Developing Your Relationship with a Major Arcana Card

Choose the major card that you wish to work with. Maybe it's a card that's turned up in a reading and you want to know more about it, or a card you've always felt close to - or one you don't understand.

Place the major card in the centre.

Shuffle the deck. Cut, and deal from the top.

Place down four cards in the quarters of the spread - starting with shadow (below) and continuing clockwise through release (left), gift (above), and challenge (right).

Read the cards with reference to the central card.

If you wish turn the deck over to reveal the bottom-most card and place it in the allies position.

This spread offers a variety of ways to work with the major card at the centre.

Perhaps you will choose to focus on one or two, or perhaps all the cards work together. Take note of any other major cards that appear, their position, and relationship to the central card.

Afterwards create an artwork, altar, poem, ritual, or something else, to honour your relationship to this central card.