Hello. When I do a reading, do I layout the cards in the same way I pulled them? If I start with the top card then that is the last card I pulled from the deck, the 10th card.

Thanks!

Tracey

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Hi. I just was reading the replies...thank you...and want to make sure I was clear on the question.

Once I have the pulled the 10 cards...which card do you start the reading with? Is it the card on the top or bottom? When I pull the 10 cards, the card on the top is the 10th card and that is usually the one I first turn over to begin the reading. I guess as long as I am consistent it shouldn't matter but I wonder sometimes if I should be starting with the card on the bottom since that is really the first card. Do I make sense?

Thank you!

Tracey

by the way... since we're talking about reading methods.... I consider the first two cards down to be the core, the most important combination of the spread. It's in those two cards, and the way they both conflict with and support each other, that I look for the "real" question of the reading; not the question that the person I'm reading for might be thinking, but what lies beneath that question, the real issue behind it.


Because once you've got that, then you see all the rest of the cards through that lens. You might see a conflict between "should-do" and "want-to-do", or one of struggling against a power that seems to strong to overcome, or maybe a conflict of dreams versus the hard reality of trying to make them come true...

you see what I'm saying? Whatever the stated question is, there will be some more archetypal conflict or tension underneath it that is the "real" problem the person is struggling with. (unless, of course, the question itself is archetypal, such as "How do I learn to accept my inevitable death?" or something like that. Some people like to get right down to the heavy stuff). And when I feel like I've got that, then things tend to fall into place. And if the first two cards leave me completely cold, no sense of anything at all, then I'm thinking something just didn't come off right this time around.


Usually I'll start a reading and ask the person not to tell me what their question is. When I think I've got the salient core of the question, I'll ask: is this and such the conflict or problem that we're talking about here? If they tell me I'm way off the mark, I'll look for another possible interpretation. But generally, I don;t like to know the specific question that's being asked until I get a chance to see what kind of conflicts and advice is in the reading without filtering it through that.