Three cards is the smallest and most used spread: one position for what led here, one for the present, one for where it is heading.
Read the three cards as a set first, then bring them back to the question.
The Major Arcana are the 22 tarot cards that carry no suit, numbered 0 to 21, with 0 being the Fool. Readers often string them into one journey from setting out to completion as a memory aid; editions differ in how they number Strength and Justice, and that is a difference of edition rather than a mistake in reckoning.
A tarot deck is built from 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana, 78 cards in all. A spread breaks a question into positions, and the more positions there are the clearer the question has to be; many people pick the wrong spread because the question itself has not yet taken shape.
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