Moon spread
The ritual of the lunations: at the full or new moon, take stock under its gaze.
The full moon lights up what must end, the new moon what asks to be born: the moon spread follows this rhythm. Four cards: what you release, what you welcome, your shadow and your light.
It is a spread of reconnection more than of question: you draw it at each lunation, like a meeting with yourself. Kept across several cycles, it traces an intimate path that few tools can show.
✦ The 4 positions of this spread ✦
- What you release
- What you welcome
- Your shadow
- Your light
✦ How the cards are shuffled ✦
No lazy random draw: Arkarma shuffles a real deck of 22 arcana the way hands would. Seven riffle shuffles broken up by cuts, some of which turn part of the pack over: that is how reversed cards are born, in clusters, as on a real table. Your question and your day enter the shuffle: ask the same question on the same day and the deck will be shuffled exactly the same way. Only your hand, by choosing other cards, can change the answer.
The deck then spreads before you and it is your hand that chooses: the intention, the moment and the gesture. The reading that follows takes up your question word for word and answers you as a reader would, card after card.
✦ Frequently asked questions ✦
When should I draw the moon spread?
Do I need a precise question?
Why four cards and not three?
Before you draw, you can explore the meaning of the 22 major arcana: every card of your reading has its full page there, upright as well as reversed. And for another view, the 10 spreads of Arkarma await you.