This is just awesome....Thank you so much LB for posting this!! This method provides some solid "hooks" on which to create a clearer message relating the cards to one another, yet without confining the meaning of any one card. I love it!!
One question... Is there a difference in how you read position 1 vs the off-stage card in terms of applying it to yourself/the querent? Not sure how to ask this... If position 1 is not a court card, then you would apply it as a kind of "noun, verb, or adjective" to the off-stage card? But... if position 1 IS a court card then you already have a descriptive card and the off-stage card is unneeded?
Thanks again... this will definitely become an integral part of my readings.

sascha