TAROT: THE SPREAD
THE SELF SEEDS AND THE SOUL TREE
By: Jenny Sieck
Glad to be writing about Tarot Reading again as the sun rises higher in the sky today. She’s coming out delighted to warm us by embracing the gentle resonance each of us embody as we explore unique languages of rootedness on mother earth. All of us like the branches of trees yearn for the increased light springtime brings. It is learning to embrace this light that helps people to become aware attuned tarot readers. And following intuition for each person is a unique subtle journey. Often trusting our inner guidance has to do with leaving behind fixed principles that no longer speak to us on our life path. However while you are learning to feel your own resonance more deeply it can be helpful to understand some rules or structure in order to honor the basics. So with this in mind, the tarot provides a map --a hypothetical human story about you’re client. Who they could be and what they may be facing. We can tap into this story by noticing the different ways the cards speak and honor the intuitive truths they bring to our awareness. In future articles we will look at the tarot through different complimentary lenses. However, in this article I will cover one of the more fixed aspects of reading the patterns of cards in the layout. Each card placement represents a different aspect of what your client may be facing. Each layout or spread is distributed the same way each time. This helps the reader to create and later intuit a story that has somewhat fixed aspects. This said, there are different layouts to choose from.