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The Celtic Cross
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.
Take it for a genuinely complex question, when you need the fullest, most honest read available.
- Cards
- 10
- Minutes
- 20
- Reversals
- On
- AI reading
- 3 credits
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How to read it
Read the cross first. The first card is the heart of the question; the second lies across it — what hinders or helps — and is always read in pair with the first, never turned. The third below is the foundation, what everything grew from; the fifth above is what you are aware of and reaching for. The fourth on the left is the recent past, the sixth on the right the near future, and they are read as movement from left to right. Then the staff from the bottom up: yourself, your surroundings, hopes and fears in one card, and finally the outcome, read only after the other nine.
Positions
The heart of the matter
The core of the situation: what everything turns around right now.
What crosses it
The force that hinders or unexpectedly helps; read together with the first card.
The foundation
The hidden ground of the matter: the distant thing the present situation grew from.
The recent past
The event that has just ended and still shapes what is happening.
Above you
The conscious aim, or the best that is possible as things now stand.
The near future
What happens in the coming weeks and where the situation turns next.
Yourself
Your stance and real attitude to the matter, including what you do not admit.
The surroundings
How other people and circumstances beyond your control affect the matter.
Hopes and fears
What you both hope for and fear; in this card the two are always linked.
The outcome
How it all ends if the course of things does not change; read last.
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