When I just started out with tarot, I collected spreads. I bought spread books and wherever I found a spread on the Internet, I copied it into a growing collection of spreads. Later, I used Evernote to continue collecting spreads. I tried out a lot and some worked, some didn't. (I linked to my old threads here on CoT - I knew I talked about this before!)
Then I started thinking. Why should I look for a specific spread that someone else created when it was so much easier to create the spread myself? I started making spreads for the questions I had.
But the nice thing about other peoples' spreads is that they think about problems that I don't see. And maybe that's exactly where the dog is buried, as we say in German (and Hebrew).
The ideal solution is to use a deck with cards for questions I always wanted to ask but never got around to, and questions I should ask but never even noticed I should.
The Deck of 1000 Spreads
As far as I remember, this deck was the first of its kind on the market, and it comes with a very good book. You don't actually need such a deck to create your own spread or spreads, but I really like the way the creator organized the different perspectives. She colour-codes the cards: person cards, problem cards, outcome cards, timing cards etc.
I used to use it more than I do now to learn and make exercises, but also to read the cards. (By now I read professionally and I'm in training all the time so I need these exercises less - but I should take them up again).
I put up quite a number of ideas how to work with the deck on the creator's site.
Roughly at the same time, this deck was published:
Dynamic Spreads Kit
It's the same basic idea but presented in a nice recipe box, and it contains much more cards. From the pictures I've seen, there are also more abstract cards included, for philosophical discussions with our tarot decks. Looks interesting, and I'd love to see how it works in practice.
The newest and probably most beautiful is the Spread Machine deck - I love the name
Spread Machine
If the Deck of 1000 Spreads is a more practical, problem-oriented deck, and the Dynamic Spreads Deck goes more in-depth with more options, the Spread Machine looks great for personal insight readings. But since I have only the first one, I really don't know.
Do you know more such decks? Which would be worthwhile to buy? The Spread Machine deck looks so lovely.
