The Secrets in Your Life Spread

Sacred Symbols of the Ancients by Florence Campbell and Edith Randall, Whats Your Card? by Arnie Lein (currently out of print), and my book, Love Cards, all offer descriptions of your Birth Card. What they really offer, however, is a description of your Life Spread. It is the Life Spread of each of the Birth Cards that really defines the particular patterns inherent in that card. But what are the aspects of your Life Spread that you can look at to discover more things about yourself? Here is a list that you can start with: 1. The planetary row and column position of your Birth Card in both the Life and Spiritual Spreads (Grand Solar style) 2. Your Karma Cards, both first and second, positive and negative 3. The Life Spread Cards themselves, from Moon through Cosmic Lesson 4. The Cards Underlying your Life Spread Cards 5. Your Planetary Ruling Card and its Karma Cards If you read Sacred Symbols of the Ancients, which I highly recommend, you will see that the authors pretty much cover these bases for every card. They do not always point out the cards they are talking about, but their interpretations point to them consistently. For example, when you read about the various birthdays of each Birth Card in their book and compare those descriptions with the Planetary Ruling Card of each birthday you will often find a strong correlation. Lets discuss these individually to make some new discoveries about ourselves. The Planetary Row and Column position The illustration on the next page of the Life Spread in Grand Solar array displays the planetary Row and Column influences. The same illustration is found on page 48 of Destiny Cards. On pages 342 and 343 of Love Cards and in the back of Sacred Symbols you will find both the Life and Spiritual Spreads displayed in this fashion. Note the planetary influences that govern the rows and columns. In Sacred Symbols the authors generally combine the row and column influence from both spreads to make an interpretation. They will say, for example, that the 6 is the Saturn Card in the Neptune Line (Mundane) displaces the 8 (Natural Spread). They call the Life Spread the Mundane Spread and the Spiritual Spread, the Natural Spread. They mean the same thing. We can see the 6 in the Life Spread pictured here. It sits in what I call the Neptune row and the Uranus column. In the Spiritual Spread, not pictured here, it sits in the same location as the 8 sitting in this illustration, that is in the Jupiter line and Saturn row. Thus, the 6 has a Saturn influence in each spread combined with a Neptune influence in the Life Spread and a Jupiter influence in the Spiritual Spread. Thus, three distinct influences: Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter. Then, in most cases, the ladies who wrote Sacred Symbols will say something about how those influences show up in the personality or character of the individual possessing that

card. If you have a basic understanding of the planetary influences, you can learn a lot about yourself by seeing what your planetary influences are and how they show up in your life. For example, my Birth Card, the Q, is Saturn/Mercury in the Life Spread. This shows a tendency towards mental (Mercury) pessimism (Saturn) as well as a mind (Mercury) capable of high discipline and concentration (Saturn), both qualities of most Q. The Spiritual Spread influences are Mars/Uranus. These influences cause Q to act (Mars) unexpectedly (Uranus), and to be (Mars) very independent (Uranus) in work and action (Mars). This can also represent an affinity for occult (Uranus) work (Mars), or at least an interest in such. With these examples as guidelines you should be able to uncover some new secrets about yourself and others. Read what the ladies in Sacred Symbols wrote about your card and others to get a head start on this. At first it may seem hard to understand but if you try a few examples, I am sure you will catch on quickly.

Your Karma Cards Our Karma Cards are an extremely aspect of our self-understanding. I cannot over stress their importance. I have written extensively about this in many articles the past three years so if you want to study this more, check out the Visions books in our catalog. Their full table of contents is found online here: http://www.7thunders.com/Visions.html

