Tarot Spreads

Bring structure, clarity, and purpose to every reading.

For many who read tarot—and those new to tarot—spreads can offer a lot of power, clarity, and purpose to readings. Tarot spreads, intentional arrangements for tarot cards that include a particular meaning or prompt for each card, help us to ask focused, direct questions of our cards. Rather than focusing on premade cookie-cutter layouts, Meg Jones Wall takes you to the very foundation of tarot spreads so that you can understand how and why a spread is created and how it works. This book will walk you through reading spreads as well as writing and revising original spreads, giving you everything you need to understand, develop, tweak, and test tarot spreads of your very own.

Meg encourages you to release yourself from the expectation that you need to use a spread precisely as written in order to get the full benefit of a layout in your reading. Spreads are infinitely customizable to suit your own needs, preferences, and experience level. While the cards can offer clarity in a variety of ways, tarot spreads can help us be more direct about what we want to know, explore, question, and understand. No matter our question, concern, or situation, tarot spreads empower us to be clear about what we need from our reading.

At the core of every spread are the prompts—the meanings given to each card positioned in a layout. So that you can more effectively write and design your own spread, Meg offers over 200 prompts and suggestions for simple one-card to five-card layouts for a variety of intentions from relationships to self-awareness to community to wealth, and includes special recommended spreads for lunar cycles, the zodiac, the archetypes, the sabbats, the elements, and more.

“A perfect book to be in conversation with your other tarot texts, regardless of whether you’re looking for information on spreads specifically or just looking to go next level in your tarot practice. Wall’s work perfectly breaks down why things work the way they do while giving you plenty of space to dream and experiment.”

—Cassandra Snow, author of Tarot in Other Words and Queering the Tarot

“Author Meg Jones Wall has written the ultimate book for tarot spread enthusiasts! Tarot Spreads: How to Read Them, Create Them & Revise Them is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read on this topic. Every aspect for creating personalized tarot spreads is here, from why you might want to design your own layouts to how to test and fine-tune your creations. Practical advice, thoughtful prompts, and a library of ‘spreads for every occasion’ make this book useful for all tarot readers. Keep this one close by—it might quickly become the most used book in your tarot library.”

—Theresa Reed, author of The Cards You’re Dealt

“Meg Jones Wall lays out the art of tarot spreads with clarity, heart, and precision. Tarot Spreads: How to Read Them, Create Them & Revise Them offers readers the tools to move beyond one-card pulls and into intentional, customized layouts that bring structure, nuance, and insight to any reading. Rooted in lived experience and crafted with care, this book is an essential resource for tarot readers looking to deepen their practice and design spreads that truly speak. It’s authentic, accessible, and a testament to Meg’s gift for teaching through her writing.”

—Mat Auryn, author of The Psychic Art of Tarot and Psychic Witch

“Meg Jones Wall’s Tarot Spreads offers something crucial and unexpected beyond beginner books and the innumerable spreads that proliferate the internet: a balance of freedom and stability. While ‘how to read tarot’ books may tell you what the cards mean and spreads inform which questions to ask, Wall leaves those largely open to your discretion and instead digs into how and why tarot works. For many of us, especially neurodivergent folks, we need more specific operationalized guidance between ‘ask a question,’ ‘draw cards,’ and ‘interpret the meaning’ to feel secure that we know what we’re doing. This book offers exactly that, going into particular depth about what makes a good question and how, when, and why (or why not) to use a spread for a reading. For certain this is a great new intro to tarot; I think many seasoned readers will find that some unexplored or overly rigid aspects of their early learning are addressed helpfully in this book as well.”

—Lane Smith, author of 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World

“When you take a trauma-aware approach that is deeply sensitive to difference, add emotional intelligence with structure, and center the reader as the ultimate authority in their own practice, you get a book like Tarot Spreads. Meg Jones Wall offers spreads that honor reader sovereignty while holding fast to an ethical model that every tarot practitioner can aspire to. Present, permissive, and powerful, this is a worthy addition to any tarot bookshelf.”

—Jenna Matlin, author of Will You Give Me a Reading?