A couple of days ago, someone on Facebook posted a link to The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Australian author Bronnie Ware. These top five regrets inspired a fruitful online conversation and prompted me to create a five-card tarot layout to help us live a life that’s less regret-filled and more fulfilling and authentic. You can use tarot cards, runes, crone stones, soul cards, gifting bones, or any other divinatory insight tool. You can also use the five layout questions as prompts for journal writing or for verbal sharing in a circle-based conversation group. If desired, you can preface the entire spread with a specific time frame — e.g. “Throughout the coming year…” or “This season…” — or you can let your insights resonate for a lifetime, your choice.
1 2 3 4 5
- How can I remain true to myself?
- How can I remember to set work aside for other important things?
- How can I develop and maintain the courage to express my feelings?
- How can I remember to stay in touch with people whom I love and value?
- How can I demonstrate my choice to be happy?
Please try out this spread and let us know what comes up for you, or feel free to have a session with me to help you explore these questions. I hope that you’re happily surprised and nourished by Life’s responses!
Wonderful James. the deepest truth of this life.
Thanks, Jenne. I hope that you and/or your clients have a change to use this. Blessings!
This is lovely – May I record my reading on my blog? (and will share the link back to you here)
Please do, Ali. I’m going to do mine when I can go outside and pull cards while in the midst of the tree beings, rock beings, and water beings.
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What a great spread. Last week for #tt I wrote a FB post about regrets, and how there is no shame in having them. In fact I embrace mine as lessons in my lifeprints. I understand that some people don’t believe in regrets, but I see them as truth and an opportunity to “do better when you know better”. I’m excited to add this to my roster of spreads when dealing with client “regrets”. Love & Light
I agree that there is absolutely no shame in having regrets. Those feelings can lead us to treasures within and around us. Thank you for reading and for posting. Let us know how the spread goes with your clients.
Okay, I gave this a go and quite enjoyed it. I was a bit iffy on the 3) position but can’t decide if I’m being blind or getting it. 😉 See what you think:
http://woley.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/from-regret-to-change/
Thanks for posting this in any case, I don’t often do full readings but I like trying spreads.
Thank you for posting the spread you did for yourself, JJ. What if the 5P suggested that expressing worry is one way of expressing feelings?
Oh, so maybe not a bad thing?
We humans tend to let worry eat our guts out, so to speak. So expressing it might circumvent worry’s tendency to harm?
I can see that. I still find it hard to tell someone I am worried. People pooh-pooh it and give you platitudes like “You have nothing to worry about” or “Don’t worry it will all work out.” BUT thank you for this insight, you may be on to something.
James, great spread! Truly very eye opening. I blogged about it and linked back to your post here.
http://www.queenofwandstarot.net/1/post/2013/06/lessons-from-the-dying-a-tarot-spread.html
Thank you, Jenna, for sharing your personal experience with the spread with us. Blessings!
Hi James. I’ve had a go at this spread myself, and found it quite useful:
http://rowantarot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/authentic-life-spread.html#more
Wow! What a great analysis of what you are invited to do, Carla. Thank you.
Thank you for reading it, James, and thank you for sharing this lovely spread. 🙂