On this visitor submit, Kim Tsan introduces her newest deck – a vibrant, straightforward to make use of system for creating your individual customized tarot spreads.
Hey everybody! I’m excited to be displaying you my deck, Spread Machine Cards + Oracle on this submit as we speak.
Unfold crafting has all the time been a ardour of mine, and I really like injecting enjoyable concepts and storytelling into the spreads that I create. I additionally love how a selection structure is sort of a map with designated pitstops, ushering you on a journey that you just embark on with a purpose to discover the solutions that you just search. Creating a selection for myself is like designing an journey for my instinct to tread on to seek out the treasure on the finish. Making an attempt out a selection made by others is considerably comparable – besides I’m taking a visit down another person’s thought course of and the journey that they designed for me.
Both means, it’s very thrilling to be creating a selection for your self or others. Personally, I believe it retains the tarot follow thrilling, since you’re bringing aware creativity, energetic introspection and synchronicity into it. You’re not simply pulling playing cards to seek out a solution. You’re additionally designing an expertise.
However anyway. I can gush about unfold crafting all day on a regular basis. Let me shortly transfer on earlier than I drag you down my unfold crafting geek dungeon! On this submit, I’ll be providing you with a fundamental introduction, and how one can get began creating unfold layouts in your tarot readings, in addition to different methods to utilize this deck and extra.
What’s the Unfold Machine Playing cards + Oracle?
This deck is designed to be a cardslinger’s final sidekick and companion – particularly within the space of crafting unfold layouts for cartomancy readings. It has 86 playing cards divided into 5 classes – every class accommodates unfold prompts which are aligned with the theme of that class. Let’s have a look:
- Seeker Playing cards – unfold prompts that pertain to your character, character traits and worldview
- Focus Areas – necessary life areas and numerous matters of exploration
- Lightwork – consists of unfold prompts that faucet into the theme of therapeutic and deep positivity – the “love and light-weight” class
- Shadow Work – playing cards that problem us to excavate and confront the shadow points in our psyche and combine them
- Name to Motion – playing cards with an motion phrase or verb that encourage motion and ahead momentum
As you may see, Unfold Machine Playing cards + Oracle largely comprise unfold prompts that target introspection, emotional consciousness, the steadiness of sunshine and darkish, in addition to private and religious development. It encourages deep positivity and hardcore shadow work. I’m hoping that the unfold themes on this deck take your tarot follow to the subsequent degree, particularly if you happen to’re utilizing tarot playing cards for these particular functions: to develop, to heal, to get to know your self higher and to degree up in life!
Tips on how to use this deck?
The primary operate of this deck is clearly to allow you to craft unfold layouts in your tarot readings – however it’s also possible to use it in “reverse” and draw the unfold prompts to make clear a studying you already did…however we’ll get to that later. Let’s begin with crafting spreads!
Situation 1: You have already got a query in thoughts and also you simply need to flesh it out a bit extra.
That is when Unfold Machine can come in useful. With the query or subject you need to discover inmind, you may undergo the deck prompts and consciously select the positions that you just need to embrace in your unfold.
For those who really feel drawn to doing shadow work, you may go straight to the Shadow Work class and select the playing cards that resonate with you. If you wish to domesticate extra self-awareness in a scenario, you may head to the Seeker class and pull out some personality-based playing cards. It’s also possible to pull unfold prompts from a number of classes to create a holistic and well-balanced unfold, e.g. 2 playing cards from Mild Work and a pair of playing cards from Shadow Work class. The chances are actually limitless.
Situation 2: You need to do a studying however you don’t know what to ask or what to deal with.
Unfold Machine can actually enable you to slim down your query and your focus – since it’s a deck of playing cards, you may let the Universe resolve on what unfold positions are going to look in your unfold! Merely shuffle the deck, pull out the variety of playing cards you need to use in a selection, and see what unfold prompts flip up.
You possibly can let synchronicity resolve what it’s essential discover and permit it to replicate your vitality and what must be answered for the time being. That is additionally a enjoyable approach to see if the deck agrees with what you thought you wanted to listen to reasonably than what you really need to listen to essentially the most proper now. (E.g. you needed to do an indignant vent studying since you really feel such as you’ve been wronged by your co-worker, however the deck calls you out in your inflexible mindset and asks you to do shadow work as an alternative. Yikes!)
