Spread: Minetta’s The Week’s Events

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As part of my study of the Tarot Fortune Cards, I am endeavouring to utilise them daily.  Part of this commitment is forming an understanding of the pace of the deck.  Consequently, I am looking at short-, mid- and long-term readings.
 
Over time I have not found the tarot good with daily draws.  I seldom do these, anyway.  Consequently, for short-term forecasts, I have been utilising a week-ahead spread.
 
The spread first appears in Minetta’s 1896 What the Cards Tell as Method III.  By 1913, it has become The Week’s Events.  Minetta also states the spread can be used to determine whether a prediction made in another reading will occur within the week.    

 

Interestingly, the same spread appears in Cicely Kent’s book as The Short Enquiry.  However, although Kent says it can be done after the general fortune has been predicted with fuller methods, she differs from Minetta: Kent says the covering cards must be laid in the same order as the first.  
 
I have done it both ways.  It has never made a difference.

 

Below is the 1896 and 1913 instructions:

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I have now done two readings using the Tarot Fortune Cards.  On both occasions, I have used only pips and courts, and I have removed my significator (King of Rods).

 

The spread is to be done as follows:

 

1. After removing the significator and trumps and Fool-card, the remaining 55-cards are shuffled and cut however you desire.  
2. Once this is done, seven cards are drawn and laid out as below (graphic from my blog).  The first card is the first day of the week.
3. You then cover each of the seven cards.  You can do this in any order.  

 

Once the fourteen cards are arranged on the table, we turn them over and read each pair as a prediction for the day.  
 

Edited November 23, 2020 by Guest