How to make a three card spread for every problem
Sometimes life gets overwhelming and you don’t understand what’s going on. While big fancy tarot spreads can give you great answers to your questions, where do you start if you’re not sure what the question is or where the poblem lies? You want a quick, simple answer, that gives you a starting point, in this case, a point of view that helps you understand the situation, the problem and how to fix it.
The simple three cards structure
Card 1 is supposed to tell you, where your problem(s) come from. Where there certain events triggering the events leading to the chaos? Maybe your life wants you to confront a new task. What is happening around you may be a reflektion of what is going on inside you, unconciously, or vice versa (especially if you’re an empath).
Card 2 should explain your position in all of this. Even if your problem does not involve chaos, asking where you stand in regards to solving the problem might help interpreting the third card. You can also try and understand your role in a social conflict, how you have influenced the evolution of it so far or how far you have come in understanding and solving the problem.
Card 3 is telling you how to solve it. If you were really lazy or just really good at communicating with/ reading your cards, you might as well skip the first and second card. I think looking at past and present is really helpful in understanding what your card suggests for the future. If you already have a solution in mind you could also ask for the outcome.
Traditionally, you would place the cards next to eachother from left to right, but in the end you can spread them however you feel fits. How you spread the cards of course will have an effect on the interpretation of the interactions of the cards (eg. where figures look etc).
I will now list some example questions:
Card 1 - Finding the root of your problem(s)
Where does my problem stem from?
What happened that triggered this chain of events?
What does most of this mess right now boil down to?
What is at the core of my current issues?
What task am I being confronted with right now?
Card 2 - Finding the place in all of this
What is my role in this current conflict?
Where in this mess is my place right now?
Where am I on the path to solving the problem?
How can I extend my understanding of the problem?
How have my issues progressed so far?
What energy am I currently bringing to this?
Card 3 - Finding a solution
How can I solve this problem/ the issues?
What energy do I need to invite to fix this mess?
What do I need to bring into my life to help me with this?
What outcome will the solution that I thought of have?
Obviously you can always draw more cards to get a more detailed and maybe specific answer. Espacially, if you don’t feel able to understand one card to is full extend in answering your question. Then asking a follow-up question can be very helpful and you should never shy away from doing so.
I know big spreads are very popular and that is for good reason, but sometimes the small spreads that can be done quick and dirty just do the work in pushing us in the right direction.
If you have any tips yourself, feel free to add onto this.