crazelion said:
Hi all,
I am having trouble making my reading longer. I feeling that short change my readings with all the short readings. I am not really good with words and have hard time writing.
Do have any ideas on how to make my readings longer?
judging by this post, I am thinking that you only read 3 to 5 cards in a reading? why not try expanding to 7 or 10 cards. practice with that and when you become comfortable reading with more cards, then you can also continue to add more. there are quite alot of spreads here on A.T. that are medium (7 + cards) to large spreads, (12+ cards) and very large---using ALL the cards.
you can also expand on your short 3 or 5 card reading, by adding more cards to clarify a situation that appeared in your original reading. If for instance you read that a love interest will soon appear to someone because you saw the knight of cups, why not ask a few more questions about him-(the love interest)--what does he look like? what does he do for a living? etc.
when I began reading, I used a 15 card spread that, though it sounds like an awful lot of cards, it was quite easy. the first 3 cards would speak of the current situation the client was experiencing, the cards 3 to 6 would speak of their past, usually immediate past. cards 7-9 were immediate future up to 3mos., cards 10-12 dealt with the future 3mos-6mos. and the last 3 cards were for the far future up to 1yr. It is a reading I often fall back on, especially for a first reading for a new client. It covers a lot and on average will take 20 to 30minutes unless you expand on it with more clarifying cards.
there are many ways to expand on reading to make it longer. my suggestion is for you to just search for a few larger spreads at first and become aquainted with them and then expand on clarifying cards too---to get comfortable with reading larger spreads.