01.01 · Love & Relationships
Before the First Date
“What should I know before we meet?”
The 7-card layout
1. {A} hopes going in
2. {B} hopes going in
3. What draws {a} to {b}
4. What draws {b} to {a}
5. The meeting itself
6. The day after
7. What it could become over three to six months
This spread reads two people. Names are optional - they only change how the positions are labelled, and they stay in this browser tab.
Hold your question in mind, then shuffle.
Turning the deck is why cards come out reversed. A reversed card is not a bad card - it is the same card at a lower ebb, blocked, or on its way out.
Read what each of you is bringing to a first meeting - hopes, attraction, and what is likely to happen after it. Drawn before you meet, so it reads expectations rather than events.
What each position asks
These meanings belong to this spread. A card is read for the place it lands in, so the same card says something different in position 1 than it does in position 7.
- 1{A} hopes going in
- 2{B} hopes going in
- 3What draws {a} to {b}
- 4What draws {b} to {a}
- 5The meeting itself
- 6The day after
- 7What it could become over three to six months