JotheSchmo Posted June 5, 2019 Posted June 5, 2019 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!
joy Posted June 5, 2019 Posted June 5, 2019 Hi @JotheSchmo welcome to the TT&M Family We have a section that discusses spreads, will move your post to that section.
Grizabella Posted June 20, 2019 Posted June 20, 2019 What I do is try to tailor my spread to exactly what I want to know. This means having as concise a question as possible and then named positions. It helps to zero into what the cards are saying. When I was first learning, I thought I had to memorize and keep track of all the different spreads I saw. In time I learned that all it takes to create a spread myself was to ask a clear question and name the positions. That made each of my readings specific to what the reader wanted to know. Sometimes the sitter doesn't know what it is they want to know if they're a new sitter. General readings are okay and I can do those, too,, but being more specific at every step of a reading is by far the best way to find the answers. Sitters don't always have concise and specific questions. I'll be asked "what will happen between me and X in the next ten years and how will we get through that time period?" Now, that's a really loose and sloppy question. First of all, you've asked vague questions---several of them----and second of all , That just doesn't work very well. You've no doubt seen me post on "puddle" spreads. Well, take this loose and floppy question and add a puddle of cards and what do you have? You've got a real mess and it's not likely you'll ferret out the answers very easily or completely. It's not impossible to find answers, but in this case, that old "work smarter not harder" saying comes to mind. If you stick with reading the cards and you eventually go into business for yourself with that skill, you'll get a ton----A TON!----of "stump the reader" sitters. Their goal is to try to see if you're "really psychic" and it's not so much to get answers to questions they might seriously have. They're skeptics and even if you could give them winning lottery numbers, they'd probably just take the numbers (and the money) and run, but they probably wouldn't admit the numbers came from a "real psychic" and they wouldn't share the money, either. They'd just come back and want more numbers. 😁 When you get a sitter who has the sloppy, several-questions-in-one request, you need to be able to make their question precise and then get your answers with named positions. However, all readers are different and what works best for me might not work best for them. I'm just sharing what I hope is helpful because there will be some people who do find it of use.
Venus Rising Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 On 6/20/2019 at 5:56 PM, Grizabella said: What I do is try to tailor my spread to exactly what I want to know. This means having as concise a question as possible and then named positions. It helps to zero into what the cards are saying. When I was first learning, I thought I had to memorize and keep track of all the different spreads I saw. In time I learned that all it takes to create a spread myself was to ask a clear question and name the positions. That made each of my readings specific to what the reader wanted to know. Sometimes the sitter doesn't know what it is they want to know if they're a new sitter. General readings are okay and I can do those, too,, but being more specific at every step of a reading is by far the best way to find the answers. Sitters don't always have concise and specific questions. I'll be asked "what will happen between me and X in the next ten years and how will we get through that time period?" Now, that's a really loose and sloppy question. First of all, you've asked vague questions---several of them----and second of all , That just doesn't work very well. You've no doubt seen me post on "puddle" spreads. Well, take this loose and floppy question and add a puddle of cards and what do you have? You've got a real mess and it's not likely you'll ferret out the answers very easily or completely. It's not impossible to find answers, but in this case, that old "work smarter not harder" saying comes to mind. If you stick with reading the cards and you eventually go into business for yourself with that skill, you'll get a ton----A TON!----of "stump the reader" sitters. Their goal is to try to see if you're "really psychic" and it's not so much to get answers to questions they might seriously have. They're skeptics and even if you could give them winning lottery numbers, they'd probably just take the numbers (and the money) and run, but they probably wouldn't admit the numbers came from a "real psychic" and they wouldn't share the money, either. They'd just come back and want more numbers. 😁 When you get a sitter who has the sloppy, several-questions-in-one request, you need to be able to make their question precise and then get your answers with named positions. However, all readers are different and what works best for me might not work best for them. I'm just sharing what I hope is helpful because there will be some people who do find it of use. This is very helpful, @Grizabella thank you for sharing your experience. That is an area that I struggle with, which is really getting to the heart of the question. And it isn't just for my sitters - I often struggle with it for my own questions haha 😄 I think it definitely takes some skill to really hone in on what you want to know. I've also frequently found that after some back and forth discussion, sometimes what the sitter actually wants to ask can be quite different from their original question. It's quite interesting 🙂
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