Comic Strip Spread

 

 

Difficulty: Easy

Note: This spread works best with decks like the Diary of a Broken Soul or Surrealist Tarot because they display scenes rather than pips and do not use reversals.

The Comic Strip Spread is a simple nine-card chronological spread that looks like a page of a comic book. This method should be used to get a glimpse of the future as it would pan out naturally. It may be insightful to use this spread in coordination with biorhythms. The spread is easy to read as a storyboard, just like a comic strip.

The main subject is apparent in the first card, while the story plays out through the following tarot cards.

It is important to pay particular attention to the cards and the relationships with their neighbours. Notice which directions the cards are facing, and how they interact.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Comic Strip Reading

6 of Wands	8 of Wands	7 of Swords
Death	3 of Wands	The Lovers
2 of Cups	Queen of Wands	6 of Pentacles

 

 

 

 

Card 1: 6 of Wands

If you're stuck, the first step to freedom is to examine what's holding you in place.

 

 

 

 

Card 2: 8 of Wands

The means by which you arrive are not necessarily the means by which you'll stay.

 

 

 

 

Card 3: 7 of Swords

An Homage to Kurosawa. Seven swords belonging to seven Samurai.

In a realistic movie, even masters can die, and life has a tendency to move like the most implausible plot.

 

 

 

 

Card 4: Death

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Card 5: 3 of Wands

Two wands to keep them rowing in circles past death, one wand to put an end to it.

 

 

 

 

Card 6: The Lovers

9:00 – Card 6

Male, Air, Sagittarius.

Ceration is the alchemical act of adding a liquid to the substance while heated, yielding a softer substance with a wax-like texture. Not to be confused with alchemical union, but an important step toward it.

 

 

 

 

Card 7: 2 of Cups

And two for my homies. Never forget past orthodoxies, past people or past events. Those who don't know their history aren't doomed to repeat it, they're doomed to fail history class and look like idiots. One feels no shame in repeating something they never saw in the first place, but stupidity is the greatest sin.

 

 

 

 

Card 8: Queen of Wands

An homage to H.R. Giger's Alien Hieroglyphs and an insult to perspective. A wand that does nothing more than sap the life from you and squirt it down the drain.

 

 

 

 

Card 9: 6 of Pentacles

Don't overlook a good solution just because it's obvious.