5 cards
Relationship spread
Five cards separating your side, their side and the thing between you.
The positions
Card 1
You
Card 2
Them
Card 3
The connection
Card 4
What helps
Card 5
What hinders
Use it when you are tempted to read the whole deck as being about one person.
How to read it
Lay the cards face down in order, then turn them one at a time and say what you see before reaching for a meaning. The image comes first; the book comes second.
Read positions against each other rather than in isolation. In a three-card spread the interesting information is usually in the gap between the first and the third — what has to change for one to become the other.
Reversals are optional. Decide before you shuffle, not when an unwelcome card appears.