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I made a photoshop of a Tarot Spread inspired by Witches of East End. There was an original image of this spread, it’s called the Truncated Celtic Cross. It wasn’t pleasing to look at so I remade it myself.
But nonetheless, this spread is what the Witches of East End used frequently and I really wanted to try this spread out!
The Central Issue: The theme of the entire spread, the issue at question.
What Crosses You: It could be a person, or anything that’s crossing you, getting in your way.
What Lies Below: Could be something you’re or the issue is standing on; the foundation.
What Lies Behind (past): The past, what created this issue. Could be a person, an object, or anything.
What Lies Above (possibilities): The possibilities that are above you, look up in the sky and think. Your thoughts, etc.
What Lies Ahead (future): What is ahead of you. Could be a person, an object, or anything. The outcome.
The best way to do this reading is to look at the symbols on your cards, the meanings behind the card, and what it represents to you. Use your intuition!
lepuslunamgrimoire: Use this spread to answer any question. Pull The Empress from your deck and place her in the center, casting your cards around her. 1. What do I love? 2. How do I nurture others? 3. What emotion is flowing? 4. Who am I? 5. What power do I exert? 6. What stability do I maintain? 7. What is being born? 8. What fertile grounds await? From Sasha Graham’s 365 Tarot Spreads
Use this spread to answer any question. Pull The Empress from your deck and place her in the center, casting your cards around her.
1. What do I love?
2. How do I nurture others?
3. What emotion is flowing?
4. Who am I?
5. What power do I exert?
6. What stability do I maintain?
7. What is being born?
8. What fertile grounds await?
From Sasha Graham’s 365 Tarot Spreads
a-chaos-collection: The Schrödinger’s Cat Tarot Spread 1. The Cat: The Situation What is the situation? 2. The Poison: The Obstacle What is the problem? 3. Limbo: Advice What else do I need to know? 4. Alive: Best Outcome What is the best outcome? 5. Dead: Worst Outcome What is the worst outcome? [x]
The Schrödinger’s Cat Tarot Spread
1. The Cat: The Situation What is the situation? 2. The Poison: The Obstacle What is the problem? 3. Limbo: Advice What else do I need to know? 4. Alive: Best Outcome What is the best outcome? 5. Dead: Worst Outcome What is the worst outcome?
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Inspired by The Tower and what it represents. This is a spread for dealing with sudden change or loss.
The World Spread
Based off of The World card, this spread is to help figure out what you are wanting to accomplish; be a project, your life, whatever.
This is what happens why you lie in bed unable to sleep, pondering what the point of your life is. :P
A spread to use during a new moon to help you start anew for that month and begin working on new things.
1. Where to start: this is the basic broad card stating simply what it is that you should aim to achieve. What is your new goal for this month? What should you focus on? A skill? Your job? Your relationships? etc
2. Why is it important: why is it important that you start or focus on this goal? Will it effect the outcome of other things? Will it help you avoid conflict or disaster? Is it a first step in a chain of things?
3. How should I begin: What should be your first step to achieve this goal?
4. What trials will I face: what hardships may come along with this goal? Will it be emotionally trying? Financial? Is it going outside of your comfort zone?
5. Any advice on this new goal: pretty simple. What advice does your deck have to offer to you during this new process.
SPREADS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
1. NEW RELATIONSHIP
1. What I bring to the relationship. 2. What the other person brings to the relationship. 3. Nature of the relationship for me 4. Challenges to the relationship for me. 5. How the relationship will progress.
2. FINDING THE RIGHT MATE
What I need to know about myself in partnership
What am I looking for in a partner?
Positive qualities I bring to a relationship.
Obstacles within myself to finding the right partner
What will help me find a new partner?
3. RELATIONSHIP SPREAD (for a specific loved one)
General situation between you and your object of desire.
How he/she feels about you.
How you feel about him/her.
Obstacles to a relationship with this person.
Outcome/Advice (answer to “Is this person for me?
4. GROWING TO RELATIONSHIP
Lay out six cards in an upward diagonal from left to right. Card 1: Where I am right now in my love journey. Cards 2-5: Lessons I need to learn or steps I need to take to attain love. Card 6: Outcome.
