Making A Book of Tarot Spreads

[chris1987]

Your Rose spread look's beautiful! I can't wait to see it colored!

[Yorin]

Your Rose spread look's beautiful! I can't wait to see it colored!

Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

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I got a second one done recently. This one's called Faerie Ring. (And cause I know the question's coming...)
This spread focuses on helping you look into yourself, and see things for how they really are. That's why I drew the blindfolded faerie. She sees without judgement, without the pretense of what you might put out for the rest of the world to see, and looks into your soul for the truth-both the good, and the bad. For this one you separate all the cards out into categories: major arcana, swords, wands, pentacles, cups, and Court cards (king, queen, knight, page). Shuffle each set individually for this and use the top card for the first part of this. The cards go as follows:
1. Major Arcana- This card shows your greatest spiritual strength
2.Wands-this card shows your most enterprising characteristic
3. Cups-This card shows your best emotional strength
4. Swords-This shows your strongest response to problems
5. Pentacles-This represents your most admirable financial/resource ability
6. Court Cards- This shows your favorite or best aspect of your personality.

For the second part of this, you use the same pattern, but you take the bottom card from each of those sets and lay it cross ways on top of the first card.
1. Major Arcana-This shows your most important spiritual challenge at this time
2.Wands-This shows your most problematic attitude towards work
3. Cups-This is your most difficult emotional challenge at this time
4. Swords-This shows your worst fear when facing problems
5. Pentacles-This shows your financial/resourceful weaknesses
6. Court Card-This shows your least favorite or worst aspect of your personality

[Plenilunium]

That sounds like it would be neat! And your artwork is awesome!

[Bjorn]

I decided to do this spread today, and I've got to say that it's probably the most successful reading I've ever done for myself. I really enjoyed the setup, because it demanded that I spend time with my cards and love on them a little bit which is important for me because mine have a tendency to be severe with me, as they are so mystic and Russian, so I don't often seek their counsel which means that every time, they lay the truth down without care because I've been distant. Anyway, so that much helped me reconnect, and then I just slept on it, letting the cards sit all perfectly in order and waiting to be shuffled on my altar.

This is what I drew:

1. Emperor
2. 4 of Wands
3. 3 of Cups
4. 10 of Swords
5. 3 of Coins
6. Queen of Swords

1B. The Sun
2B: Ace of Clubs
3B: Ace of Cups
4B: Ace of Swords
5B: Ten of Coins
6B: Page of Swords

VERY cool spread. Share more!

[Yorin]

Well, since I'm working on typing these up for the book anyways, are there any specific types of spreads you guys would like me to share at the moment? Love, advice, spiritual guidance, career, money?

Also, since it was requested-here are the colored versions of
Faerie Ring: https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...69894984_n.jpg
Rose Petals: https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...05714742_n.jpg

[Yorin]

One big thing though that I'd like to know from potential readers is how you'd like to see layouts done?

I'm kind of torn between having a hybrid of having the artwork on the left and an explanation on the right mixed with singular pages of the simple spreads I don't have artwork for. Pages looking like this: 0704132203.jpgdownsized_0704132203a.jpg

Or having the more simple pages though everything and then having a separate chapter at the end that has the artwork all together.

So which, as potential readers do you guys think would work out better to provide a better understanding or just simply looks better overall?

[Yorin]

Also, this is an outline of the first two chapters. Thoughts?

outline for 1st two chapters.jpg

[Bjorn]

SHARE THEM ALL, I thoroughly enjoyed your last ones.

[Yorin]

SHARE THEM ALL

But that's the purpose of the book :P But I will share another one after I get some artwork for it, cause I don't know what all I want to do artwork wise for a lot of these lol

[Yorin]

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However, I've gotten another graphite shaded version of the artwork for one done, so I'll post it.

The Spread is called "Love me, love me not Daisy Chain"... I love this one because while we all might've played the "he/she loves me/loves me not" game as a kid where we picked off the flower petals to see if the person we were thinking about truly loves us, this one goes a bit more in depth. It's got a lot of balance to it, and highlights multiple aspects of what makes or breaks a relationship and how to see it since, as we all know, love can be quite blind at times

1. What you need to know about how you see the relationship
2. Strongest aspect or foundation of this relationship
3.What you hope for in this relationship
4. What happened in the past that is affecting this relationship
5. What you can expect from this relationship
6. Your favorite thing about the relationship
7. What you can do to make your favorite thing even better
8. Your least favorite thing about the relationship
9. What you can do to improve your least favorite thing.