What it is
For when there is only one option on the table. Six cards splitting a single move into what it gains you and what it costs.
With two or more options you want either/or instead. This spread handles whether to do A; that one handles A or B.
Why the positions are built this way
The usual pros-and-cons layout pulls three good cards and three bad ones and stops. You end up counting them, and counts are not a basis for deciding — one large loss usually outweighs three small gains.
So here each side gets a condition beside it.
- Position 3, beside the gain: gains do not maintain themselves. What does this one need in order to last?
- Position 5, beside the cost: losses can usually be reduced. If there’s a way to soften it, the whole decision changes.
Position 6 is what you haven’t checked. Decisions stall far more often from missing information than from genuine difficulty. Chase down whatever this card points at and the answer sometimes arrives without the cards at all.
Reading order
Read position 1, then 2 and 3 as one block, then 4 and 5 as another. Compare the weight of the two blocks. Read 6 last — and if it lands heavy, not deciding yet is a legitimate conclusion.
If the decision itself won’t hold still, run sharpen your question first.