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The career tarot readings I trust most are the ones that make me uncomfortable.
Not the ones that tell me everything is going to work out — though sometimes the cards say that too. The ones that show me what I already knew and hadn't admitted yet. The next album is ready but I'm stalling on releasing it. The collaboration I keep saying yes to is draining something I need. The opportunity that looks good on paper is pulling me away from the work that actually matters.
Tarot doesn't make career decisions for you. What it does — when you ask it the right questions — is create a space where your own intelligence about your situation can surface without the noise of fear or ego or other people's expectations drowning it out.
This guide is specifically about using tarot for work, career, and creative practice. Whether you're at a crossroads, stuck in something that stopped serving you, trying to figure out your next move as an artist or entrepreneur or person who wants their work to mean something — these are the questions, the spreads, and the practices that have actually helped me.
Work is where a lot of our deepest fears live. Fear of failure, fear of not being good enough, fear of success and what it would demand, fear of being seen. Career readings surface all of that, which is partly why they can feel so charged — and partly why they're so useful.
The cards don't share your fear of the answer. They'll show you what you're avoiding with the same neutrality they show you what's going well. That's the value. You bring the question. The cards bring the mirror. What you do with what you see is always yours.
The other thing worth saying upfront: tarot for career is not the same as asking the cards to predict outcomes. Will I get the job, will the album go well, will the business succeed — these are the wrong questions, and not just because the future is genuinely uncertain. They're the wrong questions because they locate the agency outside of you. Better tarot questions locate the agency exactly where it belongs.
When choosing a career, it’s important to keep in mind how fulfilling this position will be for you. Not feeling fulfilled by your job can affect your job performance and your overall mood. The cards can guide you toward a career path that you will find fulfilling and that will make you happier.
Career changes are usually a pretty big deal, and it can be hard to decide when the right time to change is — or if there is a right time. If you’re feeling like you want to make a career change, but are unsure of whether you should do it now or months from now, maybe the cards can help.
If you are happy in your current career, but are ready to move forward in it, this question may help give you some suggestions for how to do so. There is always room for improvement, even when you feel like you’ve found your ideal job — there’s always space to move up.
Communication is an important part of being a successful employee. If you feel that the communication between you and your boss is lacking, and you want to improve it, ask the cards how you can do so. Better communication will lead to better job performance, and your boss will surely appreciate it as well.
Whether you enjoy your job or not, it can sometimes be easy to focus on the negatives. But finding out what parts of your job excite you or you’re passionate about can be important, especially if you’re considering a career change. By having the tarot cards point these out to you, hopefully you’ll keep them in your mind when work gets a little overwhelming.
Especially when you’re first starting out in the world of careers and job hunting, it may feel like it’s time to gain more independence. But that can be hard to do on your own, so a little guidance from the cards may be in order.
Work-life balance is something that we all have to worry about, most likely. Even if you absolutely love your job, you still need to give yourself a break now and then to reset and refresh. Self-care is an important part of balancing your career with your life, but if you have trouble finding time for self-care, turn to the cards.
This is a more general question, but one that will still hopefully give you some useful insight. Maybe there’s an important aspect of your career that you’re completely missing, whether it be something helpful or hurtful. The tarot cards are great at seeing things that we can’t always see for ourselves.
The potential answers to this question may alarm you, but sometimes we can’t help ourselves from wanting to know about our future success. No matter what the answer to this question is, know that there are other questions you can ask that will help guide you if you’re on the wrong path.
We shouldn’t always focus on the negatives, but sometimes it’s important to acknowledge them. In your career, knowing your weaknesses can be beneficial for a few reasons — first, once you identify your weaknesses, you can work extra hard to turn those weaknesses into strengths, or you can decide if the weaknesses are a sign that you’re in the wrong career. Either way, it’s helpful to ask the cards about your weaknesses to gain a little bit of knowledge.
We often aren’t able to see in ourselves the things that are blocking us from reaching our potential. But if there is something blocking you from achieving your full potential, the best way to fix it is to figure out what’s blocking you, and change it. Ask the cards what it is that’s blocking you, and maybe for some guidance on how to unblock it.
