Raising your Vibration: A Tarot Spread for Clarity
“When the student is ready, the teacher shall appear”
A Clarity Tarot Card Reading is one of the best ways to gain clarity on a situation or the big picture of your life. On a deeper level, this type of reading can deliver you special insight from your Higher Self and spirit guides.
If you have a question about someone or something or want to know more about yourself, the Tarot can provide you with answers. The spread we walk through here will show you how to tap into your Intuition and find the answers you seek.
Understanding Truth from Illusion
Usually, when you're tapping into your intuition, in information you receive doesn't feel uncomfortable.
The clarity our intuition provides comes from deep knowing instead of being a product of fear or worry.
If you receive an answer that is accompanied by anxiety, fear, or distress, usually, this answer may not be completely accurate.
When reading, it's important to find the answers that "feel" right.
Asking the cards for more clarity, and drawing another, can help you better understand a specific spread or receive more information in regards to the answer.
Decision Making
The first step in making the "right" decision is having clarity.
By right decision, we mean whatever is going to be the best for you and your goals. Part of that is figuring out what is most important to you and what options are available to you.
Tarot can help you understand what you want and provide guidance on how to move forward. Tarot spreads help structure your insight from your Intuition and your Spirit guides to give you the best information set possible.
When making a decision, never make one out of fear, worry, or a feeling of lack. You want to come from a place of strength, where you are exhibiting a high vibration.
This Tarot spread will illuminate the energies surrounding your circumstances. In doing so, it will reveal sources of strength that you may have forgotten about.
The clarity Tarot spread can also illustrate the consequences you might face in the future. This will help you understand–and accept–the potential outcomes so that you are not hindered by feelings of worry.
It's important to have a knowledge of what consequences could occur by either decision you could make and go with your gut instinct as to what the best course may be.
General Guidance
Tarot doesn't have to be used to find clarity on life's biggest challenges and obstacles.
You can use a Tarot spread for clarity to find general guidance in making decisions that aren't necessarily life-changing but are still important.
When asking for insight into these situations, it can help teach you how to feel the energy of truth without resistance, as you won't have such a strong attachment to a specific outcome.
The Most Important Thing When Asking For Clarity
The questions you ask your tarot when you pull the cards are one of the most important components of reading.
Depending on the question you ask and how you word it, you can receive an answer that is birthed from clarity but not exactly the answer you meant to ask.
Reflect on what you're asking beforehand, and decide if it's as clear and concise as it should be.
The Clarity Tarot Spread
Before you begin, center yourself and charge your tarot deck.
You can do this by smudging Palo Santo or placing a charged quartz crystal on the deck for a few hours.
Once your deck is cleansed, shuffle it for a while until you're sure the cards are free and clear of all energy.
When you're ready, draw the cards and place them in their designated placements.
The spread will contain four cards in a cross layout, resembling a smaller version of the traditional Celtic cross tarot spread. Do not be mislead by the simplicity of this spread; the fourth card will pack a punch.
The First Card: Present Energy
The top, or the first card, represents the present.
When looking for clarity, if this involved a relationship with another person, look at the zodiac sign association for the card in this placement to determine whether it represents you or the other person.
Also, pay attention if a major arcana card appears here, as this will be the overall theme for the reading.
The first card can be interpreted as the most dominant energy within your current state.
Usually, this will represent the direction you've found yourself in and where you desire to come back from.
Reflect on the card that appears and make time to accept that this is where you're currently at, even if it's not where you want to be.
The Second Card: Past Experience
The second card, left side, represents a past experience that influences your current situation.
The reason this card is important for the reading is because it can help offer you clarity as to why you've found yourself in the situation that you're in.
May you've been unable to manifest a new relationship, or you've found yourself fired from a job again, there may be something from your past that's preventing you from experiencing your empowerment.
You may find the High Priestess or Magician emerging here since they are the immature (early stage) feminine and masculine energies.
These cards highlight your past experience that affect this reading. To receive guidance about the future, it's necessary to first find insight from the past.
The Third Card: Future
The third card, or the right side, represents the energy you can expect for the future.
This isn't necessarily the future outcome; it's what you know will be present in your life in the near future, which can help you better decide which decision to make and gain a deeper clarity over the situation.
For example, if you wanted clarity about a specific person's true intentions and the seven of swords appears, this would be a sign that this person's intentions are negative and not someone that will benefit you in the long run.
