Okay, so I decided to try out one of those free Celtic Tarot readings you see online. Been curious about the Celtic Cross spread for a while, figured I’d give a free version a shot just to see what it was like.
Finding and Starting the Reading
First, I just poked around online, looking for a place that offered a free Celtic Cross reading. Didn’t take too long to find something that looked simple enough. No sign-ups or anything, which was good.
Once I landed on the page, it asked me to focus. You know, think about a question or just the general situation I wanted some insight on. I took a minute, cleared my head a bit, and focused on some stuff that’s been bouncing around in my mind lately.
Then came the part of actually getting the cards. It was pretty straightforward – usually, you just click a button or maybe click on a deck image. In this case, I think I just clicked something like ‘Shuffle and Deal’. The system then laid out the cards virtually on the screen in that classic Celtic Cross pattern. Ten cards, all in their specific spots.
Looking at the Cards and Meanings
So there they were, ten digital cards laid out. The tool then showed me what each position in the spread represented. It typically covers things like:
- Your current situation
- The immediate challenge
- The past influences
- What’s in the future
- Your own conscious thoughts or goals
- External factors
- Your hopes and fears
- The likely outcome
I went through each card position one by one. The website, or tool, provided the interpretation for the card drawn in that specific spot. It wasn’t super deep, more like a standard keyword meaning applied to the position’s theme.
I read through all ten descriptions. Some of it felt a bit generic, as you might expect from an automated reading. But, honestly, a couple of points did make me pause and think. Especially the card in the ‘challenge’ position, it kind of resonated with what I’ve been feeling lately. The ‘hopes and fears’ card also gave me a little nudge, made me consider things from a slightly different angle.
It wasn’t like having a conversation with a live reader, obviously. There’s no back-and-forth, no intuition coming from another person. It’s just the programmed meanings applied to the spread positions. But still, for a free thing online, it did lay out the different aspects of my situation according to the traditional spread.
Overall, it was an interesting little exercise. Didn’t cost anything but a few minutes of my time. It didn’t give me any earth-shattering revelations, but it did present the information in that structured Celtic Cross way, which helped organize my thoughts a little. It’s a tool, right? And like any tool, it depends on how you use it. For me, it was a simple way to engage with the tarot structure and prompt a bit of self-reflection without any fuss.
