Spreads

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Found: 65 spreads

Personality and character

Spreads about character: strengths and weaknesses, hidden motives, how a person is seen by others and who they are when alone.

  1. Who Am I?

    7 cards · 9 min

    A seven-card portrait for anyone who has stopped recognising themselves. It gathers the whole person: core, mind, heart, will, shadow, gift, and the face other people are shown.

  2. The Planets

    11 cards · 20 min

    Eleven cards on the classical horoscope wheel: ten planets and the ascendant. Each planet answers for one area of character, and the whole wheel shows what your temperament is assembled from.

Money and material situation

Money as a process: where income comes from, what blocks it, where funds leak away, and which decision will change your material situation soon.

  1. The Full Cup

    4 cards · 6 min

    A short four-card spread about the prosperity of a household: what fills it now, where it leaks away, what refills it and what the whole cup stands on.

  2. Stakes and Returns

    2 cards · 4 min

    Two cards for a quick check on any deal, investment or undertaking: what you are actually putting in and what it will actually return to you.

Everyday communication

Short spreads for daily life: a conversation, a request, a meeting, a household argument. A quick read when you need the right tone.

  1. Three cards

    3 cards · 5 min

    The basic three-card spread: past, present, future. A quick, honest cross-section of any situation — the place to begin when the question is simple or still taking shape.

  2. Solving the Problem

    3 cards · 5 min

    Three cards for an everyday difficulty you need to settle today: what the problem really is, what keeps it alive and which action dissolves it.

Home and property

Housing and everything around it: moving, buying or selling, renovation, neighbours, the atmosphere of a home and how a place shapes those living there.

  1. Strength of the Line

    7 cards · 11 min

    Seven cards on ancestral support: what came to you down the father's and mother's line, which gift you carry on, which burden you drag and what the line asks of you.

  2. Selling a Home

    9 cards · 12 min

    Nine cards on a property sale: what you are really selling, what price is realistic, who the buyer is, what slows the deal down and how it ends.

Children and hobbies

Children and what grows beside them: your bond with a child, their state and talents, and your own hobbies, creative work and free time.

  1. Children

    10 cards · 14 min

    Ten cards about your child and your bond: how the child feels, what goes unsaid, what they expect from you and where your relationship is growing.

  2. Little Children

    10 cards · 13 min

    Ten cards for a small child who cannot yet explain themselves: sleep and body, fears, what the crying asks for and what they pick up from the household.

  3. Conception

    8 cards · 12 min

    Eight cards for a couple waiting for a child: the readiness of both, the state of your bond, what hinders, what supports and what the coming months will show.

Health

The state of body and energy: what drains you, what restores you, how wellbeing and daily life connect. Cards never diagnose or replace a doctor.

  1. The Seven Energy Centres

    7 cards · 12 min

    One card for each centre, from the root to the crown. The spread shows where energy stalls, where it leaks and which centre is dragging the whole system down.

  2. State of Health

    8 cards · 12 min

    Eight cards on wellbeing as a whole: body, sleep, nerves, daily rhythm, what drains you and what restores you. This is a look at a way of life, not a diagnosis.

Love and relationships

The largest group: what two people feel, a partner's intentions, the future of a couple, separation and return, triangles, loneliness and the search for love.

  1. The Bridge

    16 cards · 30 min

    A sixteen-card spread for two people who keep reaching for each other and still cannot meet. Two arcs, your shore and theirs, are read as mirrored pairs and show exactly where the bridge breaks.

  2. The Goal of Love

    7 cards · 15 min

    A seven-card target for anyone tangled in their own wanting. The centre holds the real goal; the ring around it shows what helps, what deflects and what quietly replaces it.

  3. How We See Each Other

    6 cards · 12 min

    Six cards in two columns, your gaze and your partner's. The spread measures the gap between who you believe you are and who the other person actually sees.

  4. Where Are We Going?

    6 cards · 12 min

    Six cards laid as a road climbing upward. For a couple where nothing is wrong, yet nobody can say where this is heading or whether it is worth continuing.

  5. Sexual Alchemy

    7 cards · 15 min

    Seven cards shaped as an alchemical vessel: two desires at the base, the exchange in the middle, the result crowning it. About bodily compatibility and what keeps you both closed.

  6. Lemniscate

    10 cards · 20 min

    Ten cards along a figure of eight: two loops, yours and your partner's, joined at the point of exchange. It answers why energy between you returns sometimes and vanishes at others.

  7. The Lovers

    9 cards · 18 min

    The classic nine-card spread built on the Lovers arcanum. Three rows: the foundation of the couple, the living feelings, and the choice this relationship puts in front of you.

