Love tarot reading where your love life is heading
This love tarot reading works for a crush you have not spoken to yet and for a relationship you are already in. Three cards show where things stand and what is likely to move in the next few weeks. Choose your birth date and the day's cards are set for you.
Your reading
Reading your cards
The three-card love spread
The cards are laid left to right. The first card checks the present, the second shows what could change things, and the third looks at the near future.
Where your love life stands
The mood your love life is in right now. If you have a crush, read it as how warm your feelings are. If you are together, read it as the distance between you. This card is often more honest than you are with yourself.
What shifts it
Whatever helps things move forward, or tells you to pause. It can be something you do, or something on their side or around you. Reversed, it is a key you have not used yet.
What comes next
Roughly the next one to three months, if things carry on as they are. How you use the second card changes what this one means.
Cards that speak clearly about love
Any of the 22 cards can answer a love question, but these six are the ones whose meaning is easiest to read when love is the topic.
The Lovers
Mutual attraction and a clear choice of person or path. Reversed, the feeling is there but the decision is not.
The Empress
A relationship where you feel cared for. If you have a crush, your warmth is getting through without effort.
The Star
Love with hope in it, even if it has not taken shape yet. It turns up often for long-distance love and slow-growing bonds.
The Sun
An open, happy relationship with nothing hidden. Good for confessing feelings or telling people you are together.
The Moon
Their heart is hard to read and worry grows easily. Conclusions drawn from imagination alone tend to be wrong here.
The Devil
A strong pull that is hard to walk away from. Sometimes it shows a relationship you know is bad for you but cannot leave.
Sample reading: a crush in three cards
The High PriestessWhere your love life stands
The ChariotWhat shifts it
The SunWhat comes nextWhere your love life stands shows the High Priestess. You are keeping your feelings to yourself and quietly watching them. From their side, it may be hard to tell what you are thinking.
What shifts it is the Chariot, reversed. The urge to act is spinning its wheels, and time is slipping by while you wait for the right moment. Talking to them a little more often suits the flow better than aiming straight for a confession.
What comes next is the Sun, feelings coming into the open and being returned. If the small exchanges keep going, there is likely to be a moment when they close the distance themselves.
A sample love reading for someone with a crush.
Reading the cards when you have a crush
With a crush, read the first card as your own feelings and the second as what sits between the two of you. That makes the answer much more concrete. If what you really want to know is what they feel, the how they feel reading separates what they show from what they hide.
A reversed card in the near future does not mean the crush is over. Take it as a sign that your current approach is not reaching them, and go back to the second card.
Reading for a relationship you are in
If you are together, the first card is the distance between you right now. Temperance or Justice in the second place point to talking things through and meeting halfway. The Tower or the Devil there can mean a problem both of you are stepping around, even if things look calm.
If marriage is on your mind, the marriage tarot reading looks at where you stand and what is in the way as two separate cards.
Love tarot questions
Does this work for a crush and for a relationship?
Yes. The first card reads as how warm your feelings are if you have a crush, or as the distance between you if you are together. The written reading is phrased to fit both, so put it in the context of your own situation.
How far ahead is the near future?
Roughly one to three months. The cards depend on today's date, so asking again on another day gives cards that fit that moment.
What if the reading is bad?
Read the second card again first. Every card carries something that would change the flow. The cards stay the same if you ask again today, so leave it a few days before you do.
Can I ask when to confess?
If you want a clear yes or no on whether to say something, the yes or no tarot answers one question with one card. Use the love reading to see how things move around that moment.