Tarot Spreads: How to Read Them, Create Them, and Revise Them

Summary

For many who read tarot—and those new to tarot—spreads can offer power, clarity, and purpose to readings. Tarot spreads, intentional arrangements for tarot cards that include a particular meaning or prompt for each card, help us to ask focused, direct questions. Meg Jones Wall takes you to the very foundation of tarot spreads so that you can understand how and why a spread is created and how it works. This book will walk you through reading spreads as well as writing and revising original spreads, giving you everything you need to understand, develop, tweak, and test tarot spreads.

Meg encourages you to release yourself from the expectation that you need to use a spread precisely as written in order to get the full benefit. Spreads are customizable to suit your own needs, preferences, and experience level. While the cards can offer clarity in a variety of ways, tarot spreads can help us be more direct about what we want to know, explore, question, and understand. No matter our question, concern, or situation, tarot spreads empower us.

At the core of every spread are the prompts—the meanings given to each card positioned in a layout. Meg offers over 200 prompts and suggestions for a variety of intentions and includes special recommended spreads for lunar cycles, the zodiac, the archetypes, the sabbats, the elements, and more.