How many cards does the Crossroads Spread use?

The Crossroads Spread uses 8 cards: the full 78-card deck.

What do the positions of the Crossroads Spread mean?

The positions are: Where you are, What brought you here, Road A: energy, Road A: challenge, Road A: outcome, Road B: energy, Road B: challenge and Road B: outcome. Each card is read as the answer to the question of its position.

How do you read the Crossroads 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. The cards describe the two roads and do not choose between them: the decision stays with the couple. Read starting from the past (2), then the present (1); then each road in full, from the energy to the outcome.

A spread · 8 cards

Crossroads Spread

Where you are and what brought you here, then two roads: for each the energy, the challenge and the outcome. It is for understanding, not for making the cards choose.

Begin a reading with this spread All spreads

Where you are

What brought you here

Path A: energy

Path A: challenge

Path A: outcome

Path B: energy

Path B: challenge

Path B: outcome

The relationship
Path A
Path B

The positions

Position 1
Where you are
The point where the couple stands now, facing the choice.
Where are we right now?
Position 2
What brought you here
The events and choices that brought the couple to this crossroads.
What brought us here?
Position 3
Road A: energy
The energy that moves at once if the couple takes road A.
What energy does road A have?
Position 4
Road A: challenge
The main difficulty road A would bring.
What challenge does road A bring?
Position 5
Road A: outcome
Where road A leads, as a tendency.
Where does road A lead?
Position 6
Road B: energy
The energy that moves at once if the couple takes road B.
What energy does road B have?
Position 7
Road B: challenge
The main difficulty road B would bring.
What challenge does road B bring?
Position 8
Road B: outcome
Where road B leads, as a tendency.
Where does road B lead?

How to read it

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.
The cards describe the two roads and do not choose between them: the decision stays with the couple.
Read starting from the past (2), then the present (1); then each road in full, from the energy to the outcome.

Positions to read together

Road A: energy ↔ Road B: energy. Le due energie iniziali a confronto: come si presentano subito le due strade.
Road A: challenge ↔ Road B: challenge. Le due sfide a confronto: quale costo porta ciascuna strada.
Road A: outcome ↔ Road B: outcome. I due esiti a confronto: dove condurrebbero, come tendenze.