The Star spread is a tarot layout of 7 cards, used for illumination, hope and the finding of direction. It is a star-shaped layout that frames a question around a central concern and a higher outcome.
How it is laid out
In this arrangement the reader deals a central card for the core issue, five points for aspects such as body, mind, emotion, spirit and circumstance, and a seventh for the guiding light above.
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 Star spread is described here as one such interpretive framework within that tradition.