Recovery
Traditional health spreads
What the spread explores
The source presents this spread for illness or discomfort and claims that it indicates danger, prospects for recovery and what recovery might require.
How to lay out the spread
Focus on the illness and shuffle. Follow the diagram: two rows of three, left to right and top to bottom, then one card in the third row from the bottom and one in the third row from the top.
Eight cards in total.
Begin the interpretation.
Reading the positions
• Card 1 — the source associates this position with recovery through medication prescribed by a doctor.
• Card 2 — the source associates this position with surgery.
• Card 3 — the source associates this position with homeopathy or folk medicine.
• Card 4 — the source associates this position with herbal treatment and rapid recovery.
• Card 5 — the source associates this position with a healer, such as a Reiki practitioner.
• Card 6 — the source associates this position with psychological factors and psychotherapy.
• Card 7 — the source claims conventional medicine is ineffective and proposes alternatives such as acupuncture or hirudotherapy.
• Card 8 — the source claims a spiritual cause and proposes practices such as yoga, qigong or speaking to a priest.
General bibliography
- 1. Michael Dummett, The Game of Tarot (1980)
- 2. Michael Dummett & John McLeod, A History of Games Played with the Tarot Pack (2004–2009)
- 3. Victoria and Albert Museum, Rider–Waite–Smith deck collection notes
- 4. International Playing-Card Society, Tarot de Marseille pattern sheet
- 5. Y. Volokhine, The Egyptian Tarot: The Story of a Counterfeit
- 6. Thierry Depaulis, Tarot, jeu et magie (1984)
- 7. Stuart R. Kaplan, The Encyclopedia of Tarot (1978–2005)
- 8. Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis & Michael Dummett, A Wicked Pack of Cards (1996)
- 9. Helen Farley, A Cultural History of Tarot (2009)
- 10. Mary K. Greer, Women of the Golden Dawn (1995)