Grand Solar Spread
Pictured below is the most important of all the Grand Solar Spreads called the Life Spread. The term, Grand Solar Spread refers to the arrangements of the cards in this fashion with seven rows and columns with the last three cards at the top. This Life Spread is the most important of the 90 Grand Solar Spreads because it indicates the lifetime influences present for each of the 52 Birth Cards. Each of the rows and columns are governed by one of the seven planets. The order is Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The Three of Hearts pictured in the top right corner of the Life Spread is the Mercury/ Mercury card. The Queen of Hearts, at the bottom left, is the Neptune /Neptune Card. The cards at the top are not governed by the planetary energies as much. They only have the column planets. The top row is called the Crown Line. The people whose Birth Cards reside here are more independent in nature and many of them achieve fame and prominence over the course of their life.
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Planet |
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MOON |
Our urge to nurture and comfort; emotions, subconscious, feelings, femininity, intuition, imagination, memory, habits, conditioning Need: Emotional safety and a sense of belonging |
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SUN |
Our urge to shine and succeed; our basic identity, conscious purpose, willpower, vitality, masculinity, creativity, expression Need: To create, to be recognized, to express the self. |
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MERCURY |
Our urge to reason logically; language, communication, writing, linear thinking, perception, intelligence, movement, restlessness, dexterity Need: to communicate and to learn |
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VENUS |
Our urge to relate and connect emotionally; love, attraction, beauty, balance, harmony, what we value, relationships, contentment Need: to feel connected and to relate with others |
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MARS |
Our urge to act on our personal desires; assertive, forceful, direct, energetic, single-minded focus, self-centered, courageous, masculine Need: to go after what we want; to defend ourselves and others |
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JUPITER |
Our desire for growth; freedom, faith, meaning, humor, expansion of consciousness, philosophy, travel, optimism, generosity, expansion Need: to contribute to/connect with something greater than the self |
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SATURN |
Our urge to make things tangible/structured; to manifest, to limit and protect, authority figures, rules of society, restrictions, fears, doubts Need: to be self-reliant, self-disciplined and responsible |
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URANUS |
The urge to change/disrupt structure without regard for the individual; sudden/unexpected happenings, creative inspirations, inventiveness Need: to exert an unpredictable force for change and growth |
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NEPTUNE |
The urge to dissolve all structures; receptive, deceptive, imagination, healing, changing, unfocused, glamorous, intuition, idealism, escapism Need: to merge with others and experience unity with the Divine |
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PLUTO |
The urge to fulfill our soul purpose; death, rebirth, ultimate destructive force, intense, penetrating, oppressive, repressed, controlling Need: to let go and let die, to work to hasten the birth of the new |
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