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Design a tarot spread for a specific question

The three-card spread does not fit the question you actually want to think about.

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Design a tarot spread for the question below, treating the spread as a thinking tool.

First, reframe my question. If it asks what will happen or what someone else will do, rewrite it as a question about what I can examine, notice, or decide, and tell me why you changed it.

Then give me the spread:
- Between four and seven positions, no more.
- Each position gets a name, a one-sentence job, and the exact question that position answers.
- Say why the positions are laid out in that order and what the geometry means.
- Include at least one position that could contradict the others, so the spread can tell me something I did not want to hear.

Finish with the one thing this spread will not be able to tell me.

Question:
How much time I have:

Making it yours

  • Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
  • Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
  • If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.

Reading practice. Designing a spread that fits the question, planning a session, and seeing the pattern you drew.

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