41 Tarot Spreads for

Reading Any Situation

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Jeanne Mayell
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Half the skill in using the Tarot is posing good questions. Below are
spreads covering every aspect of your life your purpose, growth,
money, love, health, pet, even loved ones on the other side. Scroll down
and find the spread that fits your interest. Shuffle, then lay down a card
from left to right for each question. Try this with a friend so that you can
help each other with your interpretations. For those of you dont read
cards, these questions can help you think through an issue.
SPREADS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
1. NEW RELATIONSHIP
1. What I bring to the relationship.
2. What the other person brings to the relationship.
3. Nature of the relationship for me
4. Challenges to the relationship for me.
5. How the relationship will progress.
2. FINDING THE RIGHT MATE
1.

What I need to know about myself in partnership

2.

What am I looking for in a partner?

3.

Positive qualities I bring to a relationship.

4.

Obstacles within myself to finding the right partner

5.

What will help me find a new partner?

3. RELATIONSHIP SPREAD (for a specific loved one)

1.

General situation between you and your object of desire.

2.

How he/she feels about you.

3.

How you feel about him/her.

4.

Obstacles to a relationship with this person.

5.

Outcome/Advice (answer to Is this person for me?

4. GROWING TO RELATIONSHIP
Lay out six cards in an upward diagonal from left to right.
Card 1: Where I am right now in my love journey.
Cards 2-5: Lessons I need to learn or steps I need to take to attain love.
Card 6: Outcome.
5. FUTURE LOVE
1.

My future true love

2.

Will the attraction be instant or a gradual awakening?

3.

What will this person be like?

4.

Challenges Ill face.

5.

What will help us along?

6.

When/where/how will I meet this person?

6. LOVED ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE

1.

How is my loved one doing?

2.

Anything my loved one wants to say to me.

3.

Whats it like on the other side?

4.

How can I best support you?

7. YOUR CHILD
1. What my child came into life to learn.
2. How my child is doing now
3. What graces my child.
4. What my child needs from me.
5. Where the child is headed at this time?

8. YOUR PET
1. What my pet is feeling.
2. What my pet is trying to tell me.
3. What my pet most wants from me.
4. What I can do to help my pet.
5. My pets general health.
9. PERSON YOU DONT LIKE SPREAD
1.

What is it I dont like about this person?

2.

What is it that this person triggers within me that I have been

avoiding?

3.

How might this person be a teacher for me?

4.

What obstacles are there to my learning?

5.

What do I need in order to grow from this relationship?

6.
SPREADS ABOUT YOUR PURPOSE, LESSONS, SPIRITUAL
DEVELOPMENT
10. BLIND SIDE SPREAD
1.

This is your outside appearance; what you know and others can
see.

2.

This is the unknown; what youre not aware of, no one can see, but
what is ruling.

3.

This is the hidden; what you know but wont show others.

4.

This is the blind spot; what you cant see but what others see in
you.

11. DHARMA SPREAD (SPIRITUAL LIFE LESSONS)

1.

What is my lesson right now?

2.

How can I grow spiritually at this time?

3.

How else can I grow spiritually at this time?

4.

Whats my biggest challenge at this time?

5.

Where am I headed?

12. MANDALA SPREAD

1.

Overview of myself

2.

Ambitions, goals

3.

Achievements

4.

Dependencies, faulty beliefs

5.

Strengths

13. THE WORLD BEYOND

1.

What is it like on the other side?

2.

What does the other side have to teach me?

3.

Why do we come here?

4.

Anything else to know about the other side.

14. INNER PEACE SPREAD

1: Quality within me that leads me to inner peace.
2: Obstacle within me to attaining inner peace.
3: If there is any one thing I should be doing to achieve inner peace?
4: Something in my environment that helps or blocks me.
5: Outcome
15. SELF DISCOVERY SPREAD
1. Who have I been?
2. Who am I?
3. Who am I becoming?
16. SIX STEPS TO FULFILLMENT
Lay out six cards in an upward diagonal from left to right.
Card 1: Where I am right now in my journey to fulfillment.
Card 2-5: Lessons I need to learn to reach fulfillment.
Card 6: Outcome.
17. PATH TO HAPPINESS
1. What are the strengths I bring to every situation?
3. What quality in myself should I develop more?
4. Where am I headed in the short-term?

5. Where am I headed in the long-term?

18. MY PURPOSE by Vicky
1.

What is the purpose that I was brought here to fulfill?

2.

What obstacles do I need to get over?

3.

3 Lessons (lay out 3 cards) I need to learn along the way.

4.

Who or what can help me attain my goal?

5.

What can I give to the world?

19. TREASURE WITHIN ME by Linda

1. How do other people perceive me?
2. What is my shining self?
3. What is my inner most passion?
4. What is hidden within me that is waiting to be discovered?
20. MY PURPOSE THIS LIFETIME by Irene
1.