This is one of the most important in this clarity tarot spread, as it provides you with a deep truth that can help you fully understand the consequences of your actions.
The first three cards will serve as the past, present and future of the area of your life in question, but it is the following fourth card that carries the most weight.
The Fourth and Final Card: The Hard Truth
The final card, or fourth placement of this tarot reading, represents the "hard truth" that will serve you to understand. With this knowledge, you can unlock a higher perspective.
When you are presented with a hard truth, you can reflect on how it stems from all of the other cards in the deck. In most tarot readings, the answers you receive may not be as challenging as this one, but it's necessary for your growth.
Reflect on this card, and decide on what it means for the question at hand. This fourth card is instrumental in this Tarot spread. Your spirit guides will use this opportunity to reveal something that will be valuable in your Spiritual development.
Engage with your Intuition here. Close your eyes, reach a state of calm balance, and look (with your eyes closed) up to the middle of your forehead. Open your third eye. Have the maturity to recognize yourself as fallible. Know that embracing what is being delivered to you in this Tarot spread will pave the way for you to tap into higher levels of consciousness.
The Truth of Tarot Spreads may be Stranger Than Fiction
Using simple tarot spreads is a powerful way to gain access to truth and obtain clarity over your experience.
No matter what answer you receive, remember that the truth is often stranger than fiction.
The truth may not be comfortable at first, especially if you've previously resisted receiving it. But, the truth will set you free, and the freedom it provides helps you feel more content, calm, and at peace.
Embracing the truth, as opposed to bargaining with it or trying to manipulate what you know the Tarot spread is telling you, is a key step in getting the clarity you seek. Short-term discomfort saves you from so much long-term pain.
Don't run from the Truth. Let the truth set you free. Embrace clarity and tarot cards to help inspire you, guide you, and tap into your intuitive potential.
Expanding your Consciousness
If you have even a slight interest in spirituality, it is likely that you are a Truth-seeker. Knowing and understanding "what is" is a core component of who you are.
That's a beautiful thing. Understand, however, that it can also be challenging.
Expanding your consciousness is not easy. Raising your vibration takes effort. This is because there are many difficult truths you have to accept along the way.
Rejecting comforting lies for hard truths is challenging and usually isn't something we can do suddenly. The reason that is challenging is that we take comfort in familiarity. We also take comfort in, well, comforting beliefs. Even when they are wrong.
Trust that accepting the truth that is delivered to you in Tarot spreads, this one or otherwise, will lead you to great heights. Your Spirit guides will not lead you astray.
That said, if you would prefer the easier path–to sit in lower levels of consciousness–your spirit guides will support you nonetheless. Perhaps this Tarot spread can help illuminate the pros and cons of both.
Since you've made it this far, at least consider the following food for thought: the theme of raising consciousness in the Fool's Journey of the Major Arcana
The Search for Clarity in the Fool's Journey
In the Fool's Journey, the Fool succumbs to comforting delusions and the low-vibration copes of the Devil.
What enables the Fool to have clarity, and move beyond that lowly stage, is the Tower.
The Tower is notorious for being an omen of destruction. When the Tower emerges in a Tarot spread, it represents upheaval. It points to the vast, sudden change that is necessary for something better to come along.
You cannot build a castle on a weak foundation. In order to erect a powerful monolith, you must first cut away at the misleading beliefs and attitudes that pull you down.
Then, in accepting a greater truth, the Fool embodies the Star. The Star represents a point of harmonious balance, understanding of self, and tuning in to higher energies.
Thus, this Tarot spread can serve as a Tower moment for you. It will enable you to cut away at what is holding you back from achieving the Star... if you let it.
Final Thoughts: What to Focus On in Clarity Tarot Readings
A Tarot spread for clarity is best performed for understanding the details of a situation, not necessarily for making a hard-and-fast decision. There is, however, a helpful Decision Making Tarot Spread that serves that exact purpose.
When you engage in this Tarot spread, use it as a platform for receiving guidance from your higher self and spirit guides.
A great Tarot reader receives insights as an unbiased silent observer. When the fourth card emerges to deliver the hard truth, look at it non-judgmentally. Try to sink your teeth into what the spread wants you to know. See how it intertwines with the first card, second card, and third card. What kind of story do all four Tarot cards tell together?
If you can approach these kinds of Tarot spreads with an open mind and take their guidance to heart, you can raise your consciousness at an incredible rate.