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The Thoth Spread

Card 1: Represents the client and the nature of the question. It also represents the primary influences upon the situation.

A court card in this position refers to a dominant individual, influence, or personality trait affecting the situation.

Cards 2 and 3: Read this combination with reference to Card 1. All three cards are keys to describing the nature of the situation and the personality of the individual.
Cards 13, 9, 5 and 4, 8, 12: These two sets of cards indicate potential futures.

If the two sets compliment each other, the cards on the upper left are a development of the cards on the upper right.
If the two sets are in conflict, the cards on the Lipper right are the direction the individual will naturally follow. The cards on the upper left represent actions that could change the natural direction.

Cards 6, 10, 14: This set indicates the psychological basis of the issue.
Cards 7, 11, 15: This set shows the operation of forces beyond the individual’s control (destiny or karma), and how he can adapt to them. They are personal advisory cards.

NOTES

Princes and Queens often indicate actual men and women connected with the matter.

Knights mean the coming or going of a matter in accordance with the direction the Knight faces.

Princesses show ideas, thoughts, or opinions related to the subject.

LOOK FOR A MAJORITY OF CARDS IN ONE SUIT

A majority of Wands indicates great energy, quarreling, or opposition.

A majority of Cups indicates love, emotions, and pleasure, or intoxication.

A majority of Swords indicates either intellectual matters or sickness, depression, trouble, and death.

A majority of Pentacles indicates general business matters in general, possessions, and material success or failure.

A majority of Trumps indicates higher forces at work, therefore, the individual is not fully in control of the situation. This majority is a strong indicator of spiritual or karmic matters.

A majority of Court Cards indicates meetings, society and many people surrounding the individual or situation.

Source: tryskelion.com

Use this layout to find out about the cycle you are in right now.

Card One (New Moon): What you are beginning. What began this cycle.
Card Two (Waxing Moon): What you are starting to get feedback on.
Card Three (Full Moon): What is at its peak.
Card Four (Harvest Moon): What you are reaping.
Card Five (Waning Moon): What you are letting go of.
Card Six (Dark Moon): What is resting. What is being recycled.
Card Seven (Heart of the cycle): What is at the heart of this cycle.

(Moon Spread by Yvonne Rathbone)

Deal: Numerically as shown
Reading:
It is suggested that the cards in this spread be read in the order
shown below:

Card 4 – Querent’s state of mind
Cards 13, 12, 11 – Past, with 13 being the farthest back in time
Cards 1, 2, 3 – Present
Cards 10, 9, 8 – Future, with 8 being farthest in time
Cards 5, 6, 7 – Feelings of others involved in the matter

Magic Seven Spread (Doane)

Deal: Numerically as shown above.

Reading:
Card 1: Past event leading up to the present state
Card 2: The present state
Card 3: Immediate future
Card 4: Suggested Solution, what the querent should do to obtain
more control over the current situation
Card 5: The current environment and/or its affect on the matter
Card 6: Opposition
Card 7: Result

Variation 1: Change the following cards (Davis)
Card 4: Issue to be dealt with
Card 5 and 6: Opportunity and limitation (these positions flip,
use your intuition as to which is which in a given reading)

Eliphas Levi Wheel Spread

The layout is so named because it is based upon the Eliphas Levi Wheel, a version of which is seen on Trump 10 in the Rider-Waite deck; Levi did not invent this layout. Levi’s Wheel assigned letters of the Tetragramaton (Yod, He, Vau, He, respectively) to each of the four positions shown above. Levi’s wheel also offers some additional interpretations of the four tarot suits, the four ranks of court cards, and the meaning of the letters T, O, R, and A

Position : 1
Present – Present situation.
Position : 2
Waning influences – Obstacles already overcome. Changes which have occured in the past.
Position : 3
Hidden – Hidden or unconscious influences.
Position : 4
Emerging – Emerging influences.
Position : 5
Synthesis – Draws together the other four influences.