Campbell's heros journey has three phases: entering the underworld, the journey of transformation, and return to the world. The underworld includes guides that give clues about challenges, but challenges also exist in returning to the world. Perhaps you could set up a spread that represents the three stages of the journey, and your cards would offer insight about each stage. Or a spread that helps with insight about which phase of the journey the person is in. You might also add a bliss phase that helps identiy what you live as a result of the journey.
Well, yes, but that's an application of varied meaning to an ordinary "stages" type spread. Past/present/future and other similar spreads are likewise doable if the structural issues are dealt with.
Basically, the Tarot covers a lot of archetypes and concepts from different points of view (various suits that may echo the Major Arcana), where the Hero's Deck does not.
This could be solved by shuffling several times for each part of a reading, perhaps.
I'm not a tarot reader, just a beginner at angel cards (using the past-present-future format) and an artist toying with the idea of designing/painting a deck. Since the idea of threes seems important to your deck, would a triangle layout structure work? Top of triangle could be the over-arcing theme, while the base of the triangle (whether it's 2 cards, 3, or more as you add more layers) would provide more details. I'm just throwing this out as a mental image that hit me, but not sure how it works with your 3 card groups.
Artwork, always yes. I've seen how readers can use it intuitively. Some spreads wind up having a dominant colour or two that can provide very on-point clues. I'm visual and find that if something specifically is drawing my attention, it's relevant to the reading.
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Basically, the Tarot covers a lot of archetypes and concepts from different points of view (various suits that may echo the Major Arcana), where the Hero's Deck does not.
This could be solved by shuffling several times for each part of a reading, perhaps.
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Artwork, always yes. I've seen how readers can use it intuitively. Some spreads wind up having a dominant colour or two that can provide very on-point clues. I'm visual and find that if something specifically is drawing my attention, it's relevant to the reading.
I hope this is helpful instead of confusing!
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