How will my career unfold?

Cards drawn (三牌阵 · 过去 / 现在 / 未来): 死神 逆位 · 教皇 正位 · 权杖十 逆位.

The shape of your career here is a slow handover, not a leap. Two of the three are Major Arcana, so this spread speaks about structure and identity, not next quarter's schedule — but it's a trend under conditions, not a verdict.

• Past — Death, reversed. Something ended that hasn't been fully let go: a role, a title, a version of yourself that still answers to an old definition. The stuck part is the holding-on, not the ending.
• Present — The Hierophant, upright. You're in the chapter about the *proper* path — a credential, a mentor, an institution, a body of rules you're learning to use on purpose. This is the card of doing it the established way and then earning the right to bend it.
• Future — Ten of Wands, reversed. The tendency, if you keep carrying it this way, is overload that resolves into something you put down: one responsibility you hand off, one role you stop defining yourself by. Reversed, it can also read as burnout — the same word either way.

The judgment, conditional. Look at what you still call your job title versus what you were actually hired to produce this quarter. If that written scope holds work you'd still practise when nobody promoted you, the Hierophant says the structure is worth staying inside for a while — learn it from whoever holds the senior version of it. If instead the title is carrying a week you would not recognise as yours, then the Ten of Wands reversed is not a punishment, it's permission to hand the bundle back — and the Death reversed is what happens when you don't.

One step, within 48 hours, alone: write the last three weeks of your calendar on one page and mark each block by who asked for it and what was actually shipped. Cards can't read that record; you can. The line where most blocks trace back to someone else's request is the bundle — or the craft.

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