Tarot Spreads

Hi everyone! My birthday is coming up in a couple of days, and I'm looking around for a possible spread to do for my birthday. Does anyone have a birthday spread they like to use? I found one in the AT archives that I'm thinking of using. This one was posted by user Pipistrelle as a 30th Birthday spread, but I think it could be used for any birthday. Here is the info from Pipistrelle- the spread is in the shape of a flower. So, what I'm thinking is, you can adjust the stem as needed to have a card for each previous decade, or you could even have an additional stem card to represent you just in the past year. I'm at a half-decade year, so I could add a card …

I recently got told to look back 4 generations into female ancestors on my mother's side (with me being generation 0). So I came up with the following: Using ONLY court cards, pull a card for you and for each of the ancestors you want to look into and define who they are. Read them according to characteristics like suits, position in court, details on the card, etc. Look for character insights or a common thread weaving through the generations. I found readings I did this way very illuminating! (for me those were, for example: 0 - me -1 - my mother -2 - her mother -3 - her grand-mother -4 - my mother's great-grand-mother I never met any of them beyond my grandmother …

I don't know how long I've been using this spread, but it's been helpful in figuring out whatever I have a question about (the subject). Basically, - The Subject (on top, by itself), which is what the rest of the cards will be answering. - The Advice, (three cards in the middle), where each card elaborates further on what to do regarding the subject in question (this is also a great way to mix another deck in). - The Outcome, which is the bottom card, which is what happens if you take the advice cards regarding the subject. It doesn't mean it will happen - it is what will happen if the advice is followed. I actually don't know…

This is a spread to help you sort things out for this upcoming season. 1---2---3 1. Keep - The things that are working well for you, and that you should keep moving forward with. 2. Trash - Things you need to throw out of your life and say "good riddance" to. 3. Donate - Things that you haven't been using (whether talents or material goods) that you can now use for the benefit of others.

Hello, everyone This is a spread for when you're in a period of stagnation, and want to take things to a higher level. 1---2---3---4 1. Caterpillar - The area of your life where you're just crawling along. 2. Cocoon - What you need to wrap yourself in in order to grow. 3. Breakthrough - The insight or action that will change your life. 4. Butterfly - The new heights to which you can soar.

This is a spread to help you ditch the winter blahs and move into the promise of springtime. 1---2---3 1. Throw Out - Old, negative ways of thinking and being that I need to shed like melting snow. 2. Warm Up - How I can be my warmest, brightest self and shine like the sun 3. New Blossoms - The fresh opportunities that will open up for me this season.

After reading this article (thanks CharlotteK :D ), I was struck with the inspiration for a new spread... Invite Your Shadow To Tea **********7(T) *****9(T)******8(T) 1(B)*****3(M)*****2(T) *****6(B)******5(B) **********4(B) 1. The Invited Shadow - this card can be self chosen or you can take from the base of the deck and let the cards decide. This card will tell you a bit about what you need to deal with. 2. The Querent - this card can also be self chosen or you can take from the top of the deck and let the cards decide. This card will show where you are right now. 3. The Lesson On The Table - what lesson does this shadow offer you? Take from the …

Anybody know of any spreads that are good to do on the New Moon of your astrological sign?

I just thought I'd share a deck randomizing technique I discovered tonight when using my Gold Foil deck. I don't know where to I'd had quite a long day because we have guests for the weekend. I was tired and I spilled some water on the floor. After cleaning the water up I went about my day for a couple more hours. Then----horror stricken---I noticed that the bag with my Star deck had been lying on the floor where I didn't see it and all the cards were totally saturated . I picked it up but it may not be salvageable. Good thing I have another one packed away. , Then I took out my Gold Foil deck and sat down to riffle the Gold Foil a few times, but when I di…

This is a spread that I designed for deep personal exploration. It has the shape of a standard Celtic Cross, but the order and the positions are quite different. Card number 6 can be placed on top of number 5 (so it's crossing) or next to it. If you use reversed cards then any reversed cards would highlight areas that are of specific interest and that need extra attention (it might indicate blockages but it can also represent high-energy areas where lots of things are going on right now). 2 10 3 5/6 4 9 1 8 7 1: Blood (Fire) 2: Sweat (Earth) 3: Tears (Water) 4: Beliefs (Air) 5: Hopes 6: …

Darkness / Dismemberment / Brokenness. What have you lost? What are you grieving? What is broken within you? (If you get a positive card in this position, you might want to read its shadow side or reversed meaning.) Promise / Rebirth of the Sun / Renewal. What is the promise of renewal that will come with the dawn of Winter Solstice? (Likewise, if you get a negative or reversed card in this position, you might want to read its more positive meaning.) Integration of Dark and Light. How do the darkness and the dawn intertwine? What wisdom do they create together? Gift of the Darkness / Remember. What is the gift of the broken time, hidden in…

Looking for a simplified alternative to ArwenNightstar's splendid Cinderella’s Victim Spread for a Circle of Stones reading exchange back in now defunct AT, I came up with this one. Disney's Cinderella movies are not exactly my favorite versions of the tale by any stretch, but you can't get any simpler without betraying the story. I tried to match that, and here's the result. I hope you guys like it. The Super Simplified Disney Cinderella Spread (by moi) *********4********* *****2******3****** *********1********* 1. Lady Tremaine: The main obstacle we are facing at the moment in our lives. 2. The Ball: The main goal or dream we have right now.…

