The
Turtle Spread:
A multiple
deck spread created by Elhaba
I have never met this person on the Aeclectic, I do hope she's still around - just look at this construction !!!! I'll take you up on the turtle part Elhaba, that will be the name of this multiple deck spread ;o)
quote Elhaba> This is a spread for people who like to get out all of their decks and play with them. I made this one up after I did a spread that required me to separate the Majors, courts, and pips...I figured why not use different decks for each as well? So here goes. I hope this makes even a little sense.
I used seven different decks and it worked out to be 22 cards in all. I'm not sure what to call it...but it does sort of look like a Turtle: <
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Spiritual Power group:
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1,2,3 = These positions are at the top of the spread and represent the spiritual
aspects looking down on each of the rows beneath them. For these positions I
used my Goddess Knowledge cards. If you aren't a spiritual person you can skip
these and #4 then becomes #1.
Your Inner Power group (use only the major
Arcana):
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4,5,6 = The left side of the spread is the 'shadow' side and represents darker
aspects influencing your psyche. I used a darker deck (Giger) for this side of
the spread.
7,8,9 = This is you, standing in the middle looking to either side and seeing dark to the left and light to the right. I used a deck that gives me great, honest reflections of my personality/psyche (Faerie Oracle).
10,11,12 = The light side of your psyche. I used the major Arcana from the Celtic Wisdom deck because they always give me lighter, warm vibes.
Outside Power group:
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13,14,15 = This is the People row. I separated out the Court Cards from a deck
that gives me very strong examples of people (the Art Nouveau) that are around
me.
16,17,18 = This is the Events row. I used the Pip cards from Legend: Arthurian Tarot because I love the stories depicted and they give me a strong feeling of how these stories are swirling around me.
19,20,21,22 = For this I used my druid oracle deck. I wanted to get a feeling for what the 'nature' aspect thought. Then when I realized that I'd picked an Oracle deck for this group I sort of turned it into a wrap-up 'what the future holds' based on what I'd learned above.
Now, I wanted to use this as just an inner working kind of 'what point am I
at now' spread but if you wanted to ask specific questions you could make the
rows
(e.g.. 4,7,10,13,16) into Past, Present, Future or a Three Choices kind of thing.
Basically, I figured out what Goddesses were presiding over my mirror section
and then read from left to right, seeing how all of the different aspects of my
person affect the people and events at the end of the rows. It takes a lot of
time to get all of the cards out of their boxes and shuffled...and you end up
with a mountain of books to consult (well, if you're a newbie like me) but it's
a lot of fun to use all of your decks together. The spread looks very colorful and all of the different 'deck vibes' come together to give you an interesting
picture (OK, I admit, it was a cacophony at the start but I worked through it)
