A “Conditional” Yes-or-No Outcome Spread

My experience has been that “yes-or-no” answers delivered by the tarot are seldom crystal-clear and often have “strings attached” that cloud the picture. I call such muddling factors “conditional qualifiers” and use what I describe as the “Yes, But/Maybe, If/No, Unless” paradigm to analyze their influence. In each case the caveat means that the seeker must try a little harder to bolster an affirmative answer or do something extra to mitigate a less favorable one. The fourth possibility is a “wild-card” response that doesn’t yield a direct “yes” or “no” answer to the question but describes an alternate outcome. My assumption is that the Universe doesn’t just drop things in our lap but instead creates opportunities and vulnerabilities that we must exploit to our advantage.

In seeking ways to “disambiguate” these readings, I decided to develop a spread that uses two techniques to create a chain of “clarifying” cards that will aid in banishing the obscurity. One is a “pointer” card that flags the most likely “conditional answer” scenario and the other is a random deal that populates the “flagged” location with a series of amplifying cards to support and explain the conclusion.

Originally published at http://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com on December 28, 2022.