---
title: "Alignment & Intention Spread — The 4th Tarot"
url: https://4thtarot.com/spreads/alignment-intention
description: "Set a clear intention for your day. Choose a quality you wish to embody and receive guidance on how to manifest it."
lang: en
---

All spreads (https://4thtarot.com/spreads)

1 card

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# Alignment & Intention

Saṃkalpa — Intention/resolve

Set a clear intention for your day. Choose a quality you wish to embody and receive guidance on how to manifest it.

## Positions

1. 1
   ### Today's Intention
   Question: How can I bring in more [your chosen word] today?
   Choose a quality (abundance, peace, clarity, courage, etc.) and ask how to embody it. This card shows the path to alignment with that intention.

Jungian

Conscious intention setting

Fourth Way

Aim for the day

Sanskrit

Saṃkalpa (resolve/intention)

## Related Concepts

### Conscious Labor

Fourth

Working at any task with full attention and presence—deliberately injecting consciousness into normally mechanical activity, creating internal unity.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/conscious-labor

### Conscious Faith

Fourth

Faith arising from consciousness brings freedom; from feeling brings weakness; from body brings stupidity.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/conscious-faith

### Conscious Love

Fourth

Love arising from consciousness evokes the same in response; from feeling evokes the opposite; from body depends on type and polarity.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/conscious-love

### Conscious Hope

Fourth

Hope arising from consciousness is strength; from feeling is slavery; from body is disease.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/conscious-hope

## Other Spreads to Sit With

### Daily Manifestation

3 cards

Desire creation
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/daily-manifestation

### Conscious Shock

1 card

Disturbance/agitation
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/conscious-shock

### Situation-Action-Outcome

3 cards

State-Action-Result
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/situation-action-outcome

### Intentional Adjustment

3 cards

Cessation-Beginning-Continuation
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/stop-start-continue

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