

Pride and Joy Reading
Pride and Joy takes a look at the way you can best use and develop your creative talents, how to successfully conduct your relationships with your children, how to promote yourself in everything from artistic projects to romantic interludes, ideas, and how to make the most of what you have to offer in the things you love to do. It is an informational layout to use when you're ready to "get serious" about having fun in your life.

This is a useful reading for any of the following situations:
*A project, artistic effort, or a creative enterprise that you will really enjoy doing.
*Something concerned with fun, play, leisure, hobbies, or entertainment you would like to pursue.
*Something concerned with children or other creative efforts you might consider to be "your baby."
*Something that requires your personal touch to be formed or created.
*Something that is your "pride and joy."
*Something that may involve taking a risk, a gamble, or dealing with speculation.
*A situation where you are promoting yourself or are in the "spotlight" somehow.
*Something that puts you on display and gains you attention from others for being unique.

This 5-card reading covers the following areas:

• Theme -- What you need to emphasize, strengthen, rely on, correct, or adjust. This is always a Major Arcana card.
• Leadership -- The leadership, vision, promotional efforts, and personal investment that will go (or needs to go) into your project.
• Result -- The final results, the tangible product, the "real creation" of your project.
• Concept -- The idea, concept, philosophy, plan, or intellectual work that forms the foundation of your project.
• Energy -- The creative energy, love and care, effort and background work that goes into the development and execution of your project.

The Short Five Reading
This five-card reading is especially helpful for business endeavors, actions being considered, or other goals and plans that you are striving to achieve.  It shows how your idea, project, or goal will be influenced by others.  And it helps you discover what action may be the most appropriate based on your individual circumstances and what the cards have shown.
This 5-card reading covers the following areas:

• The Question: The question being asked in symbolic terms.
• The Background: The general situation and events leading up to the question.
• The Seeker: The person asking the question.  May show what the seeker has done to try to answer the question, or it may indicate the character strength (or flaws) which have the most bearing here.
• The Environment: The external impact on this situation, including the influence of friends, family, and associates.
• The Answer: The appropriate action to take.

Work in Progress Reading
This reading is designed to examine a creative project, a piece of work, or a "job" that seems either a bit more important than your ordinary effort or that needs closer examination to understand it better. It can apply to any project where you're investing yourself and your labor -- even the work you put into a relationship.
This 5-card reading covers the following areas:

• Creation -- What this work will eventually create for or mean to you.  Something that may become clear only in retrospect.
• Unconcious -- Unconscious motives, basic inspiration, fundamental source of energy, a need you want to satisfy, or assets you have to draw on.
• Concious -- Conscious thoughts, attitudes, opinions, intellectual directions, what you openly intend to produce ... or what your thoughts are creating from the work you're providing.
• Next Step -- The next step in the development of this effort.
• Outcome -- Ultimate result, product, or destination of this effort.

Manifesting the Goal Reading
This reading helps you work with a goal, dream, or enterprise you wish to create, but which feels stalled at the moment, for whatever reasons.  It offers a "road map" of what to look for as you move "from here to there" once the travels of your journey do get underway again at last.  Consider carefully what this goal is for you . . . something you're truly prepared to work for and claim.  This reading specifically addresses the request:  "Please tell me what to look for, work on, and do to manifest this goal."
This 6-card reading covers the following areas:

• Card 1:  Now -- Where you are now with your goal.
• Card 2:  Next -- Where you are going next.  What you need to look for, work on, claim, produce, or correct.
• Card 3:  Next Milestone -- Your next Milestone.  Can be a pivotal moment . . . or a "crisis" point.
• Card 4:  Final Hurdle -- Your final hurdle or challenge before completion.
• Card 5:  Outcome -- Where you will arrive.
• Card 6:  Focus -- What you can do now.  What specific thing you can work with, think about, focus on, or correct to break the logjam and start moving faster or more productively.

New Venture Reading
Do you have a new venture, project, or goal on the drawing board and ready to roll with . . . but perhaps need some self-promotion to inspire you?  This reading can help with your new designs and plans.  For whatever it is that has caught your fancy, you'll want to keep the flame alive.  If this sounds like your situation, you can benefit from the advice of the "New Ventures" reading.  It will help you evaluate your resources, show you where to focus your attention, and will define the issues at hand.  A good question to address with this reading is:  "Please provide insight and advice regarding my new venture."  Or you can specifically name the plan, goal, or venture that you are ready to embark upon.
This 6-card reading covers the following areas:

• Central Issue -- What you are trying to accomplish or any special concerns you may have on this venture.
• Responsibility -- Your personal responsibility in this matter.  What you need to do or what commitments may be involved.
• Supply -- What you need to supply or correct to build proper foundations.
• Public Action -- What you need to openly do or act on -- something that goes beyond the planning stages to the point of action.
• Next Step -- What comes next or what you must have in place in order to move on to that next step.
• Most Important -- The most important thing for you to keep in mind. Advice and inspiration to help keep the flame alive in your new venture, goal, or project.

