Practice Your Pairs! "Mystic Sevens" Layout

A classic cartomancy layout applied to the Sibylle des Salons

So here, I’d like to show you a classic spread that I suspect does also originate in playing card cartomancy, but that I actually got from a fabulous book about classic Tarot spreads (Classic Tarot Spreads by Sandor Konraad) and have adapted to the Sibylle des Salons, which it works perfectly with. It’s great fun for practicing reading pairs of cards. It’s called the “Mystic 7s” layout.

Worth noting, too, that this can be used with ANY oracle deck, not just the Sibylle des Salons.

As is the case with the “Six Themes Layout” which Grimaud put in its ‘70s editions of the deck, and that we’ll be looking at in a future post, this spread involves a) first putting the cards into a larger layout (the above) for an overview, and then b) reading smaller groups of cards together.

It’s actually WAY less complicated than it sounds, and gives you a great “big picture” reading with some specific details. It would be most suitable as a “What’s coming up for me this month/year?” general influences kind of read.

Instructions on shuffling, laying out and reading are as below: