The Lovers Tarot Spread: Custom Layout for Decisions

December 19, 2025

BY NICOLE LAU

The Lovers' power lies in their ability to choose consciously, integrate opposites, and create divine union through awareness. This custom tarot spread is designed to help you make important decisions, understand relationships, and find alignment with your deepest values. Whether you're facing a choice, seeking clarity in partnership, or trying to integrate different parts of yourself, this spread will illuminate the way.

The Lovers' Choice Spread: 7-Card Layout

This original spread mirrors The Lovers' process of conscious decision-making—from recognizing the choice to receiving divine blessing. Each position represents a crucial aspect of choosing with awareness and alignment.

Spread Layout

        [7]         |    [2] [1] [3]     |   |   |    [4] [5] [6]

Position 1 (Center): You Now - Your current position and readiness
Position 2 (Left): Option A - What this choice offers
Position 3 (Right): Option B - What this choice offers
Position 4 (Bottom Left): Values Test A - How Option A aligns with your truth
Position 5 (Bottom Center): Integration - What needs to be integrated
Position 6 (Bottom Right): Values Test B - How Option B aligns with your truth
Position 7 (Top): Divine Guidance - The blessed path forward

How to Perform This Spread

Preparation

Cleanse your deck
Create sacred space (pink and blue candles, peaceful atmosphere)
Set clear intention: What choice are you facing?
Sit in a receptive, open posture
Shuffle while focusing on your question

The Reading Process

Step 1: Lay out all seven cards face down in the pattern shown.

Step 2: Turn over Position 1 first (You Now). This reveals your current position and readiness to choose.

Step 3: Turn over Positions 2 and 3 together (Option A and Option B). These show what each choice offers.

Step 4: Turn over Positions 4 and 6 together (Values Tests). These reveal how each option aligns with your truth.

Step 5: Turn over Position 5 (Integration). This shows what needs to be integrated within you.

Step 6: Finally, turn over Position 7 (Divine Guidance). This shows the blessed path forward.

Step 7: Look at the spread as a whole. Notice patterns, repeated suits, Major Arcana presence. What story emerges?

Detailed Position Meanings

Position 1: You Now - Your Current Position

This card reveals where you are right now—your readiness to choose, your current state, your position in this decision.

Questions to ask:

Am I ready to choose?
What is my current state regarding this decision?
What energy am I bringing to this choice?

If The Lovers appear here: You are perfectly positioned to choose consciously. Trust the process.

Position 2: Option A - What This Choice Offers

This card represents what the first option offers—its gifts, its challenges, its essence.

Questions to ask:

What does this option offer me?
What would this choice bring into my life?
What is the essence of this path?

Position 3: Option B - What This Choice Offers

This card represents what the second option offers—its gifts, its challenges, its essence.

Questions to ask:

What does this option offer me?
What would this choice bring into my life?
What is the essence of this path?

Position 4: Values Test A - Alignment with Truth

This card reveals how Option A aligns (or doesn't) with your deepest values and truth.

Questions to ask:

Does this option align with my values?
Does this honor my truth?
How does this feel in my body?

Position 5: Integration - What Needs Integration

This card shows what opposites or different parts of yourself need to be integrated before or during this choice.

Questions to ask:

What parts of me are in conflict?
What needs to be integrated?
Can I choose with my whole being?

This is your integration card. Pay close attention to what it reveals.

Position 6: Values Test B - Alignment with Truth

This card reveals how Option B aligns (or doesn't) with your deepest values and truth.

Questions to ask:

Does this option align with my values?
Does this honor my truth?
How does this feel in my body?

Position 7: Divine Guidance - The Blessed Path

This card shows the path that has divine blessing—the choice that aligns with your highest good.

Questions to ask:

Which path is divinely blessed?
What does the angel Raphael guide me toward?
What choice serves my highest good?

Sample Reading Interpretation

Question: "Should I take the new job or stay in my current position?"

Position 1 (You Now): Two of Swords - Currently in indecision, avoiding the choice

Position 2 (Option A - New Job): Ace of Pentacles - New material opportunity, fresh start, prosperity

Position 3 (Option B - Current Job): Four of Pentacles - Security, stability, but also stagnation

Position 4 (Values Test A): The Star - New job aligns with hope, healing, and growth

Position 5 (Integration): Temperance - Need to integrate desire for security with desire for growth

Position 6 (Values Test B): Eight of Cups - Current job requires walking away, doesn't align with growth

Position 7 (Divine Guidance): The Sun - New job is the blessed path, brings joy and success

Overall message: You're currently avoiding the decision (You Now), but the new job offers fresh opportunity (Option A) while current job offers only stagnation (Option B). New job aligns with your values of growth (Values Test A), while current job requires departure (Values Test B). You need to integrate security and growth (Integration), and the divine guidance points clearly to the new job (Divine Guidance).

Variations of This Spread

Quick 5-Card Version

Use only Positions 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 for faster decision-making.

Relationship Spread

Adapt for relationship decisions:
Position 2 becomes "Staying"
Position 3 becomes "Leaving"
Position 5 becomes "What needs healing"

Integration Spread

Use for integrating opposites within yourself rather than choosing between external options.

When to Use This Spread

When facing important decisions between two options
When seeking clarity in relationships
When trying to align choices with values
When needing to integrate different parts of yourself
Monthly decision-making check-ins
When embodying The Lovers' energy

Tips for Deeper Readings

Journal after reading: Write about each card's message and how it relates to your choice.

Compare Values Tests: Positions 4 and 6 show which option truly aligns with your truth.

Trust Divine Guidance: Position 7 shows the blessed path—trust it.

Integrate first: Whatever Position 5 shows, integrate it before choosing.

Choose consciously: Use this spread to choose with awareness, not to avoid choosing.

After the Reading

Make the choice: Within 24 hours, make your decision based on the reading.

Integrate: Work on whatever Position 5 revealed needs integration.

Align with values: Choose the option that aligns with your truth (Positions 4 and 6).

Trust divine guidance: Follow what Position 7 revealed.

Closing Wisdom

The Lovers don't avoid choice—they choose consciously, with alignment, with their whole being. This spread shows you how to do the same. Your choice is waiting. The guidance is clear. The only question is: are you ready to choose?

May your reading be clear.
May your choice be conscious.
May your alignment be true.
May you remember that you are The Lovers.

The choice is before you. The guidance is given. The only question is: what will you choose?