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READINGS BY GWENDOLYN COLMAN,
PHOTOS BY CHRIS SHONTING,
STYLING BY ANNETTE LAMOTHE-RAMOS
Hair: Kristen Shaw, Makeup: Emi Kaneko, Set Design: Samantha Jacober, Assistant: Alexis Kawahara

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MELANIE

Gwen: Your reading is about change and about ripening karma and how things come full circle. The theme of your reading is the Wheel of Fortune. Covering you is the Six of Swords, which means travel or being on a journey, but it can also be the journey of life. Crossing you is the Devil. The Devil is not really the devil in the old-fashioned or Catholic way, it’s more of a habit or a pattern of mind that concentrates a little too much on materialism. These cards are saying that you’ve already started to think there’s something off about that mentality and that instead you can start to think that you’d rather help people more. The whole reading kind of goes on about that.

First of all, the Two of Pentacles, which is about having balance in your life. You very much want that, and now is the time when you can start to. It’s been too difficult before. Below is the Hierophant, which means that you had a very strict upbringing. Is that true?

Melanie: Kind of.

You sort of adopted cultural norms from that, but you’ve already started to question it and realize it’s not necessarily what you want. You might want to be looking beyond that.

Behind you is the Four of Cups, which shows a young man being offered a cup, but he doesn’t want it. At the same time, you have three cups on the ground, so you already have three full cups, so it’s saying you really have what you need and you don’t need to take on things that don’t work for you.

Ahead of you is the Three of Swords. That can mean a broken heart, but in your reading it means more about how you’re really developing compassion and how you’re really starting to see things from other people’s points of view and having more of a desire to work in a bigger world.

Your attitude card is the Two of Swords, which is exactly about that—changing your attitude and changing your view. It’s not a huge change, it’s just a shift.

The people around you are the Chariot. You’re around hard-driving business people. They are very hard-driving, and they are very much in the material world, because that’s what business is. But you start to see them more as people and not just as business people.

In your hope and fears is the Ten of Wands, which has to do with stress, a very high-stress lifestyle. You want to find ways of working with that and not being so stressed out.

The Knight of Swords and the Hanged Man are in your outcome, which say that you’re making a shift. It also looks to me like your spiritual thing has to do more with olden times and really ancient roots—somewhat pagan, actually—and nature. Working with nature much more would make you happy—nature spirits and very, very early Christianity, before it got taken over by the politics of the church.

This fall, things are going to happen for you with work. You’re possibly going to go in a slightly different direction and have more energy. Once again, you get the Devil, which brings up too much fear, because you’re afraid it won’t work and then you really, really hope it will. You vacillate, and that puts out too much anxiety. There’s a second thing, the Seven of Swords, and that means worry and anxiety, which sort of drain you and steal your energy. The cards are saying not to let that happen.

The Five of Wands is behind you, and it says that you have been the victim of people being jealous of you, and they stop you from getting the best jobs. That’s happened to you in the past, but it’s over now. It isn’t going to happen in the future.

Ahead of you is the Magician, which is a powerful person who can make things happen—somebody who can pull a lot of strings. That person’s going to help you, but you should be very careful when you enter into a contract with them because they can also be tricky.

The outcome is Temperance, which is health. It’s very wholesome. You might want to look into this—you could have your best and happiest work in helping people to become healthy.


STEPHANIE

Gwen: The cards always pick a theme for the reading, and you have the Nine of Pentacles, which is about being on your own—being independent. That’s kind of what this reading is about.

Stephanie: That’s interesting.

What covers you is the Six of Pentacles, and that’s saying you’re a very generous person, so you attract generosity from other people. Then you’re crossed by the King of Swords, so I think that the difficult part of the situation for you is that you have to put up with being criticized sometimes, and that’s a little hard for you. That also touches on the fact that you’re kind of a perfectionist, so you are a little hard on yourself. You’re kind of your own worst critic.

Above you is the Four of Pentacles, so these cards are saying, “Well, now you’ve got this good opportunity, and you need to be a bit of a penny-pincher.” Save some money. You’re going to have some opportunities that come up that you want to take advantage of, which you won’t be able to unless you save some money.

The Seven of Cups is below you and that says that you have had many options and also that you’re going to have some dreams or at least one dream over the next while—or else maybe you just had it—and you should pay attention to it. It’s going to help to guide you on your path. Have you had a dream like this recently?

Yes, actually.

You should think about the meaning of it.

You made a decision recently to take more control of your own life and be more creative, and it’s coming to fruition now. And at the same time you’ve been getting help from people who are more powerful than you. That’s the Magician.

Ahead of you is the Four of Wands, which means friendship in your work, really making some new friends. It doesn’t necessarily say marriage, but there is a possibility of meeting someone. But the cards say that you kind of need to learn more how to be on your own before you make a commitment. And also they say you could go to school or you could do a course.

You have a real interest in children. Is that right?

I like children, yes.

That would be a good path for you. You have the Knight of Cups, saying again that you’re a nice person, and you want to offer kindness to others, and you really want to help people. The next card is children. The cards say you might be very happy, either becoming a mother or working with children.

I understand, but it’s probably not my intention anytime soon.

You might want to think about it for the long run.

In the hopes-and-fears position, you have the Knight of Wands, which is to say that you really are a bit of a homebody, you don’t really like moving.

Maybe because I’ve moved so much lately.

Yeah, and you really don’t want to move again. Travel is OK, but moving you don’t like.

The next thing that comes up is the Knight of Swords and the Nine of Cups. You have a little fear of success. You’re just about to have a major achievement but you will sometimes just jump out of the way of success.

You have three Knights in your reading, so I see there are many young men. Not too young, but in their 20s and early 30s, coming your way, and they’re going to fight over you.

That would be nice!


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