Great Rite Beltane Spread

This spread is a useful means of assessing yourself spiritually, but can also be used to give answers to specific questions – especially in cases where two opposites or extremes are pulling upon you in a given situation.

One triangle in the spread is the masculine, the other feminine. They unite in the hexagram. Cards 1, 3, and 6 are masculine cards; Cards 2, 4, and 5 are feminine cards.

Card 1: Masculine. The essence of your masculine, active, giving, outward side.
Card 2: Feminine. The essence of your feminine, passive, receptive, inward side.
Card 3: Masculine. What your masculine self gives to your feminine self.
Card 4: Feminine. What your feminine self gives to your masculine self.
Card 5: Masculine. The negative aspects of your masculine self.
Card 6: Feminine. The negative aspects of your feminine self.

Card 7: (This can be 1, 2, or 3 cards) The Alchemical Wedding. How the masculine and feminine parts of your self can mingle to create something new.

Optional: Eighth card indicating the thing created through the Alchemical Wedding.