Sample tarot card layout: Seven-day tarot spread
1st Mar 2008
Now, once you have used your own psychic energy (your thoughts, infused with your spirit) to cleanse the vibration of commerce and other people from your new tarot deck, you are ready to do a tarot card reading. Well, almost. That is, first, you want to choose a format, or how many tarot cards you are going to place, in what order, and what you are seeking to learn from the tarot cards when you toss them. Part of the choice of layout will depend upon the question asked of the tarot. The tarot reader will, of course, shuffle the cards well, or have the querent (person you are reading for) shuffle them, and cut them at least 3 times with your/her left hand first*).
An easy reading to get started with is the 7 day tarot card reading. A seven day reading gives the querent what s/he expects: a reading that covers what energies will be present in the next seven days. After the cards are shuffled and cut, the reader will deal out seven cards, in a horizontal row. Next, before analyzing the cards, the reader will deal seven more cards, one on top of each of the previous seven cards. Two cards are required for each day because the focus of a psychic reading is always energy. Energy is always in motion; and, the tarot cards interact.
The Tarot Card Interact
The first set of tarot cards reflect the energies for the next day. It is important for the tarot reader to pay attention to the potential interactions of the two cards and hence the two energies. What also must be considered is the energy of the querent. I have found that the querent’s energy is often reflected in the position of the card. For example, if the card is positive, such as the Wheel of Fortune, and it lands upright in the reading, the querent will interact with the positive energy in a positive way, and (with this tarot card), there is likely a positive result: that is, a great day with some goal realized.
Reversed tarot cards
If however, the wheel of fortune comes up reversed, (or similarly, if it covered by another card that is not so positive, such as the ten of swords) then the outlook for that day is not as positive, and the cards are more difficult to read. Perhaps the querent will have a great opportunity but will take an inappropriate stance and will not realize on the potential positive energy. Perhaps the querent will get the benefit of the energy, but will have to overcome some drama or other obstacle before acquiring the goal. Look to the specific meanings of the accompanying card to clarify as much as possible during the tarot reading.
Tarot card readers generally think that if a card lands reversed the meaning is the opposite of the card’s meaning when it lands upright. Although this is a good general way to look at it, a tarot reader should not be so specific about the “rules” (because there are none, really). When one asks the tarot, there are many layers of answers that are revealed. It could mean something a little more abstract.
The next two cards will reflect the energies for the day after the day following the reading, and so forth, until the reader details the querent’s (or her own) next week. The reading will get less precise as time goes on. This is because reading tarot cards and telling fortunes are prophetic arts. And, people change all the time. When a person changes, her or his energy changes. How the person thus interacts with the energies coming into her or his life will hence be different. Over time, a shift in a person’s energy will ultimately affect what energies will come into her or his life, rendering any previous reading even less accurate. The reason that a psychic reading tends to be relatively accurate is because most people do not change themselves very quickly or very often (there are many exceptions to this generalization). Use this information to remind yourself that every day is a new opportunity to change how we interact with world, and hence change the world we live in.
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Coming soon: More layouts for the tarot card reading, including, the most popular full layout, the cross or the Celtic cross. Then, I will begin my discussion of my study of the tarot cards themselves.
* why the left hand to cut the cards? The tarot card reader want to get the logical, left brain out of the way as much as possible. In general, the right half of the brain controls the movements of the left arm and hand. Hence, using the left hand will preferentially engage the right hemisphere of the brain, which is more in contact with instinct, spirit and the unconscious. Thus, the tarot card reader is in a better state, energy-wise for the tarot reading.
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