Business Card Spread

The Business Tarot Spread comes from Emily Peach's book Tarot For Tomorrow, which first alerted me to Elemental Dignities.

Emily Peach says:

This positional spread is basically a very simple one, the value of which lies in the precision and order of its placements. The finished spread should look like this, the cards being laid according to the numbers shown.

In this spread, the cards must be read in 'blocks' of four that are interrelated by their nature, dealing as they do with factors that are interactive in any business. These 'blocks' break up as in the diagram.

Obviously, this method means that many of the cards must be read twice or three times relative to various different subjects, and it must therefore be remembered that it is the relationship of one position to another that is important in this spread.

This will mean, of course, that both dignity and suit are vital components of the spread, as is the principle of resonance and dissonance, for it is these things that will establish the nature of the relationship concerned and serve as the keys to its complexities.

Any given card -- that representing 'marketing' for instance -- may be intensely positive in relationship to one 'block', and indeed to two cards of a second 'block', while remaining unequivocally negative to the remaining card of that second 'block'. Only dignity, suit, and resonance and/or dissonance will enable the reader to identify these 'blackspots' in the spread, and assess the reasons for their existence and their possible potential for damage to the business as a whole.

 

The principles Emily Peach delineates can be applied to any other spread where there is an awareness of Elemental Dignities.

Business Spread

Finance

1

Sales

2

Admini- stration

3

Cash flow

4

Marketing

5

Personnel

6

Credit

7

Assets

8

Partners

9

Accounts

10

Premises

11

Plant machinery & vehicles

12

 

Breaking up the 'blocks'

Finance

 

Sales

 

Administration

 

Block 1

 

Block 4

 

Cash flow

 

Marketing

 

Personnel

 

Block 2

 

Block 5

 

Credit

 

Assets

 

Partners

 

Block 3

 

Block 6

 

Accounts

 

Premises

 

Plant machinery & vehicles

 

Since there are twelve positions, we might reasonably suppose that there is an astrological basis to the spread. Here are the basic astrological elemental positions of house/signs:

 

Finance

1

Sales

2

Administration

3

Cash flow

4

Marketing

5

Personnel

6

Credit

7

Assets

8

Partners

9

Accounts

10

Premises

11

Plant machinery & vehicles

12

 

As you can see, this method does not work properly since there is always one element missing in each block. Despite this, a colleague of mine finds this spread works exceptionally well.

 

 

 

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