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[Tutorial] The Split Hexagram Tarot Spread

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For starters uses only the Major Arcana. The visual form of the Split Hexagram is two triangles with a card in the center between the two apex points of the triangles.
The upper triangle is the Spiritual area, with two influences and a piece of advice. It is a water triangle.
The card in the middle is the final outcome.
The lower triangle is the Practical area, with two influences and a piece of advice. It is a fire triangle.

Looking at it on the physical body, the water upper triangle would be the shoulders/lungs and heart; while the practical would be the hips/legs and the Solar Plexus, with the final outcome between the two points.

The advice must be followed both spiritually and practically to gain the final outcome.

Laid out linearly is simply seven cards in one row, starting with the Greater Spiritual Advice, then Lesser Spiritual Influence, Spiritual Advice, Unconscious Desires, Conscious Desires, Practical Advice, and finally Final Outcome.

Process:
Ask question silently in head or out loud with mouth.
Shuffle cards well, three to four times. Lay the deck on the table.
Split it into two piles, placing the upper stack to the left of the lower stack.
Split each side of cards into two more stacks, placing the upper stack to the left of the lower stack.
From the rightmost stack, pick up the deck, place the next under it and so on while saying Yod Heh Vav Heh, in reference to the four letter name standing over the four stacks.
Deal the cards either visually or linearly.
Ponder, analyze and journal.


This spread post is in honor of Donald Michael Kraig, who wrote Modern Magick. This spread was in Chapter One of Modern MAgick.
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Upper Left card of Water triangle: Greater Spiritual Influence
Upper Right card of Water triangle: Lesser Spiritual Influence
Apex of Water Triangle: Spiritual Advice
Final Outcome
Apex of Fire Triangle: Practical Advice
Lower Right of Fire triangle: Conscious Desires
Lower Left of Fire triangle: Unconscious Desires.

Realized this was lacking, hope it helps.
 
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Thank you.
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I was good friends with Don. Great Man. I certainly miss him. Great post btw.

Thank you by the way for the pointer to the Planetary Magic page, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
 
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This is very helpful, thanks. Question for you though - I found this example:
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of the spread, and it states things a bit differently. The first difference is that the lower triangle represents physical influences rather than conscious or unconscious desires, and therefore one influence is stronger than the other like the above triangle. The second is that card 2 (upper right of water triangle) is the stronger influence, rather than card 1 (water upper left). If combining the two, this would mean that card 5 (fire lower right); conscious desires, is the stronger influence. I suppose this makes sense.

Have you come across this variation before? I suppose in regards to which is the stronger influence it would depend mostly on the operators intent, which makes that problem quite easy to solve. Or do tarot spreads work like currents, where the specific formats have gained momentum from repetition over time and should be followed more strictly?

Again, thanks. It's about time I started experimenting with different spreads and this post was the motivation I needed to record a new one in my journal for easy reference.
 
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I suppose the variation could work, though I prefer to stick to Kraigs method for the spread since he uses that as the primary divination spread.
You're welcome :)
Use your intuition as to Kraig or the link you came across. Again, I dont think the results would be too different.
 
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