trivialuvs Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 Can I resurrect this post? 🤔 I have seen a few spreads that use a significator. As someone new to all of this, I might play around with it to see what happens. I do like the idea of using it as a creative writing tool - representing a character in a story or using it as a inspiration for writing.
peacewing Posted March 26, 2023 Posted March 26, 2023 Nah, I don't want to take one card out of commission and have one less card available when it could be contributing to my spread!
Guest Posted March 26, 2023 Posted March 26, 2023 I almost never use one. But when the spread calls for it I simply assign either the Golden Dawn court or major corresponding to my birthday.
Misterei Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 (edited) On 3/25/2023 at 6:31 AM, trivialuvs said: Can I resurrect this post? 🤔 I have seen a few spreads that use a significator ... @trivialuvs I don't use a significator in the usual way taught by AE Waite (i.e. pick a court card to represent the person) but I DO use significator spreads. For example, if I'm asking about a new job I take Ace Coins as the significator. I shuffle the full deck. Then I go through the cards and look for Ace Coins and the card just before and just after it. This becomes my 3-card spread on the new job. I've read this way many years. I've also seen it described in a LeNormand book by Rana George. Similar types of spreads are old school I think. I've got another oneI use, too ... but I think this post is long enough to give you the idea. Edited March 27, 2023 by Misterei
trivialuvs Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 14 hours ago, Misterei said: For example, if I'm asking about a new job I take Ace Coins as the significator. I shuffle the full deck. Then I go through the cards and look for Ace Coins and the card just before and just after it. This becomes my 3-card spread on the new job. @Misterei I will be saving this spread idea! 😁
Misterei Posted March 31, 2023 Posted March 31, 2023 @trivialuvs if you ever get into LeNormand, I highly recommend Rana George's book. Anyhow I love using significators this way. Let me know how it works out for you };>
Strength8 Posted March 31, 2023 Posted March 31, 2023 On 3/26/2023 at 10:15 PM, Misterei said: For example, if I'm asking about a new job I take Ace Coins as the significator. I shuffle the full deck. Then I go through the cards and look for Ace Coins and the card just before and just after it. This becomes my 3-card spread on the new job. @Misterei do you read this kind of spread as a story per se? or is there a positional meaning decided beforehand, for before and after card?
Misterei Posted March 31, 2023 Posted March 31, 2023 @Strength8 When I use this method with a 3-card spread (sometimes 5) I just look at the 3 cards together and see how they relate. What yogas they form (this is my way of reading). If you're familiar with Open Reading per Ben Dov's method ... that's a similar concept. Possibly you could structure it as past present future.
Strength8 Posted March 31, 2023 Posted March 31, 2023 4 minutes ago, Misterei said: When I use this method with a 3-card spread (sometimes 5) I just look at the 3 cards together and see how they relate. What yogas they form (this is my way of reading). If you're familiar with Open Reading per Ben Dov's method ... that's a similar concept. Possibly you could structure it as past present future. Thank you for responding @Misterei I am not familiar with Ben Dov's method; however, I will look it up! Thank again 🙂 Always learning here
Jewel Posted April 1, 2023 Posted April 1, 2023 When a spread calls for a significator I will use one, but I just shuffle my deck and choose it randomly as part of the spread.
TarotSparks Posted April 9, 2023 Posted April 9, 2023 The significator is the person you use to represent the person or subject you are reading about. You can choose to use a card to represent that person or to use their astrological sign or their hair or eye colour or any other method you feel will suit your reading. You do not have to use a significator. You can just use your intuition to guide you in the reading.
MustaKissa Posted April 12, 2023 Posted April 12, 2023 I use the significator if the spread requires it. I have a book of spreads by a Tarot author and card reader from Poland whom I really trust and she uses the significator everywhere. Her spreads are great. But I never choose the significator, I pull a card for it like for all other spread positions, it gives extra info about which role does the client have in the current situation, at what place is he or her currently. I really like this information. It's like "who are you in this situation you're asking about?"
Morwenna Posted June 16, 2023 Posted June 16, 2023 I generally don't; I too don't want to remove a card from the potential spread. If I want to use one, it's decided which one it will be and then see where it comes up in the spread, if at all; if it doesn't, you have to decide the meaning of that. Actually, I think the only time I might need a signifier is if I were to use a spread where the querent blindly picks a number of cards while you add in the significator, then see where it fits in the ensuing spread.
crystalrose Posted July 26, 2023 Posted July 26, 2023 I never use significators because I don’t see the purpose of it. It’s one less useful card in the deck. However for people that do use them, they usually go with my gender and sun sign. I’m a Libra so my significator would be the Queen of Swords.
Natural Mystic Guide Posted July 26, 2023 Posted July 26, 2023 Typically, I do not use a significator. That being said, I am now in an intensive immersion with both Benebell Wen's book 'Holistic Tarot' and her deck The Spirit Keepers Tarot. So I can see that there a times when using a significator adds a valuable dimension to a reading or may send a reading in a different dimension. So I am cozying up to the idea. With the Spirit Keepers Tarot deck there are 3 potential significators -- 3 0 'The Fool' cards. Depending upon the nature of your question, you select the most appropriate of the three. If I am choosing a significator from the deck for myself, I go with one of these three: II 'The High Priestess'; 'The Queen of Cups'; or 'The Queen of Swords'. It depends upon the nature of the question and how I am feeling that day. I am perfectly balanced between my right and left brain so that's why I can easily flip back and forth between these 2 Queens.
stillseas Posted July 31, 2023 Posted July 31, 2023 in the limited circumstances that i do use a significator, i draw it randomly from the deck (i've found i get a lot of jumpers for this position actually) as part of the spread. i don't really ever choose myself. i have utilised astro/etc correspondences in choosing significator-esque cards for certain personal readings, though.
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