Celtic Cross tarot quiz: test the ten positions
A quiz on the Celtic Cross: the numbers and order of its ten positions, the cross and the staff, card pairs and live scenarios. Ten questions per round.
- 10 questions
- ≈ 3 min
- +10 bronze keys for a flawless run
What does the Celtic Cross quiz test?
This quiz checks how well you know the Celtic Cross, the most detailed classic spread on Tayna. You will meet position numbers, their order, what each card stands for and how the positions talk to each other. Some questions are small scenarios: a card is already lying in its place, and you decide how to read it there.
Knowing the ten names by heart is only the start. The spread comes alive in its pairs: the foundation arguing with the goal, the past flowing into the future, your own card mirroring the challenge. The questions are built to make those links stick, not just the labels.
It works for beginners and seasoned readers alike. If you are new, it gives you a map of where each card lies and what it asks. If you have been reading for years, it shows where your habits differ from the way Tayna reads the layout.
How the Celtic Cross is laid out on Tayna
Ten cards form two shapes. Six on the left make the cross: the situation in the middle with the challenge laid across it, the foundation below, the goal above, the past and the future on either side. Four on the right stand in a column called the staff: your stance, your surroundings, your hopes and fears, and the outcome.
Authors arrange the positions slightly differently, so the quiz asks about the order used on Tayna. The outcome here is a direction rather than a verdict, and a few questions test exactly that. If an answer surprises you, open the spread page and try it on a real question: positions stick faster once you see them filled with cards.
Rules
Each round draws ten questions from a pool of twenty-four, and the options are reshuffled every time. Answers are final, but you can replay as often as you like. Your first flawless round earns ten bronze keys.
All questions and answers
Open after you play: the full question set with right answers and explanations.
1. Which number is the Hopes and fears position in the Celtic Cross?
Right answer: 9th
Card nine sits in the staff between your surroundings and the outcome: what you hope for and dread is often the same.
2. What two shapes do the ten Celtic Cross cards form?
Right answer: A cross and a staff
On the left a six-card cross describes the situation; on the right a four-card column, the staff, shows you in it.
3. The Sun lands in the challenge position. How does the Celtic Cross read it?
Right answer: Something good, but badly timed
A bright card across the first still blocks the way: the trouble is haste, too much optimism or expectations set too high.
4. Celtic tarot is a special deck, not a spread.
Right answer: Myth
It is a ten-position layout for an ordinary 78-card deck; people simply search for it under that name.
5. What does the foundation, the bottom card of the cross, show?
Right answer: The root the whole thing stands on
The foundation is often something you rarely think about: an old habit, an earlier experience, an unspoken need.
6. In the Celtic Cross, which position comes right after the past?
Right answer: The goal
Card four is the past, card five the goal at the top of the cross: what you are consciously reaching for.
7. Cards two and seven share a suit. What does that say about the challenge?
Right answer: Much of it is your own doing
When the challenge and the You card share a suit, the block grows from your own behavior, so it is yours to clear.
8. Which card in position one says the matter is still at an early stage?
Right answer: Two of Swords
Twos and Threes in the situation slot mean an early stage, while a Major Arcana says the matter is bigger than it looks.
9. Where does the challenge card lie in the Celtic Cross?
Right answer: Across the first card
Card two is laid across card one and blocks the way; together they sit where the two axes of the cross meet.
10. What does card eight, your surroundings, show?
Right answer: The people and climate around you
Family, colleagues, a partner, the general climate. A court card here often points to one specific person.
11. A heavy card in the Celtic Cross outcome is fate and cannot change.
Right answer: Myth
The outcome is the current line extended. A hard tenth card shows where it leads and leaves time to correct course.
12. The outcome looks hard. Which card should you go back to first?
Right answer: Card seven, You
Card seven describes your own behavior, the most movable part of the spread. Then check the challenge and foundation.
13. Which Celtic Cross position is number five?
Right answer: The goal
Card five tops the cross: the best result you consciously reach for. Compare it with the foundation below.
14. Cups sit at the bottom of the cross, Pentacles at the top. What tension is that?
Right answer: Chasing security, needing feeling
The foundation is what you need, the goal what you chase. That gap is why a goal can be reached and still feel empty.
15. How does Tayna handle a significator in the Celtic Cross?
Right answer: All 10 are drawn from the deck
The old tradition placed a card for the asker in the center; on Tayna all ten positions come from the shuffled deck.
16. Which card in Your surroundings most likely points to a specific person?
Right answer: Queen of Cups
A court card in position eight often names one person who shapes how things unfold.
17. How should you read the past card in the Celtic Cross?
Right answer: As a cause already fading
Card four is a recent event that set things in motion. Read it as a cause, not as something still holding on.
18. The spread is named after ancient Celtic diviners who used it.
Right answer: Myth
The name stuck after Waite's 1910 book. Historians found no Celtic roots; the shape likely recalls old stone crosses.
19. Which question suits the Celtic Cross poorly?
Right answer: Will they text me tonight?
Ten positions need a question with many sides. Ask whether someone will text tonight and you get noise.
20. The goal and outcome cards echo each other. What does that mean?
Right answer: The course is sound
When cards five and ten echo each other, the course is sound. If not, card nine shows what pulls you off track.
21. What does position six of the Celtic Cross, the future, mean?
Right answer: The next step, a few weeks out
Card six is not the ending but the next step: an event, a mood or a conversation already on its way.
22. How many cards make up the staff of the Celtic Cross?
Right answer: Four
The staff is the right-hand column: You, surroundings, hopes and fears, outcome. Read it bottom-up, like a ladder.
23. What axis do the past and future cards form in the Celtic Cross?
Right answer: The axis of time
The horizontal line is time: past on the left, future on the right. The vertical, foundation to goal, is awareness.
24. A Celtic Cross shows five Major Arcana. What does that suggest?
Right answer: A major turning point
Four or more Major Arcana point to a turning point bigger than everyday life.