This question comes early and then keeps returning for a lifetime. At seventeen it sounds like “what should I study”. At thirty it becomes “am I going to do this for another twenty years”. At fifty it asks something else: “is there time left for the thing I keep postponing”.
Sometimes tiredness is the one asking. You do something you are good at, people are pleased, the money comes in, and in the evening you sit down and feel you have given more than came back.
Other times it arrives with a concrete occasion — there is an offer, there is a deadline for the answer, and there is an interview next Tuesday.
The room Gifts in FatedWays was made for exactly this question. You come in with your birth data and receive a reading about what you carry, where it works most easily and which form of work suits it.
The reading speaks about the direction and about the way things go best for you, and the choice of a particular place stays yours.
I will tell you how I used it first for myself and then for my daughter, because that is the most honest way to explain what it is for.
Three things stand at the base: the birth chart, the numbers of the birth date and the Destiny Matrix.
The chart shows what material you arrived with — where you have ease, what comes to you almost without effort and what asks for more discipline. The numbers add the rhythm and the tasks that repeat throughout a whole life. The Matrix arranges all of it by positions: what comes from the family line, what is your own and what opens after a certain age.
Out of the three comes one reading in human language — the strong sides, the surroundings in which you work well, the form of employment that suits you, and the themes that have been circling in your working life for years.
Every reading ends with a sigil: a sign that gathers the reading into one image and stays with you.
When someone asks what work to do, they usually already know a good deal about themselves. They know what they can do, they know what bores them, they know how much money they need in a month. Something else is missing.
The real question is most often narrower. Whether to stay where they are. Whether the tiredness comes from the work itself or from the way it is being done. Whether the thing that pulls them can hold up for a whole working day. Whether the particular person offering them a place is good for them.
So before you come in, tell yourself what exactly made you ask today. The reading works with what you give it, and the more concrete that is, the more useful it turns out.
A general “what work should I do” gives a general picture. “Is it worth staying another year where I am, given that in the evening I have no strength for anything” already leads somewhere.
For years I have worked with tarot, runes, palmistry and the esoteric. I love this work. It also tires you in its own way — you sit down opposite a person, you take on their story and hold it for as long as the reading lasts, and then the next one comes.
At some point I felt the tiredness in myself. I kept reading, people kept coming, and inside me the question appeared of what else I could do, so that everything would stop resting on tarot alone.
This room was born from there. I wanted to see gathered in one place what else I carry and where it could go.
What came out for me stays mine. Something else matters for you: the room was made by someone who asked it about herself first.
My daughter is looking for work at the moment. She goes through listings, she goes to interviews, and after each one the same question comes: “Is this mine?”
Then comes the second one, which already has a name, a place and a deadline: “This job they offered me, is it good for me?”
And the third, the entirely practical one: “Will the interview go well on that day?”
The first two are questions for the Gifts. The third is for Choosing a date in the Celestial Teacher, where you look at what each day carries for an important step.
Most of the questions people come into this room with look like that. First the direction, then the concrete offer, and last the day.
When there is a real offer, the reading becomes far more useful if you give it the details.
The job title in the advert says little. Write down what will be done during the day: will you work alone or in a team, how many people pass through you, is there talking with clients, is there planning months ahead, who tells you what to do.
Those things decide whether the work will suit you far more than the name of the position.
Most people can do quite a few things. Some of them drain your strength, even though they come out excellently.
The reading shows exactly that difference — what holds by itself and what holds for as long as you have the will to hold it.
One and the same job can suit you now and weigh on you in two years, if it falls into a period when your life wants something else.
So if the offer is serious, look at it together with what is happening to you at the moment.
There are people for whom the gift and the profession are one and the same thing. She sings and lives from singing.
For most, the connection is more indirect. The gift is a feel for people, and the work is called sales, negotiation or nursing. The gift is order and patience, and the work is called accounting, logistics or restoration.
So the reading speaks about the quality you carry and leaves it to you to find the form in which it will be paid for. Sometimes one gift fits into five different professions, and you choose the one that suits your life at the moment.
Many people come into the Gifts with a question that is in fact about money — why do I work so much and stay without a reserve, why is it hard for me to name a price, when will this get better.
Those things are looked at in Money, where the theme is your relationship with money, the income and the places through which it leaks away.
The two rooms complement each other. The Gifts say what you carry, Money says how it turns into income.
The Gifts look at you. The Celestial Teacher looks at time — what is passing through your chart now, which period is beginning and when a certain step has better conditions.
If you have already chosen where you are going and all that remains is to sign, to start or to go to an interview, there is Choosing a date.
So first you understand which one is yours, then when to do it.
The reading shows a direction. The application is sent from your address, the conversation is held with your voice, and the decision to leave a safe place is made by you and by no one else.
There are also entirely earthly things that no card will do for you: the salary, the distance from home, the contract, the working hours, and whether the people in that company talk to each other like people.
The Gifts give the other part — what you carry and where it will breathe more easily. The two together do the job.
Start with what you already know about yourself and add a reading that arranges your strong sides and the surroundings in which you work best. The answer is rarely a single profession. More often it is a type of work, a type of environment and a type of people, and several possible places fit inside them.
The reading speaks about the quality you carry and about the form of work that suits it. The specific job title you choose yourself, by comparing the reading with the real possibilities in front of you.
Without the hour you get a good general picture. With an exact hour the reading becomes more personal, because you can see where the themes of work and recognition fall in your chart. The hour is usually found in the birth certificate.
Yes, with their birth data. It is good for the person to know that you are asking and to read the result, because the decision about the work is theirs.
Describe the offer with details from an ordinary day — what is done during the day, with whom and at what rhythm. Then compare the reading with what you already sense about the place. If you are still hesitating after both, look at the day on which the interview or the signing falls.
They are connected and they are read separately. The Gifts say what you carry. Money deals with the income, with the price of your work and with the places through which money leaks away.
Then the reading does double duty. It shows what in your present place actually works for you and what wears you down, and from there it becomes clearer whether you need a change of work or a change in the way you do it.
In the game, among the rooms. You come in with your birth data, write your question and receive the reading, which ends with a sigil. The first seven days are free and without a card.
There are questions a person carries for a long time and never says out loud, because they sound too big. “Is this what I am going to do” is exactly one of those.
Sometimes the answer confirms what you have long sensed and gives you the words to say it. Other times it shows a direction you have been postponing because it looks unserious. And sometimes it arranges your present work so that it becomes clear what in it should stay and what should go.
If you are only just looking around the game, start from Gifts, Money and Love, and for the way it is played there is How to play.
Ask with your real question, even when it looks too big. Everything else starts from exactly there.
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Compatibility, My People and Play with a FriendThe three places for relationships: what runs between two people, who the person is, and how you play together.
Why the same thing keeps happening to youDifferent people, different years, the same ending. The lunar nodes, Saturn and the karmic numbers show where the repetition starts.
How to add FatedWays to your home screenStep by step for iPhone, Android, tablet and computer — and what to do when the button isn’t there.