Classic Tarot Spreads

Explore the underlying methods, their fixed positions, historical or teaching sources, and the exact version FlipTarot uses.

Read each card through the role of its fixed position. A card does not mean the same thing in every place in a spread.

1 card
Teaching consensusFREE

One-Card Tarot Reading

A foundational one-card format that identifies the single theme, condition, or direction of response most relevant to a question.

  • Answering one clearly framed question
  • Identifying the most important message or response direction in a specific situation
3 cards
Teaching consensusFREE

Past–Present–Future Three-Card Spread

A widely used three-card timeline showing what shaped a situation, what is active now, and what is most likely to develop next.

  • A concise overview of how a situation developed
  • Questions with a meaningful timeline
3 cards
Teaching consensusPRO

You–Relationship–Other Person Three-Card Spread

A relationship structure that separates each person’s role from the interaction pattern jointly created between them.

  • Romantic, family, friendship, or work relationships
  • Comparing participation without reducing the relationship to one person
3 cards
Teaching consensusPRO

Three-Card Yes/No Method

Mary K. Greer’s traceable three-card voting method: upright means Yes, reversed means No, and the center card carries twice the weight.

  • A single, closed question that can honestly be framed as Yes or No
  • Seeing the conditions behind a directional answer
5 positions · draw 4 + calculate 1
Historical sourcePRO

Wirth Five-Card Cross

A historically sourced Major Arcana decision cross with four drawn cards and one calculated synthesis card.

  • Evaluating one clearly stated proposition
  • Weighing supporting and opposing forces before acting
7 cards
Teaching consensusPRO

Seven-Card Horseshoe Spread

A broad seven-card situational reading covering time, personal attitude, external influence, the main obstacle, and a conditional outcome.

  • A focused situation with several interacting influences
  • Questions that need more context than a three-card timeline
10 cards
Historical sourcePRO

Celtic Cross Spread

The classic ten-position Waite sequence for a complex question, adapted digitally without drawing a separate Significator card.

  • A complex situation that needs a full map of influences
  • Distinguishing goals, roots, recent change, environment, and attitude