The point of this spread is to use the deck as the calendar that it, in fact, is. The deck has 52 cards – a lunar year has 52 weeks. It also has 4 suits, just like the year has 4 seasons, Each suit has 13 cards – each season, 13 weeks. Therefore, each card of the deck represents one week. These are some of the many correspondences between the calendar and a deck of playing cards.
The purpose of the Cat Spread is to find, within a one-year period, when something of significance (related to the sitter's question) will happen. And the cards show how it'll (or won't) happen. Why one year only? Because the deck is a one year calendar, so it cannot see beyond that. It can only see up to 52 weeks from the present.
So, I did this reading to know if she would find a partner within the next year.
The timing was seven lunar months and two weeks from the date of the reading (which happened last weekend). So the reading is indicating, approximately, the second week of September.
"September???", my sitter cried. "That's almost an year from now!"
I told her that she's welcome to challenge this reading, for not everything is written on stone. What most of readings show is a tendency, change your present path and you may also change the outcome of the situation.
These were the card for her reading:
First of all – wow, what a balanced reading. One card from each suit and two of them in their assigned positions – Diamond in the Head, Clubs in the Throat - only the Spades and Hearts have exchanged places, but that's okay because their elements (earth and water, respectively) do get along together. I think her life will be organised than it is now (and now it's pretty chaotic). She'll be feeling more balanced, with everything (or almost) where it should be.
Since this is a love-life reading, the position I looked at was the Torso – the third card in the column. Six of Spades – The Ruin. It does not look pretty here, although we have a Heart card just underneath it. The fact that it is in a position ruled by the element Water, it's meaning is softened – it loses a bit of it's Earthy harshness. Still, isn't the best card for this question - the name "ruin" says it all, but let me describe it for you: a snowy landscape, a cloudy sky and rising towards it, an abandoned, ruined castle. The horizon is clearer – Spring will come. Things will be reborn. But, for now, it's winter, in all it's glorious dormant beauty.
Now, look, this card here in important: because it shows that, although there two men in this spread (one Jack and one King), the sitter's heart lies dormant. It does not look ready yet to receive love. It's still covered in snow, maybe feeling empty and abandoned thanks to past deceptions. It does not mean it's dead, it's just... hibernating.
Lets move on from here. The Head of the spread is another important position, for it usually gives the "atmosphere" of the reading. And here's our dear trickster wind, the South Wind (4♦). It blows and tries to lift our skirts... it tells us of something unexpected coming, something that will disturb our sitter. I think this disturbance is directly related to the two men in the reading - Lancelot (11♣) and Nicomiah (13♥). Suddenly, new people will appear in her life – or superficial acquaintances will come closer. In any case, it'll surprise her, disturb her, and maybe she won't even really like them at first – like "is fate playing a joke on me?". Here, it might.
I won't dwell too much on the two guys – I think Nicomiah (13♥) here is probably a man of her age, not exactly what she loves in a man (she told me that when I described him) but, being him in a position ruled by Earth, he is a bit strengthened here – maybe not as soft and as compliant as he could be in other positions. The earth gives shapeless Nicomiah a form.
As for Lancelot (11♣), it's not the first time I see him in a reading done for this sitter. He is in the throat position, in which his already impressive characteristics are enhanced – personally, I think he becomes too "dream-like" here. Too perfect. I am not so sure here, but I think Lancelot is her dream man – the man that she talks about when she says she wants a partner. Young, intelligent, sensitive and constantly moving around. When I described him, she said: "That's it – that's the guy I want". She doesn't want a new husband, she wants a guy she can have fun with... but, as we can see, her idea of a "good enough man" can be daunting for some guys.
I never posted a Geomantic analysis here before, so here it is: Acquisitio + Carcer = Fortuna Minor. The Geomancy here confirms what we saw in the cards – the opportunity will come, but because the sitter is still feeling "locked", unable to open up and accept it fully, the result may not be as good as it could.
