Nikkinine Posted June 9, 2022 Posted June 9, 2022 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!
DanielJUK Posted June 9, 2022 Posted June 9, 2022 I've had a good search online for this spread as well but no luck! It might be because it's from a book and you cannot reproduce it without the author's permission. Maybe someone has this book and can fill in the gaps about the spread here? 🙂 A snippet or filling in the missing parts would be okay but please don't reproduce the whole page here if anyone has it.
Nikkinine Posted June 10, 2022 Author Posted June 10, 2022 2 hours ago, DanielJUK said: I've had a good search online for this spread as well but no luck! It might be because it's from a book and you cannot reproduce it without the author's permission. Maybe someone has this book and can fill in the gaps about the spread here? 🙂 A snippet or filling in the missing parts would be okay but please don't reproduce the whole page here if anyone has it. Hi Daniel, thank you very much for your response. You’re probably on to something with the copyright thing, I’m just at a loss that I can’t seem to find ANYTHING that even comes close to the spread I remember… “haunted” may seem too strong a word to use here, but the last 10 years I’ve searched for it have been just that 😅 just a basic outline of the spread would suffice- I don’t need a copy of the original. I could reimagine it using the structural formula/format of the original & fill in the blanks myself. 🙏 I appreciate you.
legendaryelement Posted June 10, 2022 Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) Sometimes I find lost "treasures" by doing an image search. My preferred search engine is dogpile.com Let's see what comes up ... https://youandyourguides.co.uk/readings/tarot-life-spread-reading/ I'm considering buying this book: https://www.lulu.com/shop/wayne-limberger/the-literal-tarot/ebook/product-ny424k.html?page=1&pageSize=4 from the author here https://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com/ Edited June 10, 2022 by legendaryelement
gregory Posted June 10, 2022 Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) That looks as though it would do - but @Nikkinine - you remember the basics of it - why not make your own ? I swear I own the book, though - I think my slightly unaware sister bought it for me "because she knew I was interested in Tarot." Indeed. I own over 200 books on the subject - the Gem guide (or whatever very basic book it was) was never really going to cut it.... Which is why - wherever it is - it isn't with the Main Tarot Library. I'll look again later. Edited June 10, 2022 by gregory
Nikkinine Posted June 11, 2022 Author Posted June 11, 2022 Hey legendaryelement, The image search is a very good friend of mine, too! It’s always my preferred method. I like your style 😉 I usually keep it basic & use google, but I’ll keep dogpile in mind for the future. thank you for the links- I think they’ll be helpful for recreating the spread. that book looks amazing! I keep a Pinterest board of spreads as well as some hand written in my tarot folder. I bought ‘the ultimate guide to tarot reading’ by the woman behind biddytarot.com- that site has been my go-to source for card interpretations for years. It’s strange when I realize how much I rely on the internet for my tarot research/work rather than hardcopy… convenience, I guess?
Nikkinine Posted June 11, 2022 Author Posted June 11, 2022 Hiya @gregory i think I will just wing it & concoct my own version. I’ll be able to tailor it more closely to the type of reading I’m looking for that way, too. & yes, that book was very… cute. I got it as well as the one on palmistry while I was in highschool. it served me well when I was still a tarot baby, many years before the internet was what it is today & before I had access to tangible tarot resources. It was my first guide. Although I admit to being a real, true millennial in that i do rely on the internet as my main tarot related resource for interpretations/spreads etc- I own very few books. since you mentioned your LITERAL LIBRARY of tarot books- care to share your top 3?
