02.01 · Career & Work

Should I Stay at My Current Job?

“Do I stay or do I go?”

The 7-card layout

1. Where you are now
2. What you are not being told
3. What could still grow here
4. Staying, the next few months
5. Leaving, the next few months
6. Staying, a year or two out
7. Leaving, a year or two out

Hold your question in mind, then shuffle.

Turning the deck is why cards come out reversed. A reversed card is not a bad card - it is the same card at a lower ebb, blocked, or on its way out.

The situation and what is under it across the top, then two columns: staying and leaving, each read short-term and long-term. The fork is the layout.

  • 7 cards
  • One person
  • Upright & reversed
  • this year

What each position asks

These meanings belong to this spread. A card is read for the place it lands in, so the same card says something different in position 1 than it does in position 7.

  1. 1Where you are now
  2. 2What you are not being told
  3. 3What could still grow here
  4. 4Staying, the next few months
  5. 5Leaving, the next few months
  6. 6Staying, a year or two out
  7. 7Leaving, a year or two out