Glossary / Techniques
Significator Reading
The reading uses gender-neutral significators: Querent and Counterpart.
This technique matters because the reading engine is not just summarizing nearby cards. It uses structural relationships on the board to decide which pressures are immediate, which themes are developing, and which patterns belong to the wider story.
- Querent represents the focal self by default.
- Counterpart represents another key person or stakeholder.
- Mode can be set to self, other, relationship, or open depending on your question.
Why It Matters In Practice
If you see this technique mentioned in a reading, it usually means the interpretation is leaning on board structure rather than just symbolic keywords. That is often where the reading becomes more precise, because it explains not only what a card means, but how it is acting in relation to the rest of the spread.