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Vicki Albin's avatar

I’ll send a pics!

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Yes please! You can dm it to me if you don’t want to show all of Substack 💕

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Vicki Albin's avatar

Love these ideas! Thanks

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Virginia Hamm's avatar

I tried this spread and wow! I really like it! I usually work with my cards upright only and working in intentional reversals as shadow took my divination practice to a new depth. Thank you!

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Amazing! 💕💕💕

I have been using reversals as the naturally appear, but as my practice shifts, using them on purpose gives it a new energy.

Part 2 is a leveled up Celtic cross employing a hybrid double deck method using light/shadow elements along with majors. Perhaps you will like it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/ericaphillips/p/advanced-tarot-techniques-part-2?r=1utrit&utm_medium=ios

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Virginia Hamm's avatar

Thank you! I have this saved to try and will let you know how it goes!!

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Jenna Newell Hiott's avatar

Wow! What an amazing spread! Thank you, I'm going to try this tonight. 💖💖💖

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Ooohh…tell me how it goes 💕

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Shirley's avatar

Loved doing this spread, Erica! Thanks so much for sharing it. 💛

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Yay! So glad you tried it. I had a fun time with it as well. I am currently working on a double deck Celtic cross post. Well, kinda double deck-separating the stack just like in this post. That will be up probably this weekend.

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Shirley's avatar

Ooh already looking forward to that one! 🤗

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Shirley's avatar

Ooh great, thank you! I'll definitely try out this technique next week. 😊

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Awesome! I have to take some pictures and tie up the post, but it’s ready. It’s been kicking around in my head for a while.

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Julie Schmidt's avatar

What a cool spread Erica, I am going to try it. Will get back with you regarding the results!

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Please do! I hope it works well for you!

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Alysia Moonrise's avatar

Fantastic. So insightful and creative. Thank you!

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Thank you, sister 💕

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tarotbyphil's avatar

I really enjoyed reading this post, thank you! Will you cover elemental dignities in a future lesson? I'd love to understand more about how they work.

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Yes! I will put that on the list. I have a full shelf of tarot books to raid. Thank you for the request.

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tarotbyphil's avatar

Thank you very much, I'll look forward to that 🙏🏼🕯️

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Jill Hart's avatar

Love this! I'm all about the purple too. And feel like you did this reading specifically for me. I've recently been introduced to something pretty amazing and simple that has the ability to change lives with very little investment of time or money.

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Amazing! We can always go deeper with it. Dm me :)

Perhaps this was for you in some way. It was amazing how the cards fell out, it told the story so clearly of what was going on. I was genuinely shocked, as most of the time I have to do some adjustments for the sake of the lesson.

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Thanks for the restack, @Jason T. 🙏

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Jason T.'s avatar

thank you for writing this! Its great and I look forward to the rest of the series!

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Miriam Rachel's avatar

I like this. We know that each suit and cards of the Major Arcana are connected to the elements but to incorporate it like you have is a great spin.

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Thank you! In my research it goes really detailed, and I couldn’t go down that rabbit hole in this post, but perhaps in a future lesson!

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