What it is
Today is day one. Seven cards, one per day, laid in a row to give you the shape of the coming week.
Don’t read it as prophecy
The classic mistake. Decide that “Ten of Swords on Wednesday means Wednesday is bad” and you will spend Wednesday hunting for bad things. You will find some.
Read it as rhythm instead. Lay the seven out and see which days are heavy and which are light. Don’t stack anything important on the heavy days; move the postponed thing onto a light one. The cards aren’t forecasting — they’re helping you schedule.
Reading order
- Take in the whole row first. Count the suits. Lots of Wands is a busy week; lots of Cups puts people and feeling at the centre; lots of Swords means a week of judgements and decisions.
- Find the odd day out. One card usually sits differently from the rest. That day is the pivot of the week.
- Join day one to day seven. Start and end together give you one sentence about where this week travels.
Look again at the weekend
This spread pays best after the week has happened. Leave the seven cards out and compare them with what actually occurred. The days that didn’t match teach more than the ones that did.
Use the tarot journal prompt to work through that record. For a longer horizon there is the year ahead.