I asked What Energy to Bring to the Job

Bring the energy of genuine two-way fit, not chemistry performance.

The card on the table is Two of Cups, reversed, sitting in the *current guidance* seat.

Upright, the Two of Cups is mutual recognition — two people meeting as equals, each seeing the other clearly. Reversed, it points to where that meeting goes wrong. In interview terms, the energy that's been off is *people-pleasing into the role*: adjusting your face until it looks like theirs, performing warmth, answering the version of the question they seem to want rather than the one they asked.

The energy to bring tomorrow is the upright version of this card — mutual fit, looked at from both sides. Walk in curious about *them* (the team, the manager, the actual week-to-week) at the same intensity you're hoping to seem interesting to *them*. The reversed card warns that if you leave the room unable to name one thing they offered you — a question they answered well, a constraint they were honest about, a piece of the work that genuinely excited you — then the cups weren't actually two.

One thing to do tonight, before tomorrow morning:

Re-read the job posting one more time, and write down, in two sentences:

1. one thing you genuinely want to learn from *them* in the conversation, and
2. one condition under which you'd walk away even after they say yes.

Bring those two sentences into the room. They are the thing the cards can't supply — your actual standard, written down while you still have a clear head. What comes back is the energy you were actually offering; the title is just the wrapper.

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