Reading of Tarot Cards
How do I read the cards? If you found yourself asking what a “three-card spread” is, this is the section for you. There are lots of ways to read tarot cards, and often the directions that come with your cards will include pictures of the most popular spreads . These include the simple three-card spread, the Celtic cross, and a seven-day spread, but you’ll soon learn that there’s a spread for any situation , and you can always make up your own, too. A three-card spread has the reader pull three cards from the deck after it’s been shuffled and halved by the querent (more on that in a moment). Usually, the first called pulled represents the past, the second represents the present, and the third represents the future. How those timelines are interpreted depends on the reading and the question being asked — “future” might mean tomorrow or it might mean 10 years from now. Another common use for tarot cards is a daily card reading, wherein a single card is pulled from t...