Using the Go board I was able to create a unique card spread with my elemental cards. It was just a matter of using a tarot deck to do the same thing.
In this video, we will be using my custom CBDTarot de Marseille deck. The images were created by Dr. Yoav Ben-Dov and the cards were printed with Make Playing Cards. I customized and resized the images within a border of my creation. I also renamed the cards with English instead of using the French text.
Anyone can use these images under a creative commons copyright. This means that I can use the images if I give credit, and I don’t sell them. If you want to learn how to print your CBDTarot deck you can learn more here.
This is what the attribution tag would look like: Attribution: CBD Tarot de Marseille by Dr. Yoav Ben-Dov, www.cbdtarot.com.
The Card Spread
To do the card spread I shuffle the cards well. This is my clearing ritual for the cards. The more I shuffle the cards the more I feel like the cards are in random order. I am keeping my question as open as possible. I only want to deliver a good card spread. So, my question is how can I do that?
Once the cards are shuffled I cut the deck on the grid. The board is divided into two halves. Each side contains 9 cards for a 3 x 3 grid. One of the card places has one half of the deck. So, that leaves us with 8 cards per half of the board.
I draw a card and place it in front of the stack it was drawn from. Next, I draw a card from the other side placing it in the same way as the first. Then I repeat this from side to side. Once this is done I will have 2 cards in front of each stack.
Special note: It doesn’t matter if you start left to right or right to left. It only matters that you alternate.
Once the first set of cards has been drawn out. I continue to draw cards from each stack alternating each time. I place them in the available spaces on the side I have to draw from. I can either place them above or below the first set of cards. I use my intuition to place the cards where they resonate the most.
I look for patterns when I place the cards. To find connections I look for similar suits and elemental dignities. These are elements that empower or dis-empower each other. If you know what elements match in the tarot suits, then you can match them according to how the elements interact with each other. You can visit my resources page here to learn more about elemental dignities.
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