Hedera
Lately, I've been using two cards for my daily draws; I found just drawing one card without a specific question often rather vague, and even though there are some great three-card daily spreads (like the one from Mark McElroy's site), I found I had trouble keeping all three cards 'in my head' during the day.
So, two cards.
The first is:
'Do This Today'.
The second:
'Do NOT Do This Today'.
I tend to place the first one right-side up, and the second one either upside-down or on it's side, depending on the borders etc of the deck I'm using (I have a little card holder I put them in, meant for a postcard, and sometimes too much of the picture gets obscured).
I read the second card as being reversed, more or less; it's a nice way to bring out the more negative shades of meaning, and to play with the diffences and similarities between the two cards you draw.
Sometimes, the two cards will be almost opposites (Do: 4 of Swords. Do Not: 5 of Wands, for instance) and sometimes they will be very close together (Do: Knight of Coins, Do Not; King of Coins), making it an interesting way to explore the differences between cards.
They often balance each other nicely, or mirror one another.
Having them show up as advice like this also takes the sting out of the more 'scary' cards.
And I seem to be able to remember throughout the day which two cards I drew!
I have vague memories of a (two-panel) comic strip that had this 'do this-not this' format, but I can't remember or find what it was - it might have been French or Italian originally, even (and the 'not this' suggestion was often quite absurd).
If anyone has any idea what that might have been, I would love to know!
Perhaps I could name the spread after it.
So, two cards.
The first is:
'Do This Today'.
The second:
'Do NOT Do This Today'.
I tend to place the first one right-side up, and the second one either upside-down or on it's side, depending on the borders etc of the deck I'm using (I have a little card holder I put them in, meant for a postcard, and sometimes too much of the picture gets obscured).
I read the second card as being reversed, more or less; it's a nice way to bring out the more negative shades of meaning, and to play with the diffences and similarities between the two cards you draw.
Sometimes, the two cards will be almost opposites (Do: 4 of Swords. Do Not: 5 of Wands, for instance) and sometimes they will be very close together (Do: Knight of Coins, Do Not; King of Coins), making it an interesting way to explore the differences between cards.
They often balance each other nicely, or mirror one another.
Having them show up as advice like this also takes the sting out of the more 'scary' cards.
And I seem to be able to remember throughout the day which two cards I drew!
I have vague memories of a (two-panel) comic strip that had this 'do this-not this' format, but I can't remember or find what it was - it might have been French or Italian originally, even (and the 'not this' suggestion was often quite absurd).
If anyone has any idea what that might have been, I would love to know!
Perhaps I could name the spread after it.