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An Equinox Spread, for spring or autumn, for addressing the balance of your life and concerns

Leading a balanced life is a fluid act, not a static one. This spread is designed to help you identify imbalances in your life and actions you can take to restore balance. 

Cards 1-2: In what areas am I giving too much? What’s dragging me down or taking too much of my resources? Card 3: How can I resolve this imbalance? Cards 4-5: In what areas am I not giving enough? What am I ignoring or neglecting? Card 6: How can I resolve this imbalance? Card 7: Overall guidance to move forward in a more balanced fashion

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A Spread for Cards that are Hard to Read

Do you have any of those cards that when they turn up they make you really uncomfortable and you never feel like you can properly describe their meaning to someone you’re reading for? I know I do – The Lovers, The Queen of Wands, and The Emperor have haunted me since I started reading. Cards that are difficult to read can teach us a lot about ourselves and can help guide our shadow work.

I’ve been toying with this spread a little and I wanted to put it out there for others to try out. The idea is that you let the deck speak to what’s blocking your understanding of a given card – which if you’re interested in shadow work, often highlights areas of ourselves that need to be given attention.

The spread is laid out as follows.

Method

Shuffle the deck and find your chosen card. Place it in the first position. Take the cards immediately following it or proceeding it depending on which will have enough cards to fill every position in the spread. An alternative is to draw the card, put it in first position, shuffle how you choose, and draw the top cards to fill the remaining spots.

Positions

The first card is pretty straight forward. Choose a card that’s giving you trouble, that makes you uncomfortable every time it comes up. I think people tend to pick major arcana cards here but don’t be afraid to pick a minor card. All blocks have something to teach us

The second card is how your past influences how you read this card. It could be an event, a belief, an unresolved fear – anything really. Our past often dictates our expectations of the future. So when a card is difficult to read it often points to an expectation we’ve picked up from our past and it either challenges that expectation or confirms something uncomfortable.

The third card is how your perception of yourself is influencing how you read the first card. Similar to the second card, when a card is difficult to read it often challenges our image of ourselves. It may make us feel like bad people when we think highly of ourselves or vice versa, highlight an area we’ve struggled with, or make us question the narrative we tell ourselves.

The fourth card is how others in your life inform your reading of the first card. Often we see other people in the cards, ones we like and ones we don’t. Our feelings for or about that person will often undermine how we read this card in relation to ourselves and to other people.

The fifth, sixth, and seventh card are all what those influences can teach us about ourselves. The lessons they highlight can also offer clues as how to unblock your reading of the main card.

Conclusion

I hope folks find this spread helpful. I’m still tweaking it and toying with it. If you use it to create something new or come up with a different way to do a similar task, please reblog and/or let me know! I’d love to boost more materials on this.

As always, take the best and leave the rest and if you have any questions let me know!

Discovering my root chakra is blocked led me to play around with this chakra spread. Enjoy~

7. Crown How I can  deepen my connection with the divine.

6.Third Eye What obstacles are preventing me from accessing messages from my higher self?

5.Throat  What insight do I need in order to express myself more efficiently?

4.Heart What I need to do to show myself more love and compassion.

3.Solar Plexus What realization must I achieve in order to  become more grounded  and centered?

2.Sacrum How can I best receive and embrace my creative energy?

1.Base What empowers me to persevere and remain strong?

I’m stuck tarot spread

Blue cards: What is now and what want‘ s to be left behind

1. What is my current situation?

2. What is holding me back from moving forward?

3. What energy/attitude do I need to let go of?

Orange cards: How can I move on

4. What do I need to do/realize so I can overcome what is holding me back?

5. What energy do I need to invite/evoke to help me?

Pink Cards: What can I achieve

6. What can I work towards? (having a more concrete goal than „my situation needs to change“ can be really helpful)

7. What will I be able to learn from this?

Mortal kombat tarot spread: Raiden