Interview Spread for Boadicea's Tarot of Earthly Delights
I backed this deck on Kickstarter after my professional tarotist friend posted about it. It's an unconventional deck only loosely based on the RWS.
The suits are:
Combustion = Wands (fire)
Tentacles = Cups (water)
Aether = Swords (air)
Fungi = Pentacles/Disks (earth)
**Card 1** (12 o'clock position, underneath):
What is your most important characteristic?
*Seven of Tentacles, reversed*
You feel overwhelmed by choices - too many, or too few and you don't care for any of them. Ask yourself what should be your next step toward happiness, and ***pick another card***:
**Card 1a** (clarification for Card1, as directed above)
*Six of Aether*
This deck will help you to rise above confusion and take the longer view, to leave the ruins behind and reach for the rainbow
**Card 2** (upper right corner, going clockwise)
What are your strengths as a deck?
*Two of Fungi*
To help you stop juggling possible conclusions and take a pragmatic approach toward the future.
**Card 3** (lower right corner)
What are your limits as a deck?
*Three of Fungi*
The interpretation in the manual discusses working with a team, so I'm guessing that the deck's power to encourage myself to be clear-headed and pragmatic would not extend toward situations that depend a lot on others - which makes sense.
**Card 4** (bottom of spread)
What are you here to teach me?
*Knight of Aether*
"Keep listening for your own voice until you know your own mind." - direct quote from The Reader's Companion book for the deck.
**Card 5** (lower left corner)
How can I best learn and collaborate with you?
*King of Tentacles*
Keep an open heart, practice justice (don't pin things on others when you may yourself be the problem) and self-control.
**Card 6** (upper left corner)
What is the potential outcome of our working relationship?
*Eight of Aether*
I might learn not to panic when things look grim and instead to examine the actual situation. "Where is the boundary between baseless anxiety and actual danger?" (quote from manual)
This last reminds me of my favorite spread, WTF!? by Evvie Martin, so when I'm trying to read for that type of situation, I think I should use this deck.
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