Tarot School - Lesson 4, page 1/6How you lay cards |
In this Lesson we will look at how you lay the cards out to do readings and we move on now from working for yourself to reading for other people too. You can be sure that once your friends know you can read the cards they will ask you for readings so best to get some practice in now! This lesson will show you how to do readings for others but remember you can use these to read for yourself as well, but always be sure you are being 100 % honest with yourself when you do.
So now that we have seen how to use the cards we need to know what to do with them! It is important that you give your cards a good shuffle and perhaps let the client shuffle them as well. Some readers like to cut the pack into 3 and ask the client to choose which one they want. Other readers spread the cards out in a fan and ask the client to pick the cards they want.
Spreads are usually designed to answers specific questions and experience tells us that the most common areas asked about by clients are: Love and Relationships, Money and Career, Health, and Family/Home. In general, clients want a general view of what is happening and why and what is likely to happen and why. Reading the Tarot is not about telling clients what to do, it is about helping them to help themselves, so do bear this in mind when you work with the cards.
Perhaps the simplest spread of all we could say is just to pick one card from the whole deck in response to a client’s question and lay this down. Give your interpretation, let the client respond and take another card, interpret that and just keep going until the reading comes to a natural end.
