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I recently devised a past, present and future spread and have been having rather good results with it. So I thought I'd share.
You use four different decks (I've been doing it with the Rohrig, Druidcraft, Ancestral Path and Tarot of Transformation). Shuffle and get your client to cut. Then ask the client to pick one deck for childhood and adolescence, one for adult life and one for the present. The remaining deck is the future. Starting with the childhood/adolescence deck, remove the base card and put it as the first card in the row, representing the overall 'theme' of that period. Then get the client to pick one card for successes in that period, a second for lessons learned, a third for advantages he/she had, and a fourth for challenges he/she had to face. Lay them out in a row. Read them before going on to the next period and the next deck.
Do exactly the same with each deck. At the end of the reading, read each column . . . the themes, the successes, the lessons, the advantages and the challenges.
I used this twice today and in both readings, cards were coming up twice. In the first, the Fool appeared as the lesson card in both childhood and adulthood. In the second, the five of Wands appeared as the success card in both childhood and adulthood and the seven of Cups appeared first as the lesson card in adulthood and then as the advantage card in the present. If you're using decks that are very different from each other (as I do) then the 'repeating' cards become very interesting because the message isn't identical but still carries much of the same information.
You use four different decks (I've been doing it with the Rohrig, Druidcraft, Ancestral Path and Tarot of Transformation). Shuffle and get your client to cut. Then ask the client to pick one deck for childhood and adolescence, one for adult life and one for the present. The remaining deck is the future. Starting with the childhood/adolescence deck, remove the base card and put it as the first card in the row, representing the overall 'theme' of that period. Then get the client to pick one card for successes in that period, a second for lessons learned, a third for advantages he/she had, and a fourth for challenges he/she had to face. Lay them out in a row. Read them before going on to the next period and the next deck.
Do exactly the same with each deck. At the end of the reading, read each column . . . the themes, the successes, the lessons, the advantages and the challenges.
I used this twice today and in both readings, cards were coming up twice. In the first, the Fool appeared as the lesson card in both childhood and adulthood. In the second, the five of Wands appeared as the success card in both childhood and adulthood and the seven of Cups appeared first as the lesson card in adulthood and then as the advantage card in the present. If you're using decks that are very different from each other (as I do) then the 'repeating' cards become very interesting because the message isn't identical but still carries much of the same information.