5. FUTURE LOVE
My future true love
Will the attraction be instant or a gradual awakening?
What will this person be like?
Challenges I’ll face.
What will help us along?
When/where/how will I meet this person?
6. LOVED ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE
How is my loved one doing?
Anything my loved one wants to say to me.
What’s it like on the other side?
How can I best support you?
7. YOUR CHILD
1. What my child came into life to learn. 2. How my child is doing now 3. What graces my child. 4. What my child needs from me. 5. Where the child is headed at this time?
8. YOUR PET
1. What my pet is feeling. 2. What my pet is trying to tell me. 3. What my pet most wants from me. 4. What I can do to help my pet. 5. My pet’s general health.
9. PERSON YOU DON’T LIKE SPREAD
What is it I don’t like about this person?
What is it that this person triggers within me that I have been avoiding?
How might this person be a teacher for me?
What obstacles are there to my learning?
What do I need in order to grow from this relationship?
SPREADS ABOUT YOUR PURPOSE, LESSONS, SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
10. BLIND SIDE SPREAD
This is your outside appearance; what you know and others can see.
This is the unknown; what you’re not aware of, no one can see, but what is ruling.
This is the hidden; what you know but won’t show others.
This is the blind spot; what you can’t see but what others see in you.
11. DHARMA SPREAD (SPIRITUAL LIFE LESSONS)
What is my lesson right now?
How can I grow spiritually at this time?
How else can I grow spiritually at this time?
What’s my biggest challenge at this time?
Where am I headed?
12. MANDALA SPREAD
Overview of myself
Ambitions, goals
Achievements
Dependencies, faulty beliefs
Strengths
13. THE WORLD BEYOND
What is it like on the other side?
What does the other side have to teach me?
Why do we come here?
Anything else to know about the other side.
14. INNER PEACE SPREAD
1: Quality within me that leads me to inner peace. 2: Obstacle within me to attaining inner peace. 3: If there is any one thing I should be doing to achieve inner peace? 4: Something in my environment that helps or blocks me. 5: Outcome
15. SELF DISCOVERY SPREAD
1. Who have I been? 2. Who am I? 3. Who am I becoming?
16. SIX STEPS TO FULFILLMENT
Lay out six cards in an upward diagonal from left to right. Card 1: Where I am right now in my journey to fulfillment. Card 2-5: Lessons I need to learn to reach fulfillment. Card 6: Outcome.
17. PATH TO HAPPINESS
1. What are the strengths I bring to every situation? 3. What quality in myself should I develop more? 4. Where am I headed in the short-term? 5. Where am I headed in the long-term? 18. MY PURPOSE – by Vicky
What is the purpose that I was brought here to fulfill?
What obstacles do I need to get over?
3 Lessons (lay out 3 cards) I need to learn along the way.
Who or what can help me attain my goal?
What can I give to the world?
19. TREASURE WITHIN ME by Linda
1. How do other people perceive me? 2. What is my shining self? 3. What is my inner most passion? 4. What is hidden within me that is waiting to be discovered?
20. MY PURPOSE THIS LIFETIME by Irene
What did you come into this world for this lifetime?
What did you come into your specific family for?
What is the specific emotion that’s been most difficult for you to learn to use to your advantage this time?
What is your biggest challenge this time around?
What will be your greatest gift this time?
What is your greatest lesson this time?
CAREER, MONEY, HEALTH
21. CAREER SPREAD (FINDING MY LIFE’S WORK)
What I am good at doing.
What I enjoy doing.
My calling.
Biggest challenge within myself
Issues in my environment I should know about.
Anything else I should understand about finding my right work
The next best step to bring me to my true work.
Someone who will help me along the way.
Outcome
22. MONEY
1. My current financial situation. 2. What is the lesson here for me regarding money? 3. Who or what project will bring in more money? 4. Outcome
23. HEALTH SPREAD
1: What is the overall state of my health? 2: What is the overall state of my mind? 3: What is the overall state of my body? 4: What is the overall state of my spirit? 5: How do I integrate these parts of myself?
