Rainbow Spread

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The Rainbow spread uses seven cards, each one corresponding to a colour of the rainbow (and I suppose you could vary it to include infra-red and ultra-violet if you like!) Further, each colour of the rainbow (and therefore each card position) is associated with an area of the querent's life or personality.

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• Card 1: (Red) - Querent's will, desire, drive, and ambitions.
• Card 2: (Orange) - Querent's social life, attitude towards self, the mask they show to the world.
• Card 3: (Yellow) - Querent's energy, its direction and strength, their personal growth.
• Card 4: (Green) - Querent's relation to the material world, attitude towards money, their prosperity and their health.
• Card 5: (Blue) - Querent's mind, intellect, thoughts, ideas, and communication with others.
• Card 6: (Indigo) - Querent's spiritual/magical/religious life, inner processes of transformation, querent's quirks that make them unique.
• Card 7: (Violet) - Querent's inner self, guiding light, aspiration.

Used as in a general reading, the Rainbow spread gives the reader an overview of the querent's life, situation, or being. It can also be used to examine the different areas of life that can relate to a situation or question the querent has, and thus helps the reader see the varied influences, causes, and effects that are occurring.

[edit] Variations - Chakra Spread

The Rainbow spread's card positions can be altered to fit the reader and the querent's specific question, and not everybody will agree on what each colour represents. Please vary the position meanings to better fit your ideas and purposes.

It can also be varied, for those who are interested in the Vedic chakra system, by applying each card to a chakra using the traditional colour associations, and in this case each card tells the reader if the chakras are in balance, blocked, or need the querent to pay more attention to them. For instance, the Eight of Swords in Card 5 (Blue: Throat chakra) may indicate that the querent is having problems communicating their ideas. For those unfamiliar with the chakra system, here is a brief description in relation to the Rainbow spread:

• Red: Base chakra - Connection with the physical body, ability to be nurtured, survival, relation to material world, how the querent feels about being in their current physical state/material situation.
• Orange: Root chakra - Connection with the sexual self, ability to see to one's needs and wants, the querent's desires.
• Yellow: Solar Plexus chakra - Connection with the ego, self confidence, power, energy levels, drive, self-perception.
• Green: Heart chakra - Connection with the emotional self, compassion, relation to others, feelings, relationships.
• Blue: Throat chakra - Connection to ideas, expression, communication, thought, asking for what you want, creativity, manifestation.
• Indigo: Third Eye chakra - Connection to the spiritual self, psychic awareness, spiritual views and ideas, motivations, religious experience.
• Violet: Crown chakra (also seen as White) - Connection to querent's God/ess/Higher Self/whoever they worship/revere, ultimate aspirations, goals, true self, the part of the self that expresses Godhood.