How does my female boss feel about me (I
Question
How does my female boss feel about me (I’ve been working there longer) vs my new coworker?
Answer
The cards don't rank you and your new coworker in her head — there's no seat in a spread for what another person is actually feeling. What this one shows is the pattern you're reading from, and part of that pattern may be yours.
| Seat | Card | What it lands on |
|---|---|---|
| Past | Page of Pentacles · upright | The longer tenure lives here. What's registered is being the person who learned the job in her shop — the work you already did, the tasks she handed over. |
| Present | Ace of Cups · reversed | The goodwill that used to ride along with that familiarity is blocked or spent, turned inward or simply not being poured anywhere right now. |
| Future | Page of Swords · reversed | If the present stays as it is, the talk around this goes watchful rather than warm: questions asked sideways, information asked for rather than offered. |
Two of the three are reversed, and reversed cards here read as a withdrawal of warmth that has more to do with where *she* is this month than with a comparison between you and the newcomer. If she's short on bandwidth, everyone gets less of it — including, possibly, the person you're measuring yourself against.
The comparison gets a cleaner answer from the record than from any reading. Put the last two months side by side: which of the two of you gets a *decision*, and which gets a *task to follow*. Those are handed out for different reasons, and tenure buys one of them reliably and the other not at all. If the calls are going to them and the follow-through to you, the seniority advantage is thinner than it feels. If it's the other way, what you're picking up is a mood, not a ranking.
The cards don't report what's in her head, and the only honest way to read it is from the outside — which means watching, not arranging something to find out.
Before the next team meeting or review, write down one thing: at the last real one, did she ask you or your coworker for a decision, and who got the assignment to carry it out. Do it from memory first, then from the calendar or the thread, whichever exists.
Want this saved to your journal, or the three positions drawn as a picture?