Hi tarotlova,
My very first deck....ever.....was that Titania's deck you speak about.....Fortune Cards. So, like you, I always read using the spreads (7, 9 & 36) from that little gold book because I didn't even know there was a Grand Tableau.
(Want to know something funny? I just checked in the Deck Review section here at ATF and you and I have both done reviews on Titania's Fortune Cards deck!)
Anyway, I wanted to say that I now also have Ciro's Reverie and Kipper decks. I also purchased the Reverie reading cloth from Ciro's website and it is absolutely fantastic. He also has a Kipper reading cloth (damn, I must have overlooked that when I purchased the other). Both cloths have the cards printed in the Grand Tableau format (with card number 1 appearing in the upper-left corner).
I've never taken the significator card out of any of my decks for any readings but I did decide to focus on it the other day.
Using the Reverie (but would also work in the Kipper), I laid out all of the cards in the Grand Tableu format on the reading cloth. Then, I found the woman (significator). I just decided to read the immediate surrounding cards and turned it into a Titania-style 9 card reading (so read 3 x 3 rows, then 3 x 3 columns, then 2 x 3 diagonally). Now here's where the advantage of using the reading cloth comes in....I could also read each card as a combination of the card it covered on the reading cloth.
I was just going to leave it there as the sitter said it answered her question. But then she said her eye was drawn to the Child card (which was outside of the 9 cards I'd read). So, I did a kind of chain reading, meaning....I lifted the Child to see what Card it covered on the cloth. It was the Fish. So then I looked under the Fish card and found the Book. Then I looked under the Book card etc etc. I thought it might have gone on and on but it came back to the Child card after about 6 cards. I strung the combinations together in a sentence as a kind of extended reading to the first part.
Now, the Kipper and Le Normand purists might not be happy with my modified reading styles but at the end of the day, the sitter really identified with the reading and she said it was very accurate.
If you used my method, of finding the significator amongst the 36 cards and focusing just on the 8 surrounding cards, you could change significators and make the centre card any card.....say you want to know about a relationship, find the ring.....or you want to know about moving house, find the house.
with love