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Another thread which also looked at spreads simpler than the Celtic Cross, especially in the steps towards learning to read, is The Very Best* Beginners Spread.
Diana mentions that in France, they do quite well without this spread. Yes, but a popular spread is, to be sure to be sure, very similar indeed: the basic 'Cross' (including the 'crossing' card) is there, as is the 'outcome' card. Only the lower three of the right-hand bar are omitted.
Why it is called 'Celtic' may have something to do with the personal preferences of the Golden Dawn poet Yeats... and I am quite happy to continue calling it thus. Of course this does not in any way imply that it looks exactly like a Celtic cross, nor that the ancient Celts used it when they threw a spread using their Golden Tarot deck .
Diana mentions that in France, they do quite well without this spread. Yes, but a popular spread is, to be sure to be sure, very similar indeed: the basic 'Cross' (including the 'crossing' card) is there, as is the 'outcome' card. Only the lower three of the right-hand bar are omitted.
Why it is called 'Celtic' may have something to do with the personal preferences of the Golden Dawn poet Yeats... and I am quite happy to continue calling it thus. Of course this does not in any way imply that it looks exactly like a Celtic cross, nor that the ancient Celts used it when they threw a spread using their Golden Tarot deck .