I personally love using the Celtic Cross Tarot Spread it is my go to spread! So I thought I’d like to know a bit more about its history, and this is what I found.

The history of the Celtic Cross Tarot spread suggests that this spread started in Europe, and is thought to be an adaptation of earlier spreads which were arranged in the form of a cross.

Possibly the first published reference to this spread was in 1910 in the book “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by Arthur Edward Waite, when he named the spread, “An Ancient Celtic Method of Divination” Waite also implies that to his knowledge this spread has not been published in any other form before.

Waite’s reference to the Celtic Cross describes it as “a short process which has been used privately for many years past in England, Scotland, and Ireland.”

However, the origins of the classic Celtic Cross Tarot spread are still unknown. What is known about the history of the Celtic Cross Tarot spread is that the spread has stayed exactly the same since it first appeared in 1910.

We know that members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, of which Waite was a member, used the Celtic Cross spread. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a magical occult order based in Great Britain and active during the late 19th Century and the early part of the 20th Century.

Another theory on the history of the Celtic Cross Tarot Spread suggests that Florence Farr was the first person to use this spread. However, although she used the spread her method of reading the Celtic Cross was different to how Waite describes it’s meanings. Her method was apparently based on a numerological and elemental approach.

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