The Astrolovemates Astrotarot cards are very powerful based on the Jungian type philosophy of the psyche both its golden side and its shadow side in its varying form. The major cards can be just read simply literally or provide a more longer indepth interpretation and  represent the 'Major Arcana' and most significant cards (from 0 to 20 represent a journey or cycle of the psyche, from a naive fool's approach to completion fulfilment with lessons to learn along the way). The minor cards or Minor Arcana are linked to the cups (heart), wands (mind), swords (challenges) and pentacles (money-related) are still important and represent key messages or people that relate to the question. A Major Arcana Card will colour a readings meaning and has emphasis. Cards of the same number also potentiates the meaning of say the two's.

In its simplest format, selecting just one card or three will answer a question. Its up to you to use your subconscious and conscious mind to meditate upon the answer or link it to your past, present and future life path and question. The final card tends to be the final future outcome, albeit within a cycle as life is continually moving onwards renewing, fulfilling, dying, ending in continual circles like the seasons of  life.

For more advanced players or traditional tarot readers, you may like to draw cards in a sequence and relate each to the follow types of reading.

To obtain an advanced reading format, select a spread from those listed below which again  may vary from expert to expert as are from different sources (otherwise ignore and just draw one or three simple cards format) or make up your own format, overall enjoy and experiment with the cards:
 

Star Spread
This simple spread is often used to explore a very specific question. To use this spread concentrate on a question to put before the cards and then select cards from 1-6. Cards in order are: 1. Present; 2. Obstacles; 3. Challenges; 4. Strengths; 5. Other challenges; 6. Outcome.
 

Astrological Spread
In this spread each card is read as an entity onto itself. Individual cards represent each astrological house and should be interpreted with the strengths and weaknesses of the corresponding house in mind. You need not ask a question before using this spread. For more understanding  of key house words read an astrology book, loosely the following may be used:

1. First house - self; 2. Second House - Possessions/financial; 3. Third House - Communications/short journeys/siblings/friends; 4. Fourth House/home/parents/older relatives friends; 5. Fifth House - children, leisure, pleasure, romance, creativity, art,  music, pets; 6. Sixth House - work, jobs to be done;

7. Seventh House - Partnership with friends, business, marriage, serious relationships; 8. Eighth House - Life, death, taxation, inheritance, rebirth; 9. Ninth House - Teaching, instruction, philosophy, learning, higher education; 10. Tenth House - Aspirations, Career, Achievements, Fulfilment; 11. Eleventh House - Societies, groups, clubs, networks, sport; 12. Twelfth House - subconscious, serving others behind the scenes, karma (also: mediumship, psychic, karma, counselling, seclusion, psyche, attonement for past life actions or karma rewards reaped, it can if wrongly lived be the shadow side the house of undoing crime, poverty, monastic living, longterm illness, hospitals, abuse, fears, anxiety, paranoia, suffering, bad luck.
 

Astrolovemates version of the Astro-Planetary Spread
This is a query spread that may yield insight into a number of different aspects of your current life path. To use this spread concentrate on a question to put before the cards and select cards. Cards in order of 1-12:

self (sun); home (moon); business & mind (mercury); love/romance (venus); drive/motivation (mars); expansion of love, wealth, health (jupiter); responsibility/anchoring (saturn); intuitive hidden factors (neptune);  changes/innovation (uranus); transformation/subconscious (pluto); magical unknown factor (chiron); next final card is outcome;
 

Celtic Spread
The Celtic Cross spread is probably the most popular traditional tarot spread in use today. It is intended to shed light on many aspects of the querent's life. To use this spread, concentrate on a question to put before the cards and then select your cards.

1. Present; 2. Obstacles; 3. Objective; 4. future; 5. issues from distant past; 6. issues from recent past; 7. surrounding you the significator; 8. environmental influences; 9. fears and hopes; 10. final outcome.
 

Relationship Spread
This simple spread is used by querents to explore their relationships with others by exploring the needs and views of both parties. Think of your relationship with a specific person and then select your cards.

Card 1 - your view of partner; Card 2 - partners view of you; Card 3 - your needs; Card 4 - your partner's needs; Card 5 - current relationship; Card 6 - future relationship; Card 7 - partner's future; Card 8 - surrounding relationship; Card 9 - final outcome.
 

Tree of Life Spread
The Tree of Life spread is a very thorough method of exploring the general path of the querent's life. To use this simplified spread of 10 cards concentrate on a question to put before the cards and then select cards. This is a very deep philosophical spreads (read further books for proper understanding and how to use effectively with more cards). For a simplified abridged example draw ten cards in sequence as follows:

1. Highest ideals; 2. Creative power; 3. Your wisdom; 4. Your virtues; 5. Your being; 6. health, beauty, altruism; 7. Loves, lust, artistic self and instincts;:8. you the creator, innovator, scientist/engineer; 9. Psychic self and imagination; 10. Physical self.
 

Mandela Spread
Simplified version is nine cards for a general awareness of yourself and life;

1. Your self overall; 2. Ambitions, desires, urges; 3. Ideals, goals; 4. spiritual path/happiness; 5. accomplishments and true path; 6. dependences/addictions 7. Strengths and positive traits; 8. faults & weaknesses; 9. self image;
 

* NOTE: For others consult your own sources and books - however you do it, providing you assign each card with a role, that is what counts, so no matter if alter card roles or get it wrong, providing you know what role you assigned for each card. Its the overall picture as interpreted by yourself that gives the answers.

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