🦋 Upright — ‘It begins because it ended’

A chapter closes definitively in this position — and that is the good news. Put the full stop on what has been dragging. Only a cleared space takes in the new.

🍀 The kind reading

Something ends definitively today — and that is the best news available. Put a full stop on the thing that has been dragging, the relationship you still ache over, the old habit. Only a cleared space takes something new.

⚡ The blunt reading

Holding on to what you know should end isn’t affection, it’s momentum. Don’t clear it today and it gets cleared more painfully next month. Plasters come off in one go.

🔄 Reversed — ‘Attachment · a clearing deferred’

You’re holding on to something that needs ending. Even attachment has a use-by date — start the clearing with one small thing and the large clearing follows.

🍀 The kind reading

There’s a reason you can’t end it — it meant that much. Don’t beat yourself up. But start today with one very small thing: an object you don’t use, a reply you’ve been putting off.

⚡ The blunt reading

You’re giving mouth-to-mouth to something already dead. The reason it isn’t reviving is that it is dead. The hand gripping expired things can’t take hold of a new chance.

💘 Read for love

Upright

The relationship is in metamorphosis. If this connection is ending, the ending is the door to the next love; if it continues, the old way of being together ends and a new phase opens.

Reversed

You’re giving mouth-to-mouth to a finished relationship. Before asking whether you might get back together, ask whether the reason you parted has actually gone.

💼 Read for work

Upright

A phase of clearing and transition. Deciding which venture to fold, which project to end — that decision is the budget for the next opportunity. Resolutions to change jobs or fields carry force too.

Reversed

A way of working that has reached the end of its life is being kept going on momentum. Wind it down yourself before somebody does it for you — the exit is far more graceful.

💰 Read for money

Upright

Cutting losses and closing positions pays in this position. Admitting something isn’t working will never be cheaper than it is now.

Reversed

Thinking about what you originally paid is enlarging the loss. “But I’ve come this far” is a feeling, not accounting — decide on the numbers alone.