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Simple 5 Card Tarot Spread

Meanings will be shown upon turning each card to help you with your study.  The meanings are taken from Pictoral Key to the Tarot (Minor Arcana) and Modern Magick (Major Arcana).  Your Tarot Contemplation Ritual will help you consolidate your own meanings for each card.  See full instructions for the Tarot Contemplation Ritual at the bottom of this page.

Click the left/right arrows to shuffle.

Click the round arrown to turn over all cards, or click the card to turn them one at a time.

This simple five card Tarot spread is easy to master but can give a deeper perspective on a variety of situations. This Tarot spread is very versatile and can be used for many different topics such as love, relationships, career, money and travel readings and the list goes on! If you are learning how to read Tarot, it is a good one to practice with as it can add more insight to your Tarot readings.

1. Preconceived Ideas
2. The Present
3. The Unexpected
4. The Near Future
5. The Distant Future
Major Arcarna Only (inc reversed)
Fool Tarot Card

Folly, foolishness, extravagance.

Hesitation, carelessness, trouble from ignoring foolishness.

Judgement Tarot Card

Renewal, rebirths.

Setbacks and delays.

Strength Tarot Card

Spiritual power.

Physical power.

The Empress Tarot Card

Fruitfulness, action, creativity.

Inaction due to vacillation, losing power.

The Hanged Man Tarot Card

Wisdom as a result of self-sacrifice.

Selfishness, trying to fit in with the crowd.

Full Tarot Deck (inc reversed)
The  Lovers Tarot Card

A test which you will pass, a new love.

A failed test, lost love.

Two of Cups Tarot Card

Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes, and—as a suggestion apart from all offices of divination—that desire which is not in Nature, but by which Nature is sanctified.

No explanation in the Pictoral Tarot – Upright meaning as follows:

Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes, and—as a suggestion apart from all offices of divination—that desire which is not in Nature, but by which Nature is sanctified.

Ten Of Cups Tarot Card

Contentment, repose of the entire heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and friendship; if with several picture-cards, a person who is taking charge of the Querent’s interests; also the town, village or country inhabited by the Querent.

Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.

Eight Of Pentacles Tarot Card

Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage.

Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. It may also signify the possession of skill, in the sense of the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.

Five Of Wands Tarot Card

Imitation, as, for example, sham fight, but also the strenuous competition and struggle of the search after riches and fortune. In this sense it connects with the battle of life. Hence some attributions say that it is a card of gold, gain, opulence.

Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.

STEP ONE. Take the twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana or a single suit of the Minor Arcana from your deck and put the remainder to the side.

STEP TWO. Complete the short meditation that was outlined on the homepage of the website. Afterwards, pick up the Major Arcana and mix them up in any way you like until you feel like it’s time to stop.

STEP THREE. Turn over any of the cards and look at the image on it for at least 2 or 3 minutes.

STEP FOUR. Complete the short meditation on the homepage once more and the contemplation ritual is complete.

STEP FIVE. Make a note of the card and also record any thoughts or feelings you may have had while carrying out the ritual.

Click the left/right arrows to shuffle.

Click the round arrown to turn over all cards, or click the card to turn them one at a time.

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