One Deck Wonder 2014

jmd said:

Preamble ___________________________

I had a quick look through the rather incredible spreads index started by Alissa and maintained by Moonbow* to see if anyone else had suggested or proposed a spread such as the one that follows, and did not find any.

I would presume that this spread may be listed under 'I-Ching' - though in the sense I intend it, it is not related to the I-Ching per se, but rather utilises an aspect of its hexagrammes: its 'dynamic' aspect, if I can call it that.

For those familiar with the I-Ching, I do not here propose any 'moving' lines. In fact, I do not propose any 'lines' at all, but rather simply six positions, from left to right. The similarity to the I-Ching will be obvious to those who use its 'invisible' trigrams.

The Spread ___________________________

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 _______       _______       _______       _______       _______       _______
|       |     |       |     |       |     |       |     |       |     |       |
|       |     |   [color=chartreuse]A[/color]   |     |   [color=chartreuse]B[/color]   |     |   [color=chartreuse]C[/color]   |     |       |     |       |
| [color=chartreuse]Open[/color]  |     |       |     |       |     |       |     |       |     | [color=chartreuse]Close[/color] |
|       |     |       |     |   [color=chartreuse]D[/color]   |     |   [color=chartreuse]E[/color]   |     |   [color=chartreuse]F[/color]   |     |       |
|_______|     |_______|     |_______|     |_______|     |_______|     |_______|

 [color=orange]1             2             3             4             5             6[/color]

The Reading ___________________________

Once the cards are layed six-in-a-line they may be read in the following manner

Opening Card​

The opening card (card 1) gives what is present as an underlying impulse in the situation at hand, whether this be a relationship, a work situation, or whatever it is the reading is about.

It may also indicate what the reading is actually about in cases where either there is no specified question, or where the ensuing reading seems to address other than the supposed question.

Central cards (2, 3, 4, 5)​

Cards 2 and 3 can first be looked at as part 'clarification' cards for card 1.

Then, the situation at hand is described as it manifests in ABC (cards 2, 3 and 4). This is basically a three card reading which may be show forth various pertinent aspects (financial, physical effort, psychological, etc).

The situation is of course never static, but in a permanent state of transformation. This is what DEF (cards 3, 4 and 5) now show as a 'new' three card reading.

The suggestion sees the sequence ABC transformed to DEF.

Closing card (6)​

The Closing card (6) gives an indication for the manner in which the future pulls the situation into its sphere. Again, here, cards 4 and 5 can be looked at as clarification cards for the final or closing.

Wheels within wheels ___________________________

In a nutshell, the six-card spread has the dynamic virtue of the manner in which an I-Ching Hexagramme may be read. Here, what is the basic pattern are repeated 3-fold readings:

• firstly as Opening -> 2, 3, 4, 5 (as a group) -> Closing;
  
• secondly as the convergence of impulses from the past (1, 2, 3) meeting impulses from the future (4, 5, 6);
  
• thirdly, as the manner in which the situation ABC is in the process of transformation to its new state DEF; and
  
• finally (for now), the way in which this situation (ABC -> DEF) has its two forces playing in from the opening and closing cards.

Some further remarks ___________________________

I personally do not advocate a strict position='specified meaning' type reading, so the above is to be read, if taken as intended (of course anyone adopting it will transform it to their own preferred style), as dynamic and very much influenced and re-worked according to the specific cards layed out, and as to whether or not other mitigating factors (such as the preponderance of a particular suit, or figures, or colour, etc) play into the layout.

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Hooked on TdM said:

I have four books sitting on the table currently: Learning the Tarot Bunning, 21 Ways to Read Tarot Greer, the Tarot Alfred Douglas, The Tarot Paul Foster Case. Since those are the ones out, I'll pick one of those to work through.

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Hooked on TdM said:

I also want to work on learning the hexagramme spread. I know I'm not ready to do readings for anyone with the full deck and new spread, and I don't like reading for myself. So I need an idea or two there!!!

Any suggestions?

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autumn and the sword said:

I'm using Joan Bunning's website (learntarot.com) because I like her keywords and the way that she presents them as actions. 21 Ways has a lot of good, interesting exercises and there's a study group here at AT. I don't think it's active, but the threads are there and you can read back over them to see what other people did and what kind of crazy insights they got from the exercises. I really want to do it myself some day.

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autumn and the sword said:

I'm in a similar bind! You can do readings about celebrities or fictional characters. I know there's at least one user here who posts her readings about a fictional character, I think in the Lenormand forum.

I think it would be cool to take a book you haven't read yet (or a film you haven't seen yet), choose a main character, write up what their situation is at the beginning of the story (information you can usually get from the jacket summary on a book, or IMDB for a film). Then come up for a question for them and do the reading based on that.

Maybe you could look at the questions sent to advice websites? The "Dear Abby" kind of stuff.

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