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Designing Your Own Tarot Spreads (Special Topics in Tarot Series)

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I own about 50 tarot books, and this is one of the best. No repetition of information that most tarot books always do. She goes straight to the point of guiding you to make the most of a spread. She teaches the ideas that only experience and wisdom had proof to serve. She teaches how to make spreads that really shows the essence of a reading. She gave's many ideas about making good layouts, spread design(form of the spread), multi purpose spreads,alternatives spreads, predictive spreads, psychological and interactive spreads,articulating feelings in a spread,spiritual and metaphysical spreads,finding lost objects and persons ,past life readings. The most I liked is the guide to make practical spreads: "Rather than telling the client what is likely to happen, use the majority of cards positions to give him a to-do list that he can take away."
This book i will keep for a long time by my side.Theresa Michelsen is indeed one of our best Tarot teachers that can guide you step by step in improving your reading style and accuracy...good readings rely mostly on a good layout...and she will guide in a very special way!!!
This is a must to book if you want to be a good tarot reader. Aurora Diaz, Puerto Rico

I bought this book because I had reached a level in my tarot studies (I have been learning for a little over a year) where I felt I needed to go beyond the celtic cross, but was having little success using the other spreads I found in books. I tried a few times to design my own spreads but was only successful in creating one truely useful spread. In the week after receiving this book I created six spreads, four of which I deemed good enough to add to my book of shadows.

The trick, the author explains, is to focus on the question first. I had been too busy trying to create a multi-purpose spread like the celtic cross to realize the power of this simple technique. This is not to say that the spread will not be multi-purpose, in fact a whole chapter is devoted to generalizing the spread to fit more situations. Packed full of examples and great excercises (I had one spread grow out of an exercise) this book gives you all the inspiration you'll ever need.

Designing Your Own Tarot Spreads by Teresa Michelsen, part of the Special Topics in Tarot series for intermediate to advanced students of the Tarot, teaches the reader that creating spreads begins with the questions you're considering. Card positions flow from the various aspects of the question asked, not the other way around.

Michelsen provides a wealth of spreads, not for the reader to copy, but to modify, expand, and learn from as they craft specific, often multi-layered questions to put to the cards. One of the most useful aspects of her book deals with reading for others and how you can help a friend or client clarify the issues they seek answers to. Doing a reading this way, with give and take in a conversational model, takes more time, but delivers an often empowering experience for both querant and reader. The advice, options, and possibilities offered by the cards take on a greater richness, and ultimately, are far mor applicable to a given situation than "canned" spreads -- even if they are "tried and true."

This Book is an very good book to help you get started in designing Tarot Card Spreads. I learned how to revise spreads for the questions being asked. It help me to make up my own spreads. The spreads in the book are good foundation to get you started designing spreads.

I like it, but maybe I expect too much from this book. I expect I can learn to design spread like the title says. I feel after reading it, I understand how spreads out there usually work, but still designing a truly original is hard for me. (Tho you can always alter other spreads to fit different areas of your tarot reading). Since now, there's only one, this book can claim to be the best, but later when me tarot books publish in this area, this is still good yet I am still expecting a better book that exceeds this one.

i am just learning tarot. i am enjoying the spreads in this book a lot. there are simple and more complicated spreads. this is a good one to add to your collection.

I expected a lot more from this book. There are hardly any new spreads or any really value information for forming them that any practitioner does not already know. If you are a beginner... it may be helpful but otherwise don't waste your money.