This page groups tarot spreads by the period in which each layout was first devised. Wikipedia notes "the emergence of custom decks for use in divination via tarot card reading and cartomancy began after French occultists made elaborate, but unsubstantiated, claims about their history and meaning in the late 18th century." Browsing by origin-period-start-year lets a visitor find every spread first devised in the same period.
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Ten-Card Spreads
This group holds the ten-card tarot spreads, among the most detailed layouts, the best known being the Celtic Cross, in which ten cards are set in a fixed pattern to give a rounded reading of a situation and its influences, hopes, fears and likely outcome.
The browser will find the ten-card spreads the atlas gathers. The entries describe each spread's positions and their reading. The atlas presents tarot reading as a modern divinatory practice.
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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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