A close relative is married to someone with a truly bad case of NPD, probably with sociopathy involved. Recently, a hard limit was reached, and I need to find a solution on how to keep the venom that that person exudes AWAY from me and my family, AND remain in contact with the close relative. (Preferably, I’d just meet up with the relative, and go total no contact with the NPD partner — but as it tends to be with families and people involved, this problem is a lot more complex than that!) So, I’m looking for a solution-oriented spread that can deal with ”a situation filled with complicated obstacles,” and find a way over under through…

We often talk about the Devil as showing temptation when it appears in a reading, and that can entail a moral dilemma for the querent. I created a spread to get at the heart of such situations. https://parsifalswheeldivination.com/2018/02/19/the-devil-made-me-do-it-moral-dilemma-spread/

Hi I am a beginner and have s question about spreads, i like the horseshoe spread but have discovered that different people assign different meanings to each card position. Does this matter? Should I just go with my gut feeling? And how do you choose which spreads to use? Thanks!

I am new here so I hope this is the right forum to post this in. On New Year's Eve I wanted to do a spread to map out the energies of the upcoming year. Could anyone suggest their favorite new year spreads? I would love to see all of the different ones you all know and come up with!

This was a spread that was posted to A.T. quite a few years ago. I don't recall having seen Isthmus Nekoi posting in those last weeks, so I'm not sure that they even know about the shutdown. I used this spread for a friend's reading this morning and it worked great. I wrote that the original post said this was "a spread for material things like $, health and suchlike. It's in the shape of the pentacle, symbol of the material." I used it because my friend is a budding Wiccan, and it felt the shape was a good fit for him. Isthmus Nekoi, if you pop in here and happen to see this, I really appreciate how well this spread works for readings, and not just about material thin…

Hi everyone! I just thought I would share this spread that I created a little while ago when doing a life goals reading for myself. The cards are laid out like this: 9***5*****6***10 1*****2 3*****4 11**7*****8***12 It can be moderated as needed, but as I was asking the question, I felt intuitively that there would be 4 goals for me, so I laid them out as above. Cards 1-4 (or however many you would like) represent your life goals (so card #1 in this spread can be referred to as goal #1). Cards 5-8 represent the challenges that you will face in accomplishing each goal (so for example, card #5 in this spread is the challenge to goal #1, and car…

Here is another simple (at least for me) decision-making spread that uses one of my favorite spread-design techniques: "facing" of a central focus card to help target the best course of action. Because I try to post something new every day in my blog, falling back on spread creation is an easy way out so I don't repeat myself (at least not too much). https://parsifalswheeldivination.com/2019/06/29/the-speed-bump-and-pothole-decision-making-spread/

Hi everyone, I've been on Tarotsphere lately, but I was on Aeclectic for a few years before that. I've just posted a new spread that I wrote on Tarotsphere, and I was hoping I could get some feedback from you as well. Please let me know what you think. ** The Metronome and the Pendulum are both spreads that look back, to provide details and clarity to events and time periods already past. These periods might have been confusing at the time, or else there was simply no opportunity for reflection, and all you could do then was react. Now, having moved on, you have the knowledge and hindsight to examine these events. The Metronome and the Pendulum are effectivel…

Hey everyone! Hoping for some good insight here. A friend and I recently did self-readings with a 4-card spread using the Johari Window, y'know, for fun: And without getting into extreme detail, I was very intrigued by the cards we drew for our Unknown quadrant (for mine I drew Judgement). Specifically because they are unknown, and I'd like to know more, I thought a follow up spread was needed to get more detail, because out of all the cards drawn, that was the one I had the most trouble interpreting. So I guess what I'm asking for is suggestions of designations I could use to create a follow up spread. What I have so far is "How d…

It's been another trip around the sun. Does anyone have a favorite birthday spread I could do tomorrow?

Hiya, I used to have a copy of the collins gem tarot guide that I lost. It had an in depth lifetime spread that had sets of 3 cards per area/topic, may have been 21 cards. it was a helpful spread to use when you were reading for someone for the first time as it gave them points that they were able to recognize from their lives. ive scoured the internet trying to find it or something remotely similar. Before I resort to buying the book I figured I’d check if anyone could help. thanks!

Joanna Colbert, creator of the Gaian Tarot and the Herbcrafter's Tarot, posted this spread on Instagram and I thought it was really lovely and wanted to share it. She mentions she was inspired to create this spread by an essay by Arundhati Roy. A Tarot Spread for the Pandemic Portal Time :: 1. What do I most need to know about this collective moment — this “portal”? :: :: 2. What can I do to contribute to the wholeness and health of the collective? :: :: 3. How can I strengthen my own resilience? :: :: 4. What am I not seeing? (Pull a card from the bottom of the deck.) :: :: 5. What does Spirit most want me to know about my personal path at…

Hi. I’m in separation with my ex and would like to know how she feels about me. Has anyone got a good spread I could use to get an impression? Thanks.