Last week I got the Tarot of the Imagination, an OOP Lo Scarabeo deck. It’s very colourful, very striking, but also a little odd, a little foreign to me. Reading it, I think, requires me to “suspend my disbelief” – a term used frequently in my Theatre Studies classes way back when in school. “Theatrical” is a good word to describe it; “impressionistic” is another. The images were painted/chosen to suggest a mood – as such they often veer wildly from typical RWS depictions. It’s a challenge for me as my reading style is very logical.
A few days ago I wanted to try a reading with it. The situation I was reading about was a nebulous, shifting situation. My thoughts kept going round and round in circles, bouncing from hope to fear to sadness to optimism and from question to question to question, without finding any answers. I needed to impose some sort of order to do a reading but didn’t know where to start so I came up with a new spread, one designed specifically to loosely hold the impressionistic images of this deck.
It seems like it would be a useful spread for any time you need to try and pin down a confusing situation.
The position meanings are:
1 – THE DREAM, what I hope for the situation
2 – THE NIGHTMARE, my fears for the situation
3 – THE PAST, where the situation has come from
4 – THE FUTURE, where the situation is going
5 - REALITY, what I need to accept is true about the situation
6 – FICTION, what I need to realise is false
7 – THE PATH, the way out of the situation
