· Spreads ·
Select a spread to begin your reading
Inquiry
Bring one question and draw a single card to answer it
A classic spread exploring the flow of time
Three cards from body upward — listen to the whole self
Three pragmatic cards — see clearly, act, foresee
A swift snapshot — both of you and the bond between
Survey the present through fire, water, air, and earth
Four cards to untangle a knot — see it, name it, choose a step
Life & Big Picture
Five cards for a single season — what you seek, what you can give, what holds you back, what to heal and one next step
Weigh two paths — how each unfolds and where it leads
Examine your vocation — ground, strength, step, trial, horizon
Trace a bond's arc — essence, phase, hidden force, task, horizon
Wirth's Marseille cross: four Major Arcana weigh what speaks for and against, and a fifth, the sum of their numbers, names what everything hinges on
Explore the dynamics between two people or forces
Three cards each for two — how each sees the other, sees the relationship, and hopes it will grow
A seven-card arc revealing the full picture
A six-pointed star — time on the upward triangle, your response on the downward one, the outcome at the centre
Eight cards on Fortune's wheel — the four turns of the rim, the still hub, and your part in the turning
The best-known ten-card spread, published by A. E. Waite in 1910 — from the root of a question to where it is heading
Ten sephirot — a complete mirror from spirit to matter
Twelve houses around one centre card — every area of your life laid out at once, and how you are holding them together
Cycles
At the threshold of waking — name today's intention, the energy that meets it, and the first step
At the close of day — gather gratitude, set down what was carried, and bless the coming sleep
Three cards to open the week — a theme to carry, the challenge to work with, one practice to keep
On new-moon night — plant an intention, set its full-moon checkpoint, take the first step
One lunar month — intention, growth, fulfillment, release
Under full-moon light — see, give thanks, release, receive
Five cards from five separately shuffled piles at an equinox or solstice — the season's theme from the Major Arcana, then what it asks of your drive, feelings, thinking and body
Five cards for your birthday: what the past year ripened, what can stay in it, the keynote you choose for the new one, what to tend, and a gift to yourself
Meet what you hide — mask, origin, shadow, gift, integration
Remember the line you come from — what you received, what you keep, what ends with you
Seven cards for the seven energy centers — crown to root
Eight Sabbats around the wheel — resonance with the turning year
Twelve cards for twelve months — your year at a glance
A central keynote cradled by twelve months — the year's whole arc
Healing
Talk with a feeling — see, understand, transmute, release
Four panes of one window — what you show, miss, keep and have yet to meet
Five cards to look upon yourself with gentleness
Return to the source — embrace the small one within
