About the Strengths & Blind Spot spread
This three-card spread is a short, balanced look at yourself. The first card shows your strongest resource at the moment, the second something about yourself you may not be seeing, and the third the next step in your growth. Starting with a strength makes the blind spot easier to hear, because it lands next to something you can rely on.
Use it before a review at work, when starting something new, or when feedback from others has left you wondering how you come across. It is good at giving a fair picture rather than a flattering or a harsh one, and the growth card keeps the reading pointed at something you can do rather than something to worry about.
The positions
- 1Your Strength. What is your greatest strength right now?
- 2Your Blind Spot. What are you not seeing about yourself?
- 3How to Grow. What is the next step in your growth?
How to lay it out with your own deck
- Shuffle while thinking about yourself as you are now, or about a particular role such as work, friendship or parenting.
- Lay three cards in a row, left to right: Your Strength, Your Blind Spot, How to Grow.
- Turn the strength first, then the blind spot, and read them together before turning How to Grow.
Drew the cards at home? Choose “Enter my own cards” above and get the written reading for the cards you drew.
How to read it
- Look for a link between the first two cards. A blind spot is often a strength used too much: steadiness that becomes stubbornness, or care that becomes taking on too much.
- If the blind spot card is a bright one, it may be a gift you underrate rather than a flaw you overlook.
- Read How to Grow as an answer to the blind spot, using your strength as the means. The best growth step usually draws on what you already do well.
- A reversed strength card can mean the resource is there but under-used, or that you have stopped trusting it.
Questions
- Can tarot show me my blind spots?
- It can offer an image to reflect on, and sometimes that image names something you had not put into words. Whether it fits is for you to judge. Asking a trusted friend the same question afterwards can be a useful check.
- What if the strength card is a difficult card?
- Difficult cards can describe hard-won strengths: the resilience of someone who has been through the Ten of Swords, or the clarity that follows The Tower. Ask what that card's experience has taught you to do well.