This spread clarifies relationship questions and explores their development: romantic partners, friends, acquaintances, family, colleagues and any shared undertaking.

Use only the Major Arcana. Formulate your question precisely, shuffle and cut with your left hand. Lay cards left to right, face down, seven per row except the last, which contains eight.

For a child, find the Fool; for a man, the Emperor; for a woman, the Empress.

• The column containing the chosen card — the present. The column to the left represents the past, and the one to the right the future.

• Cards horizontally above the chosen card — circumstances influencing the relationship. Cards below it represent circumstances under the querent's control.

• Diagonal cards — information about fate and karmic tendencies.