03.01 · Business & Money

New Business Success

“Will this venture work?”

The 7-card layout

1. The ground it stands on
2. What it has going for it
3. Where it is thin
4. What is open to it
5. What it can earn
6. What will fight it
7. Where it most likely lands

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.

Seven cards reading a venture the way you would read a plan: the ground it stands on, what it has, what it lacks, what is open to it, what it can earn, and what will fight it.

  • 7 cards
  • One person
  • Upright & reversed
  • first year

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. 1The ground it stands on
  2. 2What it has going for it
  3. 3Where it is thin
  4. 4What is open to it
  5. 5What it can earn
  6. 6What will fight it
  7. 7Where it most likely lands