The four-seasons spread isn't about predicting events month by month. It's about seeing the rhythm of a coming period — what's beginning, what asks for effort, what you'll gather, and what needs to settle.
The four phases
Read the four cards as a cycle rather than a calendar. Spring is what's sprouting — a new intention, a seed of change. Summer is action — where energy and effort go. Autumn is harvest — what results, what becomes visible. Winter is rest and integration — what needs to be put down, digested, or quietly held.
Read the arc, not the dates
Don't pin each card to an exact month. The point is the shape: is your energy front-loaded and fading, or slow to start and strong later? Is there a harvest at all, or does the cycle ask you to plant without quick return? That arc tells you how to pace yourself.
When it fits
Good for a quarter, a project, or any "what's the next stretch going to ask of me" question. It won't hand you a schedule — it hands you a tempo, so you can meet each phase with the right kind of effort instead of pushing equally hard the whole way through.