3 Zodiacs With Complicated Family Dynamics (+ Advice From A Tarot Reader On How To Navigate Them)
Complicated family dynamics are difficult to navigate. Gemini, Scorpio, and Pisces in particular may be feeling overwhelmed by the issues they’re facing with their families. Our tarot reader pulled several cards to help them figure out how to navigate the complicated dynamics they’re facing.
The Cards in the Reading Represent the Following:
- General Outlook – The general theme of the family issues you are facing.
- Helping You – People, perspectives, or situations that can help you.
- Challenging You – People, perspectives, or situations that will challenge you.
- What to Embrace – What you need to embrace.
- What to Let Go – What you need to let go of.
- Advice – Some general advice on how to proceed.
Gemini
General Outlook – 10 of Cups, Reversed
Moments of celebration that you used to cherish haven’t felt the same, and have lost their place of importance. Forcing a smile on your face won’t fool people who really love you into thinking that you’re happy.
Helping You – 4 of Pentacles
Understanding boundaries, especially physical and financial ones, will help you navigate this situation. It’s important to save your energy and resources so you can focus on progressing.
Challenging You – 10 of Swords
You’ve experienced a betrayal that you can’t recover from. It’s a painful ending to something you felt used to have a lot of promise, and it feels like rock bottom. Don’t let your negative emotions get in the way of your healing – focus on the power of your resilience.
What to Embrace – 5 of Pentacles, Reversed
You’ve been facing a lot of financial and material difficulties, but instead of focusing on that embrace the presented opportunities for growth and healing, and allow yourself to acknowledge your resilience.
What to Let Go – 5 of Wands, Reversed
It’s easy to get swept up into arguments, especially if it’s an old habit. Instead of putting yourself through another cycle of verbal violence – see what happens if you let go of the need to capture the ‘last’ word.
Advice – Queen of Cups
Trust your intuition and your instincts. Stay attuned to yourself, and be aware of the value you bring in addition to what you want out of your family interactions. Of course, you should let your love and empathy guide you but don’t forget that you are as deserving of love and empathy as anyone.
Scorpio
General Outlook – The Chariot, Reversed
It’s wonderful when relationships become comfortable, far less so when they become ‘so comfortable’ that people take advantage of you, speed past your needs, and move in directions that don’t fit in with your values.
Helping You – King of Cups
Your emotional intelligence has the capability of keeping you on your path to progress, even while you play the role of nurturing diplomat.
Challenging You – 9 of Pentacles, Reversed
Feeling trapped when surrounded in comfort or lonely when in a room full of people is exhausting, and being around people when you’re feeling drained can be a recipe for disaster.
What to Embrace – Death
Embrace the changes you’re experiencing. Change asks a lot of us. It is the process of stretching towards something new. Our cycles of transformation offer continual opportunities to learn to let go of things that served us in the past with reverence and embrace what will support us in the future with hope.
What to Let Go – Queen of Cups, Reversed
It can be tempting to gently pressure someone towards the outcome we would like in their lives, instead of fully listening to and engaging with how they are processing their thoughts and feelings right now. Let go of your expectations for them.
Advice – Page of Pentacles
Staying grounded is important, but it doesn’t mean that you have to leave all your dreams behind. Explore your ambitions, and consider what skills and resources you need for your plans. Planning out progress is a way of mapping out a possible route to your destination, it doesn’t mean stifling innovation or ignoring new opportunities that might arise.
Pisces
General Outlook – 4 of Cups
The enthusiasm, hope, and verve is long gone and what’s left is disengagement, disinterest, and boredom. Apathy is emotional entropy and easy to fall into. Detachment makes it hard to focus on progress and emotional growth.
Helping You – 4 of Wands
You have a lot of stability in other areas, including other relationships, that have helped you to become more skilled at navigating turbulence in the relationships with your family. You’ve also recently attained an important milestone which can ultimately help your family come together in celebration.
Challenging You – The Empress
There are a lot of difficulties around the matriarchy and your place within it – whether it’s pressure for you to become a parent, take on a traditional role, or challenges with your mother. The disharmony might cause a lot of emotional overwhelm. Nurture yourself by engaging in self-care.
What to Embrace – 7 of Cups
Sometimes our relationships are stunted in growth because we can’t imagine them being any other way. Instead of getting stuck in the old, established narratives with those you love, embrace hoping and dreaming for the best. There’s an opportunity to create something entirely new if you can be more forthright about what the options look like.
What to Let Go – 5 of Pentacles
It’s tempting to stay on the outside while our family is gathered inside when we’re going through a challenging time, and justify it by saying we are ‘leaving them out of our worries.’ To navigate some of your family dynamics, let go of your self-isolating habits and insecurities.
Advice – 9 of Swords, Reversed
Instead of giving yourself over to your worst fears, try to nurture the part of you that wants to brave them. What would standing up to them look like?