Situation 3: You randomly pulled 3 playing cards out of your favorite deck, however you’re confused by the message and also you’re unsure in case your instinct is cooperating.
Let’s say the Hanged Man reveals up for the fifth time in your studying this week as a result of he’s your pretty stalker card – and also you throw your arms within the air and ask, WHAT IS THIS? WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY? Must you simply hold in there and wait? Or have you ever been hanging out for too lengthy? The place in your life are you having a Hanged Man second?
You should utilize the Unfold Machine to make clear and contextualize your interpretations. You possibly can take out the playing cards from the Focus Areas solely and pull a card to see what the Hanged Man is referring to. It’s also possible to take out the Mild Work and Shadow Work classes, shuffle them blindly and decide a card to see if you happen to get a Mild Work card or Shadow Work card – figuring out what it’s essential do to channel the vitality of this tarot archetype. It’s also possible to use the Name to Motion playing cards to see what the Hanged Man is asking you to do. For those who pull the Launch card, then it’s clear that it is best to let go of no matter it’s you’re hanging on to. For those who pull Discover, then possibly there’s a lesson that you just haven’t realized from the Hanged Man.
Situation 4: You’re an expert tarot reader and a consumer involves you and doesn’t know what to ask.
For those who learn for others professionally and have to consistently create personalized spreads to swimsuit the wants in your shoppers, this deck is usually a helpful useful resource to you. It’ll offer you a springboard in your concepts and your intentions in your consumer. It’s also possible to use it to begin a dialog together with your consumer and work with them to determine a selection collectively. It’s also possible to use it as a degree of reference or inspiration to give you related unfold positions of your individual in your consumer.
Let’s say your consumer needs a basic studying about her love life however she doesn’t know the place to begin. She tells you her story of how she’s actually insecure in courting and have belief points with the folks that she goes on dates with. She bails and runs off after a brief time period and she or he doesn’t know to do. Combining your instinct, your information and your professional statement, you’re feeling that there could also be some unresolved triggers and shadow work that have to be performed. You possibly can take out the Set off card and flick thru the Shadow Work class and work out a selection that can assist her deal with her factors of therapeutic and something that she will be able to work on herself so she might be at a more healthy place the subsequent time she goes on a date and tries to construct a relationship with somebody. You possibly can then defer to the Name to Motion class to see what could be the most effective motion step for her going ahead.
Different makes use of of this deck
As talked about earlier – this deck isn’t restricted to only unfold crafting. It’s also possible to use it for:
- Oracle readings – shuffle this deck as you’d an everyday oracle deck and interpret your query primarily based on the text-based playing cards that come up
- Journaling – as a result of every card and unfold place are largely accompanied by a set of open-ended questions that immediate you to suppose, replicate and discover, these playing cards make good journal prompts
- Intention-Setting & Manifestation Work – as a result of this deck is text-based, it is vitally simple if you wish to use it to set a constructive intention for the day. The Name to Motion class is nice for this.
- Witchcraft, Ritual and Magickal Practices – you may completely incorporate these playing cards into your magickal practices as properly, particularly you probably have a robust reference to phrases, literature and prayer! Program and cost a crystal on high of a card, or use one of many unfold prompts as an altar card to focus your vitality and magickal intentions.
The Unfold Machine Playing cards + Oracle is designed to be a workhorse of a deck – and there are SO many issues you are able to do with it! I hope you’ve gained a fundamental sense of what this deck is and what it will probably do for you and your tarot follow, and I really hope that it provides depth and extra which means and extra enjoyable to your cardslinging adventurers – fulfilling its future as the final word sidekick.
For those who can’t get sufficient of Unfold Machine Playing cards + Oracle – there are two extra growth packs from this collection: Change and Quest. Change focuses on inspecting communication breakdowns, emotional triggers, controversies, and deeper shadow work that includes your self in addition to your house within the collective. Quest is all about gamification and enjoyable storytelling language. For those who like to speak about life’s obstacles as Boss Fights and overcoming challenges as Leveling Up, I believe you’ll get pleasure from this deck immensely! (For those who play DND, this deck is an ideal add-on to boost your campaigns!)
And that’s all, peeps! Benefit from the deck and it’s been superior guest-posting! 😀
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