Charged crystal are added to Go board to create boundaries and allow the cards to fall into new patterns.
With an open board the reader (myself) is able to place the cards wherever they choose. The reader has to come up with an intuitive way to place the cards due to the presence of the crystals.
The elements on the cards are found in the teachings of the Golden Dawn. Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit. Like elements match, empowering elements match, sub elements (card with more than one element) allow multiple matches. Spirit is a wild card, it matches with anything. The sub element with spirit can create unique patterns due to high possibility of matches. These are the rules I use to craft the card spread as you see it.
One could scry into this pattern of elements. You could meditate on it. I will take you into the cards, watch and see.