Choosing the Right Spread
You’ve met twelve spreads. The last skill is the one that matters most: choosing the right one for a question. You’ll match questions to spreads, then read one with Quinn.
What this course taught you
- One Question, Three WaysSimple spreads: one card, Past · Present · Future, Instinct and True Self.Revisit →
- A Love Question With QuinnLove: the Lily for growth, the Triangle for a choice, Divine Your Lover for timing.Revisit →
- A Work Question With QuinnWork and money: Is This My Path?, the Prosperity Path, and the Lion for hard times.Revisit →
- The Moving SpreadHome: the Moving Spread, with the season of a move as a gentle hint.Revisit →
- The Medicine WheelBalance: the Medicine Wheel, and care for the side opposite your favourite card.Revisit →
- How Can I Be More Creative?Creativity: from you to inspiration, and what it could be without the block.Revisit →
- 1Name itwrite the question down, word for word.
- 2Sort itone thing, time, a feeling, love, work, money, home, balance or making things?
- 3Count ithow many parts does it have?
- 4Choosethe smallest spread that gives each part a card.
- 5Readeach card for its position, then the whole.
Choosing a spread is half the reading. A good fit asks the right small questions in its positions, so the cards have a clear job. A poor fit leaves you stretching cards over questions they weren’t asked.
Use the steps above. Most of the time, the smallest spread that gives each part of the question its own card is the right one. When two spreads both fit, pick the one whose positions sound most like the way you’d explain the problem to a friend.
Then read it with Quinn. If a spread from this course doesn’t fit, that’s useful too: bigger spreads, decisions and timing are waiting in Read the Whole Story.
Your exercise
Match ten questions to their spreads. Then choose a spread for a question of your own and read it with Quinn below.
Key takeaways
- 1Choosing the spread is half the reading.
- 2Use the smallest spread that gives each part a card.
- 3Pick the positions that sound like how you’d explain the problem.
- 4Bigger spreads are waiting in Read the Whole Story.