Celtic Cross

What this spread is

The classic large spread and the most quoted in the world. The ten divide in two: the cross shows the situation itself - what is happening, what lies across it, what is conscious, what is underneath, what is leaving and what is arriving; the staff to the right shows you and everything around you - how you see yourself, how others see it, what you fear and hope, and how it ends.

When to use it

When the question is large and you are prepared to read for a while. For important decisions, for positions that have gone on, and for when a short spread already gave the answer and did not explain it. Not for yes-or-no and not for small things: asked something simple, ten cards answer with noise.

How to read it

Read it in two parts. The cross entire first: the first and second together (what is happening and what is across it), then the vertical, then the horizontal of time. Then the staff from the bottom up - from yourself to the outcome. And only then look at the tenth beside the first: an outcome is always read together with what it started from.

The positions

1. 1 Present

   The substance of the position: what is actually happening.

2. 2 The challenge

   What lies across it - an obstacle, or more rarely a help you have mistaken for one.

3. 3 Crown

   The conscious: the aim, the intention, what you think about it.

4. 4 Root

   The foundation: what it grew out of, and what works below your attention.

5. 5 Past

   What is leaving - the recent thing whose influence is ending.

6. 6 Future

   What is arriving in the near term: the turn already being prepared.

7. 7 Yourself

   Yourself: how you are holding in this and how you see yourself in it.

8. 8 Environment

   The surroundings: the people and circumstances around it, and how they regard it.

9. 9 Hopes & fears

   Hopes and fears - one card for both, because they are usually the same thing.

10. 10 Outcome

    The outcome as things stand. Read together with the first card, not instead of it.