The first Karma Card listed in my books is a card that symbolizes an area in which we have to work on to improve over the course of our life. The second Karma Card is an area where we are very talented or gifted, where things come easily. Learn your Karma Cards and see how they play out in your life. As an example, take the Q. Their first Karma Card is the 3. On a negative level the 3 means uncertainty in love or a fear about not getting enough love. The Q typically have both. Their second Karma Card is the 10. Expressed positively the 10 gives a natural sense of abundance and the ability to handle large-scale businesses with ease, which is also common among the Q I have met. The Life Spread Cards This is where there is a wealth of information. Both Sacred Symbols and Whats Your Card? go into detail on the specific meaning of each Life Spread card. Love Cards presents an overall meaning that includes information about the Life Spread cards without specifically mentioning them. These are essentially the cards in your Age 0 Year in Destiny Cards. The most important of them are displayed in Love Cards as well, and includes the Moon Card. Understanding them can be easier if you relate to them from the following meanings. The Cards Underlying Your Life Spread Card Card Moon Meaning That which nurtures and supports us. How our mother was for us as a child. Sun The Birth Card itself Mercury How our mind is, what we think about a lot, the nature of our communications, things that happened in our early childhood Venus Our choice in mates, how we are romantically and things we like to have or do in our homes. Things that happened in our late childhood, adolescence. Mars What we are passionate about or how our passionate, aggressive energies express themselves. Jupiter Business and work preferences, where we are blessed in one or more ways Saturn Some of our important life lessons. Health issues of our card. Uranus Work matters, associations, real estate success, and some of the later years of our life Neptune Our relationship with foreign interests, the last years of our life, our psychic ability. Our hopes and fears card. Pluto Important life challenges and area of transformation. Cosmic Blessings we acquire later in life. Areas Reward where we have blessings to give to others. Cosmic Where we must set an example for the Lesson world in our actions and work.

These are not so apparent but are referred to often in Sacred Symbols where they discuss the various Life Spread Cards. For example, in their description of the Mercury Card in the Life Spread of the Q, which is a 5, they say, There is a certain financial security in the early life which is not so dependable later on. This is a direct reference to the underlying 4. They could have also said something like Q have a good organization (4) mind (Mercury) when it comes to money(). Each card in your Life Spread has one Underlying Card, unless that card is one of the three Fixed Cards (8, J, and K). These underlying cards not only contribute to the meaning of the 13-year period the card governs (Mercury Neptune only in this case) but also to the personality traits that come with that card. So, how do we find them? This is easy. All you need is your Destiny Cards book. Look at the Age 90 Spread, which is virtually identical to the Age 0 Spread. They are both the Life Spread cards. Now, look at the Age 89 Spread of your first Karma Card. Those are the

Underlying Cards taken from the Spiritual Spread. So, for example, if your Birth Card is the 9, you would look up the Age 89 Spread for the K, since the K is your first Karma Card. There you would see, in Mercury, the A and in Venus, the 2 and so forth. The A is the Underlying Card of your Life Spread Mercury Card, the 2. The 2 is the Underlying Card of your Life Spread Venus card, the K, and so on. In this example, the underlying 2 in the Venus position could represent an affinity for partners (Venus) of high intelligence (2). Even the vertical cards in your Life Spread have Underlying Cards and they are readily seen in the Age 89 Spread of your first Karma Card. As you study these, you are really looking at some hidden influences and many new secrets will be revealed.

Your Planetary Ruling Card and its Karma Cards Finally, we must study our Planetary Ruling card much as if it were our Birth Card. This includes mostly studying the descriptions of that card as if it were a Birth Card and studying its Karma Cards for even more details. In Sacred Symbols, there is a description given for each birthday of each Birth Card. That description, more often than not, fits a general description of the Planetary Ruling Card. Check it out. Read the description of the Capricorn Q, for example. As you read it, think about how this description easily fits a 7 person. Conformists to orthodoxy, but want enlightenment. Money much desired but always a problem. Uncertain in faith. Fear of the future and worry over it which interferes with work and health. But you can also read the Planetary Ruling Card descriptions in Love Cards and just do some investigating on your own. Definitely look up the Karma Cards of your ruling card and see how they come into play in your life, just as you did for your Birth Card in step two of this process. Many new secrets will be revealed.