gregory Posted June 11, 2022 Posted June 11, 2022 WELL - it depends top 3 for what. But say the three I would keep if I had to get rid of the rest... Um.... Well, I'd HAVE to keep Gertrude Moakley: The Tarot Cards Painted by Bonifacio Bembo for the Visconti-Sforza Family - because a) it is VERY special and is both a cultural history of this specific deck which explores how the different triumphs became what they are - why they would have been significant to Italian society, and also has a lot of the history of the Visconti-Sforza family and b) because I could NEVER get another copy. I was incredibly lucky to get the one I have. To cover the basics, I'd probably keep Cynthia Giles: The Tarot: History, Mystery and Lore - just because it covers so much so well, without dissing anything, and also without buying into anything. I think it would be cheating to say all four volumes of Kaplan's encyclopaedia... so I won't but if that were fair game, I would ! Possibly Alfred Douglas: The Tarot for sentimental reasons - it was my first book.... Or Mary Greer's 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card - as it makes you think outside the box. Then again - maybe Jessica Hundley: Tarot. The Library of Esoterica - for the PICTURES ! If I didn't have a Barbara Moore I'd feel a bit bereft - but which ? I think it would have to be a deck companion one... And I LOVE James Ricklef. This is one bitch of a question...
Nikkinine Posted June 11, 2022 Author Posted June 11, 2022 3 hours ago, gregory said: WELL - it depends top 3 for what. But say the three I would keep if I had to get rid of the rest... Um.... Well, I'd HAVE to keep Gertrude Moakley: The Tarot Cards Painted by Bonifacio Bembo for the Visconti-Sforza Family - because a) it is VERY special and is both a cultural history of this specific deck which explores how the different triumphs became what they are - why they would have been significant to Italian society, and also has a lot of the history of the Visconti-Sforza family and b) because I could NEVER get another copy. I was incredibly lucky to get the one I have. To cover the basics, I'd probably keep Cynthia Giles: The Tarot: History, Mystery and Lore - just because it covers so much so well, without dissing anything, and also without buying into anything. I think it would be cheating to say all four volumes of Kaplan's encyclopaedia... so I won't but if that were fair game, I would ! Possibly Alfred Douglas: The Tarot for sentimental reasons - it was my first book.... Or Mary Greer's 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card - as it makes you think outside the box. Then again - maybe Jessica Hundley: Tarot. The Library of Esoterica - for the PICTURES ! If I didn't have a Barbara Moore I'd feel a bit bereft - but which ? I think it would have to be a deck companion one... And I LOVE James Ricklef. This is one bitch of a question... thank you for your answers- I think I’ll check out your girls Cynthia & Mary 😉 . Based on the knowledge & passion I can see just from reading your response, I suggest you open up a spooky little library for books on divination/cartomancy/general esoterica, ideally in some small countryside town where we’d all be called witches by the townsfolk. You can be the librarian. 💅🏼
gregory Posted June 11, 2022 Posted June 11, 2022 I gather you are not aware of my deck collection.... You aren't the first to suggest such a thing ! Cynthia has done a second book, too.... It's good as well, but I'd only keep one if I had to run with 3 books !
DanielJUK Posted June 11, 2022 Posted June 11, 2022 I think in future we will have to start some discussions we can keep and pin as reference about best tarot books and best books for beginners. For now, there is a great old thread on the forum @Nikkinine about best tarot books. It's made via recommendation popularity on google rankings and some others in the thread give their fave books..... Discussing tarot books is a great discussion but slowly and surely taking this thread off topic 🙂 So let's keep this thread about if anyone knows or remembers this lifetime spread for @Nikkinine
Guest Posted June 11, 2022 Posted June 11, 2022 I think I may have found the spread. Its in a book, am I OK to upload onto this site?
gregory Posted June 11, 2022 Posted June 11, 2022 Basically - I think @DanielJUK said no - copyright issues. Just describe it.
Eric13 Posted June 12, 2022 Posted June 12, 2022 A "lifetime spread." This is a fascinating post. A lot of good insight here. A reading/spread like that though seems like large undertaking, and even responsibility. Like a good challenge. Along with the book recommendations, maybe lifetime spreads could be some sort of group undertaking as well.
