Card Spreads
A spread is a set of questions the cards answer in order. Change the layout and you change what the reading can tell you — which is why the same three cards mean something different in a love spread than in a career one. Six here are for a tarot deck, from the three-card everyone starts on to the ten-card Celtic Cross, and one is for the ordinary playing deck.
Spreads for a tarot deck
Three-Card Spread
Past, present, future — the spread every reader starts with.
3 cards · Beginner · 5 min
Celtic Cross
The ten-card classic: the full anatomy of a situation, from its root to its outcome.
10 cards · Advanced · 20 min
Love & Relationship Spread
Five cards on the two of you: what each brings, what binds, what strains, where it goes.
5 cards · Intermediate · 10 min
Career Path Spread
Where you are, what blocks you, what you have, what to do, where it leads.
5 cards · Beginner · 10 min
One-Card Yes or No
One card, one answer, and the honesty to say when it is a maybe.
1 card · Beginner · 2 min
Year Ahead Spread
One card a month — the shape of the coming year, laid out as a wheel.
12 cards · Intermediate · 25 min
Decision Spread (A or B)
Two paths, one choice — what each road asks of you and what you are not seeing.
5 cards · Beginner · 10 min
Month Ahead Spread
A theme for the month and a card for each week — plan around the weather.
5 cards · Beginner · 10 min
Spreads for a playing deck
Cartomancy uses the 52 cards you already own. The layouts are simpler than tarot's and the readings answer differently — circumstance and timing rather than meaning.
Which spread should I use?
Match the size of the spread to the size of the question. A decision with two clean sides wants one card. A situation you have been turning over for weeks wants the Celtic Cross. Nearly everything else is a three-card reading, and there is no shame in that — most working readers pull three far more often than ten.
The one rule that saves beginners: pick the spread before you shuffle. Choosing the layout after you have seen the cards is how a reading quietly turns into a search for the answer you already wanted.
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