Barleywine Posted April 11, 2020 Posted April 11, 2020 (edited) Most of you know that I'm not a fan of 3-card readings since I think they take too narrow a slice of the deck and tell too shallow a story. If I use them, I prefer to extract the cards from a larger population of drawn cards using some kind of a "pointer." In this case I'm relying on the nominal "facing" of the figures or landscape features on the cards in each of three positions to determine which of them to read in the columns. (This is what used to be called a "Chinese menu" approach ["I'll have one from Column A, one from Column B and one from Column C"], but I imagine that is now politically incorrect.) The first two cards use rightward orientation to progress the reading, while the last card is "static" (facing neither left nor right) to reflect the end (and the resolution) of the matter. Reversal can be used with this spread, which may also switch the normal upright facing and alter the flow of the cards. Cards are dealt top-to-bottom into each column until a card of the correct facing turns up. When that happens, the deal moves on to the next column. If there are no static cards remaining in the deck when the third column is dealt, the last card pulled should be taken to mean that the initial assumptions must be reconsidered if it is left-facing, or that further input should be sought before taking any action if it faces to the right. Since the deck will have been exhausted at this point, precluding clarifiers, there are a couple of choices: do another reading using a second deck and a different spread to extend the outlook; pull the clarifiers from another deck; or use the "quintessence" to obtain a "roll-up" perspective on the situation. My personal choice would be the first one. Edited April 11, 2020 by Barleywine
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