Significator cards

[akenu]

Have you tried using significator cards in your readings?

I have found about this recently in Regardie's collection of Golden Dawn materials and honestly, it makes the reading a bit less vague.

For anyone wondering: before you start a reading, you hand-pick a card from the deck that represents the core of the reading. It could be a person (one of the picture cards), a major event (one of the major arcana) or simply any card you feel is related to the question.

 

[Lurker]

Not by choosing a card. If I want the cards to tell me who I am now, or who I will be at some point in the future, then I leave it up to them to do it.

 

[IntuitiveJourney]

I find this helpful when reading for specific situations or deeper meanings.
While developing a relationship with my team/deck cards take on different meanings. Whether a period of time, event, or action. Using these as significator cards when reading provides for me much deeper readings and clarity in understanding.

 

[Zelator2148]

I use them in a very limited way, mostly in spreads I create. I no longer bother with them in the Celtic Cross spread because I prefer to read face-to-face and I have a "live Significator" sitting across the table who can give me the same input with no intuitive guesswork.

 

[Firetree]

Have you tried using significator cards in your readings?

I have found about this recently in Regardie's collection of Golden Dawn materials and honestly, it makes the reading a bit less vague.

For anyone wondering: before you start a reading, you hand-pick a card from the deck that represents the core of the reading. It could be a person (one of the picture cards), a major event (one of the major arcana) or simply any card you feel is related to the question.

I have done various .

background ; reader for over 50 years . Public reader for about 10 of them at a local market - monthly. had various decks but 90% use Thoth .

Various ; ie. either selecting the significator and placing it in the center , or seeing if it comes out as first card , or seeing where it comes out in the reading , or taking the 'significator's position ' and the card that turns up there as the current version of the 'personal signifcator atm ' .

Types of significator ; by trump or combination ( astrological x planetary trumps) , court card or by decanate (ie suit cards 2 -10 ) .