Stone Arrowhead Reading for Me

This is a reading for myself using the a spread in the Arcana Stones booklet I call the Stone Arrowhead Spread.  It’s based on ideas of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Mary Greer, http://marygreer.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/jodorowskys-three-card-theosophic-sum-spread/, but (of course) I added some tweaks of my own.

 

Here are the instructions for the spread from the booklet:

 

Stone Arrowhead Spread

In this numerological three stone spread, you pick three stones and fill in the rest of the positions by adding the arcana numbers of the picked stones.

 

For this spread, 0-Fool-Clear Quartz is number 22.  If a sum is over 22, add the digits together to get a number 22 or less.  It is possible to get the same number-stone in several different positions in this spread.  Repeated stones obviously point to an important aspect of your reading!

 

Randomly pick three stones, A, B, and C, and put them in a row left to right.  These together are the basic answer to your question.

 

Add A plus C and place the stone of that number in the center under the row.  This is the cause of your issue.

 

Add A plus B and place the stone of that number above the row between A and B.  This is what you are receiving or what is happening to you in the situation.

 

Add B plus C and place the stone of that number above the row between B and C.  This is what you are acting on, doing, or giving in the situation.

 

Add A, B, and C and place the stone of that number at the top center.  This is the outcome of your issue.

 

Add all seven of the previous numbers together (including any repeated ones) and place the stone of that number at the bottom center.  This is advice for you to consider in dealing with the issue.

 

So, let’s try it.  I’ll walk you through my reading. 

 

The issue is the outlook for the unfinished tarot project I’m working on now.  (The concepts are pretty much set, I just have to write it!)

 

I picked three stones and laid them out left to right:  22-Fool-Clear Quartz; 4-Emperor-Carnelian; 6-Lovers-Rhodocrosite.  The basic answer is that I have to remember that I’m a beginner at this (Fool).  But, even though I’m just a beginner, people in authority, I’m assuming a publisher (Emperor), will love it!  And I will be able to make a productive partnership (Lovers) with someone in order for it to be completed.  Very good news for me, because the project is a deck concept and book.  I will definitely need to partner with an artist for the deck to become a reality.

 

I added A+C to get the cause of my issue:  22+6=28=10-Wheel-Botswana Agate.  I’m asking and wondering because I feel like completion of the project is out of my control and in the hands of fate for some reason.  This is actually not true at all.  I can work on it whenever I want!  I just feel like circumstances are preventing me from doing that.  A good insight from the stones.  I need to stop wondering and reading about it, and just do it!

I added A+B to get what I am receiving:  22+4=26=8-Fortitude-Tiger Eye.  Once again, encouragement to just do it.  I already have the power to do this.  I just need to focus my energy on the right things.

 

I added B+C to get when I am doing now:  4+6=10-Wheel-Botswana Agate again.  Ok, ok!  I get the picture!  (Perfect example of a repeated stone showing what’s important in the reading!)  I’m just waiting around like it’s just going to happen on its own.  Well, it’s not . . .

 

I added A+B+C to get the outcome:  22+4+6=32=5-Hierophant-Orange Calcite.  Well, this is encouraging.  When the project (or my part of it) is complete, it will be recognized as a valid entry in the tarot deck tradition.  Or it will be accepted by tarot experts and traditionalists.  Or I will be acknowledged as someone who knows something about tarot and maybe as a useful teacher of tarot.  Any or all of those would be wonderful for me!

 

Last, I added all seven stones so far, including both 10-Wheels, to get some advice:  5+8+10+22+4+6+10=65=11-Justice-Aventurine.  This is just a friendly reminder to keep a balance between the Hierophant’s visions of grandeur and the nose-to-the grindstone promptings of the Wheel and Fortitude.  The outcome will never come unless I finish my project.  On the other hand, having something positive to look forward to will help me to keep working away.

 

 

Well, this is one of those readings that tells you what you already know, but it doesn’t hurt to check in when in need of a reminder!

 

I hope you enjoyed the demonstration of the Stone Arrowhead Spread.  Let me know if  you would like me to do one for you!