Today, rather than a week upcoming layout, we’re going to be using a particular layout that’s quite useful to use if you either think you’re being gossiped about, or, more importantly for “story’ purposes if you want to find out the score on a particular “gossip” or lowdown situation where there may be “two sides”, both with different perspectives.
I call it either the Lowdown Layout, or “What’s the Goss?” for lighter stuff, but I’ve adapted it from a layout suggested in the 2022 Grimaud Sibylle des Salons deck, where it’s given the name Tirage des cancans (the Draw Of Gossip). As with most of the layouts suggested in that edition of the deck, they only suggest one card per position, but I find you need more than that to get a really juicy or full story. For that reason, I’d use as many as three cards for each, as I have in today’s reading.
You can either pick the cards for “the initial situation” yourself, or leave them open if you’re asking about gossip about yourself.
It’s also a lay…
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