The Love Triangle Spread
Difficulty: Complicated
Casually referred to as the Love Triangle, this spread can be used to determine the dynamics of the relationship between three people, regardless of whether romance is involved. This spread is arranged in the form of a hexagram, consisting of several large and small triangles. This tarot spread may seem somewhat complicated, but it is not entirely that difficult.
The first step is to interpret the card for each individual position in the spread. Generally, one might ask about a relationship they are involved in, but this does not have to be the case. Ordinarily, the reader's representative card is #1, their main person of interest is #2, and the other person would be #3.
The second step fills in the downward triangle and involves further examination of the individuals through their views of the other people. Each person has two more cards showing the way they see and relate to the other members of the triangle. For example, Card #6 indicates how Person #3 relates to Person #1, while Card #9 stands for Person #1's attitude toward Person #3.
The next step completes the upward triangle and the hexagram, focusing on cards #10–13. It also completes the many smaller triangles and hints at the potential for each relationship. The final card, #13 can be considered the significator of the reading, which suggests the overall potential for this three-way relationship.
Your Love Triangle Reading
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1: Person #1
'Worry'
Mercury in TaurusIntense strain accompanying a period of inactivity. Anxiety, loss.
2: Person #2
The Root of Fire
Energy, natural force, strength, creation, invention, pioneer spirit, enterprise, source, beginning, birth.
3: Person #3
Gemini
An active, skilful, witty, clever, fierce man.
4: Person #1's view of #2
'Love'
Venus in CancerPerfect harmony between male and female radiates warmth and ecstasy. Love, union, friendship, warmth, comfort, passion, affinity, intercourse.
5: Person #2's view of #3
'Prudence'
Sun in VirgoIndustriousness, agriculture, building, construction, intelligence in material affairs.
6: Person #3's view of #1
Leo
A young man, just, noble, generous, impulsive, humorous, strong.
7: Person #2's view of #1
'Gain'
Venus in VirgoInheritance, increase in wealth, material fortune, accomplishment.
8: Person #3's view of #2
Taurus
A young man with skill in practical matters, reliable, and perhaps dull. He resents spiritual types, being beyond his scope.
9: Person #1's view of #3
'Virtue'
Sun in AriesRealisation of hope. Noble cause. Pride and arrogance.
10: Overall relationship between persons #1 and #2
Aquarius
A pure intellectual, clever but unstable of purpose, a mind full of various contradictory ideas and opinions. He kills his ideas as fast as he creates them.
11: Overall relationship between persons #2 and #3
'Swiftness'
Mercury in SagittariusAction, explosive energy, electricity, fast communication, gain of rapid speed, light, quickness.
12: Overall relationship between persons #1 and #3
'Ruin'
Sun in GeminiReason divorced from reality, the end of sanity, disaster, failure. Spiritually may mean the end of delusion.
13: Overall 3-way Relationship
Scorpio
A man who moves in shadows, who ambitiously lusts for great wisdom and power. His calm appearance masks an ocean of passion.
Ill-dignified: a merciless man of insatiable ambition.
