Out of curiosity and boredom, I decided to use my Mystic Faerie Tarot deck and do one of the spreads from the back of the Mystic Faerie Tarot book. I chose the Faerie Ring Spread, which requires the following:
The above image is how you lay out the cards. What you do is you need to seperate your deck into Major Arcana, Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles, and Court Cards. Then shuffle each section seperately and place each stack as follows:
1. Major Arcana
2. Wands
3. Cups
4. Swords
5. Pentacles
6. Court Cards
Then you take the top card from each stack. From 1-6 they represent the following:
1. Your greatest spiritual strength
2. Your most enterprising characteristic
3. Your best emotional strength
4. Your strongest response to problems
5. Your most admirable financial/resource ability
6. Your favorite aspect of your personality.
Take the bottom card from each stack and cross it over the top card. From 1-6 these cards represent the following:
1. Your greatest spiritual challenge
2. Your biggest problematic attitude
3. Your greates emotional challenge
4. Your worst fear when facing problems
5. Your financial/resource weakness
6. Your least favorite aspect of your personality
My spread when as follows:
1. The Moon crossed by The Tower
2. 3 of Wands crossed by Six of Wands
3. 3 of Cups crossed by 4 of Cups
4. 7 of Swords crossed by 10 of Swords
5. 10 of Pentacles crossed by 3 of Pentacles
6. Queen of Cups crossed by Knight of Cups
The Moon card’s most prominent feature was the howling wolf by the Goddess’ side. This indicates to me that there is great loyalty to the Goddess. However, this card was crossed by The Tower which indicated to me that there is a tendency towards doom and disaster or negative thinking. Therefore I am loyal to what I believe in, but I have a difficult time keeping from having negative thoughts and feelings.
The 3 of Wands showed two boys studying a book – providing me with the knowledge that I am studious and willing to learn new things. However, this was crossed by the 6 of Wands which showed one boy lifting a baby dragon in it’s shell and another boy looking on as if he doesn’t believe it. This let me know that skepticism is my greatest downfall, because I don’t always believe what and when I should.
The 3 of Cups showed a group of three friends sitting talking, which lets me know that I am friendly, caring, and willing to listen to those who are in need of a shoulder to cry on. However, the boy and girl faeries sitting back to back looking disgruntled with each other on the the 4 of Cups lets me know that I am argumentive and really should work on not being so stubborn.
The 7 of Swords shows me that I can be nurturing even when facing obstacles and that it is possible for me to overcome obstacles when necessary to do what needs to be done. However the 10 of Swords reminds me that I tend to be bound by my past failures and that I do not easily forget them and sometimes allow them to rule what I do and do not do.
The 10 of Pentacles shows that I am fruitful in what I do and that I share the fruits of my labors with others willingly, while the 3 of Pentacles reminds me that I often question the wisdom of things that I or others do even when I should not do so or it would not benefit me to do so.
Finally, the Queen of Cups shows that I am confident in my abilities and that I am capable of doing what needs to be done. The Knight of Cups, however, shows that I am always ready for battles, always ready to argue, even when I should just go with the flow and let my confidence in what I am doing and what others are doing take control.