---
title: "Problem-Cause-Solution Spread — The 4th Tarot"
url: https://4thtarot.com/spreads/problem-cause-solution
description: "Direct troubleshooting spread. Identify the problem, understand its root, and receive guidance on the solution."
lang: en
---

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# Problem-Cause-Solution

Duḥkha-Hetu-Nivṛtti — Suffering-Cause-Cessation

Direct troubleshooting spread. Identify the problem, understand its root, and receive guidance on the solution.

## Positions

1. 1
   ### The Problem
   Question: What is the nature of the problem?
   The issue itself - not symptoms but the core difficulty or challenge you're facing.
2. 2
   ### The Cause
   Question: What is the root cause?
   The underlying source, pattern, or origin of this problem. Why it exists or persists.
3. 3
   ### The Solution
   Question: How can this be resolved?
   The path to resolution. What needs to happen, change, or be understood for healing or progress.

Jungian

Problem analysis

Fourth Way

Understanding obstacles

Sanskrit

Duḥkha-nivāraṇa (removal of suffering)

## Related Concepts

### Intentional Suffering

Fourth

Voluntarily enduring discomfort for transformation—resisting impulses, bearing difficulty without self-pity—as inner alchemy that conserves and transforms energy.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/intentional-suffering

### Higher Intellectual Center

Fourth

The latent higher mind that can know truth directly—providing intuition, objective reason, and insight into the unity of everything.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/higher-intellectual-center

### Knowledge and Being

Fourth

A fundamental pair—both needed for Understanding.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/knowledge-and-being

### Logos

Jungian

The principle of reason, discernment, and structured understanding—typically associated with masculinity and the conscious mind's ordering function.
https://4thtarot.com/glossary/logos

## Other Spreads to Sit With

### Alignment & Intention

1 card

Intention/resolve
https://4thtarot.com/spreads/alignment-intention

### 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

### Daily Manifestation

3 cards

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

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