Lab Test | 1
Your Client: Nicolle
Age: 33
Her question: Are my finances going to be okay?
The Read: If you’re tempted to jump in and answer, wait.
As a tarot reader it’s your job to reword questions to ensure the very best answer. - whether for yourself or for a client. Yes-No questions don’t really lend themselves to much of an answer.
Digging into your (virtual) Lab Manual, you’ll see that a far better question for Nicolle is this: What can I do to make sure my finances are going to be okay.
Using the real question, go ahead and answer the question in Comments below. The cards are:
10 Cups
Justice
Page Pentacles
Remember, in all the Tarot Lab work, there’s no right/wrong way to do things. The Lab is a place of experimentation. So go ahead and experiment!
I’m using the charms a little here too, but I would say to consider the areas where money, (spending in excess, over-extending to others) while bringing some pleasure, is covering up an sense of emotional deficiency that creates this loop. It is not the money that needs tending, but your relationship to it. If you can refine that, you’ll create room and perspective for even greater abundance.
Nancy's Feedback: First, I think any one of your responses would answer Nicolle's question - so great work.
A couple of things to consider: the 10 of Cups is typically seen as the happy family who has achieved everything they want. But in the deck I used here, there isn't a family pictured, and goldfish are coming up out of 3 of the cups. Does this mean financial (gold) is abundant? Or does it mean, perhaps, that there's so much cash available, Nicolle could be spending way beyond her means? And not because she needs stuff, but because her heart's set on it (Cups).
Clearly, the Justice card is telling her to get her finances in order. You know what happens to the scale when one is overloaded with too much debt (or too much STUFF). Lastly, the Page of Pentacles can act a bit impulsively with money (but not nearly as much as the Page of Wands!). Think about when you were in your teens or early twenties and got your first credit card. That's how this Page feels to me. Wow! I can now go out and use this credit card and buy anything I want.
For me, Nicolle's spending will be okay if she manages to get a handle on her impulsive spending driven by her emotional wants. If she sees it and her emotional body goes 'ooooh' and she has the money to buy it, she will. And this will lead to financial woes in the future as she's ignoring the advice handed out by Justice.
It's fine if you disagree. This is the Lab and we're meant to try new things.