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This technique is a twist on the traditional way of reading Tarot cards.

1. Choose a spread, a deck, and shuffle the cards.
2. Draw the number of cards that the spread requires, lay them down face up, but do not lay them out in the spread.
3. Look at the cards you have drawn: how do you feel about having these specific cards in your reading? Make notes of anything that feels useful.
4. Gather the cards you have drawn, and shuffle them.
5. Now lay them out in your chosen spread. How do you feel about the position each card now takes?
6. Read the spread the way you normally do.

While reading the spread, keep in mind everything that you found useful in stages 3 and 5. Compare the two positions for every card: with the card now in a spread position, is its energy dimmed, or strengthened? Does the overall energy of the spread look different with the cards now connected to a card position? Where might you have preferred the cards to fall? Why, and what can you do about it?