Tarot spread: Metaphysician heal thyself

[Mandate My Ass]

On the site tarotpassages.com, there is a spread of the month each month. For July the new spread was called metaphysician heal theyself. You take your deck and seperate the cards into three piles: majors, minors and court cards. For each aspect, spirituality, emotional, mental and physical health you draw one card from each pile. All cards are read upright. The spread is three across, four down.

The major represents the overall theme, the minor represents the action to take and the court card is the persona you should adopt to accomplish the action. Since July is a big month for me astrologically, I did thought it was the perfect time to do this spread the day after Saturn left my opposite sign.

For spirituality I got The Chariot, the 8 of Cups and the Page of Swords. I've been mulling this all week. On one hand it seems very simple and basic so why can't I accept it at face value? These cards seem like they would address the emotional, but they popped up under the spiritual.

I just laid those three cards out again to see if there is something that jars me and I was struck by all the motion. It looks like I'm supposed to go on a "vision quest."

Also, all my court cards were male. Thoughts?

[Why Syzygy]

1. What I don't understand

is the layout. You say, "The spread is three across, four down."

Yet you give only three cards. What about the other nine?

Am I confused?

The Page .. from what you've written .. indicates a new intellectual perception (for spirituality?).

Pages are of course impetuous, run amok types. But in a good way. They are there to Learn. Nothing beats Learning. We have to make mistakes along the way.

I really hesitate to give more feedback until I understand the layout and get the full picture.

HOWEVER. IME, the very fact that this is giving you some consternation is a key factor when reading Tarot.
Sometimes not what we want to hear.

Do you think you've "arrived" at spiritual development? Nothing more to learn? Why do you not want to face what you perceive?

The Chariot is a most welcomed card. Conquest!

.. okay I can't resist .. perhaps your Conquest depends upon letting go of (spiritual) practices/beliefs that no longer work for you.
Put your maverick intellectual skills into action and take off on a new adventure.

Is that a threatening proposition?

~DANGER~ Once we get settled into one mode of thinking we (those of us who are spiritually inclined), are in for a new awakening.

I went to that site and could not find the layout. If you want to expand on the layout/cards, maybe it would clear things up for the rest of us.

You KNOW that readings that give us somthing to think about for a WEEK are the most meaningful. There's something there.

Will help if I can. Though you hold all the answers.

[Delphinus]

2. Hi vote,

I went to the site too - it's last month's spread (June, IIRC).

I love your responses - thanks for sharing!

[Why Syzygy]

5. Found it.

Thanks for the correction. Neat spread!

[Mandate My Ass]

4. Sorry, I wasn't clear in my question

Actually, I my main motivation for posting is that I wanted to share the spread. One doesn't have to be coming out of some sort of crisis mode to benefit from it. There is value in it for anyone, IMHO.

I guess the cards seemed so martial which was jarring. When I think of spirituality, I think of the High Priestess, or the suit of Wands. The other categories in the twelve card spread gave me no pause, so I didn't list them. The meanings and direction of those seemed quite clear to me. The instructions on the spread said not to move on until all the cards in each three-card series made sense and then try to correlate all twelve in to a thematic whole. I thought I had it figured out but the fact that these three kept recurring to me at odd moments meant I actually hadn't.

The spirituality cards just seemed so militant and androcentric somehow. Upon further reflection though, The Chariot corresponds to the sign of Cancer so there is water there. And looking at the four majors, all of them had the theme of renewal, regeneration or moving forward.

Thanks to all for your comments.

[Matariki]

3. vision quest

that was my impression too. Going away somewhere for a week of meditation or ritual or whatever you do to connect with spirit. The Chariot is the 'hero setting off in search of the grail'. The eight of cups - getting away from your regular life or environment. The page - taking the role of 'student' in this case - or doing something as a relative novice. The male court cards would suggest taking a *very* active role in making changes you want to make.