Reading in Practice
Asking questions, spreads, reversals and combinations, applied topic by topic
Techniques
- How to Ask a Question The way a question is worded sets the quality of the answer. Turning a vague concern into a precise question is part of
- The Reading Process Knowing the meanings of all 78 cards by heart does not make you a reader. Reading is the process of weaving the card mea
- Reading Reversals Treating a reversal as the simple opposite of the upright meaning is the shortcut beginners take most often, and it is a
- Elemental Dignities Elemental dignities are an advanced technique handed down from the Golden Dawn tradition: instead of reading each card i
- Energy Flow The direction the figures face is also a clue. Where the energy between cards flows, where it comes to rest and where it
- Timing and Place Tarot images rarely point directly to an exact time or place, so readers convert them through correspondence systems suc
Spreads
- Tarot Spreads A spread is a fixed layout for drawing cards, and each position in it has its own meaning. The complexity of the spread
- Spreads in Meow Tarot The twelve spreads you can choose from when drawing cards in the app: how many cards each uses, what it looks at, which
- The Three-Card Spread The most common beginner spread: decide how the three positions divide the work before you ask, or set no positions at a
- The Two-Choice Spread A five-card spread for decisions: options A and B must be clearly defined before drawing, and in the reading the outcome
- The Five-Element Spread A five-card spread built on the pentagram, with Spirit at the top point and Air, Fire, Water and Earth at the other four
- The Celtic Cross The most classic ten-card general spread, with wide coverage, suited to big, less focused questions such as "what is goi
- Relationship Spreads Three common spreads for relationship questions, the five-card Lover’s Cross, the eight-card Venus Love and the nine-car
- Career and Year-Ahead Spreads The seven-card Zeus career spread, and the approach to yearly forecasting where N cards stand for N units of time.
- Designing Your Own Spread When no existing spread fits, you can design your own. It does not have to be wholly original: swapping new themes into
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