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The Twelve House Spread
In a Twelve House Spread, you lay the cards down in two horizontal rows of six cards each: cards 1 through 6, moving from left to right on the bottom row, then cards 7 through 12, moving from right to left across the top row. In this fashion, card number 1 will be lying underneath card number 12, and card number 6 will be lying underneath card number 7. So picture this in your mind. Then, shuffle the cards four times and lay them out in that order. And you will have your Twelve House Spread.
In Astrology, why twelve Houses?
The twelve Astrological Houses represent the spectrum of individual human experience, both subjectively and objectively -- the twelve basic phases of the unfolding consciousness of the individual. When used in relation to a Tarot reading, there are three symbolic meanings of each card that overlap in this spread: The meaning of each House; the meaning of the card occupying that House; and the meaning of the number of the House itself.
Learning to "read" the cards in this fashion is grounded in the objective meanings given these symbols universally. However, your own intuition will be your guide when working with all these intertwining symbols. I will give you only a brief word-picture of each House here. Then, you can take it from there.
The Cross represents how we manifest in space, with a vertical and horizontal dimension. The vertical is an inner (invisible) dimension where we create our reality, or are created by a Higher Order; and the horizontal, outer (visible) dimension is where this reality plays out. Picture a cross, then you'll see that it makes four sections of space. The four spaces labeled by the Zenith (top), the Nadir (bottom), the Ascendant (left), and Descendent (right). The Zenith is where you "rise and shine" in the world. The Nadir is your "grounding." The Ascendant is the principle of selfhood; the Descendent is the principle of relatedness. In Jung's typology, the Zenith is your thinking function; the Nadir is feeling; the Ascendant is your intuitive function; and the Descendent is sensation.
Consciousness develops in three's that are bipolar (positive and negative): Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Subject, object, the relation between. Spirit, substance, form. Action, means of action, evaluation of results. To be, to use, to understand, or transform. Houses 1,4,7,10 are the to be houses (Angular); Houses 2,5,8,11 are the to have, or to use houses (Succedent); Houses 3,6,9,12 are the to understand or transform Houses (Cadent).
In a Twelve House Spread, looked at more deeply, there will be six operations "under the surface" in the subjective life (the bottom row), and six "above the horizon" manifesting in the objective life (the top row). These six operations, subjective and objective, mirror and reflect one another, crosswise. The operations are: being (Houses 1,7), having (Houses 2,8) informing (Houses 3,9), maintaining (Houses 4,10), expressing (Houses 5,11) , transforming (Houses 6,12) .
A symbolic language such as this "works" because of the relationship between the inquirer and the interpreter -- the student and the guide. How their two minds work together bring about the result. When you interpret these symbols for a personal reading, the information gained is not telling you or the inquirer what to do; it is merely showing what energies are present for that particular category of experience, or that daily operation. It's up to the inquirer what to choose to do with this knowledge. Readings and the reader are always neutral. This is not a "fortune-telling" scheme.
Here are the meanings of each House:
1st House: The subjective discovery of being, or individual selfhood. The card here will represent the way you will best know yourself given this question being asked. It's the quality or nature of this "current you" who is making this inquiry. It represents your orientation to the Divine concerning this particular question. It's your power of creative selfhood you bring to into being.
2nd House: What you subjectively have, possess, or own, what you call "mine" as pertains to this question. The innate capacities you have to use to exteriorize what is coming into being. Many think of this as the House of values.
3rd House: The fruition or the way we understand the relationship between the being and having of this particular thing -- your means for action or how you will transform it. It's how you put your mind to it, how you inform it. This involves experiences pertaining to direct personal contact with the intimate environment of the thing in question, the "how to." How best can you use what's in the Second House?
4th House: Your "home" or foundation. It's the soil in which you are rooted. Your Center (the Rose that blossoms at the center of your Cross). Your ancestral tradition, your deepest sustainment. How you maintain the circumstance being questioned. Your solidity upon which you can build. This is the Nadir, the "midnight point" of your consciousness. The power of your particularized manifestation.
5th House: How you use what is stabilized as you. How your power becomes available for use. How you become an agent or a lens through which this thing will manifest. Your individual acting as a personality. How you achieve personal or emotional fulfillment. Love affairs, childbearing, and education are related to this House. The outcome of "e-motion." Your personal expression as this issue exteriorizes.
6th House: Personal readjustment. Karma. Health. Issues that have come forth from your whole past. How you are impelled to transform, reform or broaden. Refers to healing, and the fear of illness or failure. This is not a negative House; it implies that whatever is symbolized here should be used to reform or regulate the issue in question. Otherwise, there could be trouble, and not just from this one lifetime, but even from past karma. Crises come in this House related to blocks you may have that prohibit your moving beyond self-preoccupation into the area of relationship.
7th House: This is a being House. But now, we're dealing with relationship. We're also above the horizon now. So this House moves you out of the subjective personal and pertains to marriage or all forms of primary relationships -- the quality of how you meet "the Other." It is about how we should essentially relate, not what societies or cultures say who attempt to condition us. You look for what the relationship is for. This is about functional participation, its purpose, vision, or the relationship's common destiny.
8th House: This one pertains to what you can objectively use (what you have) for transformation of the subject at hand -- what we do with the energies born of the togetherness in House 7. Here will be shown how we can regenerate or get past issues pertaining to "the Other." The whole existential situation of the person in relationship to others unfolds in this House. And since we are combining House knowledge with Tarot readings, this House will show the existential or regenerative death/rebirth potential to the question asked, if not a reading about a personal relationship. Here will be shown how one can best approach any restrictions or opportunities involved.