Situation Analysis Reading
How can you use your passion to fuel the achievement you want?  This reading can help you learn how to do that, as it is designed to analyze a situation for which you have a passionate desire and a heartfelt dream to achieve, but that still remains unfulfilled despite your genuine and undeniable wish to make it happen.  It can involve an unfulfilled desire, an opportunity, or a new creative project.  It offers suggestions about what actions you can take, what resources you can apply, and what changes you need to make in order to accomplish your goals.

This reading can help you define what you are really trying to accomplish and determine if you are on the right track to achieve it.  It provides information about what is helping or hurting you in your question to claim this goal.  It will uncover a key element to reaching success on the matter.  It examiners your thinking and intentions that you apply, whether they are supportive or not of your efforts.

This 6-card reading covers the following areas:

• Issue -- This card gives important information in a comment or description about the situation you are facing.
• Help / Hindrance -- This card describes the key advantage you can apply here . . . or the major obstacle you will have to overcome.
• Key -- This card gives a comment or piece of advice about how to handle the complexities of this outer situation.
• Ideas / Illusions -- This card tells what is solid and dependable, or what is not, regarding your thinking on this matter.
• Reality -- This card describes what exists in reality, what you definitely have to work with, or what you lack and need to supply.
• Reconciliation -- This card gives information on applying your inner resources, realigning your focus, or adjusting your expectations to help yourself succeed.

The Cake Reading
When you are pursuing a new endeavor or working on a specific goal . . . this could be compared to "baking a cake."  The cards will show you the "ingredients" you have to work with, how things will come together, and where you need to get more "fired up," motivated, or determined.  It also shows any obstacles that might try to hinder your efforts and whether you should pursue this choice or not.  It shows what you will gain upon completion . . . and discusses your highest hopes for this endeavor.  Throughout the reading, pieces of advice offered can be used or discarded at your own free will and preference.
This 7-card reading covers the following areas:

• The Ingredients:  What I have to work with
• The Batter:  How well will it all come together?
• The Preheating of the Oven:  Where do I need to get 'fired up"?
• The Baking: What may be an obstacle (undercooked or overcooked)?
• The Cooling Off:  Should I pursue this course of action?
• The Icing: What I will gain when the baking is done?
• The Candle: My highest hope for this endeavor

Chariot Reading
Are you looking to gain mastery and victory in regard to a goal you've set for yourself, including the overall directions that your life is taking?  This reading layout is good for when you want to gain control of the direction your life is taking -- or the goals you are working on in the process. It shows you what is on the road you are following.  What is under your shell is your true self.  Your unresolved contradictions may seem like problems, but they are a source of your success.  What stands in your way is the mask you feel you must keep up.
This 7-card reading covers the following areas:

• The Goal -- The goal you want to gain control of and achieve.
• The Direction -- The direction of the goal (things to consider to put yourself on the right path for what you want).
• Under the Shell -- Your true self (including your real desires).
• Unresolved Contradictions -- Things that may seem like problems on the surface, but are a source of your success.
• The Test -- How you meet the challenges or the opposing forces that come up.
• The Mask -- How you present yourself to the world or the appearance you are trying to keep up.
• The Victory -- What you ultimately attain.

The Harvest Reading
When you need to look at the big picture to see where you are heading and where you need to go in an endeavor, this 7-card reading will take a look at what you want and show what "seeds" need to be planted in terms of actions, attitudes, or beliefs.  It shows what can help you attain your desired goal as well as the challenges you might face.  The cards then point you in the direction of what you are gaining or what you "harvest" from your efforts.  The key to the big picture will include information to help you look at the overall big picture and to see if you are on track . . . or if something needs to change.
This 7-card reading covers the following areas:

• What you want.
• What seeds you need to sow to get what you want.
• What new beliefs you need in order to promote growth.
• Who or What helps.
• What Challenges you face.
• What you harvest.
• The key to the big picture.

