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** The Bow Spread **
Mark Ryan, the creator of the Greenwood Tarot, presented a spread he calls "The
Bow Spread". It is intended for the "BIG" questions, the issues that underlie the
more mundane questions we typically ask. It consists of a significator, four cards
that make up the bow (cards 2 through 5) and two cards that make up the arrow
(cards 6 and 7). The bow is the querent, and the arrow is a spell, intent, desire,
will, etc.
The spread looks something like this:
...6....3....7
....5....2.......1
........4
Card 1, the significator, is chosen by the querent and will indicate the underlying
issue of the question.
Card 2 (the grip of the bow) is the heart of the matter.
Card 3 is the conscious part of the question.
Card 4 is the subconscious (i.e., emotional) aspect of the question.
Card 5 (the bow string) is the energy passing through the issue.
Card 6 is your will, talents, gifts, etc. that will aim your intent.
Card 7 is what will bring resolve, healing, breakthrough, etc.
Mark also indicated that this spread can be performed iteratively. You would first
pick a card from the spread to use as the new significator. Then reshuffle and
layout another Bow Spread. You can do this as many times as you need to.
Mark Ryan, the creator of the Greenwood Tarot, presented a spread he calls "The
Bow Spread". It is intended for the "BIG" questions, the issues that underlie the
more mundane questions we typically ask. It consists of a significator, four cards
that make up the bow (cards 2 through 5) and two cards that make up the arrow
(cards 6 and 7). The bow is the querent, and the arrow is a spell, intent, desire,
will, etc.
The spread looks something like this:
...6....3....7
....5....2.......1
........4
Card 1, the significator, is chosen by the querent and will indicate the underlying
issue of the question.
Card 2 (the grip of the bow) is the heart of the matter.
Card 3 is the conscious part of the question.
Card 4 is the subconscious (i.e., emotional) aspect of the question.
Card 5 (the bow string) is the energy passing through the issue.
Card 6 is your will, talents, gifts, etc. that will aim your intent.
Card 7 is what will bring resolve, healing, breakthrough, etc.
Mark also indicated that this spread can be performed iteratively. You would first
pick a card from the spread to use as the new significator. Then reshuffle and
layout another Bow Spread. You can do this as many times as you need to.
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** Tales from the Dark Side. **
With her talent for extemporization, Thalassa (the organizer of this event) talked
about how the Dark Side of issues relates to the Tarot, and vice versa. She said,
"Those of us in oracular arts need to be comfortable with the 'shadow' issues,
because no one else is." i.e., because these are times that seem "hell-bent on
keeping people from their inner truths and their inner selves". But since "Tarot
doesn't shrink from 'shadow' issues" we need to be able to face them too.
She also noted that what you do affects everyone else. This observation draws
upon both the "100th Monkey" theory and the "Butterfly effect" of Chaos Theory.
Simply put, this means:
1. The more people do something, the easier it is for the next person to do it
2. Small actions can have large effects.
At the end of her talk, Thalassa broke open a new deck (The New Paladini deck)
and had each of us pick one card from it and consider what the shadow issues in
that card are. And of course, as in all of Thalassa’s presentations, we got to keep
the card we picked.
With her talent for extemporization, Thalassa (the organizer of this event) talked
about how the Dark Side of issues relates to the Tarot, and vice versa. She said,
"Those of us in oracular arts need to be comfortable with the 'shadow' issues,
because no one else is." i.e., because these are times that seem "hell-bent on
keeping people from their inner truths and their inner selves". But since "Tarot
doesn't shrink from 'shadow' issues" we need to be able to face them too.
She also noted that what you do affects everyone else. This observation draws
upon both the "100th Monkey" theory and the "Butterfly effect" of Chaos Theory.
Simply put, this means:
1. The more people do something, the easier it is for the next person to do it
2. Small actions can have large effects.
At the end of her talk, Thalassa broke open a new deck (The New Paladini deck)
and had each of us pick one card from it and consider what the shadow issues in
that card are. And of course, as in all of Thalassa’s presentations, we got to keep
the card we picked.
For information about future BATS, you can email Thalassa or visit the
Daughters of Divination website.
Daughters of Divination website.
Tarot Symposium Reports -- BATS 1999 page 2
James Ricklef -- Tarot and more...