A Mixed-Media Situational Posture Spread

Here is a spread that uses dominoes and tarot cards to project the best posture to adopt in any situation. It is based on the assumption that odd numbers are "active" while even numbers are "passive."

The “War or Peace” Conflict-Resolution Spread

Here is a spread that can serve as a "first cut" to assess the advisability of taking a contemplated course of action in a conflict scenario. It's one of my "mixed-media" spreads that uses both tarot cards and dice. The outcome will either strengthen or weaken the initial urge to adopt a particular stance in …

“Facing the Future” – A Decision-Making Advice Spread

Thinking about a recent question on "stay or go" decisions, I created a deceptively simple spread that uses random court-card facing to choose one of four three-card decision paths to show the advice and the short and long term consequences of the decision. It uses a "prepared" deck and the quintessence method. (Note that "gaze" …

The “Power of Four” Decision-Making Series

Here's a decision-making spread (or rather a series of mini-spreads) that - depending on where the Significator lands - will point to one of four typical courses of action in dealing with a decision-making scenario: do nothing and see what happens; side-step the issue before it can get any worse; "take the bull by the …

The “Reasonable Certainty” Investment Opportunity Spread

Here is a spread for you "left-brained" types who appreciate a more deductive, methodical approach to tarot reading when warranted. It can be used when the opportunity for any kind of significant investment arises; this can be a financial initiative or any other commitment involving one's time or resources. Note that if you are of …

The “Offering of the Dog” (OOTD) Pet-Selection Method

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I figured I'd better post this before someone on Facebook steals it and tries to claim it. (For all of you "copyright hawks," the date of creation was the date of publication, February 1, 2022.) This morning I had a little puckish fun with the Golden Dawn's Opening of the Key (OOTK) method. …

The “Tarot-Cartography” Relocation Spread

Here's a little less-complicated fun with reversals. It's based on the "Astro-Cartography" model from the 1970s. This approach to relocation assumes that we have an urge to move but don't know exactly where we want to go to find the best "fit." It uses a process of elimination based on the appearance of reversed cards …

A Tarot Spread “4-Pack”

At the rate I'm creating new content, I may never catch up on my backlog of essay drafts because I try to post only once each day to avoid spamming my readers. Since tarot spread creation is a "fill-in" activity between my more involved literary efforts, they tend to languish in the queue, now more …

The “IF/THEN/ELSE” Decision-Making Spread

In my last essay I discussed the virtues of the three-card tarot spread as the minimum effective layout for divining any substantive issue (personally, I prefer five cards). I mentioned the typical "past/present/future" line spread and the Hegelian "thesis/antithesis/synthesis" array, but the one that piqued my interest is an approach that uses the data-routing logic …

The “Flipside” Decision-Making Spread

I've decided to post new tarot spreads both here and in Medium, although my text contributions will be limited to the latter. This is the first new spread I've created in almost a year. I hope you find it useful. It is built upon some of my previous reflections on the nature of reversed cards.