EXAMPLES & PRINTABLE GUIDES
This page includes several example spreads with accompanying audio tracks, free printable guides and example videos to use with the cards. Click the buttons below to jump to the category you are looking for on this page.
EXAMPLE SPREADS
Here you’ll find example spreads for each of the fundamental formats discussed on the Using the Cards page.
Self-Awareness Experiments
Option 1
3-Card Self-Awareness Experiment
Click the play button below to listen to my explanation of this spread, pictured below.
Debriefing the Self-Awareness Spread
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Option 2
Self-Awareness Experiment Using the IIOC Multi-Use Worksheet
The photo below displays seven consecutive spreads. Click the play button below to listen to my explanation of this worksheet, pictured below.
Situation-Specific Spreads
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Option 1
Situation-Specific Spread: 3-Card Spread with Clarifying Cards
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Option 2
Introducing Dialoguing through the Situation-Specific 6/9/12 Card Spread
In the audio file below, I share a second option to use for this format. In it, I highlight the process of initiating a dialogue with the cards. Click the play button below to listen to my explanation of this option.
Imagine that you’re dialoguing with a friend, and their part of the dialogue is made up of the relevant content of the cards that show up. Start with a situation statement: eg. I feel so stuck and stagnant. I don’t know what to do to get out of this. After the first 3 cards ask: Do you mean…? And then you allow your ‘friend’ to answer with the next 3 cards. Repeat this process until your friend has nothing more to tell you! This can deepen into completely different topics as layers of awareness open up.
You can use the multi-use chart and replace the cards into the packs or you can leave them on the table and know that if a subject needs to be repeated, you’ll notice that it will present itself in the text of one of the subsequent cards.
Option 3
The ‘North Star’ Approach
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Metaphorically, a North Star is something that positively inspires and influences you - kind of a guideline in approach rather than a specific goal. I’ve been working with these cards long enough that I don’t always want to set up an experiment but I do find them useful in the following ways:
Use them as an overall guidance for your day - a more general sense of where you’re best off placing your energy (introspection, chilling out, getting something accomplished).
It slows you down and reminds you that you have a connection to deeper parts of yourself than your personality that will be playing out the day, and that you have connection to higher realms of wisdom.
It causes you to take a few minutes to sit still in which you can choose to consider the reality of how you’re creating your day as you go into it and to ask yourself how you’d like to experience yourself in relation to the world today.
It gives the reticular activating system of your brain the message that you’re interested in being mindful and aware and will help guide you towards that.
It naturally increases your ability to notice and be aware, even if it’s not done specifically as a self-awareness experiment.
1-Card Option: Pick whichever pack grabs your interest or shuffle them all together and then cut.
3-Card Option: Follow the same format as situation-specific but shuffle with the statement along the lines of: “Guides, Angels, Higher Conscious Mind, High Heart, God - please give me the best cards to guide me through my day, for my own highest good and the others concerned.”
Option 4
As a Divination Tool
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Divination tools are those things that help focus our intuition and act as a vehicle through which we can communicate with our higher selves, spirit guides, and higher realms. Some of the most familiar are Tarot cards, I ching and tea cup reading. Since the first incarnation back in 2002, the IIOC has proven to be extremely effective as a tool for psychic/intuitive readings.
When doing a reading with a client, I’ll typically begin with a 3 card spread as described in the situation specific example. The situation in this case is a reading. If the client is clear on what the reading is to focus on, create a concise statement which reflects that and keep it in mind while shuffling the cards. Sometimes people don’t know what they should focus their reading on. In this case simply shuffle the cards with the acknowledgement that the reading is clear and in the best interest of the client at this point in time.
In the same way that you can expand a 3-card Situation-Specific Spread into a 6/9/12 card reading for yourself, you can apply the same formula to reading for a client. Likewise you can use these cards (1 or more) in conjunction with other cards or other methods (there are many).
While most of you using the IIOC for purposes of psychic/intuitive readings will probably already have your personal ritual in place, I offer this to those of you who don’t. When doing a reading for another person, ask permission prior to beginning. Please begin by stating that you’ll accept guidance only from those beings who come in love and for the highest good of all concerned, or from the wise self or highest consciousness. If it’s in your wheelhouse then begin with whatever prayer opens your heart and grounds you into your process. This kind of work is deeply personal and deserves to be handled with the greatest respect for your client and for those spirits who wish to help, and part of that means making sure that your intentions are good and that you’re in harmony with doing the reading. For further guidance on developing your intuition, with some basic exercises to get you started, please refer to the Exercises section and check out Expanding Intuition, Claiming Insight.
PRINTABLE GUIDES
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IIOC Debriefing Guide
IIOC Multi-Use Worksheet
IIOC Single-Use Worksheet
While you now have suggestions for a basic charting system to work with, there's also nothing to stop you from doing a single spread on the Multi-Use Worksheet and using the rest of the page for journaling. You can also use the rest of the space on the worksheet for charting a 6/9/12 card spread instead of using several Single-Use Worksheets for a larger spread containing more than three cards.
EXAMPLE VIDEO
Watch an example of a situation-specific three-card spread with voice-over instruction. For more video examples, visit my YouTube channel here.