New Projects and Endeavors Reading
This is a reading to use when you start a new project -- one you expect to be fairly lengthy and important -- where advice on how to proceed, what to emphasize, and how best to employ your strengths would be useful. As with most effective Tarot layouts, this one gives you a view of the terrain you are entering, the possibilities ahead, and an assessment of how well equipped and prepared you are to take on this new endeavor.
This 7-card reading covers the following areas:

• Situation Assessment -- Assessment of the present situation.  Something fundamental to what's happening with you in your public life at the moment.
• Next -- What happens next.  Can represent an experience you'll meet, an asset you'll have to claim, or a problem you'll have to solve.
• Turning Point -- A definite turning point in the "business as usual" conduct of your career, your prestige, your authority, endeavor, etc.  It is very likely the catalyst for change.
• Obstacle or Asset -- A hurdle you will have to cross or an asset you will find as a result of moving through the experiences of your "turning point."
• Gift -- An experience you will have, a gift you will receive, a reward, or a correction you will make that sets you on the path to your next highest level of growth in your endeavor.
• Next -- After this period of change and transition, this is what will happen next.
• Transition -- What you're moving into.  The point at which you'll know you've successfully made the grade and arrived at your new location.  This can assure you of smooth sailing, or it could pose some problems for what you are moving into.

The Beginning Tree Reading
This is a helpful reading when you are planning or preparing for a new venture of any kind.  Learn about the deep issues that are pushing you toward the venture.  Learn how your talent will support this, and how others will react to it.  The reading will also show how this venture could change you and your life . . . and what can be expected if you begin the venture as planned at this time.
This 9-card reading covers the following areas:

• The root of the venture.  The deep issues pushing you toward it.
• Early growth of the venture.  How your talents and actions will support it.
• The flowering of the venture.  How others will react to it.
• The fruition of the venture.  How it will change you and your life.
• Details from your past to consider before you begin your venture.
• Details that will arise as the venture develops.
• The overall outcome.  What can be expected if the venture begins as planned at this time.

Crescent Moon and Star Reading
This ten-card reading is useful for questions pertaining to goals for a job or a project.
This 10-card reading covers the following areas:

• Fear -- What I fear if I don't reach my goal.
• Inner Obstacle -- How am I limiting or restricting myself or otherwise holding myself back?
• Environment -- How my surroundings or environment affects me.
• Sacrifice -- Sacrifice I need to make in order to reach my goal.
• Potential -- What I am capable of at my best.
• Ideal -- The best or most ideal circumstances to reach this goal.
• Aid -- What will help me reach the ideal conditions.
• Hindrance -- What could hinder me from reaching the goal.
• Key -- What to keep in mind while trying to reach the goal.
• Potential Outcome

Creating Life Reading
This is a helpful reading when you have a goal, project, or creative work that you want to accomplish.  The title "Creating Life" is fitting for this reading, as it talks about your abilities to give life to what you wish to achieve.  It's a contemplative layout that makes you think about things and can turn your thinking to the positive light that will inspire you and give you the strength to reach your goals.
This 13-card reading covers the following areas:

• The Calling - What is your motivation?  What is calling you, pushing you, pulling you to manifest this particular vision?
• The Spirit - What is the spirit, the vision?  What helps you connect with spirit, the genie behind the work?  What desires or requires expression?
• The Form - What is the form best suited to your vision?  How might the spirit best be made manifest?  What is the labor required?
• My Doubts - What makes you doubt your vision?  What denies you the right to your work and the rewards of your work?
• My Faith - What makes you trust your vision?  What helps you believe in yourself?  How do you maintain flow through completion of the work?
• Finding Depth - How much of yourself can you put into this work?  How much emotion?  What events of your past might illuminate your work?
• Adding Breadth - How much of the world can you put into this work?  Where can you find resources and inspiration outside of yourself?
• Outer Obstacle - What are the habits and responsibilities that keep you from your work?  How might they be overcome?  How might they be changed?
• Inner Obstacle - What shadows might rear their ugly heads during this work?  What attitudes and emotions should you beware?
• Starting Over - What needs rethinking or redoing?  Where are you straying from your vision?  Where might you need to abandon your vision?
• Inner Gift - What strength and knowledge will you find upon completion of this work? How will continuing your work change you for the better?
• Outer Gift - What rewards can you look forward to?  How will continuing your work change your circumstance for the better?
• The Last Word - Just what it says . . . a final word from the Tarot.

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