How to listen
Spreads
A spread is a way of placing attention. It is not a prediction engine. Choose the listening that matches the weather you are in.
One card
The Signal
A single card. Useful when you want one clear pattern rather than a map.
Message
The pattern asking for your attention.
3 cards
Root · Weather · Growth
A three-card listening for situations already in motion.
Root
What formed or underlies this situation.
Weather
What is influencing it now.
Growth
What may be trying to emerge.
3 cards
Decay · Soil · Seed
For composting an ending — a job, a season, a story, a way of being.
Decay
What may be ending or breaking down.
Soil
What experience is becoming nourishment.
Seed
What possibility may emerge from it.
3 cards
Self · Other · Ecosystem
Useful for relationships of any kind — people, places, work, or a system you belong to.
Self
Your position or pattern.
Other
The other person's or system's position.
Ecosystem
What exists between you.
3 cards
Seen · Hidden · Emerging
When the surface story is incomplete and you want the understorey as well.
Seen
What is already visible or acknowledged.
Hidden
What is working out of sight.
Emerging
What is beginning to show.
5 cards
The Forest
Five cards for a situation that needs more than a single glance.
Root
The underlying cause or history.
Trunk
What currently holds the situation together.
Canopy
The wider perspective.
Weather
External forces acting upon it.
Seed
What wants to come next.