Set my place

Ready for another twist on reading Tarot cards?

1. Choose a spread with five or more cards and pre-determined spread positions (such as the Celtic Cross or Horoscope spreads, which work well for this technique).
2. Shuffle your deck, and start drawing the cards the way you usually would. The twist is, as you draw each card, look at it and decide where you would like the card to go. Not where you think the card ‘belongs’ in the spread, as in The chosen cards, but where you want it to go. Perhaps you draw the Tower, and because you don’t want this card in your present or future, you put it in Past. If you draw the Ten of Cups, you might like the card in the Home/Environment position. Get it?
3. Now for the catch: you may not move the card once you have placed it, and you have to place the cards one by one as you draw them. This means you might draw an even better card for a certain position, but if you already have a card there, you have to place the current card somewhere else. It also means that the positions grow fewer as you place cards. If you have only the position for You (card 7 in the Celtic Cross) open, and the last card you draw is the Devil, well … time for some reflection!
4. Now read the cards as you would an ordinary spread, but also take note why you placed the cards where you did.

More twists on reading a Tarot spread

The chosen cards

Where does it go?

The backwards story

The back-to-front reading

An inside-out reading