How many cards does the New Venture Spread use?

The New Venture Spread uses 9 cards: the full 78-card deck.

How do you read the New Venture Spread?

Card 1, at the centre, is the pivot: every card of the wheel is read in relation to the querent's role. The blind spot (5) is not a sentence: it is what is worth looking at before investing time and money. The cards read the calling and the moment; the business plan, permits and contracts need a professional.

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New Venture Spread

Q: What do the positions of the New Venture Spread mean?

The positions are: Your role, The motivation, The vision, The offer, The blind spot, The customers, How to serve them, What you need to start and Readiness. Each card is read as the answer to the question of its position.

A wheel of eight cards around your role in the venture: why you want it, what it can become, what you offer, what you underestimate, who you serve, how to serve them, what you need to start and how ready you are.

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Your role

The motivation

The vision

The offer

The blind spot

The customers

How to serve them

What you need to start

Readiness

The positions

Position 1
Your role
The querent's place in the venture: the purpose and the energy that hold it up.
What is my role in this venture?
Position 2
The motivation
What really drives the start, beneath the stated reasons.
Why do I want to start it?
Position 3
The vision
What the venture can become if it grows according to its nature.
What can it become?
Position 4
The offer
What the venture gives its customers: the product, the service, the value.
What do I offer?
Position 5
The blind spot
What the querent underestimates or does not see yet.
What am I underestimating?
Position 6
The customers
The people the venture speaks to and their real need.
Who am I really speaking to?
Position 7
How to serve them
The way to reach those customers and answer their need.
How can I serve them?
Position 8
What you need to start
The means to bring together: skills, people, resources, time.
What do I need to start?
Position 9
Readiness
How ready the querent is to begin, and what is still missing.
How ready am I?

How to read it

Card 1, at the centre, is the pivot: every card of the wheel is read in relation to the querent's role.
The blind spot (5) is not a sentence: it is what is worth looking at before investing time and money.
The cards read the calling and the moment; the business plan, permits and contracts need a professional.

Positions to read together

The motivation ↔ The vision. Motivazione e visione: se ciò che spinge porta davvero dove si vuole arrivare.
The offer ↔ The customers. L'offerta e i clienti: se ciò che si offre risponde al bisogno di chi si vuole servire.
The blind spot ↔ Readiness. Il punto cieco e la preparazione: ciò che manca ancora prima di partire.
How to serve them ↔ What you need to start. Come servire i clienti e che cosa serve per farlo: il piano concreto.

Origin

A modern nine-card spread for starting a business or a project, adapted from Labyrinthos' "Aligning With Your Higher Purpose" and Elvi Tarot's "Business Idea Check": the purpose at the centre and, around it, motivation, vision, offer, blind spot, customers, means and readiness.

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