Tarot Card Spreads: 3-Card Spreads You Can Build On

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced person with tarot cards and their meanings, 3-card spreads are an easy way to get the information you want. For beginners, a three-card spread is great because it won't take forever to gain the meaning and usually makes the interpretation less convoluted. For individuals experienced with tarot, three-card spreads allow a good foundation to build upon. The following are some great spreads and ways to gain more definition from your readings.

1. Mind, Body, Spirit - This is a simple ready that shows where your mind is, your body, and your spirit. An option to make this reading larger is to lay out a card on each of the original three, these cards will be the ones that show the challenges or reasoning for the Mind, Body, and Spirit to be acting the way they do.

2. Morning, Noon, Night - Great spread to do in the morning before you head to work to gain information on your day.

3. Past, Present, Future - This spread can assist with showing the issues in your past, present, and future. This also can help you see how you have grown and changed in perspective over the years. This small spread can become very large. You can set out the three cards vertically, then add cards in your past for lovers, problems, questions, whatever you want to know for each time in your life.

4. Who have I been, Who am I now, Who will I be? - This is a more defined version of the previous spread and is great for self discovery.

5. Question, Advice, Best Outcome - This spread is one where you or whomever you are reading for can pose a question. This allows you to give advice and than explain what the best outcome could be.

6. You, Your Love, What holds you together - This is great for relationships, and friendships to assess the dynamic of what makes you work. As a tweak on this you can lay out one more card to see what the future may hold for you.

With all of these spreads you can use the Major Arcana Cards as the basis or three card spread, this will show the large points, and than use the Minor Arcana as the defining moments allows you more detail.