Horse Shoe Spread
Difficulty: Easy
The Horse Shoe is a classic tarot spread. It is more advanced than the three-card reading, yet simpler than most other spreads. It is a versatile method that can be used for most queries, though there are other spreads which would go into more depth. Like the simple Past, Present, and Future spread, it contains these cards in positions #1, #2, and #7, but also has four other tarot cards that help the reader understand how to deal with the future better. The cards are to be read as follows:
- The Past: Past events affecting the question.
- The Present: The current state or approaching influence.
- Hidden Influences: Things the reader may not be aware of (or barely be aware of).
- Obstacles: This is the challenge: obstacles may be avoided or may have to be dealt with.
- External Influences: Attitudes and thoughts regarding people around the reader.
- Suggestions: Recommended course of action.
- Outcome: The result of following the suggestions.
Your Horse Shoe Reading
Obstacle 6 of Wands |
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Hidden Influences 6 of Cups |
External Influences King of Pentacles |
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The Present 10 of Swords |
Suggestion The Theocrat |
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The Past 5 of Cups |
The Outcome 8 of Pentacles |
The Past represents past events that are affecting the question.
5 of Cups
The problem with a hand of glory is that wax melts and glory fades.
The Present represents the current state or immediately approaching influence.
10 of Swords
Classic iconography. Classic significance: Absolute destruction.
Hidden Influences - Things that you may not be aware of, or barely be aware of.
6 of Cups
I have no clue what I was thinking on this one. No clue, but if this card comes into play, remember to watch the horizon.
Obstacle - This is the challenge.
6 of Wands
If you're stuck, the first step to freedom is to examine what's holding you in place.
External Influences - Attitudes about this situation from people around the querent.
King of Pentacles
A portrait of Anton LaVey, (1930–1997), founder of the Church of Satan and author of The Satanic Bible. Anyone else would be Blasphemy.
You choose who you look up to. If you look up to a musician who does every drug in the book and dies at 25 your results may vary, from admiring the lives of men and women who have changed the world, lived happy and died old.
Suggestion - The recommended course of action.
The Theocrat
1:00 – Card 8
AKA The Hierophant in traditional Tarot. Male, Fire, Taurus.
The master, the controller, the employer. To force one's will upon others and make them work for your own benefits. Not always a cruel thing if it's done right. But it's so rarely done right.
The Outcome - What will happen if the suggestion is followed.
8 of Pentacles
Things grow from other dead things. Don't overlook them for their dark origins, and don't dismiss the dead as a total erasure of what was.
