You asked:
What energy am I carrying right now?
You are carrying something into this moment, and the odds are good you haven't checked what it is since sometime this morning. This draw is a check-in, not a verdict. Take one breath before you select, and read whatever surfaces as a description of the register you're already in — not a prescription for the one you should be in.
Select one card. Trust the first pull.
Right now means right now
Not today in general. Not this season of your life. This minute, in this chair, with whatever your body is doing while you read this. Notice your jaw. Notice whether your shoulders are somewhere near your ears. Notice whether you've been holding your breath slightly, which a surprising number of people do while reading something they hope will say something about them.
The reason to get this specific is that "how am I" answered at the scale of a life is unanswerable, and unanswerable questions make us vague. At the scale of a minute, you can actually tell.
The residue you didn't notice picking up
A lot of what we carry isn't ours in any meaningful sense. It's residue: the tone of a message you read forty minutes ago, the mood of the room you left, the low static of a news cycle you didn't consent to. It rides along, uncatalogued, and then gets quietly reclassified as your personality.
So when the card comes up, ask a slightly rude question of whatever it describes: is this mine? Some of it will be. Some of it will turn out to belong to a group chat.
Reading it as description
The Chariot describes a kind of gripped forward drive, which can be exhilarating and can also be what exhaustion looks like when it has been given a job. The Hermit describes a turning-inward that may be depletion or may be genuine, necessary retreat. Only you can tell which, and the honest answer is often "both." Death describes the particular fatigue of carrying something that has already finished.
None of these is a problem to be solved in the next five minutes. This is a reflective practice, not a health assessment, and if what surfaces feels heavier than a card should carry, that's worth saying to a person rather than a deck.