Tarot for Career Decisions: A Soul‑Aligned Spread for Clarity, Purpose & Financial Abundance

If you’re a healer, intuitive, creative, or multi‑passionate soul, you may find yourself at a crossroads more often than most.

You don’t just have one calling — you have many.

Tarot. Reiki. Bodywork. Teaching. Workshops. Writing. New ideas that arrive fully formed in the shower or halfway through meditation.

And eventually, very real and grounded questions arise:

Am I meant to follow all of these paths? Is there one I should focus on? Which one will support me financially? Which one is aligned the most with my soul purpose?

This blog post is for anyone navigating a career change, spiritual business direction, or period of discernment. It’s especially for those who offer multiple healing modalities and want to make conscious choices about where to invest their time, energy, and marketing dollars.

Below, I’m sharing a Tarot spread I designed for exactly this purpose. It’s a spread that builds clarity without bypassing reality and honours both spiritual fulfilment and financial sustainability.

Cards from the Rider Waite Smith Deck

Why Tarot Is So Powerful for Career and Life Decisions

Tarot is often misunderstood as a predictive tool. In truth, Tarot is far more powerful as a decision‑making and self‑trust practice.

When used skillfully, Tarot helps you:

• Clarify your values and priorities

• Separate emotional fulfilment from financial function

• Understand energetic alignment before investing money or effort

• Make grounded choices aligned with soul growth

This is the heart of how I teach Tarot — not as fortune‑telling, but as a relationship with wisdom, symbolism, and discernment.

Before the Spread: name your modalities/choices

Before pulling cards, take a pen and write a list of:

• All the modalities you currently offer

• All the paths you feel drawn to explore

• Any roles, ideas, or career directions that feel alive right now

Examples might include:

• Tarot reading

• Reiki or energy healing

• Massage or bodywork

• Teaching or mentoring

• Creative or intuitive work

• Corporate or part‑time employment

• A new offering you haven’t yet named

Important: There is no hierarchy here. Just honesty.

Now, choose one modality at a time and lay the following four‑card spread for each.

If you have a long list - you may want to take a photo or write down what cards came out for each modality and return those cards to your deck. Shuffle the cards and focus on the next modality and draw another four - repeat for each modality you have listed.

The Tarot Spread: Soul & Sustainability Discernment

This is a repeated 4‑card Tarot spread for career clarity, designed to be repeated for each modality or path you’re considering.

Lay out four cards for each modality. Each card will relate to the four questions. Image created in Midjourney.

Card 1 — What This Path Requires from Me

This card reveals the inputs needed for this modality to thrive.

It may highlight:

• Time, study, or discipline

• Emotional labour or energetic boundaries

• Visibility, marketing, or confidence

• Systems, structure, or consistency

• The internal emotional work I need to do before I can show up authentically in this modality

This card helps you assess whether you want, and are able, to meet these requirements at this stage of life.

Card 2 — What This Path will Bring Me

This card speaks to emotional, spiritual, and energetic fulfilment.

Ask yourself:

• Does this light me up?

• Does it restore or deplete me?

• Does it connect me to meaning, intuition, or self healing?

Some modalities are here to refill your spiritual cup, even if they are not financially supportive.

Card 3 — Alignment With My Soul Purpose

This card explores how deeply this modality aligns with your longer‑term soul path.

Importantly, soul purpose does not always equal income.

This card may indicate:

• A lifelong calling

• A seasonal role

• A supporting thread rather than a central focus

Tarot helps you honour purpose without forcing it into the wrong container.

Card 4 — Financial Sustainability & Abundance Potential

This card looks honestly at the capacity for financial support over time.

It may speak to:

• Consistency or instability

• Scalability or limitations

• Market readiness

• Your relationship with receiving money through this modality

This is a powerful card when deciding where to invest marketing energy or business resources.

Reading the Spread Across All Modalities

Once you’ve laid this spread for each path, step back and observe the patterns.

Ask:

• Which modalities repeatedly show strong financial sustainability?

• Which ones consistently nourish and restore me?

• Are there paths that do both and am I giving them enough focus?

A common insight that emerges is this:

The modalities that nourish our souls most deeply are not always meant to fund our lives — but without them, the income‑generating paths lose meaning.

Tarot offers clarity without forcing false choices.

A Grounded Truth About Soul‑Led Work

Not everything you love needs to be monetised.

And not everything that pays well needs to be your deepest soul expression.

Wisdom lives in clarity, consent, and conscious design.

This is what Tarot reveals when you allow the cards to speak to you.

Learn Tarot in a Way That Builds Confidence & Trust

If this spread resonated, you’re already engaging Tarot the way a confident reader does, by asking clear questions, holding nuance, and listening deeply.

If you’d like support to develop these skills further, there are two ways to learn with me:

Jodie (me) admittedly not holding a tarot card. Yes I love Oracle cards too!

Tarot Club — Monthly Practice & Community

First Tuesday of every month on Zoom | $10 AUD

Tarot Club is a relaxed, supportive space to:

• Practise reading Tarot with confidence

• Learn new spreads and approaches

• Ask questions and deepen your intuition

• Build consistency without overwhelm

Perfect if you want ongoing guidance and community.

Rider Waite Smith Tarot Course: Pathway to the Confident Reader

7 & 8 March 2026 | In‑depth live training

This immersive course is for those who want to:

• Truly understand the Rider Waite Smith system

• How that RWS system applies to other derivative decks

• Read intuitively and accurately

• Design their own spreads with confidence

• Read for themselves and others ethically and clearly

This is Tarot as a lifelong skill — not a script to memorise.

If you feel the pull, trust it.

Tarot doesn’t give answers.It teaches you how to listen to higher guidance

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