Barbara Moore - Tarot Spreads: Layouts & Techniques to Empower Your Readings

The tarot has been a part of Barbara Moores personal and professional lives for over two decades. In college, the tarot intrigued her with its marvelous blending of mythology, psychology, art, and history. Today she continues her tarot journey, both by learning from others and by sharing her ideas through writing and teaching. Indeed, this erstwhile Hermit is discovering that she is enjoying traveling all over the world to share her love of tarot.

Barbara enjoys the challenge of giving a voice to tarot decks. She has had the good fortune to write books for several decks, including A Guide to Mystic Faerie Tarot , The Gilded Tarot Companion , The Mystic Dreamer Tarot , and The Steampunk Tarot Manual .

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Tarot Spreads: Layouts & Techniques to Empower Your Readings 2012 by Barbara Moore.

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tarot cards: Lo Scarabeo Tarot Lo Scarabeo, artwork by Anna Lazzarini

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Appendix B, Elemental Dignities, was previously published in Tarot for Beginners (Llewellyn, 2010)

Tarot cards on page 31 from Ciro Marchettis Gilded Tarot; page 87s cards are Rider Tarot illustrations based on those contained in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite, published by William Rider & Son Ltd., London, 1911; and page 176s cards are from Stephanie Pui-Mun Laws Shadowscapes Tarot

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spreads

note: Page references in this section refer directly to the page where a spread layout is pictured, if it is pictured. Each spreads text is located nearby (usually on a facing page whenever possible).

78Card (life overview/2-year forecast)

Abundance Profile (financial)

Achieving the Impossible (achieving a goal)

Acorn to Oak (achieving a goal)

Action Plan (problem-solving)

Answer the Call (spiritual journey)

Astrological (life overview)

Barbaras General

Big Picture (general/situation)

Bouquet (relationship)

Celtic Cross

Celtic Cross with Significator

Chakra (life overview)

ChallengeHow to Handle ItBest Advice (general/situation)

Choice ADeciding FactorChoice B (deciding between two choices)

Choices

Circle of Advisors (general/situation/advice)

Create a Meditation

Create a Vision or Mission Statement (create a focus for self or business)

Do ThisDont Do ThisOutcome (general/situation)

Elemental Advice (general/situation/advice)

Facing a Challenge (problem-solving/advice)

Generic Basic

Guiding Star (general/situation)

Halcyon Solstice

Harvest (life change)

Healing Heart (getting over a relationship)

Health (general health overview)

Heart vs. Head (decision making)

Horseshoe (general/situation) )

A Journey (life change)

Live Each Season (being in the moment)

Looking for Love

Making Love Better (relationship)

Mary K. Greers Yes/No

Maslows Hierarchy (life overview)

Modern Mathers Variation, Part I

Modern Mathers Variation, Part II

Modified One

Modified Horseshoe

Money Profile (financial)

Pantheon of Your Life (general/situation/advice)

PastPresentFuture

PastPresentFuture (Expanded Version)

PastPresentFuture with Options

Prediction (general/situation)

Royal Advice (general/situation/advice)

S. L. MacGregor Mathers (general/situation)

SituationAdviceOutcome (general/situation)

SituationObstacleOutcome (general/situation)

SituationWhat Is HiddenAdvice (general/situation)

SituationWhat MattersWhat Doesnt (general/situation)

Spirit Guides

Spirit Guides Extra Information

Star

Susyn Blair-Hunts Yes/No (yes/no questions)

Tarot for Two (relationship)

The One (relationship) )

Three Gates (decision making)

Three-Card Relationship #1 (relationship overview)

Three-Card Relationship #2 (energize love life)

Three-Card Relationship #3 (understanding partner)

Through the Shadows (for times of fear and confusion)

Tree of Life (life overview)

True Magic (achieving a goal)

Variation of Generic Basic

Walking the Talk (spiritual journey)

What Person A WantsCompromiseWhat Person B Wants (relationship)

What to KeepWhat to Cast AsideWhat to Learn (general/situation)

What You HaveWhat You NeedWhat You Get (general/situation)

The Wheel of Fortune (major life change)

The Wheels of Your Life (life overview)

Will He Come Back? (relationship)

Winds of Change (general/situation)

Yes/No Aces (yes/no questions)

Yes/No Oracle

Your Private Myth (analyzing discontent)

INTRODUCTION

Fairly early on in my journey with tarot, I had the great good fortune to have a private reading with Rachel Pollack. Rachel is the author of some of the best-loved books on tarot, including Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom and Tarot Wisdom . She is something of a legend in most tarot circles and is one of the people who modernized tarot. She was, and still is, a hero to me. I approached this first opportunity to meet with her with stars in my eyes. We sat down, and she told me to talk about the situation that I wanted the reading aboutnot What is your question? but Talk about the situation. As I talked, she jotted notes on a scrap of paper. When I stopped talking, she continued making curious marks on that scrap of paper. After she was satisfied, she showed me the paper, saying, This is the spread Im going to use for your reading. Rachel proceeded to explain the spread and asked me if it seemed fine to me.