A Layout for Reading Playing Cards
Learn How to Arrange the Cards in a Layout for Conducting Readings
This is considered an excellent arrangement for readings, offering an abundance of insight and a sense of continuity to readings while using intuitive perception.
To read playing cards, you need to know how to arrange the cards for readings.
A variety of card reading layouts are available (as you will discover if you do internet research on the subject). This layout is very useful for readings with playing cards.
- Shuffle. A new deck is shuffled at least ten times to properly mix the cards. A well-mixed deck needs only three shuffles between layouts for producing accurate readings.
- With deck on the table, think about the Wish or Question you would like the cards to give you insight on and use your LEFT hand to cut the deck once, so that you have two piles of cards on the table in front of you. (The left hand is always used in cutting the cards because it is closest to your heart.)
- Make a cut in the second pile, so that you now have three separate piles of cards on the table in front of you as such: Piles: 1 ~ 2 ~ 3
- Count off seven cards from Pile #1. Place these seven cards on the table in front of you. Take the 8th card from Pile #1 which is still in your hand and place it, face UP, several inches above the 7 cards you counted off on the table. In the example of a layout diagram, this is the position of the King of Hearts. Discard remaining cards.
- Pick up Pile #2, count off 7 cards, placing these 7 cards ON TOP of the 7 cards you counted off from Pile #1. Take the 8th card from this pile in your hand, placing it face UP to the immediate RIGHT of the King of Hearts. This card in the diagram is in the position of the King of Diamonds. Discard remaining cards.
- Pick up Pile #3, again count off 7 cards, placing these 7 cards ON TOP of the 14 cards you previously counted off from piles #1 and #2. Take the 8th card from the pile in your hand, placing it face UP to the immediate LEFT of the King of Hearts. In the diagram, this will be in the position of the Ten of Diamonds. Discard remaining cards.
- Pick up the 21 cards you have counted off and placed in a pile on the table in front of you. These are the cards you will use to complete your layout in order to conduct your reading. The remaining cards from the deck are not used until you shuffle the whole deck to create a new layout later.
- Take the first card from the TOP of the 21 cards you have in your hand and place it below and diagonally to the LEFT of the Ten of Diamonds. In the diagram, this is the position of the Seven of Clubs.
Using corresponding letters of the alphabet, place remaining cards in your hand consecutively into the layout (always drawing the top card) thusly:
C A B
/D L S/ ~ /E M T/ ~ /F N U/ ~ /G O V/
/H P W/ ~ /I Q X/ ~ /J R <---- K/
9) As the arrow indicates, move Card K closer to Card R, so that it's part of a three-card spread.
10) To read each spread (each series of three cards - there are eight spreads in this layout), begin with the card on the LEFT in that spread. The cards are always read left to right as if the spread was a mathematical equation: 1+1+1=___. The total of each spread is your prediction.
