rainwolf
I received a request as follows:
After thinking a bit, I decided all I needed to do was use a traditional kind of spread, but mix it up a bit. I have been in situations like this before, and I know bias is an important factor, thus the title of the spread.
............4....
..1.....5......2
.....3...........
1 and 2 are struggles between mind and reality. Card 1 is your wants, and 2 is what is in reality at this point and the near future (week or week and a half). See how similar or dissimilar these two are. Don't focus on this for too long, just glance at the cards and write down a word that described each card.
Here is the important part (and tricky). These cards are going to tell you what you sometimes don't want to hear (very plainly and forward). Card 3 is your bias towards your wants, and card 4 the bias towards the reality of the situation. They are confusing at first, but once you have them they are helpful.
As an example of the bias cards (ill get out my deck and pick something random), I pull 4 of wands reversed, 2 of wands reversed, and the tower reversed. Your wants are for something that brings you daily satisfaction, not something huge. The reality is that no action is happening, you are hung up and can not make your mind clear on the matter. The bias card for your wants (the more important of the bias cards, IMO) being the tower reversed is saying you are not changing your ways and you are continueing a cycle. It is comfortable and new ways are not opening up.
When you pull the next bias card, you are looking at what the wrong impression card 2 (reality) is giving you. If it was the seven of wands, it would be telling you that the indecision was on your own part. There are things set in motion that give you power of will in the situation, and the two is not as gloomy as it might have been perceived.
If the bias cards pose problems of their own that need to be worked out, I would do something simple like a 3 card spread to intuitively understand it.
Finally, card 5 is the theme of the relation. NOTE I did not say relationship. This will tell you what is between you two.
When you are doing the reading, make note of the elements and the numbers involved. Even numbers portray togetherness at times, while odd is the 'odd man out'. Cups would be an emotional relation, while wands would be primarily business, and 'keeping it at that'. However, you need to decide yourself and look at the bias cards honestly. A tarot reading is hard enough to make objective, especially for relationships. However, the bias cards are a good way to make the odds in your favor of making an accurate decision and prediction.
In retrospect I wish I would've looked at the energies present between me and the inquired, and not 'outcomes' and 'predictions' I tried to streamline my readings to do. I hope my experience can be of some help to you.
RW
anonymous said:
After thinking a bit, I decided all I needed to do was use a traditional kind of spread, but mix it up a bit. I have been in situations like this before, and I know bias is an important factor, thus the title of the spread.
............4....
..1.....5......2
.....3...........
1 and 2 are struggles between mind and reality. Card 1 is your wants, and 2 is what is in reality at this point and the near future (week or week and a half). See how similar or dissimilar these two are. Don't focus on this for too long, just glance at the cards and write down a word that described each card.
Here is the important part (and tricky). These cards are going to tell you what you sometimes don't want to hear (very plainly and forward). Card 3 is your bias towards your wants, and card 4 the bias towards the reality of the situation. They are confusing at first, but once you have them they are helpful.
As an example of the bias cards (ill get out my deck and pick something random), I pull 4 of wands reversed, 2 of wands reversed, and the tower reversed. Your wants are for something that brings you daily satisfaction, not something huge. The reality is that no action is happening, you are hung up and can not make your mind clear on the matter. The bias card for your wants (the more important of the bias cards, IMO) being the tower reversed is saying you are not changing your ways and you are continueing a cycle. It is comfortable and new ways are not opening up.
When you pull the next bias card, you are looking at what the wrong impression card 2 (reality) is giving you. If it was the seven of wands, it would be telling you that the indecision was on your own part. There are things set in motion that give you power of will in the situation, and the two is not as gloomy as it might have been perceived.
If the bias cards pose problems of their own that need to be worked out, I would do something simple like a 3 card spread to intuitively understand it.
Finally, card 5 is the theme of the relation. NOTE I did not say relationship. This will tell you what is between you two.
When you are doing the reading, make note of the elements and the numbers involved. Even numbers portray togetherness at times, while odd is the 'odd man out'. Cups would be an emotional relation, while wands would be primarily business, and 'keeping it at that'. However, you need to decide yourself and look at the bias cards honestly. A tarot reading is hard enough to make objective, especially for relationships. However, the bias cards are a good way to make the odds in your favor of making an accurate decision and prediction.
In retrospect I wish I would've looked at the energies present between me and the inquired, and not 'outcomes' and 'predictions' I tried to streamline my readings to do. I hope my experience can be of some help to you.
RW