  8. Energy of the Couple

    7 cards · 14 min

    Seven cards in a ring: the shared tone of the couple, its sources of strength and its leaks. For two people who somehow tire faster together than they do alone.

  9. The Wounded Heart

    9 cards · 20 min

    Nine cards shaped as a heart with the wound at its centre. For anyone living through betrayal, a break-up or long indifference and unsure how to carry on.

  10. Love Oracle

    4 cards · 8 min

    A short four-card spread for moments that need a clear answer rather than a full analysis. A diamond: the real question, the case for, the case against, and the oracle's word.

  11. Relationship in the Couple

    7 cards · 15 min

    The basic seven-card spread for a couple already together. Two rows of three and an apex: who you are to each other, what each invests, and where it is heading.

  12. Reflection

    9 cards · 18 min

    Nine cards on either side of a mirror. The upper row is what you see in your partner, the lower row what it reflects back in you, the centre the mirror itself.

  13. Thought, Word, Deed

    3 cards · 7 min

    Three cards on a rising line. The spread checks whether your thoughts about love, your words and your actions agree, and shows exactly where the chain snaps.

  14. The Chosen Ones

    6 cards · 12 min

    Six cards for choosing between two people. The spread separates the two paths, carries each to its real end, and asks your heart separately what it actually wants.

  15. Divorce

    13 cards · 25 min

    Thirteen cards in three columns: the marriage itself, your road afterwards and your partner's. For a decision already being discussed but not yet finally taken.

  16. Equation with Three Unknowns

    7 cards · 15 min

    Seven cards in a triangle for a triangle of people. It takes apart the bond between you, your partner and the third figure, and finds the value that resolves the equation.

  17. The Starry Sky

    21 cards · 40 min

    Twenty-one cards as a constellation in four tiers. The most detailed relationship spread: the sky above you, both participants, the field between you, and the course you are sailing.

  18. Weekly Relationship Spread

    11 cards · 22 min

    Eleven cards: seven days of the week in a row and four summary cards. Laid on Sunday evening or Monday morning, always about one specific couple.

  19. Pyramid of the Relationship

    10 cards · 20 min

    Ten cards as a pyramid: four at the base, then three, two and the apex. It tests the relationship from the ground up, from chores and money to the goal you share.

  20. The Secret Pocket

    13 cards · 25 min

    Thirteen cards: the visible layer of the relationship on top, the contents of the hidden pocket in the middle, the consequences below. For suspicions you can neither confirm nor drop.

  21. Finding Love

    9 cards · 18 min

    Nine cards in an arc for someone currently alone. The spread runs from your present state, through what has to be released, to the meeting and its first real test.

  22. The Future of the Relationship

    19 cards · 35 min

    Nineteen cards across four horizons: now, three months, six months, a year, plus a column of conclusions. A detailed forecast for a couple deciding whether to continue.

  23. The Gates of Love

    7 cards · 14 min

    Seven cards shaped as a gateway: two pillars of three and a keystone above. About what each of the two must pass through before real closeness becomes possible.

  24. A New Acquaintance

    5 cards · 10 min

    Five cards in a cross about someone who has recently appeared in your life. The spread answers who they truly are, what they want, and what this could grow into.

  25. A Station for Two

    7 cards · 15 min

    Seven cards shaped like a railway station: two people on the platform, the waiting hall in the middle, two trains below. For a relationship long on pause and never resolving.

Critical situations

When the ground gives way: conflict, loss, threat, a hard choice with no good option. These spreads show the support, the risk and the next sane step.

  1. Making a Decision

    6 cards · 8 min

    Six cards for an honest comparison of two options: what each one gives, what each one costs, and what you are missing while you choose.

  2. The Problem and Its Solution

    5 cards · 7 min

    Five cards for a hard situation that will not settle itself: what is really happening, where it grew from, what keeps it alive, what to solve it with and where that leads.

  3. Mimir's Head

    8 cards · 12 min

    Eight cards on the northern story: Odin came to the well for counsel and paid for it with an eye. The spread gives a direct answer and names its price.

  4. The Next Step

    4 cards · 5 min

    Four cards for when things are too tangled to plan far ahead: where you stand, what blocks movement, which step to take and what it changes.

  5. The Alternative

    13 cards · 20 min

    Thirteen cards for a fork where both roads look reasonable. Each road is taken apart in six cards: the step, the demand, the return, the support, the risk and the year's end.

Study and travel

Study, exams, a new profession, relocation and the road. For deciding whether to begin, and for seeing how a course or a journey will end.

