Compiled by David C. Jones (djones@ponder.csci.unt.edu)

Copyright, 1996, David Clark Jones.  Please see the table of
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1.51) Tetragrammaton Spread (#V, C7, LX) (Peach) 
Layout:
Heh  Vau  Heh  Yod
    etc. 15 14 13
12 11 10 09 08 07
06 05 04 03 02 01

Deal and Reading:
Shuffle.  Have the Querent cut the deck once to the left.  Have the
querent take the deck on his left and cut it again, once to the
left.  Have the querent take the deck on his right and cut it
again, once to the right.  Turn over the top card of each deck. 
Each of the four cards will represent one of the letters of the
Tetragrammaton shown above.  Read them accordingly.

Next search each pack until you find the Querent card.  Do not take
the Querent card out of nor change its position in that deck. 
Discard the remaining three decks.  Begin dealing the cards of the
selected deck from right to left, bottom up, into rows of six,
until the deck is depleted.  If the Querent card is not surrounded
on all four sides, have the reader choose one card randomly from
the discarded piles and place it such that it properly covers the
Querent card.  Begin by reading the cards which surround the
Querent card.

Next, each card in the deck is assigned a numerical value (more
commonly called its 'rank').  The Querent card is assigned the
value of four.  Proceed by reading the card four cards away from
the querent.  If you run out of cards, wrap around to the first
card dealt.  After reading that card, skip the number of cards away
that the value of the current card indicates (i.e. if the current
card is the seven of wands, the next card will be the one seven
spaces away).  Continue to read cards and skip in this manner until

you come upon a card you have already read.
Skip values for court cards are:  Page - 7, All others - 4.
Skip values for Major Arcana are:
 3 - Fool, Hanged Man, Judgement
 9 - Magician, High Priestess, Empress, Wheel of Fortune, Tower, 
     Sun, World
12 - Emperor, Hierophant, Lovers, Chariot, Strength, Hermit, 
     Justice, Death, Temperance, Devil, Star, Moon

Finally, the entire layout is read as follows.  The first two
columns on the right represent past events.  The middle two columns
represent events of the present.  The last two columns, the future.

Comment: Peach's book does an extremely poor job of explaining what
the Tetragrammaton is and really doesn't seem to understand its
significance.  Rather than use her convoluted explanation (which
would take up a couple of pages anyway), I include two excerpts
below from Naomi Ozaniec's book for the benefit of those who have
not studied the subject.

Yod - Signifies the open hand of man.  It implies power, direction,
     skill, and dexterity.  The open hand symbolizes beneficence,
     a sign of the Supreme Spirit.
Heh - Signifies a window which permits light and two way vision.
Vau - Signifies a nail which joins things together creating union. 
     Grammitcally it is used like _and_ to join phrases together. 
     It is very close in concept to the sanskrit 'yoga' which means
     union.
Heh - Represents the end result of the process.

Yod       Element of Fire          Primal Emanation
Heh       Element of Water         Transmission
Vau       Element of Air           Stabilization
Heh       Element of Earth         Consolidation