Priest Spread: Enlightenment
The Priest archetype is most highly connected to the notions of seeking spiritual guidance, compassion, enlightenment, blessing, forgiveness (i.e. absolution) and the experience of Oneness. And, in the negative pole: self-righteousness, damnation, worldly rejection, and piety.
In its worldly presentation as an occupation it is associated with the ministration to emotional conflicts and comforts, the implementation or advancement of a belief system, and being the mediator of altered states of consciousness usually associated with other planes of existence. (i.e. the Shaman).
This layout aims to uplift your consideration out of the mundane of matter and interactions, into perspectives casting a different light upon a problem (i.e. like an infrared or ultra violet spectrum reveals unseen aspects present but not readily visible.)
In darker or painful periods, this spread can assist you in coming to terms with an intractable feeling of stuckness in shame, guilt, or incompletion. Yet, it may also offer you the path to be circumspect and thus understand the deeper implications of Choices you are contemplating.
Selecting Cards in this configuration may reveal the elements keeping you from "letting go" or achieving resolution; or in some cases making restitution. While not specifically about forgiveness or absolution, you might discern underpinnings from which you are meant to discover and heal. Here Compassion is an active verb of deeper conscious empathy, not holier-than-thou persecution of another nor pretentious self-abasement into a rigid asceticism.
What is conveyed in this layout is the energy influencing your desired outcome. Ask wisely. Use the feedback wisely. Self-Pity IS NEVER a solution but it is a desperate attempt at some basic form of self-care.
- Card 1. What is the Issue seeking resolve?
- Card 2. Certain situational elements are always currently present in advance of an outcome. This card is a overview of that umbrella which augurs what happens.
- Card 3. Like everywhere, Ego has a way of making itself inflated in order to try to protect you by controlling the situation. While thinking and acting with competence is always advised, forcing a conclusion based on Ego's desire to dominate, is something to be wary of accounted for.
- Card 4. To avoid or break Ego's influence from Card 3, consider an act suffused with this quality.
- Card 5. The quality of the outcome. If a Shadow pole is posted, the possible meaning of the outcome might benefit you but contain within it some residual effects you do not like.
1. Beginning What you are really confronting or where this situation began.  |
5. Outcome Tells you which course of action is favored to create the outcome asked in this reading. |
2. What's Present Alerts you to the circumstances present. |
3. Ego Block The grip of an Ego asserting itself rigidly. |
4. Audacity Taking a bold out-of-the-box risk. |