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Relationship in the Couple

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.

Start here once the couple is already formed and you need a general read: roles, investment, direction.

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How to read it

Read the bottom row first and whole: you, the bond itself, your partner. The middle card of that row matters more than the outer two, because it shows whether something third and living exists besides two separate people. The middle row is about investment: cards four and six are rarely equal, and that inequality is usually what you call unfair. Card five in the centre is what actually happens between you, often past your explanations. Card seven at the apex gives the outcome if the current order of things continues untouched.

Positions

  1. You in the couple

    The role you occupy in this relationship today and how well it actually fits you.

  2. The bond itself

    What your union is as a living whole of its own, apart from the two of you.

  3. Your partner in it

    The role your partner occupies and whether they chose it consciously at all.

  4. What you invest

    What you genuinely invest: time, money, care, patience, or your own plans.

  5. What happens between you

    What truly goes on between you day to day, beyond the explanations you give each other.

  6. What they invest

    What your partner invests and in which currency, which is not always yours.

  7. Where it is heading

    What this relationship becomes if neither of you changes anything at all.

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