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The love spread

Take stock of your love life: where you stand, where the other stands and what your bond is worth.

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The Lovers, emblem card of this spread
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The Lovers
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The love spread reads your love life in three parts: you, the other and your bond. The first card says where you truly stand, behind what you tell yourself. The second lights up where the other stands. The third, often the most awaited, speaks of what flows between you: its strength, its nature and its future.

It is the spread to draw when the relationship raises a question: a doubt, a distance, a fresh start. If your question is only about the feelings of the other, the spread what they feel for you will be even more precise.

The 3 positions of this spread

  1. You
  2. The other
  3. Your bond

How the cards are shuffled

No lazy random draw: Arkarma shuffles a real deck of 22 arcana the way hands would. Seven riffle shuffles broken up by cuts, some of which turn part of the pack over: that is how reversed cards are born, in clusters, as on a real table. Your question and your day enter the shuffle: ask the same question on the same day and the deck will be shuffled exactly the same way. Only your hand, by choosing other cards, can change the answer.

The deck then spreads before you and it is your hand that chooses: the intention, the moment and the gesture. The reading that follows takes up your question word for word and answers you as a reader would, card after card.

Frequently asked questions

Does this spread work if I am single?
Yes: the card of the other then speaks of the person on your mind or of the one on the way. And the card of the bond describes what is forming or what still holds you back.
What does a reversed card mean in the love spread?
A blocked or inverted energy: a feeling that does not flow, a fear that slows the bond. It is often the most useful card: it shows exactly what asks to be untangled.
How is it different from what they feel?
The love spread takes stock of the whole relationship: you, the other, the bond. The spread what they feel steps into the heart of the other alone: feelings, thoughts, intentions.
✦ Draw this spread

Before you draw, you can explore the meaning of the 22 major arcana: every card of your reading has its full page there, upright as well as reversed. And for another view, the 10 spreads of Arkarma await you.