The Seasonal Transition Spread
Each season carries a distinct energetic signature — spring's initiating energy, summer's expansion, autumn's harvest and release, winter's inward turning. This four-card spread helps you consciously align with whichever seasonal transition you are entering. Cards illuminate what you are leaving behind from the passing season, what the incoming season's energy is offering you, what you need to cultivate or plant now (literally or metaphorically), and what this seasonal chapter asks you to release. It is a simple, rhythmic practice that keeps you attuned to natural cycles.
Step 1: Instructions
Use on or around each solstice or equinox — December 21, March 20, June 21, September 22 — or the cross-quarter days of the Celtic wheel: Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas, Samhain. Reading this spread four to eight times a year builds a living relationship with natural cycles that most modern people have lost entirely.
Step 2: Card Positions
- #1What you are leaving behind from the passing season
- #2What the incoming season's energy is offering
- #3What to cultivate or plant now
- #4What this seasonal chapter asks you to release
Step 3: Interpretation Advice
If you track your seasonal spreads in a journal year over year, you will discover which season consistently brings your most challenging card and which consistently brings your most nourishing energy. That seasonal pattern is deeply personal and remarkably consistent. Autumn spreads frequently draw cards about completion, harvest, and letting go — which is exactly right.
The Seasonal Transition Spread
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