This is one of the most common sources of work-related anxieties — issues with your coworkers or boss. While you shouldn’t ask the cards how you can get revenge on a particularly irritating coworker, you can ask how to solve the problem in a way that will benefit everyone and put the issue to rest.
Feeling useful is one of the most important aspects of your job. If you are, day after day, going to work at a job where you feel like you’re not making any impact or difference at all, whether it be big or small, you will quickly start to lose any motivation to move higher up in your career.
Let’s be honest, one of the most important parts of finding the right job is how much you’ll be getting paid. It can be a tricky space to navigate, trying to find a job that pays well but still makes you happy and fulfilled. Turn to the cards for some guidance on how to find this balance.
We’ve all had a job that we absolutely hated. It’s pretty self-explanatory that you shouldn’t go back to a job similar to the one you despised, but what if there’s a specific type of work that you’re not even considering could be bad for you to do again? To avoid feeling lost and unfulfilled in your career life, it’s best to know what types of work to stay completely away from.
The thought of leaving a job, or starting a new one, can be extremely overwhelming. But even if you’re not ready to take the plunge, you still might be looking for some insight into your career and what it means to you.
These build on the 101 tarot questions list but go deeper into the specific territory of work, creative practice, and professional identity. Use these as starting points rather than scripts — the best question for your reading is the one that makes you slightly nervous to ask.
For understanding your current situation:
For busting creative blocks specifically:
For career crossroads and decisions:
For work that just isn't working:
For money and livelihood:
Five cards. Lay them in a cross pattern.
Card 1 — center: Where you actually are right now, stripped of the story you tell about it.
Card 2 — left: What path A offers you. What it would ask of you.
Card 3 — right: What path B offers you. What it would ask of you.
Card 4 — below: What you're carrying from the past that's influencing this choice.Card 5 — above: What your highest self knows about this decision that your anxious mind keeps interrupting.
This spread works best when you've already done some thinking and feel genuinely unclear rather than secretly decided. If you already know what you want to do, the crossroads spread will just confirm it — which is also useful, but honest about what you're actually asking.
Four cards in a horizontal line.
Card 1: What's actually blocking me — the real thing, not the surface explanation.
Card 2: What I'm protecting by staying blocked.
Card 3: What the work is waiting for me to do or understand or release.
Card 4: The first small step that would move something.
The second card is usually the most revealing. Creative blocks almost always have a protective function. They're keeping you from something that feels risky. Naming what you're protecting tends to dissolve the block faster than any productivity technique.
Three cards. Simple. Pull at the start of each month.
Card 1: The energy available to my creative work this month.
Card 2: What I most need to focus on or develop.
Card 3: What I need to release or set aside to make room.
This works as a regular practice rather than a one-off reading. Over months, patterns emerge in how the cards reflect the rhythm of your creative life. It becomes a record as much as a reading.
If you make music, write, paint, or work in any creative field, career tarot has some specific textures worth naming.
The tension between commerce and craft shows up constantly. Cards around the solar plexus chakra — personal power, will, the capacity to act in the world — often surface when the question is really about whether you're making work for yourself or for an audience or for money, and what the cost of each orientation is.
The Hermit comes up often in readings for artists. It can mean productive solitude and inner work, but it can also mean isolation and avoidance dressed up as depth. The question to ask when the Hermit appears in a career reading: am I alone because the work requires it, or because connection feels risky?
The Tower, which most people fear, often marks the most productive moments in a creative career — the dismantling of a structure that had become a limitation. A label deal falling through. A creative partnership ending. A body of work that doesn't land the way you hoped. The Tower rarely means catastrophe. It usually means necessary demolition.
The Star almost always means keep going. Not despite evidence — through it.
Finding a job that fulfills you and makes you feel useful will likely improve your overall quality of life and mental health. And vice versa, staying in a job that you hate where you feel like your voice doesn’t matter can cause you to feel lost and confused. To avoid feeling this way, and to better understand what path you should take, try asking the tarot cards these questions, and see what answers you get!
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