9th House: In this House we encounter fields of experiences that induce in us a deeper understanding and higher consciousness, the House of abstract thought, another House that informs. It is the House of "Higher Mind," where we appreciate and value social and cosmic processes and our existential connection with The All. It's about how we communicate in ways that affect not just us but all with whom we involve. Here, we are preparing to enter into "the Mid-Heaven" of Astrology, where we are shown the most fruitful ways we can "achieve" our goals in relation to the work of the world. The metaphysician's and philosopher's mind come through in this House.
10th House: In this House we maintain or "ground" our mode of expression for our life's work or career, for all the world to see and experience. Here, we organize our energies around or work life. It relates to how we succeed or fail in gaining social position -- which, of course, is a metaphor for our position in the cosmos as well. This is our "Mid-Heaven" point in a reading. The 1st House potential becomes fully actualized in the 10th House. It is here that is shown our "place" in the starry galaxy, how we are operating as an autonomous, authentic self, where we stand in the innermost tallness of our selfhood.
11th House: Here is shown how you can put to use or enjoy what you have achieved to express yourself in relation to "your group." This can mean your family, your work force, community, or soul group. Here, your collectivity is released through your individual self. The experience gained in the 10th House has given you a wider set of social goals or planetary objectives. New ideals, new vision and hope arise here, in connection with the others of whom you feel a part. This is the House of group consciousness. It's where we'll be shown how to express our experiences of yesteryear into a new tomorrow through the wisdom of the collective. The energy is released into the whole.
12th House: And here, we are absolutely full, and all must once again be emptied. This is the House of final result -- of your life, of a relationship, project, of this reading's inquiry. Here our successes or failures consolidate into seeds for a new beginning. The 12th House ends this cyclic process in question, either through fulfillment in understanding and wisdom, or it could lead to a disruption of relationships and a tragic sense of failure and unresolved memories. And then, the cycle begins again. Crises occur depending upon how you have used yourself in relation to the whole. Nothing is ever lost -- whether a success or failure -- all is used as grist for the mill for the soul's evolution through time. All is understood and transformed.
The 13th Card: Above the 12-House spread, we place our 13th card -- which tells the culminating statement concerning the outcome of the reading. Slowly wave it over the entire spread, and allow your intuition to sense its meaning. Now summarize the reading in your own words.
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Jacquelin Small,
Spiritualist, Clairvoyant Psychologist
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JACQUELYN SMALL, LMSW, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in human psychology and clinical social work. She is a licensed non-denominational minister and a licensed psychotherapist who works with both spiritual and psychological concerns.
Jacquelyn is a popular presenter and consultant in academic settings, new-thought churches and new paradigm conferences and mental health settings, known for her easy-going, self-disclosing, humorous style of intimate relating with her audiences.
She has a long history in addiction counselor training, consulting and counseling, and trains all kinds of health professionals in the emerging field of spiritual psychology. She is one of the teachers who has been selected by Unity Church for their national TV ministry. She served as the Director of Training for the Texas Commission on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse for nine years, and served on the adjunct faculty of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Stanford, California for four years.
Jacquelyn has authored eight books about soul-based psychology and the process of personal transformation, some of which have become classics in the counseling and consciousness fields. She is represented by the Tom Grady Agency. She has many audio tapes as well through Eupsychia's publishing company, Eupsychian Press.
Her published books are:
* Becoming Naturally
Therapeutic (Bantam)
* Transformers, the
Artists of Self-Creation
(DeVorss & Co.)
* Awakening in Time
(Eupsychian Press)
* Embodying Spirit (HarperSanFrancisco
/Eupsychian)
* Rising to the Call with
co-author Mary Yovino (DeVorss & Co.)
* Becoming a Practical Mystic (Quest Books)
* Psyche's Seeds-The 12 Sacred Principles of Soul-Based Psychology (Tarcher/Putnam
/Penguin)
Jacquelyn is a regular columnist for Science of Mind Magazine and is featured often in other magazines. Among the many conferences and programs for which Jacquelyn has keynoted or presented programs, include:
* The Association for Humanistic Psychology
* Association for Transpersonal Psychology
* Omega Institute
including their Body &
Soul Conferences
* Tracor and Texaco, Inc.
* Church of Religious Science Annual
Conference
* Great Lakes Addiction Conference
* Whole Life Expo
* The College of William & Mary's Annual Addictions Conference
* Most major universities
in the United States
* U.S. Department of Heath, Education and Welfare
* Omega Institute's
Body & Soul Conferences
* New Age Magazine's Bahama Teaching Cruise
The ConferenceWorks!
She has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, America's Talking, Wisdom Television and Radio, New Dimensions Radio, NPR's People's Pharmacy and a CNN's series on Alternative Healing and continues to make regular guest appearances for radio and television.
Jacquelyn Small serves on the Advisory Board of the International Psychosynthesis Association, the National Council on Codependence, and The Holistic Alliance of Professional Practitioners, Entrepreneurs and Networkers, Inc.
She is the Founding Director of Eupsychia (pronounced u-si'-ki-a) Institute which means "good psyche" or "well being" in Greek, a not-for-profit professional training and healing program in Soul-Based Psychology and Integrative Breathwork. With her staff of dedicated, experienced spiritual therapists, she conducts workshop intensives throughout North America on a regular basis.
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