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Class Tarot01
Session VI : The Three Card Tarot Spread
Please gather the following items and prepare a flat, level surface for this next exercise as we learn how to do a Three Card Tarot spread.
- Your Rider-Waite Tarot Deck
- A Pad of Paper
- A Pen or Pencil
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Shuffle your deck, face down, very well. There is no right or wrong way to do this. Shuffle your deck until you are sure that all of the cards are completely randomized and the energy has been dispersed from any earlier readings, no matter how long ago that has been.
Work with yourself or with your client and formalize your inquiry or question using the steps from the last session. State your question out loud. This would be the first thing you will write on your pad or paper.
Have the client shuffle the deck for as long as they want. When the cards are sufficiently randomized, place the deck down in a single pile in front of you. With your right hand, cut the deck into three separate piles to your right. If you are reading for another, have the client do this to their right. You should have three separate piles when finished. The piles do not have to be the same heights. Place them in a row from left to right. This allows the higher self a chance to interact with their regular self and with the cards.
Now ask the client which pile goes first. If you are reading for yourself, allow yourself to feel which pile goes first. This will be the pile that is on the top. Bring the three piles together with the chosen pile on the top of the deck. When you are reading for another, be sure that when you pick up the cards, you turn the deck to face you. Your client was shuffling and placing the piles facing themselves, so now you want them facing you in the same manner for proper interpretation.
Start with the first card (A). Be sure that you are not flipping the cards around when turning them over. Simply place them down and turn them over. Give the client the meaning of the card as you turn the card over. Then ask your client what they see. What does this card illicit in them? The meanings of the cards are not changed by what your client has to say, though what a card means to a client may be uniquely different than what the meaning means to you. Investigate how the reading is landing for the client. Remember to stay with them and not to start second guessing yourself. The cards are carrying the information from their higher self, your higher self and nature. You are a vehicle to help the client understand the answers and you supply a piece that must be in the mix: humanity and compassion.
This card slot represents issues, people, occurrences of the past, as it relates to the client's question. The past can be defined as 3 months ago all the way back to childhood. Typically we hold that the past is between 3 months ago and 10 years ago.
This card slot represents the present issues, people, occurrences and information now at hand, as it relates to the client's question. The present is defined as beginning 3 months ago and extending one month from now.
This card slot represents the future issues, people, occurrences and information to come, as it relates to the client's question. The future is defined as one month from now extending for three months ahead.
When you are through, and you have reviewed all of the cards and their correspondence to one another, be sure that you have written them down for yourself and/or your client. Ask if there are any other places to look deeper. This may be your next question for another spread. When you are finished, pick up the cards in any order and shuffle them very well. Hug your client, they just opened themselves to you and to their own understanding!
- Remember that you set the intention of the reading before you begin your reading.
- Set the card placement positions (Past, Present, Future)
- Connect with your Higher Self and ask your querent to connect with theirs.
- Be open and allow your intuition to help you.
- Use the on-line documentation to help you define the meaning of the cards and then look between the cards to see their relationship to one another. (i.e.: what force helped the situation move from the past into the present? What then occurred to move them from the present into the future?)
- Ask powerful questions where appropriate.
- Have fun. The Tarot are not a tool of suppression or anxiety - they are a door to one's center - an open heart.
Session Three Homework
- Homework: Spend some time working with the three card spread. Lay out readings for yourself, your family and your friends. Record your spreads and journal about your feelings, your learnings and your insights into the cards as you read with them.
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Author
Steve Johnston, MA, PsyD-dba
SteveJohnston.Org
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