Let’s face it: there is a very good chance you want to know how to pathwork a reading just as much as you do a single card. So let’s go back to the start of this book for a minute and tap into the three ways to pathwork your cards: intentional, intuitive, and wandering. For a spread in a reading, I would pick one of these three to focus on. By this I mean you should decide if you want to pathwork your reading intentionally, intuitively, or if you feel you need to physically move the energy that has bubbled up from your spread and wander with your cards. Don’t try doing all three for one reading; it will get way too confusing. Just pick one and apply it to your cards. In this way, you are really just finding a more systematic approach to reviewing the information your cards are presenting you with.
Let me give you a quick example. Let’s say you have drawn the Nine of Wands, the Ten of Swords, and the Eight of Cups. Clearly something has come to an end and you are being urged to take your battle scars and walk away as quickly and cleanly as possible. You may decide that wandering this spread would be more helpful to your current situation, as each card could help walk you through the steps you need to take to formally complete a cycle, relationship, or job. Here the wandering exercises for each of your cards become small daily actions that keep you moving forward instead of dwelling on what you are leaving behind. Whereas if you had picked the intuitive lens to see these cards through, you might end up entirely in your head and make no forward momentum at all.
Now let’s imagine you actively select these cards—you pick them out on purpose faceup from the deck because the artwork just resonates with the results you want to create in your current experience. Then you would read this spread from the intentional section of each card, because everything about your reading is deliberate and strategic. This would apply to any spread you do, regardless of the number of cards. You can do this for client readings as well, though from my own personal experience, you would more than likely use the intuitive or wandering sections as opposed to the intentional. But then again, it depends on how you do your readings with your clients. I would encourage you to take your pathworked spreads to your journal and see what other messages, solutions, action steps, and guidance you can draw out of the information. Let your spreads be roadmaps to your success. Let them show you and your clients how to move out of ordinary and into extraordinary.
You are now ready to embark on your own personal patchwork journey. Use this book as a guide and refer to it whenever you feel stuck or lost. Think of this book as a teacher giving you bits of advice and holding your hand along your pathwork path. I wish you well on your new adventure.
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A final note:
I would love to hear about how you use the three different ways to pathwork a spread on social media, so please tag me in your Twitter (@Leeza_Robertson) and Instagram (@Spellspotionsbookstarot) posts. Seeing how others use my books and decks is fascinating to me, as you are all wonderfully creative and imaginative!
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