Barleywine
This spread accomplishes two things I've been thinking about for a while. First, I've been trying to come up with a way to do an "astrological" style of spread that isn't so "all over the place" as far as trying to see a logical, consistent situational flow (the traditional astrological house meanings are rather "compartmentalized" and don't always flow well from one to the next in a situational sense). Second, I wanted to come up with a spread that's versatile enough to look at multiple areas of life in whole or in part without having to do several separate spreads or use a huge number of cards. I've kept the use of a Significator as the central point (like the "Earth" in the middle of a natal horoscope) around which the functional "constellations" revolve.
This is a kind of "Swiss Army Knife" spread that can be used to look at the querent's life in several ways, either separately or blended, via four 5-card "mini-spreads:" the individual as a self-contained entity, the individual in relation to family, the individual in relation to friends or partners, and the individual in relation to the public (work, etc.). These sub-sets can be mixed-and-matched any way you like. I haven't decided yet whether the "Last Card" should be a "quint" of all the sub-sets used, whether it should be "one card to rule them all" drawn at the end of the entire pull, or whether a separate "consequences" card should be drawn as the fifth card for each area of life examined. I'm leaning toward the first one, but the last one would produce a small series that could be read as a vignette giving more detail in the outcome position. This is still a "work-in-progress;" I think I have the positional ideas nailed down to my satisfaction but the titles may still be tweaked.
ETA: The position meanings are fairly self-explanatory, but I will probably work up a brief text outline on how to interpret them; I'll add it in a new post when done. Also, I debated whether to suggest using a separate deck for each life-area "mini-spread" so all card options are available in each area, but decided that, if we have "Tower" events going on in more than one major area of our lives, we probably want something more therapeutically robust than tarot.
This is a kind of "Swiss Army Knife" spread that can be used to look at the querent's life in several ways, either separately or blended, via four 5-card "mini-spreads:" the individual as a self-contained entity, the individual in relation to family, the individual in relation to friends or partners, and the individual in relation to the public (work, etc.). These sub-sets can be mixed-and-matched any way you like. I haven't decided yet whether the "Last Card" should be a "quint" of all the sub-sets used, whether it should be "one card to rule them all" drawn at the end of the entire pull, or whether a separate "consequences" card should be drawn as the fifth card for each area of life examined. I'm leaning toward the first one, but the last one would produce a small series that could be read as a vignette giving more detail in the outcome position. This is still a "work-in-progress;" I think I have the positional ideas nailed down to my satisfaction but the titles may still be tweaked.
ETA: The position meanings are fairly self-explanatory, but I will probably work up a brief text outline on how to interpret them; I'll add it in a new post when done. Also, I debated whether to suggest using a separate deck for each life-area "mini-spread" so all card options are available in each area, but decided that, if we have "Tower" events going on in more than one major area of our lives, we probably want something more therapeutically robust than tarot.