The Pentagram Spread: Five Cards from Crux to Revelation

Five cards trace a problem's cause and effect: crux, attitude, event, outcome, revelation.

The Pentagram Spread: Five Cards from Crux to Revelation

Lumi · Tarot reader at MeowTarot

The Pentagram spread follows a problem through cause and effect in five steps, so you see not just what happens but why.

The five points

Crux — the real knot at the centre of the issue. Attitude — how you're meeting it, which often shapes everything downstream. Event — what's actually unfolding or about to. Outcome — where it tends to land if it continues. Revelation — the insight the whole thing is offering you.

Read it as a chain

The power of this spread is the link between crux and attitude: the same knot met with avoidance versus honesty leads to very different events and outcomes. Don't read the outcome as fixed — read it as the consequence of the attitude, which you can still change.

When to use it

Good for a stuck situation where you want to understand the mechanism, not just the forecast. The revelation card is the gift: it reframes the problem so the next move comes from understanding rather than reaction.