How many cards does the Seven-Card Relationship Spread use?

The Seven-Card Relationship Spread uses 7 cards: the full 78-card deck.

What do the positions of the Seven-Card Relationship Spread mean?

The positions are: You, The other person, The bond, Strength, Friction, Advice and Outcome. Each card is read as the answer to the question of its position.

How do you read the Seven-Card Relationship 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. Strength (4) and friction (5) belong to neither of the two people: they belong to the bond.

A spread · 7 cards

Seven-Card Relationship Spread

You, the other person, the bond; then a strength and a friction, the advice and the outcome if it is followed.

Begin a reading with this spread All spreads

You

The other person

The bond

Strength

Friction

Advice

Outcome

You
The other person
The relationship

The positions

Position 1
You
Your current position in the relationship and the energy you bring.
What is my position in the relationship?
Position 2
The other person
The other person's position in the relationship and what they bring, as they show themselves.
What is the other person's position?
Position 3
The bond
The shared field: the quality of the bond between you, beyond the two people.
What is our bond like?
Position 4
Strength
What works and is worth preserving.
What works between us?
Position 5
Friction
The difficulty or repeating pattern that tests the relationship.
What tests us?
Position 6
Advice
The move suggested to the querent for the current phase of the relationship.
What do the cards advise me?
Position 7
Outcome
The trajectory of the relationship if the advice is followed: a tendency, not a verdict.
Where does the relationship lead if I follow the advice?

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.
Strength (4) and friction (5) belong to neither of the two people: they belong to the bond.

Positions to read together

You ↔ The other person. Le due persone a confronto: come ciascuno sta nella relazione.
Strength ↔ Friction. Forza e attrito: ciò che sostiene e ciò che mette alla prova si leggono insieme.
Advice ↔ Outcome. Il consiglio e l'esito: la mossa e il suo probabile effetto.
The bond ↔ Outcome. Il legame e l'esito: se la traiettoria segue la natura del legame.