Powerful One-Card Tarot Spreads

Part 7

How and Why questions are answered in much the same way as When questions using the Dynamic Elemental Tarot Spreads. The rules for responding to How and Why questions are modified only slightly from those given last week for When questions:

Rule Number One: Decide which element is expressed by the question.

Rule Number Two: Prepare the deck and draw cards from the deck using the method of your choice. Keep drawing cards and placing them in piles according to their element until you draw a card of the element expressed by the question.

Rule Number Three: The last card drawn is the answer to the question and any cards drawn prior to the final card may be used to further clarify this answer.

To do a one card reading, use only the last card drawn, the one of the element chosen for this reading. Any other cards drawn for this reading may be used for clarification purposes or ignored. Interpret the card drawn according to the system you choose to use and give the reading accordingly. You may expect the card to explain exactly how or why the event mentioned in the question is occurring. It's up to you to use this explanation to answer the question.

Alternatively, the top card for each element may be used to do a more complete reading. Again, any cards beneath the top card can be used for clarification purposes. This technique will result in a reading of one to five elements depending upon how many cards were drawn for each element before the element being sought to answer the question. You may not have drawn a card for one or more of the elements.

The basic Dynamic Elemental Tarot Spread, where cards are drawn until each of the five elements has at least one card representing it, can be used to give a five card reading over all of the elements. You may also choose to use any number of elements for your reading. My only suggestion is to choose the elements before you draw any cards to answer the question. That way you keep the lines of communication open with your own subconscious mind.

Q - Why is (blank) treating me this way? (I'll consider this a Water question)

The cards drawn are: Key VIII Strength = you have the fortitude to do it. Four of Wands reversed = love intuitive insights. Key V Hierophant = Intuition. Five of Cups = anger in relationships. This last card is the one I'm looking for. It tells me she's angry with me in our relationship. O.K. she's angry. Now what? Well, the previous cards tell me to use my intuition, love those intuitive insights and rely on my own strength to resolve this issue.

Gee that worked out so well it almost looks contrived. But I really did draw the cards at random and I was looking for an answer and I got one. I'm going to ask the same question about another person who's treating me with great respect and attending to my every wish. Let's see how that comes out.

Q - Why is (blank) treating me this way? (I'll consider this a Water question too)

The cards drawn are the inverted Six of Pentacles = desire in material things. Inverted Three of Pentacles = understand material things. Inverted King of Wands = verify intuitive insights. Wheel of Fortune = what goes round, comes round. Inverted Page of Cups = justice in friendships. The inverted Page of Cups tells me she's treating me fairly as a friend in the manner in which she sees me treating her. Our friendship is emotionally balanced. The other cards can help me clarify this answer. The definitions of these cards speak for themselves.

Q - How can I resolve the financial issues for (blank company)? (I'll consider this an Earth question)

The cards drawn are the Key XIX The Sun = illumination. Inverted Ace of Cups = beginning of a friendship. Two of Cups = intention to create a relationship. Key X Wheel of Fortune = what goes round, comes round. Inverted Page of Wands = intuition is right. Inverted Knight of Cups = change in thinking about the friendship. Queen of Pentacles = change in behavior regarding money.

There's the rub. The company needs to change their behavior regarding money. This means they need to change the way they handle their financial affairs. To clarify this issue, look at the previous cards going back in order. They need to change their thinking about their friendship with money. They need to trust their intuitive insights and know that what they do with money is how money will treat them. They've been using money to create relationships.

As I study this spread, I've got to tell you it's so true but I've never looked at this company in that light before. They have been trying to buy friends in the world of commerce. That never works. All you ever do is spend money and receive little or nothing in return. That leads me to the next question.

Q - How do I tell them (the above company) these things? (It's still an Earth question)

The cards drawn are Key XX Judgement = rebirth. Two of Pentacles = money intentions. This one is a little more difficult and requires some thought. The phrase money intentions means to look at what you really want to accomplish, what your real intentions are. This tells me to approach the officers with this question for analysis. Out of this will come a rebirth in the way which they choose to use their money. I peeked at the first card for a little bit of clarification.

Aftermath: I won't go into a lot of detail, but I did exactly as the cards suggested. The officers agreed they needed to change the way they've been spending a lot of money and they're setting up new spending policies. It's a change from feeding the Good Old Boys Network to more intelligently prospecting for customers. The net result will be a savings of a considerable amount of money they couldn't afford in the first place. Intuitively, I feel they'll have a lot more success with their new marketing approach.

Your assignment this week, should you choose to try it, is to do several How and Why tarot spreads to answer questions for yourself and your friends. Next time we'll take a look at some ways of answering Who, What, Where and Which questions. In the meantime, we're still soliciting tarot deck and book reviews.

Powerful One Card Tarot Spreads - Part 8

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