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  • 3-card Reading | Inspired by the Tarot’s 10s

    10 Swords
    Sola Busca Tarot

    Here’s another spread for you, taken from my e-book ‘Tarot Kaizen‘ that you can use for the coming week.

    Prior to this spread exercise, there are four exercises that consider the broad function and energy of the Tarot’s 10s.

    Take your entire deck (ie not just the 10s) and give it a thorough shuffle to break up any ordering that may be in your deck from previous exercises:

    Card 1 (draw the card from the bottom of your deck):
    This comes to an end.

    Card 2: (draw the card from the top of your deck)
    This comes to fruition.

    Card 3: (draw from the interior of your deck)
    Plant THIS to harvest later.

    Record your reading in your journal.

    If any of those three randomly drawn cards are 10s, what can you say about the incoming energy of the suit which follows the outgoing suit?

  • Spread| Next 7 Days

    I’m publishing this on a Sunday, the one day of the week where I do my very best to avoid being online.  Call it Digital Detox and a passing fad if you must, but for me it’s an integral part of getting organised for the coming week.

    Part of that organising is taking a look at what the next 7 days may be throwing my way:
    This spread requires you to separate your Majors, your Minors and your Courts into three bundles.

    Card 1 – to be drawn from the Court Arcana. Shuffle all the Courts. You are looking for the Court card whose energies will assist you in your everyday life for the next 7 days.  


    Card 2: – to be drawn from the Major Arcana. Shuffle the Majors. You are looking for the Major Arcana that gives the overall theme for your life for the next 7 days.

    Card 3: – to be drawn from the Minor Arcana. Shuffle your Minor Arcana. You are looking for the Minor Arcana that will show best how your Court Card energies will assist with the energies from the Major drawn for Card 2.

    (Spread from Tarot Kaizen book) 
    You might want to either place the court card somewhere where you will often see it or, if that’s not convenient, wear an item of jewellery or clothing that you have charged with the card’s influence.  That can be as complicated a ritual as you like, or as simple as saying – ‘every time I look at my wedding ring I will be reminded of the relationship focus of The Queen of Cups and act accordingly’.  
    Assuming that it was the Queen of Cups that you drew. 
    You get the idea 😀

    When you get to Card 3, try to figure out how your court card person might implement the Minor card’s energies.  Taking our example – How would the Queen of Cups work with, say,  Five Swords?  It might suggest,  for example, that in a situation where there are winners and losers, being mindful of the losers’ feelings might be helpful?  

  • Tarot Blog Hop | Ostara 2013 | Snowdrop Spread

    Welcome to the Ostara Tarot Blog Hop! You may have arrived here by hopping forward from Joanne’s blog or hopping backwards from Joanna’s – or maybe you’ve just alighted on the page by chance! 

    Whichever mossy path you have taken to reach me here at Tarot Thrones, you are most welcome *pulls out a chair and proffers a plate of chocolate biscuits. Really nice ‘spensive biscuits – nothing but the best*

    If you’ve never been here before, let me explain a little about life here at Tarot Thrones – this blog exists primarily to help people with their Court Card work.  I know.  Tricky! And that maybe makes it sound a bit boooooooring here, but I hope that it’s not 🙂

    This spread was inspired by the snowdrop.  By looking at the plant’s structure, I arrived at this 8-card spread.   Take your cards and begin to shuffle, all the while thinking of the snowdrop……

    THE SNOWDROP SPREAD


    The Snowdrop

    Card 1:  The bulb that sits patiently in the darkness of the earth asks:  what nourishes me?  Because the bulb is in the ground, this may turn out to be something that you don’t initially recognise as being nourishing.  It might be a shadow energy.  Can it nourish you?

    Card 2:  The green fuse (as Dylan Thomas most memorably wrote!) that emerges from the earth, spiking its way inexorably skywards asks:  what motivates me?


    Cards 3, 4 and 5 – These three cards represent the three outer petals and together ask: what flowers within me.  The cards may be read individually or as a trio.

    Cards 6, 7 and 8 – These are the three tiny inner petals that are difficult to see (unless you look!)  and together ask:  what hidden gifts do I have?  Again, these cards may be read individually or as a trio.

    Record your reading in your journal and refer to it whenever your energies flag or you could just do with a boost to renew yourself.

    There may be cards that arise within this spread that you don’t feel fit the questions – cards that you actively dislike or feel ambivalent about.  This is the perfect time of year, the Spring Equinox, to deal with any ambivalence that you might feel regarding the cards – see whether you can bring those energies from the dark and into the light 🙂

    Should any card be unclear, pull another card to clarify the meaning.  The spread works equally well with an Oracle or Tarot deck, I find.  Because my blog is about Court Cards, you can try this variation – For Card 1, you may prefer to take 16 Court Cards from a different deck to your main deck and select a Court to see whose energies nourish you?

    I hope that you find a little time to try the spread, but now I appreciate that you must be off – forwards or backwards – to my lovely neighbours on this blog hop *waves white hankie fondly at the departing reader*  Come back and visit us again, won’t you?