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Begin a reading

Open questions work best — what, how, what do I need to understand — rather than yes or no. Or leave it blank for general guidance.

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Your reader

Every reader works from the same traditional meanings; they differ in voice.

Cards can land upside down, as they do from a well-shuffled deck. Reversals soften, delay or turn a card's meaning inward.

Choose a spread

Celtic Cross

The ten-card spread A. E. Waite published in 1911 as "most suitable for obtaining an answer to a definite question." Laid out exactly as in his diagram, with an optional Significator.

  1. 1What covers
  2. 2What crosses
  3. 3What crowns
  4. 4What is beneath
  5. 5What is behind
  6. 6What is before
  7. 7Yourself
  8. 8Your house
  9. 9Hopes and fears
  10. 10What will come

Waite's method: a card chosen to stand for you (or the matter) is set down first, and card 1 covers it.

Next, you’ll shuffle, cut and draw the cards yourself.