The Yes or no spread
One card, read for its lean. The tradition gives no rule for this; ours is declared.
The one place
1 The answer
Upright leans yes, reversed leans no — a policy, not a rule of the tradition.
Where this layout comes from: No classical source; see the tarot-yes-no convention.
The spreads
- One card One card, one answer. The simplest reading there is.
- Past, present, future Three cards in a line: how it came, where it is, where it goes.
- Celtic Cross Waite's ten-card cross for a definite question: the matter, its obstacle, its root, its past and near future, then you, your house, your hopes and the outcome.