And this is it, at least for this year – hopefully, in the next, her inner spring will have arrived already.
The purpose of the Cat Spread is to find, within a one-year period, when something of significance (related to the sitter's question) will happen. And the cards show how it'll (or won't) happen. Why one year only? Because the deck is a one year calendar, so it cannot see beyond that. It can only see up to 52 weeks from the present.
So, I did this reading to know if she would find a partner within the next year.
The timing was seven lunar months and two weeks from the date of the reading (which happened last weekend). So the reading is indicating, approximately, the second week of September.
"September???", my sitter cried. "That's almost an year from now!"
I told her that she's welcome to challenge this reading, for not everything is written on stone. What most of readings show is a tendency, change your present path and you may also change the outcome of the situation.
These were the card for her reading:
Head (♦/Fire): 4♦
.
Throat (♣/Air): 11♣
.
Torso (♥/Water): 6♠
.
Feet (♠/Earth): 13♥
First of all – wow, what a balanced reading. One card from each suit and two of them in their assigned positions – Diamond in the Head, Clubs in the Throat - only the Spades and Hearts have exchanged places, but that's okay because their elements (earth and water, respectively) do get along together. I think her life will be organised than it is now (and now it's pretty chaotic). She'll be feeling more balanced, with everything (or almost) where it should be.
Since this is a love-life reading, the position I looked at was the Torso – the third card in the column. Six of Spades – The Ruin. It does not look pretty here, although we have a Heart card just underneath it. The fact that it is in a position ruled by the element Water, it's meaning is softened – it loses a bit of it's Earthy harshness. Still, isn't the best card for this question - the name "ruin" says it all, but let me describe it for you: a snowy landscape, a cloudy sky and rising towards it, an abandoned, ruined castle. The horizon is clearer – Spring will come. Things will be reborn. But, for now, it's winter, in all it's glorious dormant beauty.
Now, look, this card here in important: because it shows that, although there two men in this spread (one Jack and one King), the sitter's heart lies dormant. It does not look ready yet to receive love. It's still covered in snow, maybe feeling empty and abandoned thanks to past deceptions. It does not mean it's dead, it's just... hibernating.
Lets move on from here. The Head of the spread is another important position, for it usually gives the "atmosphere" of the reading. And here's our dear trickster wind, the South Wind (4♦). It blows and tries to lift our skirts... it tells us of something unexpected coming, something that will disturb our sitter. I think this disturbance is directly related to the two men in the reading - Lancelot (11♣) and Nicomiah (13♥). Suddenly, new people will appear in her life – or superficial acquaintances will come closer. In any case, it'll surprise her, disturb her, and maybe she won't even really like them at first – like "is fate playing a joke on me?". Here, it might.
I won't dwell too much on the two guys – I think Nicomiah (13♥) here is probably a man of her age, not exactly what she loves in a man (she told me that when I described him) but, being him in a position ruled by Earth, he is a bit strengthened here – maybe not as soft and as compliant as he could be in other positions. The earth gives shapeless Nicomiah a form.
As for Lancelot (11♣), it's not the first time I see him in a reading done for this sitter. He is in the throat position, in which his already impressive characteristics are enhanced – personally, I think he becomes too "dream-like" here. Too perfect. I am not so sure here, but I think Lancelot is her dream man – the man that she talks about when she says she wants a partner. Young, intelligent, sensitive and constantly moving around. When I described him, she said: "That's it – that's the guy I want". She doesn't want a new husband, she wants a guy she can have fun with... but, as we can see, her idea of a "good enough man" can be daunting for some guys.
I never posted a Geomantic analysis here before, so here it is: Acquisitio + Carcer = Fortuna Minor. The Geomancy here confirms what we saw in the cards – the opportunity will come, but because the sitter is still feeling "locked", unable to open up and accept it fully, the result may not be as good as it could.
And this is it, at least for this year – hopefully, in the next, her inner spring will have arrived already.
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