Tangle of Wyrd

Reach into the tangle and choose your own cards.

How it works

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Scatter. The whole deck spills across the table, face down, in a tangle.
Choose five cards by feel. Don't study the pile. Let your hand go where it wants. Each card you take fills the next place, so the order you choose in is the order of the reading.
The tangle keeps one back. You don't choose the sixth. It chooses you.
Turn them one by one and read what each says.

What is wyrd?

In Norse thought, wyrd (the Old English cousin of Old Norse urðr) is the web of what has happened and what it sets in motion, and everyone is woven into it. The three Norns, Urðr, Verðandi and Skuld, tend it at the foot of Yggdrasil.

Most readings deal you cards. This one hands you the tangle instead and asks you to reach in. Which five you are drawn to is part of the answer, which is why the order you choose them in matters, and why the first card you grab carries the most.

The six places

1The Reaching Hand: The first card you grabbed. What is really on your mind, which is often not quite what you asked.
2Urðr, the Well: The roots. What shaped this and where it began.
3The Knot: What is tangled, hidden or holding you back. The thing it is easiest not to look at.
4Verðandi, the Weaving: What is happening now, and the step open to you. This is your card of choice and action.
5Skuld, What Shall Be: Where the thread leads if you keep going. A likely direction, not a fixed fate.
✦The Unchosen: The card the tangle kept back. The road you did not reach for, and what it might be asking of you.