an earth medicine tarot spread*
I acknowledge and honor the ‘Sacred Hoop’ of the Native Americans. And in particular, the sacred Bighorn Medicine Wheel located near Sheridan, Wyoming.
*The questions posed in the spread can also be used as prompts for personal exploration and free writing and do not need to be used with a Tarot deck.
1. EAST – the place of intention
what are you seeding? calling in? what is your prayer? vision? ask?
2. SOUTH – the place of manifestation
what are you creating? what is a possible action to take?
3. WEST – the place of release
what must be celebrated? harvested? surrendered?
4. NORTH – the place of guidance and the ground of being
what is the invitation of the moment? what wisdom is available?
Your card spread is a snapshot of where you are at this moment in time.
Take time to drop in and connect. What are you being invited to pay attention to? Ask only to receive what is in your ‘highest and best’. Then shuffle the deck. Lay out 4 cards on the 4 directions. A reading can start at any point on the compass. It’s a spiral path.
The archetypes of the cards offer direct access to the spirit of the moment in a way that talking through a situation or problem never does. The seeming randomness of a pull increases the mystery, giving a spread both more gravity and more lift. If you already trust your ability to receive answers to your own questions, this spread will just be a lovely confirmation of your innate knowing. There is ‘medicine’ to be had in every card and every arrangement of the cards.
This spread is based on my understanding of a medicine wheel from Pixie Lighthorse, Jennifer Shryock, Nona Jordan, Lynn Trotta, and Nissa Howard.
*The questions posed in the spread can also be used as prompts for personal exploration and free writing and do not need to be used with a Tarot deck.