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Nigel was quickly looking through his textbook for the answer to what a diamond spread was. But he was not getting anywhere. Maybe he just needed more time.
After a couple more minutes he looks up to take a break when he hears his name being called. He looks towards the noise and sees it is his prefect talking to him. Hmm.. He wondered what he did wrong to have her attention. But was relieved when all she wanted to do was share rune readings. He quickly decided it would be more fun to do this in a group then by himself. And maybe she knew what this diamond spread thingy was.
He stood up, grabbing his book bag, and his textbook. He walked over to the empty chair Louisa was pointing at, sat down, smiled at her, and said.
"Hi, Louisa, sure lets share rune readings. And do you know what this diamond spread thing is?"
As Nigel moved over to sit at her table, Louisa found her rune stones pouch and took it out from her bag along with the textbook and a parchment to write down what her rune stones would tell about her. Smiling back at the boy she was about to untie her pouch and start when he asked a question. Louisa nodded, "
For divinatory purposes, runes are often arranged in patterns known as "spreads"." She started pointing on the table between them as she explained further, "
In a spread the sequence in which runes are drawn determines their position and significance. Each place in a rune spread has a meaning attached to it, so the first rune might represent "past events", the second "that which prevents growth", the third "current situation" etc."
That was the general theory, the Ravenclaw then opened her text book and pushed it to sit between herself and Nigel as she read from it. "
The diamond spread reveals the dynamic forces at work in a situation. It is the spread of choice for understanding a hidden conflict." She paused pointing at the diagram next to the paragraph where four stones of runes were arranged in a diamond shape, then continued reading, "
The bottom rune represents the foundation that forms the basis of the issue. The left rune represents one of the forces acting on the issue at hand. The right rune represents another of the forces acting on the issue at hand. The top rune represents the conclusion to which your strivings can carry you," pointing at each stone as she went on.
Louisa looked at the boy and chuckled, "
It's not as complicated as it sounds. Here, let me show you how it works..." she started untying her pouch of rune stones. "
I will draw four random rune stones from this pouch and place each one of them in the imaginary diamond shape here on the table." She slipped her hand in and took the first rune out putting it on the top of the imaginary diamond shape, "
First one for me is Jera." Her hand went back into the bag and fished out the second rune, "
Second one is Wunjo," she placed it opposite of the previous one. Repeating the process, the third rune stone was out of the pouch, "
Tiwaz," she placed it in the bottom before getting the fourth and last rune for her reading, "
Kenaz is my last one."
Tadaaaaaaa! She had
her spread was ready. "
And now we use the textbook in order of interpreting the runes in their respective positions." Louisa finished with an uncertain smile looking at the boy to see if he got the process or not. He could do this step as Louisa waited for him before they start working on the interpretation separately.