Advice on work matters can be a great boon – for dealing with a new job, change of direction, or going back to work after a break. It can also show what sort of work suits us best, and how to get on with difficult colleagues – to name but a few of the areas people often ask about. Which way is the best way to tackle our career questions with a psychic reading, though? It depends! Different psychic approaches show work matters, and success routes in different ways.

Using Tarot

Take Tarot, where the 8 of Pentacles, sometimes dubbed ‘The Apprentice’, is the classic card for work and training. It usually speaks of a time when we are learning a new skill or getting better at something we already know in theory.

In contrast, the 3 of Pentacles describes someone established in their work, and gaining a good reputation – it might suggest you are about to be head-hunted.

The Magician is fantastic as a symbol for capability and, like the Emperor, coping well in a position of power.

Mix any of these with The Sun, The Star or the 6 of Wands, and you are likely to be looking at some kind of big success story.

Drawing on Intuition

Psychics often use cards or other means, such as intuition, to tap into your situation.

They may draw on one of the four ‘Clairs’ – clairvoyance (seeing), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (sensing), or claircognizance (knowing or thinking).

All these labels relate to an ability use these abilities in a particularly clear way.

How does this work in a reading?

Psychics may use one or several abilities at a time, for example, seeing an internal image of you sitting at a desk or performing a task specific to your work.

They may hear the clacking of a typewriter, the 'ker-ching' of a till being opened or a piece of music.

Clairsentience can involve fragrances as well as emotions or feelings so they may mention florists or flowers, shoe-shop leather or the wood of a carpenter.

The claircognisant reader relays a stream of thoughts ‘coming in’ from the psychic sphere, which may include phrases meaningful to your work situation – perhaps the advice of where to look for the next job!

Mediumship and the Stars

There are so many good ways to access what we need.

If your reader is a medium, he or she may well have a message from beyond with information on a line of action you are considering taking. Are you carrying on in dad’s work footsteps? Do you want to do so or not? Is Aunt Ethel holding up a uniform and saying yes or no?

With Astrology and the birth chart, it’s the houses of the horoscope – the departments of life – especially the 6th and 10th houses, which are dedicated to work and career issues.

If you are still not sure how to decide which reading is best, remember: it is always worth checking in with your intuition.

Try going with your first idea of the reading you are most drawn to – ‘gut instincts’ are worth following, and sometimes fate really is the best guide!