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

 

P#3		3to2	2+3	2to3		P#2
	3to1		Overall		2to1
1+3		1to3		1to2		1+2
			P#1

 

 

 

1: Person #1

Seven of Clubs

'Valour'

Mars in Leo

Struggles, obstacles, difficulties met with courage. Small victories.

 

 

 

2: Person #2

Ten of Hearts

'Satiety'

Mars in Pisces

Pleasure fulfilled yet incomplete.

 

 

 

3: Person #3

Ten of Spades

'Ruin'

Sun in Gemini

Reason divorced from reality, the end of sanity, disaster, failure. Spiritually may mean the end of delusion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4: Person #1's view of #2

Jack of Spades

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.

 

 

 

5: Person #2's view of #3

Jack of Diamonds

Taurus

A young man with skill in practical matters, reliable, and perhaps dull. He resents spiritual types, being beyond his scope.

 

 

 

6: Person #3's view of #1

King of Spades

Gemini

An active, skilful, witty, clever, fierce man.

 

 

 

7: Person #2's view of #1

Nine of Diamonds

'Gain'

Venus in Virgo

Inheritance, increase in wealth, material fortune, accomplishment.

 

 

 

8: Person #3's view of #2

Six of Clubs

'Victory'

Jupiter in Leo

Triumph after strife. Success and gain, good news, expectations fulfilled.

 

 

 

9: Person #1's view of #3

Seven of Hearts

'Debauch'

Venus in Scorpio

Loss or lack of moral values. Deception, shameless indulgence, lust, fornication, intoxication, delusion, promises unfulfilled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10: Overall relationship between persons #1 and #2

King of Diamonds

Virgo

Agricultural proficiency, skills regarding material concerns, perhaps preoccupied with material concerns and therefore dull.

 

 

 

11: Overall relationship between persons #2 and #3

Jack of Hearts

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.

 

 

12: Overall relationship between persons #1 and #3

Queen of Spades

Libra

A confident, gracious, just, perceptive, graceful, elegant woman.

 

 

 

13: Overall 3-way Relationship

Five of Diamonds

'Worry'

Mercury in Taurus

Intense strain accompanying a period of inactivity. Anxiety, loss.