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The cards don't answer "leave or stay" — but they don't read this as a cliff either. They read it as a runway you built on purpose, being spent slowly by something that hasn't broken. Whether now is the moment isn't something I'll call for you; here is what the three seats say and what would settle it.

Past — Ace of Pentacles, upright. The job did its job. This is the card of a real, counted thing: a salary that landed, savings that accumulated, a foundation you actually built. Six months isn't a guess someone threw out — it's a number you assembled. This seat says you are not leaving from nothing, and it also says the value here was material and concrete, not a calling.

Present — Strength, upright. The wear isn't an emergency; it's chronic. This is the endurance card — holding something heavy with patience and control rather than being knocked over by it. The honest read of this seat: you have the stamina to keep holding, which is exactly why the decision has been hard. The card's question is whether Strength is being spent *managing* the job instead of *steering* your own move.

Future — Eight of Wands, upright. If the present continues, what follows is fast: movement, messages, replies, several things happening at once. That's a tendency, not a promise. But notice what it feeds on — contact, applications, conversations, a door already swinging. Six months of savings with nothing lined up is a *stationary* position, and this seat is the opposite of stationary.

The conditional: the Ace and the Eight lean the same way, and the Strength sits between them. If the thing you go and check comes back showing the runway is real and the drain is a specific, nameable thing you could negotiate, change, or outlast — then this is a Strength problem, and the answer is endurance with a deadline, not a leap. If what comes back shows the runway is shorter than "about six months" once notice, severance, and unpaid days are counted, and the drain is diffuse — then the Eight of Wands is telling you the fast lane is fed by outward contact, and stepping into a vacuum with nothing in hand plays against it.

One step, in the next 48 hours, alone: open the actual statements and turn "about six months" into one exact number with a date — savings balance ÷ true monthly essential spend, then add notice period, any severance, and unused holiday pay. Write the result down with today's date. Everything above turns on a figure you are currently estimating, and the estimate is the one variable the cards can't reach.

Would you like this spread drawn as a picture, or saved to your journal?