12-card layout
Year Ahead Tarot Spread
A twelve-card reflective map that assigns one card to each upcoming month rather than treating the year as a fixed prediction.
Card positions
- 1. Month 1Read this card through the question implied by the position, then compare it with the cards immediately around it.
- 2. Month 2Read this card through the question implied by the position, then compare it with the cards immediately around it.
- 3. Month 3Read this card through the question implied by the position, then compare it with the cards immediately around it.
- 4. Month 4Read this card through the question implied by the position, then compare it with the cards immediately around it.
- 5. Month 5Read this card through the question implied by the position, then compare it with the cards immediately around it.
- 6. Month 6Read this card through the question implied by the position, then compare it with the cards immediately around it.
- 7. Month 7Read this card through the question implied by the position, then compare it with the cards immediately around it.
- 8. Month 8Read this card through the question implied by the position, then compare it with the cards immediately around it.
- 9. Month 9Read this card through the question implied by the position, then compare it with the cards immediately around it.
- 10. Month 10Read this card through the question implied by the position, then compare it with the cards immediately around it.
- 11. Month 11Read this card through the question implied by the position, then compare it with the cards immediately around it.
- 12. Month 12Read this card through the question implied by the position, then compare it with the cards immediately around it.
How to read this spread
Read the positions in order once, then look for repeated suits, Major Arcana concentration, contradictions, and cards that seem to answer one another. Reversals are best treated as modified expressions rather than automatic negatives.