Here is my personal method of reading this deck.
First you will need a seperate journal for this deck, allocate 2-3 pages per card. you may borrow my insights, etc. to put into your journal with your own insights.
Second purchase a magnifying glass of good quality. makes it easier to study the details, images within images of these cards. I suggest you examinine each card under bright lighting.
Step 1 - pull out any card that you wish to examine.
Step 2 - look at the card with a general birds eye view. the image should look flat.
Step 3 - notice that there is lots going on. (looks busy).
Step 4 - let your eyes wander over the card, until you see something interesting.
Step 5 - pull out your magnefying glass. take another look, let your eyes relax and yet examine the card thoroughly. result will become 3D, certain aspects of the card will become the 3D appearance (like at the movie theater, with 3D glasses).
Step 6 - take mental notes of each detail, if you wish write them down in your journal.
step 7 - this is were that flat image, becomes alive, and a piece/detail/image, becomes an image within a image (super-imposed) - (like a photo when the lens is focused on a subject and the background is blurry).
Step8 - That is were the magic begins with each card. your intuition is tuning in to the card, like a radio station. at that moment only certain aspects within the details will 3d. and the rest won't. that is what your to focus on. For that detail is a symbol and has a meaning of it's own and your intuition is telling you that.
I will be posting up my studies of this deck for all of you to enjoy and use as a reference along with your own study. I have found that a simple detail as small as leaf, turns in to a type of leaf, then into a meaning, then that meaning turns into another. so just think of how much detail is in the scapini cards themselve, then you will see that the systems, go beyond each other. This is a never ending story book.
Here is an example: This is a daily spread of 3 cards
in this 3 card spread I don't allocate a position for the cards. there is no past, present, future. etc. I just lay 3 cards down.
Remember this deck doesn't need you to reverse any of it's cards, for the reversed meanings are already in front of you in the upright position, the reversed meaning is a symbol/detail/image.
Then with paper and pen in hand/ or Journal, I write down, the first detail of each card, I see first.
My question for the day: What do I need to know for today?
Card 1 - Fool - lion
Balloon
Card 2 - Force - Womans face - empty looking
Hands
Lions mouth open - Tongue
Card 3 - 2 of wands - man in middle at upsidedown - grasping
Then I went through my journal, which I made a huge library of definitions I had attached to each detail/symbol of each card.
Card 1 = lion = warning - instincts - danger
Balloon = Air
Card 2 = womans face - empty looking = helplessness
Hands = weakness
Mouth - Tongue = open, gapping, struggle, speach
Card 3 = Man in the middle (grasping) = The unforseen, anxiety, fear, trouble
So then I take these keys and create a sentence.
like: Trouble, weakness, warning, air
Unforseen, helplessness, warning, air
Fear, weakness, warning, air
Struggle, helplessness, warning, open, air
and so on.
Result: What I need to know for today is, That I will have trouble with speach and feel weak due to breathing air, and that this is a warning.
or
That I may have unforseen trouble and need to pay attention to my instincts, for they are warning me about breathing air, possiable danger.
I Recieved a call, and was invited over to a friends. I hesitated about going. They were given a large dog as a family pet. I didn't stay long, I left due to have an allergic reaction to the dog, I came home, made some supper, started to eat, found it difficult, I couldn't swallow, choked, then was rushed to the hospital. for I had a piece stuck in my right lung. ended up really sick.
You can try this method in many different spreads, and add this technique to your own method, intuition.
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