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Tarot Spreads
Layouts explained position by position, with worked examples.
A spread gives each card a specific question to help you explore a larger concern. These guides explain the positions, show how cards connect, and offer examples you can compare with your own reading. Begin with three cards if you are learning to read a sequence. Choose the career spread for questions about your work experience, or the moon spreads for setting and reviewing an intention. The Celtic Cross offers a longer structure when you want more room.
Read every position before shuffling, and write your main question in your own words. After drawing, consider each card through its assigned question, then look for connections across the layout. Finish with one observation to investigate or a small action within your control. Treat future positions as prompts for considering your current direction and available choices. For the moon layouts, use the phase as a reminder to pause and review your experience. You can adapt the structure as your needs become clearer.
Where to start
- The Three-Card Tarot Spread: How to Read Past, Present, and FutureStart here if you want a worked example of connecting three cards into one reading.
- How to Create Your Own Tarot Spread (With Examples)Read this first if you want to turn your own concern into clear questions for each card.
- The Celtic Cross Tarot Spread: A Gentle, Position-by-Position GuideStart here if you already feel comfortable with smaller spreads and want guidance through ten positions.
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Tarot SpreadsA Monthly Tarot Spread for the Start of a New MonthFive cards that turn the first days of a month into a quiet check-in, with a question waiting for you at the end.
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Tarot SpreadsA Weekly Tarot Spread: Four Gentle Cards for Sunday EveningFour cards and ten quiet minutes before the week begins, with a short look back on Friday to see what actually happened.
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Tarot SpreadsA Birthday Tarot Spread for Your Personal New YearSix cards for celebrating what you can, honoring what hurt, and making room for a year that feels more like your own.
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Tarot SpreadsA Career Tarot Spread for Clearer Work DecisionsSix questions to help you separate the work you care about from the conditions that make it hard.
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Tarot SpreadsA Full Moon Tarot Spread for Review and ReleaseLook at what has changed, keep what helps, and set down one expectation with care.
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Tarot SpreadsA New Moon Tarot Spread for Gentle IntentionsMake room for one small beginning, with enough care and support to give it a fair try.
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Tarot SpreadsA New Year Tarot Spread: Looking Back, Looking AheadGive the ending year a thoughtful goodbye and the coming one a little room, with seven cards and one manageable next step.
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Tarot SpreadsHow to Create Your Own Tarot Spread (With Examples)Start from the question, write each position as a question of its own, test it once, and fix what doesn't work.
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Tarot SpreadsSituation, Action, Outcome Tarot Spread: One Step You Can TryThree cards can help you name what is happening, choose a response, and consider a possibility you can test.
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Tarot SpreadsThe Celtic Cross Tarot Spread: A Gentle, Position-by-Position GuideTen cards can feel like a lot. Here is how to give each one a clear job, then listen to them together.
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Tarot SpreadsThe Tarot Deck Interview Spread: Getting to Know a New DeckSix playful questions can help you study a new deck and choose how you want to practice with it.
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Tarot SpreadsThe Three-Card Tarot Spread: How to Read Past, Present, and FutureThree cards, read as one sentence instead of three definitions, with a full worked example.