24. CHAKRA SPREAD Tells condition of your body’s energy centers
1: Root chakra – physical, including sexual, health 2: Hara – center of your being, digestion, overall life force 3: Solar Plexus – strength of will 4: Heart chakra – your love 5: Throat Chakra – communication center 6: Intellect Chakra – intellectual center 7: Crown Chakra – spiritual center
25. MY FOCUS AT THIS TIME IN MY LIFE
1: The issue that’s upper most in my mind. 2: Something more to know about it. 3: Obstacle to my focus. 4: What to do about it? 5: Outcome
26. EMPOWERMENT SPREAD
1: This is my power. 2: How it is best used. 3: What inhibits this power within me? 4: How can I bring it out more?
27. ESSENCE OF YOU AT THIS TIME
Soul card
Personality or external card
Crossing card or challenge
SPREADS ABOUT A SPECIFIC SITUATION & WHAT TO DO
28. EVENT SPREAD1.What does this event have in store for me? 2. What do I need to watch out for? 3. What can I do about it? 4. Result 29. ADVICE SPREAD
Problem
Background
Advice
30. DO THIS-DON’T DO THAT-SPREAD
Do This
Don’t Do This
Overview
31. UNDERSTANDING SELF IN ANY SITUATION
My inner self regarding a situation
My outer self regarding a situation
What I need to confront.
What’s helping me.
Outcome.
32. PROBLEM SOLVING SPREAD
Nature of the problem
What led up to the current problem
Current attitude/actions that preserve the status quo
Secondary gains from staying in the situation
Necessary changes in attitude/actions
Outcome
33. STALEMATE SPREAD
The overall conlict/situation
How they really feel about you
How you really feel about them
Common Grounds (what the 2 of you have in common and can use to help the situation)
Outcome
34. ADVERSITY SPREAD
Describe the situation I find myself in.
What do I fear?
What’s the lesson in it for me?
How might I end out benefiting from this situation?
Obstacles within me to my growth
Outcome at this time.
SPREADS ABOUT THE FUTURE
35. FUTURE DIRECTION by Pam
1. What do I need to progress? 2. Is there a positive help to be asked for? 3. Is there a venue to pursue?
36. PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE by Janet
Past
Relationships
Financial
Professional
Present
Relationships
Financial
Professional
Future
Relationships
Financial
Professional
37. THE NEXT DECADE OF MY LIFE by Melissa
What am I finishing now and leaving?
Who are my guides for this next journey?
What traits can I work on to achieve a more successful outcome?
What will be my new learn strengths?
Outcome?
38. WHAT’S AHEAD OF ME?
1. What you need to leave behind, to release. 2. What you must confront. 3. What you need to know. 4. What you attain.
39. PAST LIFE SPREAD by Sotiria
1. Show me a past life. 2. What was my purpose in that life? 3. What what my profession or avocation in that life? 4. What other family members were in that life? 5. Were there other people from this life in that life? 6. What lessons did I learn? 7. Did I fulfill my purpose?
SPREADS FOR SEASONS, MOON PHASES, PLANETARY SHIFTS
40. Full Moon Spread
What is my most important insight for my life at this time?
What message does spirit want to give me at this time?
What do I hope for in my life?
How can I live inside that hope?
Outcome.
41. Springtime Spread – Nurturing Growth Within Me
What’s ready to emerge from within me?
What must I overcome to push through?
How can I nourish it to grow and bear fruit? (2 cards)
Outcome
5 Super Easy Tarot Tricks Anyone Can Do
1. For a situation that is not going your way
Find the Wheel of Fortune in your deck, the two cards on either side are the solutions to your problem
2. To bring money to you
Pull out the 1st, 5th, 10th, 20th and 50th card in your deck. These cards will tell you how to bring amounts of money your way.
3. To find the root of a romantic conflict
Find The Lovers. The cards on either side are conflicts surrounding the relationship.
4. To Leave behind sadness
Find The Moon and The Sun. The cards in between them are the order of steps you must take to move forward.
5. To look into your near future
Find your nearest Birth Card, the first card beneath it is what is approaching soonest.
A new spread for unclear situations.
This could be used for specific situations: (i.e. a failing relationship, family problems) or in a more general reading for self-healing.