Tarot

Tarot readers point to specific cards and spreads for reading a love life this fall

A love reading described by Yahoo walks through how a person torn between two romantic interests might pull one tarot card for each to compare, drawing the 9 of Swords for one partner, a card the outlet associates with anxiety, worry and sleeplessness.

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How a single draw is read#

In the Yahoo scenario, the querent meditates on the 9 of Swords after pulling it for one of two people they are seeing, noticing the card's unsettling qualities and concluding the partner may be hiding insecurity behind a preference for verbal affirmation, according to the outlet's telling of the reading.

Yahoo's guide stresses that tarot cards are not inherently good or bad and that context, intention and the specific question asked all shape how a card is interpreted, leaving it to the person pulling the card to decide how to act on what comes up.

Multi-card spreads for singles#

Astrology.com turned to tarot reader Rebecca Devey, who runs the Instagram account @theintuitivegemini, for spreads aimed at single people, and Devey recommended three to five card spreads because they keep a reading easy to digest.

Devey told Astrology.com that building a spread is meant to be enjoyable, saying, "Making spreads is meant to be fun, so ask as many mini questions as you like based on your overall question," and she supplied a sample spread built around what a person is looking for in a partner, in a relationship, and how they will know that person has arrived.

What the cards are said to represent#

A Little Spark of Joy's own guide divides the 78-card tarot deck into the Major Arcana, which represents significant life lessons and spiritual transformation, and the Minor Arcana, which covers everyday experiences across the Cups, Pentacles, Swords and Wands suits.

The site's guide to love spreads notes that pulling more cards can add complexity to a reading, while a smaller, focused selection makes the story the cards tell easier to follow, and it adds that tarot is meant to offer guidance rather than predict a fixed outcome.

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