Guest Posted June 12, 2022 Posted June 12, 2022 OK, this is 2 spreads in one. The life spread and the anchor spread. Life spread first. Personal cards 1 to 4 Home cards 5 to 8 Career 9 to 12 Love 13 to 16 Future 17 to 20 Key card 21 The anchor spread Base card 1 Love card 2 Work 3 Central theme 4 Immediate future 5 Wishes 6 Future 7
Nikkinine Posted June 12, 2022 Author Posted June 12, 2022 33 minutes ago, Kate22 said: OK, this is 2 spreads in one. The life spread and the anchor spread. Life spread first. Personal cards 1 to 4 Home cards 5 to 8 Career 9 to 12 Love 13 to 16 Future 17 to 20 Key card 21 The anchor spread Base card 1 Love card 2 Work 3 Central theme 4 Immediate future 5 Wishes 6 Future 7 KATE! I appreciate you SO, SO much 🖤. That is most definitely the lifetime spread I was looking for.
gregory Posted June 14, 2022 Posted June 14, 2022 I found the book ! Too late to help you - great that Kate22 found the spread. Except - that it isn't actually the same as the one in my Gem. So to add another: I have 1-3 Personality 4-6 Home 7-9 Desires and fears 10-12 Expectations 13-15 The unexpected 16-18 Near Future 19-21 Distant Future. What book did you find it in, @Kate22 ? I'm curious now, as that seems to be the one @Nikkinine was looking for - and that is not in my Gem book ! Nor is the Anchor spread. So - perhaps just as well you didn't go and buy it, Nikki ! Unless it has been much amended over the years - mine is so old it still has Somerville in Edinburgh - he moved to France in 2001 and has been retired from selling for years now (and my Gem was revised in 2005 - so that's bad of them !)
Guest Posted June 14, 2022 Posted June 14, 2022 Gregory it is the easy tarot handbook by Josephine ellershaw.
Eno Posted June 15, 2022 Posted June 15, 2022 On 6/11/2022 at 3:29 PM, gregory said: Well, I'd HAVE to keep Gertrude Moakley: The Tarot Cards Painted by Bonifacio Bembo for the Visconti-Sforza Family - because a) it is VERY special and is both a cultural history of this specific deck which explores how the different triumphs became what they are - why they would have been significant to Italian society, and also has a lot of the history of the Visconti-Sforza family and b) because I could NEVER get another copy. I was incredibly lucky to get the one I have. I wish I had Moakley's book, but it sells for around 400EUR everytime it comes up at all somewhere for sale... Someone put most of it online here: http://moakleyupdated.blogspot.com/ but I would prefer to have the real book.
Nikkinine Posted June 20, 2022 Author Posted June 20, 2022 On 6/14/2022 at 7:46 AM, gregory said: I found the book ! Too late to help you - great that Kate22 found the spread. Except - that it isn't actually the same as the one in my Gem. So to add another: I have 1-3 Personality 4-6 Home 7-9 Desires and fears 10-12 Expectations 13-15 The unexpected 16-18 Near Future 19-21 Distant Future. What book did you find it in, @Kate22 ? I'm curious now, as that seems to be the one @Nikkinine was looking for - and that is not in my Gem book ! Nor is the Anchor spread. So - perhaps just as well you didn't go and buy it, Nikki ! Unless it has been much amended over the years - mine is so old it still has Somerville in Edinburgh - he moved to France in 2001 and has been retired from selling for years now (and my Gem was revised in 2005 - so that's bad of them !) BINGO- I do believe you’ve cracked the code 🫶🏻 @gregory! I wasn’t familiar with the anchor spread that kate found for me, either… but the lifetime portion was close enough 🤷🏻. My gem was probably as old as yours, RIP. The Peabody in me wants to ask for favorite spreads, but I reckon I’ll get scolded. If there’s a quick link to where I could find such things, please let me know- I’m not trying to be a bad boy, I swear 😂
gregory Posted June 20, 2022 Posted June 20, 2022 PEABODY ! I only know one other person who reads her - and another here I introduced to the dear lady !. Isn't she wonderful ? I like: three cards: yes if/no unless/ maybe if and variants (Stolen from Ricklef.) Mostly I make my own based on the question. There is a spreads area here - you know that; you're in it ! https://www.thetarotforum.com/forums/forum/14-tarot-spreads/ You can also trawl Aeclectic: https://www.tarotforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=56
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