The Celtic Cross Tarot Spread is a comprehensive and detailed reading that provides an overview of the querent’s life.
The Celtic Cross Tarot Spread is known as one of the most intricate and insightful tarot spreads, the Celtic Cross takes the querent step by step through various aspects of their situation. This spread is ideal for deep analysis of a single area of life, such as relationships, career, or spirituality. It helps the querent uncover contrasts in their life, explore their past, present, and future, and gain profound insights and comprehensive answers.
It’s important to note that for topics like relationships or career, this spread is most effective for situations that have lasted at least three months. It’s also essential to define the time frame for the reading—be it a year, three months, or any other period.
Interpretation of the Celtic Spread
The Celtic Cross spread is one of the most detailed and complex tarot spreads. It takes the querent step by step through all the different aspects of their situation. This spread is used to deeply analyze a specific area of the querent’s life, such as relationships, career, or spirituality. It helps the querent understand the dualities in their life, their past, present, and future. The Celtic Cross provides deep insights and comprehensive answers. It is important to define the time frame for which insights are desired—three months, six months, or a year.
Card 1
The direction the querent is heading or the message they need to learn to achieve their goal and advance the question.
Card 2
What challenges or blocks the querent and prevents them from reaching their goal and advancing the question. Why they are not following the direction indicated by the first card or why they do not understand the message.
Card 3
The negative patterns of the subconscious. What needs to be uprooted so it does not limit them in life regarding the question. What fears accompany them and prevent them from achieving their goal.
Card 4
This card represents the querent, their conscious mind, their objective reality, and how prepared they are to advance the question. It shows their strengths.
Card 5
What the querent needs to let go of from their past, behaviors, or habits to advance the question. This card provides an explanation about the querent’s past and what they can learn from it.
Card 8
How the relevant, close environment perceives the querent concerning the question. This card reveals what the querent projects outwardly to their surroundings, what they attract into their life, and whether they receive support.
Card 9
The querent’s fears and hopes regarding the question. Are they optimistic or pessimistic?
Cards 6, 7, 10
The triangle of the future: where the querent is inclined to go concerning the question and how they will act along the way.
- Card 6: The first third of the defined time period for the question.
- Card 7: The second third, also serving as a corrective card for the future triangle, showing what strengths can be used to adjust the path.
- Card 10: The third and final third.
