The Significator is an interesting card. The card know, matter how you pick it, ultimately becomes the representation of who we are today. Not where we are on the life path as the crossing card in the Celtic Cross spread tells us but who we actually are. You can see it in any card in the tarot it doesn't just have to be a Major Arcana or Court Arcana card to represent who we are. So why is it not used as much today? The answer is simple. In today's society we for the most part are not trying to fortune tell but divine the truth of what is happening in our lives. So what's the difference?
The difference is that in fortune telling we are set aside from our lives. In essence by removing the significator card from the deck and placing it at the top of your spread, you are disassociating the seeker from the events. Meaning that no longer does the seeker have a say or control over the things that is happening around him. Suddenly instead of being a person with free will he becomes a slave to his fate.
When performing divination you leave the significator card in the deck. All cards then have the potential of representing the seeker and do represent the seeker. You get a complete view of his life with him smack dab in the middle of it instead of sitting on the side being an involuntary observer he becomes and active participant. Fate suddenly becomes his to command. What you are telling him can come true if he likes that out come and wishes it to come true. If he doesn't however, he can change the events because those events are based upon his actions not the actions of others inflict upon him without his being able to act or react in kind.
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