evviemarin:A Mercury Retrograde Tarot Spread 1. Signifier: Mercury Retrograde - Place The Ma
evviemarin: A Mercury Retrograde Tarot Spread 1. Signifier: Mercury Retrograde - Place The Magician reversed in the center of your spread to represent Mercury moving backwards. 2. Artifact - What is Mercury dredging up for me in this retrograde period? 3. Affect - How is it (the “what” represented by card #2) affecting me? 4. Signifier: Action - What would I like to do with this pattern/energy/baggage/what-have-you? Cross the reversed Magician with:The Hierophant to learn from or teach something,Justice to set something right,Death to lay something to rest and move on,Temperance to integrate and balance past and present, orThe Sun to rekindle something. 5. Lesson - What do I have to learn from it now?6. Resolution - How can I best resolve it? What strategies can I draw on to learn from it, set it right, lay it to rest, integrate it, or rekindle it? NotesThe signifiers are optional. I know some folks are averse to consciously choosing and placing cards in a spread. If that’s you, no worries, you can skip the center cross. You do, however, need to consciously decide what you want to do with the pattern you’re examining here in order to know what question card #6 addresses. It takes different strategies to rekindle a forgotten talent than it does to lay an old blockage to rest. For this reason, I recommend that you draw cards 4-6 only after you’ve drawn and analyzed cards 1-3. You can use this spread anytime you’re feeling haunted by your own past. It doesn’t need to be a Mercury Retrograde to ask the same basic questions. Just use a personal significator, upright, for card #1, and ask, “what old pattern is haunting me?” or “what past baggage is on my case now?” for card #2. For the full blog post head to: http://www.interrobangtarot.com/blog/a-mercury-retrograde-tarot-spread -- source link