How many cards does the Stay or Go Spread use?

The Stay or Go Spread uses 7 cards: the full 78-card deck.

What do the positions of the Stay or Go Spread mean?

The positions are: The real reason, The fear if you stay, The fear if you go, What staying offers, What leaving offers, What you don't see and The key to the choice. Each card is read as the answer to the question of its position.

How do you read the Stay or Go Spread?

The top row is the road of staying, the bottom row the road of leaving: they are read as a mirror, fear with fear and offer with offer. The cards describe the two roads and do not choose between them: card 7 gives the criterion, the decision stays with the querent. A Disks card in positions 4 or 5 speaks of material security; economic and contractual matters need someone who knows the case.

A spread · 7 cards

Stay or Go Spread

The real reason for the doubt, then two mirrored roads, staying and leaving, each with its fear and what it offers; finally what you don't see and the key to deciding.

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The real reason

The fear if you stay

The fear if you go

What staying offers

What leaving offers

What you don't see

The key to the choice

The positions

Position 1
The real reason
What truly drives the thought of leaving, beneath the stated reasons.
Why am I really thinking about it?
Position 2
The fear if you stay
What the querent fears will happen by staying.
What do I fear if I stay?
Position 3
The fear if you go
What the querent fears will happen by leaving.
What do I fear if I go?
Position 4
What staying offers
What the current job can still give over the next six to twelve months.
What does staying give me?
Position 5
What leaving offers
What a new road can open over the next six to twelve months.
What does leaving give me?
Position 6
What you don't see
The overlooked factor that changes the weight of the choice.
What am I not seeing?
Position 7
The key to the choice
What really matters in deciding: not the decision, which stays with the querent, but the criterion for making it.
What should I base the choice on?

How to read it

The top row is the road of staying, the bottom row the road of leaving: they are read as a mirror, fear with fear and offer with offer.
The cards describe the two roads and do not choose between them: card 7 gives the criterion, the decision stays with the querent.
A Disks card in positions 4 or 5 speaks of material security; economic and contractual matters need someone who knows the case.

Positions to read together

The fear if you stay ↔ The fear if you go. I due timori a confronto: quale paura pesa davvero nella scelta.
What staying offers ↔ What leaving offers. Ciò che offrono le due strade, a confronto nello stesso arco di tempo.
The real reason ↔ The key to the choice. Dal motivo vero alla chiave della scelta: se la decisione risponde al bisogno che l'ha fatta nascere.

Origin

A recent seven-card spread from online career guides (Unmei Tarot's "Stay or Go") for those thinking of leaving their job: the two roads are read as a mirror, with the fears and what each one offers. Here the last card is not a verdict but the key to the choice.

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