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I've been seeing, and finding out about, a lot of new Tarot spreads here at A.T. This has got me to wondering... How many different spread do you use on a regular basis? Right now I've been using the Celtic Cross, a 5-card linear (past-present-future), and a couple of simple 3-card spreads. How about the rest of you?
SherryZoned
10-09-2002, 15:03
Depends on the question...For career, I use a career spread..Love sometimes a love spread sometimes not..It all depends...
wavebreaker
10-09-2002, 17:20
I have nearly 30 spreads in my journal, but there are only a few that I use on a regular basis.
The one I use most is a three-card spread: the Body-Mind-Spirit spread from Mary Greer's Tarot for Your Self, with all its variations. I find that these variations cover most questions.
Depending on how you look at it, I use either 3, or 300. I use the infamous 3 card spread, and many of it's permutations, my own variation of the celtic cross, and the spread Miss Cleo used(hey it really works!)
blackthorn
10-09-2002, 22:01
I always start with the celtic bloack and move on from there depending on many things My mood, the mood of the person i am reading, the weather, the moon phase. I guess i use about 15 different spreads. Thanks for making me think about it thought.
Violet Gargoyle
10-09-2002, 23:13
I only use 2- Celtic cross (even for my medicine cards!) and the three card spread. And usually the latter only as I am getting to know a new deck that I want to read with.
It really depends whether I am reading for myself or for querents. In readings for querents I usually use smaller spreads with less than 13 cards, for myself I use spreads with 20 - 30 cards. I have around 10 regular spreads for querents and about the same number for myself.
Originally posted by Phoenix
Depending on how you look at it, I use either 3, or 300. I use the infamous 3 card spread, and many of it's permutations, my own variation of the celtic cross, and the spread Miss Cleo used(hey it really works!)
Okay Phoenix... what is the spread that Miss Cleo used???
Phoenix: I, too, would like to know what spread Miss Cleo used. Would you share it, please? Thanks!
Starfish
11-09-2002, 09:02
Originally posted by MeeWah
Phoenix: I, too, would like to know what spread Miss Cleo used. Would you share it, please? Thanks!
I'm with Trogon and MeeWah, please share Miss Cleo's spread!
:TEMPS Starfish
Originally posted by Starfish
I'm with Trogon and MeeWah, please share Miss Cleo's spread!
:TEMPS Starfish
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1018&highlight=%2Acleo%2A
halfway down the thread. The spread is calld 4 Doors.
Umbrae: Thanks! & a belated thanks is due New2Tarot, who posted it originally...
I just use three spreads consistently, although I like to play with additional ones from time to time.
Laurel
DarkElectric
11-09-2002, 12:46
I use a lot of different spreads, and have 'The Complete Book of Tarot spreads" by Evelin Burger and Johannes Fiebig to thank for this. There have been quite a few spreads I have found in there which I see as more appropriate to different reading situations than the good old tried and true Celtic Cross. Whaen I was just learning, however, I used the CC exclusively until I really felt I had a decent understanding of the cards, and how they all relate to each other in a spread. This made it a lot easier to branch out into more diverse spreads. At least it did for me.
Yup. That would be the one! Actually, I use that one almost exclusively. It is actually very insightful!