READING WITH THE PIQUET: THE SIX-PILE METHOD
This lay-out is for use when you want to provide the inquirer with a good overview of their life right now. The Significator is supposed to be drawn for the subject from among the Court cards in the deck, but as you can see in the picture above, I’m using the Four of Diamonds because in the Card Science method, the Four of Diamonds is my birth card, and using it frees-up another Queen in the Piquet deck. The inquirer is supposed to be the one who shuffles the deck. As they’re doing so, if they have a wish or desire they want to see fulfilled, have them think about it as they’re shuffling, because it comes up in the fifth pile.
When the inquirer is done shuffling, the deck is handed back to the reader, who then lays out the first set of six cards, face-down, in a half-circle formation from left to right. Returning to the first position on the left, the reader then lays out the next set of six cards, one card in each pile, from left to right. Returning to the first position on the left, the reader then lays out the third and final set of six cards. There should now be three cards in each of the six piles. Any remaining cards are simply laid aside. The piles, from left to right are yourself, your home, your friend, your work/job, what lies nearest to your heart, and what comes next.
The reader then turns up the first pile of three cards on the left and synthesizes the three cards into one assessment for the inquirer about themselves. The reader does the same with the rest of the piles, only relating the one synthesized message to whatever area of life that pile rules. One further thing to note with this method: if the Nine of Hearts, which is known as the Wish Card, turns up in the fifth pile of what lies nearest to their heart, then that means that whatever the dearest wish in their heart is, the inquirer may be assured it will come true. The sixth pile, what comes next, relates what is to come for the subject in the most-immediate future.