Maelin2
CC is the little black dress of spreads - you can dress it up, dress it down, but if you only ever wear it with pearls and pumps, you'll be bored silly - Wear it with platforms, with boots, with a leather jacket....well, it's a differnt story.
I often use pieces of the CC - not all the cards, but sections, and have found it the spread I keep coming back to, after those fancy multiple card spreads have lost their appeal.
It's a two card spread - the central cross being the central issue, forget the rest of the cards. It's a three card sread from left to right: Past present, future; or from bottom to top: underlying issue, current influence, possible aspiration - or either of those three card spreads around the central cross opposing forces - two possible 4 card spreads. Add a "more detail" card - no. 7 for your perspective, along with the central cross, or #8 for the surrounding forces, read with card 3,4,5, and 6 - or go whole hog and do all the cards, including both your hopes and dreams ans a final outcome.
I visit other spreads, but after 35 years, I keep coming back to the CC.
Best wishes
I often use pieces of the CC - not all the cards, but sections, and have found it the spread I keep coming back to, after those fancy multiple card spreads have lost their appeal.
It's a two card spread - the central cross being the central issue, forget the rest of the cards. It's a three card sread from left to right: Past present, future; or from bottom to top: underlying issue, current influence, possible aspiration - or either of those three card spreads around the central cross opposing forces - two possible 4 card spreads. Add a "more detail" card - no. 7 for your perspective, along with the central cross, or #8 for the surrounding forces, read with card 3,4,5, and 6 - or go whole hog and do all the cards, including both your hopes and dreams ans a final outcome.
I visit other spreads, but after 35 years, I keep coming back to the CC.
Best wishes