"Interlace" spread

[Marisa Kirisame]

So, I've recently had this thought I decided to incorporate into a spread. I'm sure the idea isn't novel, but I couldn't find examples, so I'll post it here.

We draw cards in a row, like this:

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

 

The spread's questions, however, are assigned not to the cards, but in between the cards:

 

1 Q1 2 Q2 3 Q3 4 Q4 5 Q5 6 Q6 7

 

We can also lay down the cards in a circular shape, with an extra question between the first and the last card.

There were two approaches to reading this spread in my idea, the first being that both the adjacent cards provide an answer to a question (so the answer to Q1 is derived by interpreting 1 and 2, for Q2 - by interpreting 2 and 3 and so on). The premise is that having two questions bridged by the same card will help join the questions' answers together, making it more whole.

 

Another approach is to assume that the answer to the question lies within an unknown card between the cards drawn, which is affected by the neighbouring cards (as in any spread where cards' interpretations are influenced by their adjacent cards). So, with the same 7 cards from the previous example it becomes like this:

 

1 X1 2 X2 3 X3 4 X4 5 X5 6 X6 7

 

Here, the answer to the Q1 would be X1, the answer to Q2 would be X2 and so on; however, the X1-X6 cards are unknown, as only the 1-7 cards are drawn. The only thing we know about cards X1-X6 is that none of them is the same card as the one from 1-7, and that the cards in X1-X6 are different from each other. But we also know that X1's card's interpretation will be affected by cards 1 and 2, which are no secret to us. Same goes for X2 being influenced by 2 and 3, and so on. We can attempt to answer the questions based on this information.

 

Here's an example list of questions for the spread, with the situation reading being a theme:

 

Q1 - What is the evaluation of the situation?

Q2 - Where do the actions undertaken lead to?

Q3 - What are the immediate results?

Q4 - What is overlooked in the situation?

Q5 - How will this story peak?

Q6 - What is the estimated victory condition?

Q7 - (for the circular variant) - What will come back into focus after the situation?

 

P.S. I would appreciate it if someone could inform me whether or not BBCode tags still work on this forum - I could use an invisible table to make described card layouts look prettier in the posts.