Spread Library

A single card for the day, or a single clear question.

The classic three-card line: where it came from, where it is, where it goes.

The problem-solving three: what is, what blocks, what to do.

A compact cross: the matter, what supports it, what opposes it, and the lesson.

A cross of five: present, past, future, reason, and potential.

Seven cards in an arc, weighted toward obstacles and hidden influences.

The ten-card cross and staff: the most complete single-question layout in the Western tradition.

A single stave drawn for the day or a single question.

Three staves for the weave of fate: what was, what is, what is becoming.

A cross of five staves around a centre: the fuller shape of a matter.

A single emblem for a plain, concrete answer.

Three emblems read left to right as one sentence.

Five emblems in a line, the centre card as the heart of the matter.

A 3x3 grid: the centre is the matter, the ring around it the forces in play.

How you see yourself set against how you are actually met -- and the gap between the two, which is usually the whole problem.

A full situational read in seven: root, present, the pull, the block, the support, the counsel, and the end of it.

Built entirely out of the positions that deal in blind spots: what is hidden, what is denied, and what everyone else can see.

Three staves for what is seen, what is unseen, and the price of the knowing.

A full runic reading: what was, what is, what obstructs, what aids, what is hidden, what is counselled, and what comes.

The entire deck laid in four rows of nine. Each of the thirty-six houses carries its own subject, and the card that falls there reports on it.

Three cards for a relationship: your side, their side, the thing between you.

Five cards on a new or possible connection and what it needs to grow.

Five cards for a relationship at a crossroads.

Seven cards mapping both people, both viewpoints, the bond, the block, and the road ahead.

Your side, their side, the bond, the obstacle, and where it leads.

A full character portrait of another person: the face they show, who they are underneath, what drives them, the old wound, what they withhold, what they want from you, how they handle being crossed, their blind spot, where they can be trusted, and the one thing to watch for.

Five staves put to the forces inside a person: the strongest current running through them, the struggle they carry, what they will not face, where their loyalty ends and their self-interest begins, and the condition holding them as they are.

A five-card line read in its pairs, centred on the person: where they come from, what they conceal, who they are as they stand, what they intend, and where it leads if they do not change course. The Lenormand states it flat - no hedging, no context, just what to be aware of.

After a break or a rupture: what actually broke, whether both sides want it back, and what repair would require.

Letting go of someone who is gone but not finished -- what still ties you, and what actually severs it.

One person's position, read as carefully as the cards permit: what they feel, what they fear, and what they will actually do.

A relationship measured for depth rather than feeling: what it is built on, what it is missing, and whether it holds weight.

Two people, each read on their own terms, with the thing you are actually looking for named separately from both.

A relationship in five staves: each side, what binds, what strains, and what the bond becomes.

Five cards on where the work is now and where it is trying to go.

Stay or go, read properly: what each road actually costs, what is holding you where you are, and what you are not seeing about either.

An offer on the table, read for what it really is rather than what it looks like on paper.

The human weather of a workplace: who is behind you, who is not, and where you actually stand in the room.

Something you are trying to build, from the soundness of the idea through to what it becomes if you see it through.

A raise, a promotion, a title, a better contract: whether the ground is ready and how to stand on it.

The difference between what you do for money and what you are actually for -- and whether the two can be brought closer.

Work read as craft: what you have made, what your hands are for, what blocks the making, and what to build next.

Four cards on where resources stand and what shifts the flow.

Where money actually stands, what is stopping it moving, and what would free it.

A house, a car, a course, a commitment with a number attached: whether the timing is right and what it really costs.

Debt, obligation, or a financial weight you are carrying -- where it came from and what actually lifts it.

Two financial roads scored directly against each other -- the secure one and the one with more in it.

The arc of a year with money: what comes in, what goes out, the lean stretch, and what it all builds toward.

One card crossed by another: the matter, and what complicates it.

Two paths side by side, and a card that speaks to the choice itself.

Five cards weighing a hard decision from both sides plus the way through.

Three staves: the knot, the move, and where the move leads.

Each road given its own gift, its own cost, and its own destination, with one card for the thing the choice is really about.

A single course of action weighed honestly: three cards for it, three against, and the balance between them.

For when both options feel wrong. Reads the two you can see, then the one you have not thought of.

Two roads cast against each other with the wyrd of each named, and one stave for what you cannot change.

One card for each day of the coming week.

One card per month, plus a card for the overarching theme of the year.

A year in four turns -- the shape of each season rather than a date.

The coming month by its shape: theme, the pull, the friction, the turn, the close.

Something is ending. What it was, what is left to do, and what is genuinely waiting on the other side.

Timing read as sequence rather than dates: what must fall into place before the thing you are waiting for can arrive.

A three-card check across the three levels of the self.

A three-card review: one thing to end, one to begin, one to keep.

Five cards to meet a disowned part of yourself and begin to integrate it.

Six cards on how you treat yourself and where the kindness is missing.

Four staves for the four directions that hold up the sky.

A pattern traced back to where it was learned, and what the younger version of you actually needed and did not get.

An honest read of what is emptying you and what would actually refill it -- not what should.

What you are genuinely good at, what you overuse, and the thing you consistently miss.

Who you have been, who you are between, and who you are turning into -- with the cost of the crossing named.

Seven cards read up the body's energy centres, root to crown.

One card per astrological house: a full life read across twelve domains.

Ten cards on the Kabbalistic Tree, from crown to kingdom.

Nine staves cast across the nine realms of the world-tree.

What is being said to you, what keeps you from hearing it, and what to do about it.

Purpose read structurally: the gift, the ground it grows in, what obstructs it, and what it is actually for.

What is operating underneath a situation: the unseen influence, what shields you, and what is being asked.