Decision Spread

Difficulty: Easy
This simple but highly useful spread calls for a question to be asked in this format:
'What happens if I do (X), and what happens if I do not do (X)?'
Please note that it should not be viewed as a decision between two different options, but about whether a single option should be exercised or not. A second option would call for a separate reading.
Card #7 is the significator, the overall theme of the query.
Cards #3, #1, & #5 represent the chronological sequence of events that occurs if the reader chooses to do (X).
Cards #4, #2, & #6 represent the chronological sequence of events that unfolds if the reader chooses not to do (X).
Your Decision Reading
The Significator![]() 5 of Wands |
Outcome if you do it: | ||
![]() Death |
![]() Ace of Swords |
![]() The Empress |
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| Outcome if you don't do it: | |||
![]() The Slave |
![]() 2 of Pentacles |
![]() The Emperor |
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5 of Wands
The means may be grotesque, but if they get you what you want you'd do well to use them.
Outcome if you do it:
Death
Ace of Swords
'At the east of the garden of Eden he placed the Angel and a flaming sword that turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life'. –Genesis 3:24
The Empress
Regime change in action, it happens more in the sewers than the senates. One goes out, another comes in.
Outcome if you do not do it:
The Slave
7:00 – Card 3
AKA The Chariot in traditional Tarot. Female, Water, Aquarius.
To be used, controlled, or even simply employed. It's hard to work for the will of another, especially when the other is undeserving of their power over you. At the same time, the effort makes one strong.
2 of Pentacles
Some cultures to this day place coins upon the eyes of the dead to pay the ferryman who will take them to the land of the dead. I'm guessing one eyed individuals travel at half fare and the blind go for free.
In reality, you can't take a cent with you. Spend it while you're alive.
The Emperor
In this case King Sargon of Akkad. A great ruler in his own time rarely even makes the history books in ours.