What does spread mean in tarot?

Reading tarot is an intuitive practice. However, like a scientific experiment, the data you receive is influenced by the way you design your procedure. In tarot readings, the card design is called the tarot spread. This term refers to the pattern of cards chosen from a deck during a reading.

What does it mean when the lovers card is at the bottom of the deck?

Perhaps you shuffle the cards, asking: “What do I need to know right now?” You pull the 3 of Cups, the 2 of Swords, and The Lovers. Maybe for kicks and giggles, you pull the card at the bottom of the deck for clarification– it’s The Chariot.

What is a three-card spread in tarot?

Because three-card spreads are generalized, the time frame will also be light. Figure one to three months in the past and future. However, you can specify prior to your reading if you’d like to reach farther out in time. Nevertheless, three card spreads are designed for brevity and base understanding.

How to read tarot cards correctly?

Look at the whole spread to see how each position works with the others. When you’ve place each card down, look at the meaning of the card, then the meaning through the lens of the position, and then the meaning through the lens of the entire spread. The flexibility of the position meanings can take getting used to, but in a way, it’s a blessing.

Why do tarot cards have the power they do?

Their power lies not in their assigning meaning to the order the cards are drawn in, but rather that the location of the cards can help you intuitively feel the meaning within them, and between them. And so, the following is a list of 3 card tarot readings that I’ve organized and classified based on the layout of the spread itself.

What does it mean to cross over in tarot?

The card that crosses over is something that stands in the way and that needs to be overcome, something that blocks you from attaining your ultimate goal, while the third card acts as a sort of advice card, looking at the situation from a more distant viewpoint.