  1. The Exam

    9 cards · 10 min

    Nine cards for one specific exam: what you know firmly, where the gap is, how to prepare, what the examiner is like, what comes up and how it ends.

  2. Choosing a School

    9 cards · 12 min

    Nine cards for choosing between two schools: what the pupil actually needs, the strength and the difficulty of each option, and what the family is not seeing.

  3. Studies

    7 cards · 8 min

    Seven cards in a pyramid on any course of study: why you took it on, what you stand on, what will be hard, how to learn as yourself, and what you get at the end.

  4. Admission

    9 cards · 12 min

    Nine cards on getting into the place you have chosen: your real chances, what is missing, who else is competing, where the risk is and how it ends.

  5. A Tourist Trip

    9 cards · 10 min

    Nine cards along the road: why you are going, how packing and the journey go, money and companions, what may go wrong and what you bring back.

  6. Deciding on a Trip

    9 cards · 10 min

    Nine cards on a balance: what pulls you to go, what holds you back, what you gain and lose either way, and which to choose.

  7. Going Abroad

    11 cards · 15 min

    Eleven cards on a long stay in another country: papers, money, the road, housing, language, work, what stays behind and whether you come back.

Career and profession

Work as a path: your current position, boss and colleagues, changing jobs, starting your own venture, the prospect of growth and its real price.

  1. Inspiration and Goal

    9 cards · 12 min

    Nine cards as a rising flame: what kindles you, what puts you out, the goal you name, the goal behind it, and what your work becomes in a year.

  2. Prospects and Goal

    12 cards · 16 min

    Twelve cards as a ladder: where you stand, what is actually possible, your strength, what is missing, who hinders, and the picture at three months, six and a year.

  3. Reaching the Goal, or The Chariot

    8 cards · 11 min

    Eight cards on the image of the Chariot: the charioteer, two pulling forces, the reins, the wheels and the road. It shows what you steer and where you are really going.

  4. The Hierophant

    7 cards · 9 min

    Seven cards on the image of the Hierophant: what you are to learn, who becomes the teacher, what of the old still works, what to leave, and the two keys given to you.

  5. Reaching the Goal

    5 cards · 7 min

    Five cards as an upward arrow: the goal as it is, what you already have for it, what is missing, what must be overcome and whether you reach it.

Team and society

The group you stand in: a team, partners, friends, an audience. How they see you, who will back you, who obstructs you, and where you belong.

  1. Me and the Team

    12 cards · 16 min

    Twelve cards in a circle: you at the centre, colleagues around. The spread shows the role assigned to you, the chief, the ally, the source of friction and where it all goes.

  2. An Online Romance

    9 cards · 11 min

    Nine cards for a bond that exists only in messages: who he really is, what he shows, what he hides, what you are waiting for and whether a meeting happens.

Secrets and the unconscious

What stays hidden: other people's intentions, the unsaid, dreams and fears, inherited knots. Spreads for working with what shapes a life from the shadow.

  1. The Descent of Inanna

    15 cards · 25 min

    Fifteen cards on the Sumerian myth: seven gates down, where the signs of power are stripped from you, the bottom where nothing is left, and seven gates back up.

  2. The Seven Bodies

    21 cards · 30 min

    Twenty-one cards: the seven bodies of a person from the physical to the atmic, each with two cards beside it — what feeds it and what blocks it.

  3. The Blind Spot

    4 cards · 7 min

    Four cards as a window: what everyone sees, what others see but you do not, what only you know, and what nobody knows yet.

  4. Understanding Yourself

    13 cards · 20 min

    Thirteen cards as a mandala: you at the centre, around you twelve sides of your life — gift, wound, repetition, flight, desire, shadow, resource and this year's lesson.

  5. Why Won't He Meet Me?

    9 cards · 11 min

    Nine cards on one precise question: what he feels, what he tells himself, what he fears, what holds him, and on what condition the meeting still happens.

General predictive spreads

Universal spreads with no fixed theme: three cards, situation and outcome, the months ahead. Start here when your question is not fully formed yet.

  1. The Devil's Snares

    13 cards · 18 min

    Thirteen cards as a hanging chain: what binds you, where the dependency sits, what you get from it, what you fear without it and where the chain can break.

  2. The Star

    6 cards · 8 min

    Six cards in the classical six-pointed star — a spread of hope: what you reach for, what already works for you, what hinders and what the answer will be.

  3. The Celtic Cross

    10 cards · 20 min

    The classical ten cards: a cross of six with a crossing card at its centre, and a staff of four to the right. The fullest answer to a difficult question.

Not sure where to begin

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