Tetragrammaton Spread

Deal and Reading:
Shuffle. Have the Querent cut the deck once to the left. Have the querent take the deck on his left and cut it again, once to the left. Have the querent take the deck on his right and cut it again, once to the right. Turn over the top card of each deck.
Each of the four cards will represent one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton shown above. Read them accordingly. Next search each pack until you find the Querent card. Do not take the Querent card out of nor change its position in that deck.

Discard the remaining three decks. Begin dealing the cards of the selected deck from right to left, bottom up, into rows of six, until the deck is depleted. If the Querent card is not surrounded on all four sides, have the reader choose one card randomly from the discarded piles and place it such that it properly covers the Querent card. Begin by reading the cards which surround the Querent card.

Next, each card in the deck is assigned a numerical value (more commonly called its ‘rank’). The Querent card is assigned the value of four. Proceed by reading the card four cards away from the querent. If you run out of cards, wrap around to the first card dealt. After reading that card, skip the number of cards away that the value of the current card indicates (i.e. if the current card is the seven of wands, the next card will be the one seven spaces away). Continue to read cards and skip in this manner until you come upon a card you have already read.
Skip values for court cards are: Page – 7, All others – 4.
Skip values for Major Arcana are:

3 – Fool, Hanged Man, Judgement
9 – Magician, High Priestess, Empress, Wheel of Fortune, Tower, Sun, World
12 – Emperor, Hierophant, Lovers, Chariot, Strength, Hermit, Justice, Death, Temperance, Devil, Star, Moon
Finally, the entire layout is read as follows. The first two
columns on the right represent past events. The middle two columns
represent events of the present. The last two columns, the future.

Comment: Peach’s book does an extremely poor job of explaining what the Tetragrammaton is and really doesn’t seem to understand its significance. Rather than use her convoluted explanation (which would take up a couple of pages anyway), I include two excerpts below from Naomi Ozaniec’s book for the benefit of those who have not studied the subject.

Yod – Signifies the open hand of man. It implies power, direction, skill, and dexterity. The open hand symbolizes beneficence, a sign of the Supreme Spirit.
Heh – Signifies a window which permits light and two way vision.
Vau – Signifies a nail which joins things together creating union.
Grammitcally it is used like _and_ to join phrases together.
It is very close in concept to the sanskrit ‘yoga’ which means union.
Heh – Represents the end result of the process.

Yod Element of Fire Primal Emanation
Heh Element of Water Transmission
Vau Element of Air Stabilization
Heh Element of Earth Consolidation

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