Chronata's Spread
Creator: Chronata
(Used with permission)
I have been using this nine card spread for about twenty
years. I developed it myself, and even now I continue to add meaning to it!
This is THE spread that I use, and it has served me very well for a long time.
Just thought I would share it with you all!
After shuffling the cards, I or my client cuts the deck.
The first three cards off the top I lay in the first row...(this is the present)
The next three cards off the top I lay beneath this row...(this is the future)
The BOTTOM three cards from the deck, I lay above the first cards...(this is the
past)
it lays out like this:
*7*8*9* (from the bottom , after the cut)
*1*2*3* (from the top, after the cut)
*4*5*6* (also from the top)
Now I read across, horizontally, as past present and future...
BUT I also read Vertically down as Past, (7, 1, 4) Present (8, 2, 5) and
future(9, 3, 6)
With the number 7 card representing the furthest past, the 6, being the furthest
future of the matter, and the 2, being the heart of what is happening RIGHT NOW!
Reading across, I read each card individually, most of the time,
while the cards downwards are read in groups of three.
Sometimes there are new and different meanings attached to the same card, read
in a different position.
I do not read reversals, but I find that the "reversed meanings" can
still show up, in the leaps of intuition.
And not to confuse you more...but I have also found great patterns in this 9
card spread...I often read position 8 as aspirations, or what is hanging
directly overhead...and position 5 as the foundation of the matter, with 1 as a
passing influence and 3 as a future one, in a semblance of a Celtic cross
reading!)
Occasionally, I also see the diagonal cards as opposites or dualities in harmony
top left to bottom right) or disharmony Top right to bottom left)
I hope that this description is clear enough! I love this spread, and although I
have used others, this is my favorite, that I find myself always going back to!
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