| One question which many people often ask is "How | | | | is to come. Some people who believe that the future |
| do I set up tarot cards for a reading?" If you find | | | | is never set tend to believe that the final card |
| yourself asking the same question, then you need to | | | | represents what will happen if the situation is not |
| find a good book on tarot cards for sure, but in the | | | | remedied. |
| mean time, you can do some of these simple tarot | | | | The interaction of the past, present, and future is |
| card layouts, or spreads, to interpret some facets of | | | | always apparent after the fact -- if you fail to go to |
| your life. | | | | the store today, you won't have any food for |
| Before attempting to do a reading, it is important | | | | tomorrow. This reading relies on the cause and |
| that the stage is set. It is necessary to first do an | | | | effect relationship among all aspects of our life to |
| adequate count of your deck in order to make sure | | | | give an accurate account of events to come based |
| that all of the cards are there, and then shuffle them | | | | on what we are doing now and what we have done |
| thoroughly. If you have a particular ritual to perform | | | | in the past. |
| before reading the cards, then do this now. | | | | This is a very simple way to set up tarot cards for |
| The oldest, and one of the easiest ways to set up | | | | an all-purpose reading. If a more detailed book which |
| tarot cards is to use a 3-card spread. If you're asking | | | | has specific purpose readings is not available, this is a |
| "how do I set up tarot cards?" then this is probably | | | | decent way to tell a fortune. If you are asking |
| the best reading. In the 3-card tarot set up, the first | | | | yourself "how do I set up tarot cards?" then this is a |
| card represents the past, the second represents the | | | | perfect option. |
| present, and the third represents the future of what | | | | |