A spread is simply the shape you lay the cards in, and the question each position answers. Here is the whole library, from a single daily card to the Celtic Cross. Every layout here is a tool for reflection, a way to think something through, never a prediction of what will happen.
Start smaller than you think. A single card each morning teaches you to sit with one image and let it speak, which is the whole skill in miniature. When one card feels natural, move to a three card spread, where the story starts to join up across positions. The larger layouts below are worth growing into, not rushing to.
Small, focused layouts. Begin with one card, then grow into three.
A few more cards, for a fuller picture of a situation.
Larger layouts that hold a whole story or a year at once.
A tarot spread is the shape you lay the cards in, together with the question each position answers. The same cards read differently depending on where they land, so the spread gives a reading its structure.
Start with a single card, then a three-card spread such as Past, Present, Future. Small layouts teach you to read one image clearly before you try to weave many together.
As few as one and as many as ten or more. A single card suits a daily reflection; three cards tell a small story; the Celtic Cross and the Tree of Life map a whole situation. Bigger is not better, only different.
No. In Auspice every spread is a tool for reflection and self-understanding, a way to think a situation through and see it from a new angle, never a prediction of what will happen.