Spreads, Tablets and Plates

There are various methods of shuffling, cutting and laying out cards for psychic-style card readings. Synchronicity or “meaningful coincidence” provides the seeker with the right card to tell his or her fortunes and is wholly dependant upon the reader’s psychic connections. This method of divination sets metasymbology apart from the tarot and cartomancy.

Each spread of cards, also known as a tablet or plate, is a 360-degree turn of the solar year clock hidden within the deck. Each “turn” uses the numeric values of the 52 cards to create 91 tablets of all the cards. They are never cut, shuffled, or randomly drawn from the deck.

Once you have prepared and preserved the tablets, there is no need to handle the cards again. The only variable will be the seeker, whose date of birth is essential to interpreting the cards on each fixed spread.

The first layout of cards is called the natural spread, where the cards are in their original order from Ace through to King, Heart through to Spade. We call this first tablet the Soul Tablet, symbolizing the journey of the ever perfect soul, unaffected by the laws of cause and effect.

It is the Soul Spread that describes the perfect or ideal state of your being. Your soul's nature is your spiritual essence; an image of Spirit, forever unchanged by your human experiences. Being in tune with the positive meaning of your Soul Card helps you manifest your most powerful, creative qualities.

From the Soul Spread, the first turn of the solar year clock creates the Mundane Spread, or as Arne Lein coined, the Life Spread. The Life Spread symbolizes our transformation from an ever-existing soul to ever-new life.

Self-understanding begins by analyzing your two natures: your intuitive soul nature or “secret self” with your conditioned self, or “character” with all the life-patterns and habits you have gained since birth. Success comes when you figure out how to harmonize the ever new possibilities and experiences of your life with the natural qualities of your soul nature as symbolized by your Soul Card.