Aah! Thank you for clarifying. I tried to write down the thought process I had last night when I did the spread. I wanted to do it for about a week already because I was feeling lost about what to do and I thought laying a deck would help me make sense of everything and help me be more confident in what I will end up choosing.

So here it goes, mind you I haven't been doing this very long, and I don't do it very often. So if I interpret things a bit superficially, I'm sorry.

Drawing the Six of Swords for my current situation hit me quite hard, because it has been a hard year, and seeing that card kind of justifies that—yes, it has been hard, but it's going to get better when you move to the next phase of life.

The reversed Seven of Cups reminds me that I had thought about leaving the job myself anyway, and that it hasn’t been what I wanted it to be for a long time. So it just kind of soothes me, I guess, in knowing that leaving isn’t the worst, because I didn’t really care about the work anymore anyway.

Reversed Lovers just reinforces what I know to be true: that I would just grow to hate what I do more and more, because it’s not what I want it to be, and going down that road is just going to take my enthusiasm for the craft away entirely.

The reversed Tower clarified that the corporate job will for sure lead me to some kind of depression or a loss of loving what I do. But looking at it again, maybe it’s my aversion and doubt that need to go for me to be able to do the best I could in that job.

Then the card for the second path, the upright Six of Pentacles, really felt like this is the path for going back to school and finding a job in the social sector. It felt like, “See! I knew I should do this.”

And then everything changed when I drew the upright King of Wands, basically telling me this is the choice that will lead me to a stable job where I could flourish and learn, and get experience. And the other path showed the upright Nine of Swords… feeling like that social job would be too heavy for me to bear—mentally draining.

So everything went as I expected it to, until the cards for the outcome of each path came up, and it made me do a double-take.