What did you come into this world for this lifetime?

2.

What did you come into your specific family for?

3.

What is the specific emotion thats been most difficult for you to
learn to use to your advantage this time?

4.

What is your biggest challenge this time around?

5.

What will be your greatest gift this time?

6.

What is your greatest lesson this time?

CAREER, MONEY, HEALTH

21. CAREER SPREAD (FINDING MY LIFES WORK)
1.

What I am good at doing.

2.

What I enjoy doing.

3.

My calling.

4.

Biggest challenge within myself

5.

Issues in my environment I should know about.

6.

Anything else I should understand about finding my right work

7.

The next best step to bring me to my true work.

8.

Someone who will help me along the way.

9.

Outcome

22. MONEY

1. My current financial situation.

2. What is the lesson here for me regarding money?
3. Who or what project will bring in more money?
4. Outcome
23. HEALTH SPREAD
1: What is the overall state of my health?
2: What is the overall state of my mind?
3: What is the overall state of my body?
4: What is the overall state of my spirit?
5: How do I integrate these parts of myself?
24. CHAKRA SPREAD Tells condition of your bodys energy centers
1: Root chakra physical, including sexual, health
2: Hara center of your being, digestion, overall life force
3: Solar Plexus strength of will
4: Heart chakra your love
5: Throat Chakra communication center
6: Intellect Chakra intellectual center
7: Crown Chakra spiritual center
25. MY FOCUS AT THIS TIME IN MY LIFE
1: The issue thats upper most in my mind.
2: Something more to know about it.
3: Obstacle to my focus.
4: What to do about it?
5: Outcome
26. EMPOWERMENT SPREAD
1: This is my power.
2: How it is best used.
3: What inhibits this power within me?
4: How can I bring it out more?

27. ESSENCE OF YOU AT THIS TIME

1.

Soul card

2.

Personality or external card

3.

Crossing card or challenge

SPREADS ABOUT A SPECIFIC SITUATION & WHAT TO DO

28. EVENT SPREAD1.What does this event have in store for me?
2. What do I need to watch out for?
3. What can I do about it?
4. Result
29. ADVICE SPREAD
1. Problem
2. Background
3. Advice
30. DO THIS-DONT DO THAT-SPREAD
1. Do This
2. Dont Do This
3. Overview
31. UNDERSTANDING SELF IN ANY SITUATION
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

My inner self regarding a situation

My outer self regarding a situation
What I need to confront.
Whats helping me.
Outcome.

32. PROBLEM SOLVING SPREAD

1.

Nature of the problem

2.

What led up to the current problem

3.

Current attitude/actions that preserve the status quo

4.

Secondary gains from staying in the situation

5.

Necessary changes in attitude/actions

6.

Outcome

33. STALEMATE SPREAD

1.

The overall conlict/situation

2.

How they really feel about you

3.

How you really feel about them

4.

Common Grounds (what the 2 of you have in common and can use
to help the situation)

5.

Outcome

34. ADVERSITY SPREAD

1.

Describe the situation I find myself in.

2.

What do I fear?

3.

Whats the lesson in it for me?

4.

How might I end out benefiting from this situation?

5.

Obstacles within me to my growth

6.

Outcome at this time.

SPREADS ABOUT THE FUTURE

35. FUTURE DIRECTION by Pam
1. What do I need to progress?
2. Is there a positive help to be asked for?
3. Is there a venue to pursue?
36. PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE by Janet
1.

2.

3.

Past
A.

Relationships

B.

Financial

C.

Professional

Present
A.

Relationships

B.

Financial

C.

Professional

Future
A.

Relationships

B.

Financial

C.

Professional

37. THE NEXT DECADE OF MY LIFE by Melissa

1.

What am I finishing now and leaving?

2.

Who are my guides for this next journey?

3.

What traits can I work on to achieve a more successful outcome?

4.

What will be my new learn strengths?

5.

Outcome?

38. WHATS AHEAD OF ME?

1. What you need to leave behind, to release.

2. What you must confront.
3. What you need to know.
4. What you attain.
39. PAST LIFE SPREAD by Sotiria
1. Show me a past life.
2. What was my purpose in that life?
3. What what my profession or avocation in that life?
4. What other family members were in that life?
5. Were there other people from this life in that life?
6. What lessons did I learn?
7. Did I fulfill my purpose?
SPREADS FOR SEASONS, MOON PHASES, PLANETARY SHIFTS
40. Full Moon Spread
1.

What is my most important insight for my life at this time?

2.

What message does spirit want to give me at this time?

3.

What do I hope for in my life?

4.

How can I live inside that hope?

5.

Outcome.

41. Springtime Spread Nurturing Growth Within Me

Whats ready to emerge from within me?

What must I overcome to push through?

How can I nourish it to grow and bear fruit? (2 cards)

Outcome