Clarifying Life Situations with Tarot and Oracle Decks

Tarot readings are for clarifying life situations, be it about love, career, or personal issues. The best and the most correct way to use the tarot cards and oracle decks are to give advice.

There are hundreds of different oracle decks and many different tarot schools. I personally don’t use oracle decks too much in my readings. I do however have a few favourite ones. In general, I go with just regular tarot decks, because they are enough for me to intuitively pick up the messages that need to be delivered.

If you want to clarify life situations, you can use a tarot spread like the good old Celtic Cross spread, for instance.

An ideal spread should answer these questions:

1. What is the present energy regarding my issue?

2. What is the source of the problem?

3. What are my challenges?

4. What should I do?

5. What should I not do?

6. What is the possible outcome if I do (related to number 4)?

7. What is the possible outcome if I don’t (related to number 5)?

The example above is not a specific spread, but any spread that answers these types of questions would be a good one to conduct a tarot reading with.

This being said, what are some common spreads that might help you?

1. PROBLEM SOLVING TAROT SPREAD

   This spread has five cards. From left to right, the cards represent: The problem, the cause, the solution, and the result.

2. CLARITY TAROT SPREAD

   Another five card tarot spread from left to right: what is the message, what do I want, what do I need to know, what are my strengths, who can help me?

3. IDENTIFYING SOLUTIONS SPREAD

   Yes another five card spread. You can do this horizontally or vertically. From left to right or top to bottom the cards represent: The problem, next three cards are used to identify the causes and possible solutions, and the last card is advice on best course of action.

As you can see, there are a lot of different ways to tackle a problem with tarot cards. You absolutely do not need to buy a specific oracle deck. Use the tarot or oracle deck to which you feel an emotional and intuitive connection. Everything else is just promotions and sales tactics to get you to buy a hundred different decks. (Coming from someone who has over 80 decks but that’s besides the point ahah).

You can even create your personal tarot spread, craft it to your needs, try it and see if you find it useful and helpful. What I would recommend would be to keep a tarot journal and do readings periodically and see how the energies are shifting and changing.

Happy readings!