hawk’s Reviews > Tarot Spreads: Layouts & Techniques to Empower Your Readings > Status Update

Really enjoyed this one, esp since it explains why spreads sometimes will have you lay the cards in counter-intuitive ways. With that knowledge, you can create your own spreads. Haven't seen that elsewhere at all!

I'm really enjoying it so far :D the authors style/approach and pattern-seeing really resonate with my own :) and she asks some really good questions, and raises some interesting points, in really accessible ways.

earlier this year/last I found myself thinking about a particular spread, and trying to figure out if it felt natural to me in the form I was seeing it laid out most, and if I wanted/needed to tweak it a little to work better... and realise I was very consciously (awa intuitively) puzzling over why it was as it was, and how that made it flow, and how I wanted/needed it to flow to work with best, etc. so I'm especially interested to read on, and get some more experienced insight into that :)

I've also found it kinda voicing patterns I was seeing/directions I was reading within a spread, and maybe hadn't articulated/heard anyone talk about much. it's like she acknowledges really early on - books/LWB will offer a couple/few spreads and tell you how to lay them, but rarely tell you why. and these days I'm at a place where I'm thinking about the why alot more, and how to use to best effect etc.
I think it'll also really help me more consciously think about what my feelings/intuition are telling me to do sometimes - what pattern and movement and flow I'm trying to create in a spread, or a simple, not too thought out, laying of cards.
I'm enjoying her humour too (eg the mock horror that someone might lay cards without a spread), and her apparent humility :)

I'm thinking there will be much I learn from this book :)))