Nine-Card Compatibility Spread tarot spread
A grid of nine cards: central energy, emotional compatibility, each person's contribution, strengths, challenges, long-term potential and the hidden influences.
- You
- The other person
- The relationship
The 9 positions of the Nine-Card Compatibility Spread
- 1Central energy
The heart of the bond and the kind of relationship you are living.
What is the heart of this bond?
- 2Emotional compatibility
How your feelings and emotional needs line up.
How do our feelings line up?
- 3Your contribution
Your attitude, your intentions and the energy you put into the bond.
What do I bring?
- 4The other person's contribution
The other person's emotional investment and role in the bond, as they show themselves.
What does the other person bring?
- 5Strengths
The glue of the bond: what makes it work and grow.
What holds us together?
- 6Challenges
The main points of friction and areas of conflict.
Where are our difficulties?
- 7Long-term potential
Where the bond can get to over time, if the forces stay as they are.
Where can this bond get to?
- 8Hidden influence: you
What acts in you beneath the surface: patterns, habits, baggage that weigh on the bond.
What is acting in me without my noticing?
- 9Hidden influence: the other person
What acts in the other person beneath the surface, as a tendency: never a reading of their mind.
What is acting beneath the surface in the other person?
How to read the Nine-Card Compatibility Spread
- Kings, Queens, Knights and Pages point to energies and attitudes, not to the gender of the people.
- The cards speak about the querent and the relationship: what concerns the other person is a tendency, not a reading of their mind.
- Positions 1, 5 and 7 form the triangle of truth: read them together, like an arc: the present (1), the strength to cultivate (5), the destination (7).
- Central energy ↔ StrengthsDal presente del legame alla sua forza: ciò che lo sostiene oggi.
- Strengths ↔ Long-term potentialDalla forza al potenziale: come ciò che vi sostiene può portarvi lontano.
- Central energy ↔ Long-term potentialIl presente e la destinazione: se il legame va verso ciò che già mostra.
- Your contribution ↔ The other person's contributionI due apporti a confronto: quanto ciascuno mette e come si incastrano.
- Hidden influence: you ↔ Hidden influence: the other personGli influssi nascosti a confronto: i due bagagli invisibili che il legame deve portare.
Origin
A modern 3x3 grid spread: at the centre the energy of the bond, at the sides the contributions of the two people (top) and their hidden influences (middle), and below strengths, challenges and potential. Cards 1, 5 and 7 form the 'triangle of truth'.
Frequently asked questions
How many cards does the Nine-Card Compatibility Spread use?
The Nine-Card Compatibility Spread uses 9 cards: the full 78-card deck.
What do the positions of the Nine-Card Compatibility Spread mean?
The positions are: Central energy, Emotional compatibility, Your contribution, The other person's contribution, Strengths, Challenges, Long-term potential, Hidden influence: you and Hidden influence: the other person. Each card is read as the answer to the question of its position.
How do you read the Nine-Card Compatibility Spread?
Kings, Queens, Knights and Pages point to energies and attitudes, not to the gender of the people. The cards speak about the querent and the relationship: what concerns the other person is a tendency, not a reading of their mind. Positions 1, 5 and 7 form the triangle of truth: read them together, like an arc: the present (1), the strength to cultivate (5), the destination (7).
Where does the Nine-Card Compatibility Spread come from?
A modern 3x3 grid spread: at the centre the energy of the bond, at the sides the contributions of the two people (top) and their hidden influences (middle), and below strengths, challenges and potential. Cards 1, 5 and 7 form the 'triangle of truth'.
More spreads of the same kind
You, the other person and the dynamic between you: the essential snapshot of a bond, read with the 22 Major Arcana.
Seven-Card Compatibility SpreadWhat you seek, what the other person seeks, similarities and differences, and then emotional, physical and mental compatibility.
Soulmate Spread (Kindred Souls)Each person's lessons, why you met, what you mirror in each other, the karmic theme, the phase you are in and the potential over time.
