About a year ago I was online window shopping for tarot decks when I thought to myself,  "If I am meant to learn tarot, the universe will provide." Well, the next day the universe did indeed provide. Then, provided again some weeks later. Then, again. I now have three tarot decks that chose me. I am in need of more practice, study, and accountability. I know it's been a year but I haven't actually built much experience. BUT let me lead with my most pressing and perhaps saddest question. I am currently with my family and we're caring for my dad who is on his deathbed.  What tarot spread or technique would you use?  Let me know if there is info that I can provide for clarity. 

Welcome to the forum.

 

Your question is almost impossible to answer - it depends very much on exactly what you are seeking to ask the cards, ot to learn from them. Also, just so that you are aware,  - you cannot enter into a reading exchange or post a personal reading until you have 5 posts. It cuts down on spammers.

Is a post always considered as a new topic or do replies count?

Welcome to the forum, @Tippy!  🙂  Replies do count, so now you're at 2. 

Ah, @Tippy, sorry, I didn't see the end of your post. I'm sorry you're having to go through that. (I did the same with my dad.) Are you looking for a spread to read about how best to care for him, or did you want to read on something like how you can best take care of yourself and family during this time? 

Rose: Two and counting. To the latter reply: Thank you. Simply, thank you. To keep in compliance, I'll give you more of my tarot background. Something that falls more into the introductions topic. I am absolutely and completely a novice despite having my first deck for a year. 

Gregory: Thanks for looking out! It's good to know there are safeguards in place to protect the forum. 

@Tippy the rule is just that you can't post the cards from your reading and ask people to comment with their own thoughts on it before you have 5 posts.  (And if you decide to do that later, you just need to post your own interpretation of your cards first, even if it's just keywords from something like learntarot.com. You'd also need to be ready to give feedback to everyone who commented. But that's only if you decide to ask people to give feedback on a reading. There's lots of other things to do here too.)

 

You can definitely discuss spreads you might want to use even before 5 posts. But thank you for trying to stay within the guidelines. 🙂❤️ 

 

For your situation, perhaps you could pull 3 cards:

1 How can I best support my dad at this time?

2 How can I best support my family?

3 How can I best care for myself in this difficult time?

 

Oh also, one last thing. If you put an @ sign before a name and select it so it shows up like yours does here, the person will get a notification that you mentioned them so they don't miss it.

Edited February 12, 20251 yr by Rose Lalonde

I tried using the 'at' symbol with your name earlier. I have "limitations in place" including "0 links allowed" and it was reading my mention as a link. 

Oh, sorry. I'm a long way past 5 posts and didn't realize you couldn't. But hey, if nothing else, our conversation got you to 5 posts, so have fun exploring the forum. 

Hello @Tippy welcome to the TT&M Family You now have 5 posts and should be able to use the @ sign. But we do not allow certain links, please follow our rules: https://www.thetarotforum.com/rules/

@joy Whoo hoo! Moving up in the forum. 🤩

 

Welcome to the community @Tippy  I'm glad you've found us here but sorry you are currently in the position you are in 🤗

welcome 🙂