Explanations of spreads





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Astrological Spread: This spread uses all twelve astrological signs in order to show the influence of each sign on a situation. Some versions of this spread in places have a thirteenth card to sum things up; I omit this and advice drawing a Single Card to do this.

Celtic Cross: One of the most common spreads. Cards in two levels of a cross formation, like a fractal, with information on the side.

Clarity Spread: Spread for identifying and overcoming creative blockages.

Comic Strip: 3 x 3 spread of cards that's meant to read a series of events like a comic strip.

Deity Spread: Gain insight into a deity, how it's feeling in general, and how it relates to you.

Emotions of Others: Spread to find out how you're emotionally affecting others in your life.

Enemies: Gain insight to the dynamics of opposing sides in a major conflict.

Ethics of Wealth: Spread to gain insight into where you stand ethically with wealth.

Four Cards: Quite simply: Four Cards

Four Elements: Shows how the four elements are influencing or present in a given situation.

Four Seasons: Shows how the 2 solstices and equinoxes influence events.

Five Card Cross: Expansion of Past-Present-Future which shows the potentiality and core reasons for a situation.

Five Card Cross With Significator: A cross with five cards (four being elements, one being a significator).

Five Card Dream Interpretation Spread: Five card spread which allows one to analyze various aspects of a dream and what they mean.

Five Card Row: Simply five cards in a row. You supply what they mean.

Five Events: Shows five events and their repercussions.

Game Plan: Pick a significator and see the unconscious drive, others' attitudes, how the plan will succeed, and how it won't.

Horseshoe: Spread which shows an obstacle, hidden and external influences, the present, a suggestion, past influences, and how to overcome it.

Id, Ego, Super-Ego: Uses the Freudian model of the psyche to show you where you stand in its three main components.

Lord of the Rings: Spread based on Lord of the Rings.

Moving Spread: Spread which details the various challenges of moving to a new location.

Musical Spread: Are you a musician wondering what to do with each of the notes of the chromatic scale? Take a look.

My Future Self: Take a look into your future self, and what your future self would want to tell you.

Neighborhood Spread: How's your neighborhood doing, and how can you contribute? Find out!

Past-Present-Future: Think of something and see its Past, Present, and Future.

Relationship Spread: See the dynamics of a relationship from a rational and emotional level, and see the external stance.

Restless Night: If you had a restless night, find the source of the anxiety, how to calm down, and how to make things worse.

Single Card: Quite simply: A single card.

Spirit Identification: Encounter a spirit? Find out about it, how old it is, what it wants, if it wants to work with you, and how you can make that relationship happen.

Staying or Changing: Shows you the consequence of staying where you are or changing.

Sunrise Spread: Shows information about the querent and its relationship with Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. To be read at sunrise.

Synchronicity: Experience a synchronicity, or meaningful coincidence? Find out more about it with this spread.

Tetractys: Mystical Pythagorean spread based on pyramidal numbers, and refined by alchemists.

The Ankh: A very complex spread with two significators, based on the Ankh of Egypt.

The Blind Spot: Shows what you know, and what you don't know, and what others know, and don't know. It's a little more complex than that, but that's the gist.

The Cross: Tells you what to do, and what not to do, and what it all leads to.

The Decision: Pick a significator for a decision, and see what happens if you do it, and what happens if you don't do it.

The Determining Factor: Shows a situation, and gives a determining factor that will result in either of two outcomes.

The Evolution: Shows the evolution of a situation and its ultimate outcome.

The Inner Fool: Spread that answers various important questions about the querent's life, what they must learn, and do.

The Path: Analyze and get advice on a rational and emotional level, and get advice on one's external stance as well. Uses a significator.

The Problem: Good for attacking a problem, especially one with two challenges, ultimately finding the solution.

The Secret of the High Priestess: Very esoteric spread with two significators based on the waxing and waning of the moon.

Three Card Row: Quite simply, three cards in a row. You decide the meanings.

Three Possibilities: Shows the present and three possibilities that branch off from it.

Tree of Life: Very advanced spread that requires deep knowledge of some type of Kabbalah.

Twelve Month Oracle: Gain knowledge of what will happen throughout the year, month by month.

Twisting Paths: Shows a first decision, a first false path, a second decision, a second false path, and a likely outcome.

Two Cards: Quite simply, two cards.

Two Cards With Significator: Quite simply, two cards, with one of them being a significator.

Week Ahead: Gain some advice about the week ahead, in quite a bit of detail.

What Would They Want To Say: Find out what someone who doesn't know you would want to say to you if they knew you, what their opinion would be of your life, and what they would want to change about you.

Whispers of the Ancestors: Find out about what ancestors are present, and various advice related to them.