6 cards · intermediate

Between Two People

Six cards on a connection that involves someone else as well: what each side holds, what is unspoken, and what you are actually choosing between.

Draw the Between Two People spread

Optional, and worth doing. Questions starting with what or how, about you, get far more out of a reading than yes/no or predictive ones.

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How to read the Between Two People

For the situation where a connection is not simply between two people, whether that is an ex still in the picture, a new attraction while attached, or a friendship that has become something else.

A serious note first. This spread describes a dynamic, not a person. It cannot tell you what somebody else is thinking, whether they will leave, or who they will choose. Any reading that claims to do that is telling you a story. The positions here are written to stay on the side of what a reading can honestly reach, which is your own position and what is being expressed into the situation.

How to read it: the "what is unspoken" position is almost always the reading. Situations like this persist mainly because nobody has said the thing, and the card here usually names what it is.

The last position is the real question. Not which person, but which version of your own life. Read it last and read it as being about you.

Full guide and layout diagram

The positions

  1. Where You StandYour actual position, including the part you would rather not state.
  2. The First ConnectionWhat that connection is, as expressed into your life.
  3. The Second ConnectionWhat the other one is, on the same terms.
  4. What Is UnspokenThe thing nobody involved has said. Usually where the situation lives.
  5. What It Is CostingWhat the unresolved state takes from you while it continues.
  6. What You Are Choosing BetweenNot which person. Which version of your own life.

For reflection and entertainment. Not medical, legal, or financial advice.