How deep do you want to go?
A quick look 1 or 3 cards, a minute to read How forces meet 2 to 4 cards, elements in pairs The whole picture 7 or 10 cards on the hexagram, the Tree of Life or the Celtic Cross The Opening of the Key The Golden Dawn’s long method, 12 to about 80 cards
Which one fits your question?
One theme to sit with today. Single card · 1 card · suggested from your question Where this came from, where it is now, where it is heading. Triad · 3 cards · good first reading · suggested from your question Two sides pulling against each other, such as you and another person, or two options. Dyad · 2 cards · suggested from your question How a single drive or plan plays out, in four shades of Fire. Sub-Elemental Cross · 4 cards · suggested from your question How an idea becomes real, from first spark to result. Tetragrammaton · 4 cards · suggested from your question Seven planetary forces around the matter: limits, luck, drive, love, mind, the core and what lies beneath. Hexagram · 7 cards · suggested from your question The matter from its first impulse down to how it lands in daily life. Tree of Life · 10 cards · suggested from your question The best-known ten-card spread: the matter, what crosses it, its roots and aim, past and next, then you, your surroundings, hopes and fears and the outcome. Celtic Cross · 10 cards · suggested from your question Start the Opening of the Key: what the question is really about. Needs a significator. First Operation · 15 cards · suggested from your question Which areas of life are involved: self, money, home, love, work and more. Second Operation · 12 cards · suggested from your question How the matter develops, sign by sign. Third Operation · 12 cards · suggested from your question The fine detail, through all 36 decans. Fourth Operation · 36 cards · suggested from your question All four operations in one reading. Long: best attached to your AI as a .md file. Needs a significator. Full Opening of the Key · 75 cards · suggested from your question The whole method as the Golden Dawn wrote it: five operations from the whole deck, counting and pairing from the significator. Long; needs a significator. Book T Opening of the Key · about 78 cards · suggested from your question
Spread
Single card · 1 card
Triad · 3 cards
Dyad · 2 cards
Sub-Elemental Cross · 4 cards
Tetragrammaton · 4 cards
Hexagram · 7 cards
Tree of Life · 10 cards
Celtic Cross · 10 cards
First Operation · 15 cards
Second Operation · 12 cards
Third Operation · 12 cards
Fourth Operation · 36 cards
Full Opening of the Key · 75 cards
Book T Opening of the Key · about 78 cards
Significator
Describe Birth date Any card
Who is the reading about?
Me Someone else
What should the card stand for?
Me, the person asking Book T, recommended The matter the question is about A later custom: in a full Opening of the Key, the pile the significator falls in is what shows the matter
How do you usually meet life?
Act first: eager, bold, quick to start things Wands · Book T: very fair or red hair Feel first: warm, imaginative, led by the heart Cups · Book T: fair to light brown hair Think first: sharp, curious, quick to question Swords · Book T: dark brown hair Build steadily: patient, practical, down to earth Disks · Book T: very dark hair
What is the question mainly about?
Work, plans, energy or ambition Wands Love, friendship or feelings Cups A conflict, a worry or a hard decision Swords Money, home, health or the body Disks
Which fits you best right now?
Established, and taking the lead Knight · Book T: older man Established, and holding things together Queen · Book T: older woman Young, and driving things forward Prince · Book T: younger man Just starting out Princess · Book T: younger woman
A trump, such as the Lovers for a choice in love, is a modern habit: use Any card for that.
Card
Where should the significator fall?
Book T has you choose, before the cards are dealt, where the significator should turn up in each operation for the answer to be about your question. If it turns up somewhere else, Book T would stop; this site reads on and tells your AI. These are suggested from your question; change any of them.
The question is about
Work, career or business Love, marriage or pleasure Trouble, loss or a quarrel Money, goods or property Health Home or family Study, travel or beliefs
Suggested from your question.
1. Pack (Book T’s own subjects)
Yod: work, business Heh: love, marriage, pleasure Vau: trouble, loss, scandal, quarrelling Heh final: money, goods, purely material matters 2. House, then a related one to try
1st house 2nd house 3rd house 4th house 5th house 6th house 7th house 8th house 9th house 10th house 11th house 12th house none 1st house 2nd house 3rd house 4th house 5th house 6th house 7th house 8th house 9th house 10th house 11th house 12th house
3. Sign, then a related one to try
Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces none Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces
5. Sephira
1. Kether 2. Chokmah 3. Binah 4. Chesed 5. Geburah 6. Tiphareth 7. Netzach 8. Hod 9. Yesod 10. Malkuth
Operation 4, the ring of 36, has no place to choose. How Book T works