Barometer of Fate Pros & Cons Spread

Barleywine

Here's a basic "pros-and-cons" decision-making spread that makes use of the ideas of "shadow" cards dealt from the bottom of the deck (the "cons" input) and of sub-quintessence cards that combine to produce a "Decision" quint as final "Yes, do it" or "No, don't do it" advice. I will add this to my spread index.
 

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Michellehihi

This spread is very detailed and serious! I will try it for a very difficult decision I have to take. Thank you!
 

Barleywine

Michellehihi said:
This spread is very detailed and serious! I will try it for a very difficult decision I have to take. Thank you!
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Note that I just updated the spread to add a comment about using a second deck for the quints if the calculated cards already appear in the spread. Good luck with it! I haven't tried it out yet, it's new as of this morning.
 

Michellehihi

Barleywine said:
Note that I just updated the spread to add a comment about using a second deck for the quints if the calculated cards already appear in the spread. Good luck with it! I haven't tried it out yet, it's new as of this morning.
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Oh that's a good idea! I'll work with 2 decks then.
Could it be an oracle deck?
 

Barleywine

Michellehihi said:
Oh that's a good idea! I'll work with 2 decks then.
Could it be an oracle deck?
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Maybe if the oracle cards have numerical values that can be related to the quintessence calculation. It might not be a good fit, but it can't hurt to try.
 

Michellehihi

So I am doing the spread now. A question: for calculating the quint card you don't count the Court cards, right?
 

Barleywine

Michellehihi said:
So I am doing the spread now. A question: for calculating the quint card you don't count the Court cards, right?
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It depends on how you view it. Since the court cards are part of the reading for all other purposes, I can't see excluding them from the quint. I just consider them 11 through 14 and throw them in. Sometimes I do it both ways and see which gives me a better fit for the narrative. (My Super Bowl prediction was a good example of this.) The other thing I do is subtract reversals since that way I can keep the Fool as zero, and also get a reversed quint.
 

Michellehihi

Ok I finished the reading, and I am confused. Maybe you will read my thread that I will put now, in the reading sub forum, and comment?
 

Barleywine

Michellehihi said:
Ok I finished the reading, and I am confused. Maybe you will read my thread that I will put now, in the reading sub forum, and comment?
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Since you're the beta-tester for this spread, I'll be happy to comment.
 
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