I use an 11 card Spread. The bulk of the reading is done in two section, The Medicine Wheel (6 cards) and Pathworking (4 Cards). The final card is the Blessing Card, this is what Divinity really wants you to know, beyond all else.
The Medicine Wheel is laid out much like a compass. There are four points and a card in the middle. Crossing that card is the sixth. The Medicine Wheel is read from the inside out, beginning with the bottom card, which is the Querant position.
The Pathworking Spread is laid out beside it working from the bottom (near me) to the top, in four steps.
Things you should know:
Wands are cards of personal energy. They are the fire or magick, we project out. If you are familiar with the Kundalini you could see them from that viewpoint. They are physical actions of spiritual or deep rooted desires.
Cups are the cards of our emotions and all things inside. They represent the flow of our life. These cards represent relationships with others as well as ourselves.
Coins represent our material selves. Whether it is career, or money, or possessions it can be found here. Many times we see the things in the “Coins” category as things to attain, tokens of stature or position or whatever. Instead, “Coins”, like so much else, should be viewed as tools and resources. Too often we become personally attached to the material expression of ourselves (not materialistic, per se.) and what we think it should be. For example, your job is a tool, a resource to get you where you are going…it is not what you are. If it no longer suits all of your needs it is time to search for something else.
Finally, Swords represent our mental facilities. They are not only the way our mind processes (anger, love, wants, desires, hopes, fear, aggressive, passive, etc) but also our expressions of those things. How we deal with them. For this reason Swords have also been associated with our creative selves, such as writing. Writing is a great way to express things that are otherwise pushed aside or let to run out of control. It is a good way to get a handle on what is really happening in our livers. And once something is out it is out, it can not return to your mind, but by invitation.
Medicine Wheel:
Querant – 9 of Wands
Crossing – 7 of Wands
East (New Beginnings/ cycles) - Death (Reversed)
South (Spiritual Gifts/ Physical Journey) – 10 of Coins
West (Things to Go within – meditate on) – Knight of Cups (Reversed)
North (Physical Gifts/ Spiritual Journey) – 8 of Cups
Pathworking:
Card 1 (Where you are now) – The Devil (Reversed)
Card 2 (Internal Steps to take) – Queen of Coins
Card 3 (External Steps to take) – Page of Swords
Card 4 (The final Place) - 8 of Coins
Blessing Card – The Star
At first glance you will notice that Coins and Cups dominate your spread. We are dealing with physical and emotional states here.
The first thing I see when I look at the cards, is there seems to be two levels of wisdom pitted against each other. A higher wisdom and a lower wisdom. The lower wisdom blocking the output or the expression of the higher wisdom. This is not necessarily a bad thing. This is not saying that you are being ignorant or stupid. It’s just two different levels of thinking and being.
The other thing I see, you seem to be your own worst enemy. It seems the problem is action vs. thought or Thought vs. Action, depending on how you’re coming at it. The question I would have to ask, before going any further, is, ”Are you being your own true self?”
This is a question that only you can answer, not the cards and not me, not anyone. Are you being your own true self. Sometimes we do things to express a part of ourselves that is there but is not our true self. It’s…I don’t know the correct analogy…but the square within the rectangle. Or, the rectangle within the square, depending on how you come at it. And that seems to be the best way to sum up your position right now. It all depends on which way you’re coming at it. But, only you know.
It seems you’re resisting change. It’s almost as if you know this is what you need to do and you’re not quite ready to do it. You’re being asked, or you are contemplating, or it’s coming up that you’re going to be asked, to let something go. If you want to advance, if you want to move forward, if you want our desire, your true desire, you are going to have to let a part of you lay down and die. And, there again, we are facing that higher self vs. lower self.
I am definitely seeing a move for you. There’s something…Your placement, your placement, or rather your advancement is dependent upon your placement. Where you are. What the cards are saying is that you’re going to be given that. If you don’t have that structure and stability that you feel you need to be, that is coming for you. That is coming for you. Okay?
Again, it’s like a completion. And there seems to be a lot of that in your cards.
Something you’re being asked to meditate upon, something you are being asked to go within and search, is kind of your idea of the “Knight in Shining Armor”. This card is indicated by the Knight of Cups. If you’re not finding the outward, physical expression of what it is you’re seeking, then perhaps you don’t have a clear idea of what it is you’re seeking. Or..or…you have a very clear inner image of what is you’re seeking, but when you try to project that out into the “real” world, you don’t always see what’s before your eyes. It’s like you’re constantly seeking. Perhaps it is time to stop seeking and find. This goes back to are you being true to your own true self, are you following through on that?
The relationship is a good thing for you right now. The partnership. The relationship. It’s like two complete wholes coming together to make another complete whole, for lack of better phrasing. There is balance in this partnership for you. And, it would seem, that that is where the resistance is, the reluctance is.
Do you see how it all comes together? How it all ties together? The advancement you are looking for in your life is revolving around your inner feelings towards a relationship. And it would be interesting to see your numerology, because that may explain better why.
As I said, you seem to be caught in your own “sins of the flesh”, is what comes to mind when I look at this next card, which is the Devil. There’s nothing wrong with anything, and that’s what needs to be prefaced for this card. There’s nothing wrong with anything. Don’t think that this card or this reading is telling you that you need to change anything or do anything different or live a different life or be a different person. What you need to do is be you and what the card spread is asking you is, “Are you being you?”
Life works in stages and cycles. Don’t ever think that an opportunity missed is the only one. However, what ever it is that hides behind Door #1 here, seems to be good. It is the shining star, the shining light. That little glimmer in your eyes. What you’re looking for is right before your eyes and it could make all the difference in the world.
The next card is talking about, “What do you want your life to be?”
What do you want your physical life to be? Perhaps it is time to look at that. A lot of what you’ve been doing, or living, has satisfied certain levels of your being; emotional, mental perhaps, sexual…which is a sort of physical expression, but this card is asking you to look beyond individual points and pieces and look at who it is you want to be remembered as. When it is all said and done who do you want, what do you want, to be remembered as?
This next card is interesting and I wish you could see it, because the visual alone would speak volumes to you. It is a man in the woods and you can tell he’s moving, he’s looking, he’s sneaking…but with purpose and purpose he knows. It’s like he’s looking for something and only he knows where it’s at. I think that sums up a lot. When it comes to life, only we hold the map to our own personal treasure. The card not only shows that you’re in control, this is your thing, but it also speaks to me of Don’t Miss The Forest For The Trees. And again, this is what I just got done saying. You’re looking at the individual trees (pieces) saying, “This pine tree here and this maple tree here and this oak tree here,” and you’re taking them and from that, trying to envision the whole forest and you can’t. You need to step back from those individual trees and let everything blend together.
The last card on the Pathworking Spread is back to coins and partnership and completion and abundance and infinity. It’s all right there and you are on your way to it. As soon as you accept it and allow the changes and the shifts, or force them, that need to take place.
I’m thinking that the catch here may be that the relationship you think I’m talking about is not the one I’m talking about. So please bear that in mind. Ok?
The last card is the Blessing Card and this is the Star. I think that kind of says it best. Again, sometimes the cards speak for themselves. You’re on your way. Whatever it is you’re trying to attain, but you do have to accept what goes along with that.
