Skeletons in the Closet
This spread has 7 cards, 1 for each “body part” I’ve decided to include. The cards may or may not seem relevant to their assigned “body part.” For clarity, I hope and not confusion, cards 1-3 should be stacked, 4 & 5 across from each other, 6 & 7 across from each other, 4 & 6 stacked, and 5 & 7 stacked.
The tarot spread, “Skeletons in the Closet” is meant to provoke questions about secrets from the past. It may also go hand in hand with traumatic situations and the secrets, shadows, and “dead” or “down to the bone” aspects of the self that have come as a result of them. This spread is not as light hearted as it may appear upon first glance; the cards might be hard to read or attempt to understand as they deal with serious topics. The cards you will pull are not meant to be superficial and fun, but rather authentic and truthful to the situation at hand and reality. They are meant to be deep and the ‘barebones’ of the truth.
Here are cards 1-7 in order. “You” is used to signify the reading’s subject irregardless of whether the reader, querent, and/or subject are the same or different persons.
Skull: Trapped Thoughts
This card represents the thoughts that are trapped–or kept a secret–within your mind. These are things you don’t (want to/often) reveal to others. Instead, they linger in your mind and attempt to torment you.
You are asked to consider why these thoughts are kept secret and how that affects you? You are asked to consider if they should be kept secret and why that might be?
Rib Cage: Hidden Feelings
This card represents feelings and/or emotions that you keep hidden and keep secret.
You are asked to consider why these feelings are kept secret and how that affects you? You are asked to consider if they should be kept secret and why that might be?
Backbone: Secrets that Hold You Up
This card represents the secrets that make you up, that comprise you, that have been the foundations you’ve learned and grown from.
This card might be a hard one to read, not because of the reading itself, but because of what it might signify about your sense of self, your past, the people that have been instrumental to your being, and more. There is much to be revealed here. This card shows you not that you have been made from illusions and not that (some parts of) you are illusion, but instead that things you have always seen as the truth, might be much more muddled than you have previously understood. This card might also call up some things you have been thinking might be falsities. Be careful in your reading of this card.
Left Arm: What You Wish You Could Tell
This card represents a secret you wish you could tell another, or others but feel you are unable to.
You are asked to consider why this is kept a secret and how that affects you? You are asked to consider if it should be kept secret and why that might or might not be?
Right Arm: What You Wish Could Never Be Known
This card represents something, a secret, you wish could never be known by another person–perhaps, but maybe not, also something you wish even you did not know.
You are asked to consider why you don’t want anyone else to know this thing? You are asked to consider how that knowledge–both the secret and that you do not want it (ever) known–affects you? You are further asked to consider what might happen if it were known and under what circumstances you might want it to be known or feel comfortable sharing it?
Left Leg: What You’ve Buried
This card represents something you have buried about yourself. It could be parts of yourself, something of your personality, something from the past, relationships, desires, or anything else that matters significantly to you.
You are asked to consider why you buried this when it was done? You are asked to consider how that affected and still affects you (it wouldn’t be brought up if it did not)? You are asked to consider under what circumstances you might think about or want to dig it up? You are asked to consider who you might present this information to if you did and why?
Right Leg: What Others Have Buried
This card represents something another or others have buried about you. It could be parts of yourself, something of your personality, something from the past, relationships, desires, or anything else that matters significantly to them and/or to you.
You are asked to consider why this might have been buried when it was done and why it remains buried? You are asked to consider how that affected and still affects you (it wouldn’t be brought up if it did not) and the other(s) involved? You are asked to consider under what circumstances you might think about or want to dig it up? You are asked to consider who you might present this information to if you did and why?