How to word a question the cards can answer
The same cards yield very different readings depending on how you ask. Not because the deck is picky — because the question decides where an answer is allowed to land.
These five are not rules; they come from readings that went nowhere. Check your wording against them once before you draw.
Turn "will it" into "what happens if"
Asked "will he come back", the cards can only hand you a mood. Ask "if I reach out first, how does the next stretch go" and there is something to describe: an action and the terrain after it.
One thing at a time
Should I quit, and also how do he and I end up — that is two readings. Asked together, the spread answers one and quietly drops the other, and you will not know which one fell.
Say what you already know
"I have decided to leave, I just cannot find the moment to say it" works far better than "should I leave". It narrows the deck's job to the place you are actually stuck.
Do not ask for a date
There is no calendar in a deck. Ask "when" and you will usually get an invented date, then hold it up against reality, miss, and have no idea which part was wrong. Ask what has to change for it to change, and the answer is checkable.
Use your own words
It does not need to read like an intake form. "I want to quit the second I wake up and I am fine by the time I reach the office — what is that" carries more information than any tidied-up version.
One kind is genuinely out of reach: what someone else is thinking. That is their choice, and it sits outside your spread. The reader will say so rather than invent it.