The Astrological Tarot Spread

The Astrological spread is a tarot layout of 12 cards, used for a whole-life overview through the twelve houses. It is a broad spread that borrows the twelve houses of the horoscope as its reading positions.

How it is laid out

In this arrangement the reader deals twelve cards, one for each astrological house, from the first house of the self through partnership and career to the twelfth of the hidden and unconscious.

Tarot spreads are conventions of interpretation rather than fixed rules: each fixes a set of positions, and the card that falls in a position is read in the light of what that position is held to mean. Some layouts, such as the Celtic Cross, are long established in the twentieth-century reading tradition; others, including several themed modern spreads, are more recent inventions. The Astrological spread is described here as one such interpretive framework within that tradition.