Tarot Spreads: Layouts & Techniques to Empower Your Readings

by Barbara Moore

Overview

Bring power, precision, and depth to your tarot readings with this helpful and easy-to-use tarot book. It presents techniques usually found only in workshops, plus nearly seventy different themed spreads so you can choose or create the perfect spread for any question or purpose.

Tarot expert Barbara Moore explains what makes a great tarot spread and why, including how the principles of design and psychological response play a part. In addition to simple techniques that will make your readings more fun and more accurate, you will discover new ways to help you create a reading style that is all your own.

• Select a spread and use it effectively for guidance in important areas: love and relationships, achieving goals, spiritual journeys, financial abundance, health, and situation-specific advice
• Create your own spreads and modify a classic spread
• Perform a 78-card reading to deepen your understanding of tarot

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738727844
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	04/08/2012
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Barbara Moore (Saint Paul, MN) has been in love with tarot for over 35 years. She has shuffled her cards and taught tarot all over the world. Now she embraces her Hermit self, writing books and creating decks. Her Steampunk Tarot, Good Fortune Tarot, and Trick or Treat Tarot are among her favorites.

Table of Contents

List of Spreads xi

Introduction xv

Chapter 1 Tarot Spread Basics 1

Chapter 2 Design Principles and Layouts 15

Chapter 3 A Collection of Spreads 35

Chapter 4 Techniques to Add to Any Spread 143

Chapter 5 How to Modify Spreads 157

Chapter 6 Do-It-Yourself Spread Design 167

Chapter 7 How to Do a 78-Card Reading 193

Conclusion 201

Spread Cross-References 203

Annotated Reading List 209

Appendix A Curious Old Spreads 213

Appendix B Elemental Dignities 223

Appendix C Significators 227