I read the cards in patterns where they lay. I shuffle them until several fall out, sometimes one or two or two or three stacks, and then I consider the shape and placement of each card or group of cards, and read them in relation to each other. For instance, if the Ace of Pentacles falls out by itself and the six of pentacles, seven of wands, and knight of swords fall out together, I know that a young man with good ideas is working hard with his education to make something happen and that it is going to pay off. Some patterns move up like a ladder, or across like a bridge. The question that I initially read for is to see the current situation and then when I feel like I see it, I ask to see the future.