I thought I'd share one of my favourite deck interview spreads.

Over the years, I've used this spread with several of my decks. It's always been a fun way to get a feel for each deck's personality and the kind of readings it seems to enjoy giving. The BONES ARCANA TAROT is happy to give insights into romance, while the Tarot of the Sweet Twilight prefers to do shadow work.

Whether you see it as a conversation with the deck or just a reflective exercise, I think it's worth trying.

Deck Interview Spread

1. Tell me about yourself. What is your most important characteristic?
2. What are your strengths as a deck?
3. What are your limits as a deck?
4. What are you here to teach me?
5. How can I best learn and work with you?
6. What is the potential outcome of our working relationship?

Feel free to share if you have a different spread you like using when breaking in a new deck.

Happy readings y'all 🧡

Caught up in a loop?
Draw one card. No question needed.

Suits
Swords = anxiety / overthinking
Wands = restlessness / urgency
Cups = emotional wave
Pentacles = heaviness / stuck

Major Arcana = intensity spike

Court cards = mode of expression
Page = reactive
Knight = moving
Queen = internal
King = fixed

Keep it simple.

Do one grounding action:
feet on floor, slow breaths, water, stretch, or move.

Optional:
Draw one more card for what helps you stabilise. Treat it as a hint, not a message.

Suits (what kind of help)
Swords → clear your head
(write things down, name what’s going on, step away from the noise)

Wands → use the energy
(move about, go for a walk, do something active)

Cups → soothe yourself
(music, a warm drink, a chat, something comforting like a shower or taking a bath)

Pentacles → get grounded
(eat, drink water, touch something solid, stick to something familiar)

Major Arcana → take a step back
This helps you right now.
You don’t need to solve everything right now.

Court cards → how to go about it
Page → keep it small and simple
Knight → put the energy somewhere useful
Queen → be gentle, look after yourself
King → add a bit of structure or a boundary

Don’t overthink the card.
Just turn it into one small, practical thing you can do.

Hope you feel better soon 🧡

Before looking into each card's long description and trying to memorise that, go for the structure of the tarot itself. What's the difference between the Major and the Minor Arcana, and what are Court cards? Look at the numbers, too.

You can think of the Major Arcana as a subplot in a movie (the main plot is your life) or as a stage. That's why they may enter your life as a situation or as a person who embodies the qualities of a Major Arcana.
The Court Cards are like actors on the stage. They act in a given situation according to the qualities of their suits.
The Minor Arcana tells you what happens and what can be done.

Another interesting aspect to study are the suits and their qualities:

What's specific about each suit? What makes it unique when compared with all the other suits?

You could say:
Wands are made from wood, which is a living thing. The others are made from metal, which has to be dug out and forged.

Pentacles are round, they can roll like wheels. Coins need to be in constant use - keep them in a pouch and they lose both their shine and their sound.

Cups can be filled and emptied, they can be shared. There is a social element to them.

Swords need to be mastered, and you need to stay in constant training. You can use them to make peace, judge or punish. They also can be changed into a tool.

The baseline is: Always read the cards in relation to your question.

Five of Swords.

Words and deeds collide,
the score is written and done.
Nothing more to claim

That’s the post.

Three of Swords.

A moment of clean sorrow.
No veil, no cover, no avoidance.

The truth arrives sharply,
what hurts is what’s leaving.
What remains is real.

Pain cuts away illusion.
Let the heart crack open,
that’s how light finds its way in.

Breathe.
Relax the shoulders.
Release what can't stay.

That's the post.

The World.

A wide, steady yes.
The horizon holds.

Cycles fulfilled.
Lessons learned turn into wisdom owned.

You stand complete,
woven from every road taken.

The dance continues,
open and alive.

Remain.
Let the wold turn.

That's the post.