Decan Tarot
The spreads

Twenty-four tarot spreads, and what each one is for.

A spread is the shape a reading is laid in: how many cards, and what each place in the layout means. Say your question in your own words on the home page and the one that fits is laid for you, or pick one below and lay it yourself. Every one is free, needs no account, and is dealt from a deck sealed before you touch it.

  • 78cards
  • 24spreads
  • 36decans
  • The Sun, now☉ 1.8° Libra, Two of Swords
The Wheel of Fortune from the 1909 Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith
The Wheel of Fortunethe shape a thing is laid in
Start here
  1. Card of the dayOne card, twenty seconds. The habit.1 card
  2. Yes or noOne card, cut first so it can fall either way. Upright leans yes.1 card
  3. Past, present, futureThe classic three, in a line. Where it came from, where it is, where it goes.3 cards
  4. What to do about itThe oldest three: what is happening, what to do, and where that goes.3 cards
When you have to decide
  1. Should I buy itNever about the thing. Always about the hesitation.3 cards
  2. This or thatTwo roads, and the thing you are not weighing.3 cards
  3. Stay or goThe life if you stay, the life if you go, and the fear under both.3 cards
  4. Pick one of threeThree options in a row, and the card that decides.4 cards
  5. The jobTake it, leave it, or stay where you are. Three cards about the work, not the offer.3 cards
  6. Is now the timeTwo cards, and the sky answers the third position itself.2 cards
Someone else in it
  1. The two of youYou, them, and what is between you.3 cards
  2. How they feel about youHow they see you, what they want from this, and what holds them back. A card cannot read a mind, and this one says so.3 cards
  3. The one who leftWhat was there, where they stand now, and what you would be going back to.3 cards
When you want the shape of a situation
  1. What am I missingOne card you can see. One tucked behind it.2 cards
  2. Mind, body, spiritThree cards for the state you are in, not the thing you are deciding.3 cards
  3. Shadow workWhat you show, what you keep back, why, what that costs, and how to meet it.5 cards
  4. A dreamWhat the dream shows, what it is asking, and what to carry out of it.3 cards
  5. The horseshoeSeven cards in an arc. A whole situation without the weight of the ten.7 cards
  6. This moonWaxing tonight. What to begin, what is in the way, and the Moon itself.2 cards
The long ones
  1. The week aheadSeven cards, one for each day, starting today.7 cards
  2. Celtic CrossThe classic ten, the cross and the staff. For a question with a lot in it.10 cards
  3. Tree of LifeTen cards on the ten sephiroth, from the aim at the top to how it lands. Book T's own map, laid as a spread.10 cards
  4. The housesTwelve cards on the twelve houses, the whole of a life laid as a wheel. For when the question is everything at once.12 cards
  5. The year aheadTwelve cards, one for each month, laid as the year itself.12 cards

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