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Tarot Spreads: Which One to Use

A spread is the layout of the cards: how many you pull and what each position means. Here are the seven you can do on Cartiluna, when each one helps, and what every position reads.

Pick a spread by the kind of question

A good rule: the more cards, the more the reading is about understanding, and the fewer cards, the more it is about deciding. If you cannot put the question into one sentence, start with the three card spread; if you can, the yes or no tarot will probably do.

Yes or No Tarot

When to use it: You need a decision, not a story: "Should I take the offer?", "Will they text back?"

Positions (1):

  1. Your answer: yes, no, or maybe, with the reason

Card of the Day

When to use it: A daily check-in, a light question, or learning the cards one at a time.

Positions (3):

  1. The card's meaning
  2. For you, right now
  3. Coming up

Love Tarot

When to use it: A relationship, a crush, an ex, or wondering what is coming for your heart.

Positions (3):

  1. You
  2. The other person (or what is coming)
  3. Where it is headed

Career Tarot

When to use it: A job you have, a job you want, a promotion, or a change of direction at work.

Positions (3):

  1. Your work (or search) right now
  2. What is shifting (or opening)
  3. What comes next

Three Card Tarot

When to use it: You want to see where a situation came from and where it is going.

Positions (3):

  1. Past
  2. Present
  3. Future

Love, Money & Health

When to use it: A monthly check-up across the three things people worry about most.

Positions (3):

  1. Love
  2. Money
  3. Health & well-being

Celtic Cross

When to use it: A big, layered question with history: the ten-card classic.

Positions (10):

  1. The situation
  2. The challenge
  3. The foundation
  4. The recent past
  5. The best outcome
  6. The near future
  7. You
  8. Your environment
  9. Hopes and fears
  10. The outcome

A few habits that make any spread read better

Ask one question at a time, and ask it before you touch the deck, not after. Read each card in its position first, then look at the whole: repeated suits, several Major Arcana, two cards that seem to contradict each other. Treat reversed cards as the same energy blocked or delayed, not as a curse. And do not repeat the same spread on the same question the same day. If the answer bothers you, that is the answer doing its job.

Every card's upright and reversed meaning, in love, career, and health, is in thetarot card meanings guide.

Tarot is for entertainment purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice.