Most love spreads on the internet have a position labeled how they feel about you, and that one label is responsible for an enormous amount of misery. This tarot spread for love does have a card for the other person, and it is read very differently.
The three cards
The first card is you in this: what you are carrying, what you want, what you have got used to putting up with. It is the position people are least curious about and it is where most of the answer lives.
The second is them, and this is where a love reading either stays honest or stops being one. It is read as the part of another person that is genuinely visible: what they do, what they have said, the pattern anybody standing where you are standing could see. It is never read as a report on what somebody is feeling in another room.
The third is the space between the two of you, which is a real and observable thing made of how you both behave. It is readable precisely because you built it together, and it is usually the card that says what to do next.
Why the middle card is not his feelings
Because no card can see them, and a position labeled that way guarantees an answer. Deal a card into a box marked how he feels and somebody will read one, and then act on it, and it was never anything more than a picture in a box.
Reading the same card as what is visible from where you are standing costs nothing and stays true. The love pages on this site all say a version of that, in different words, because it is the single most important thing about reading tarot for relationships.
When the love spread fits
Use it when the question is about a connection you are actually in, or one that has just ended, and you want to understand your own part in it. Use one card when you just want a nudge, and the Celtic Cross when a relationship question has been going round for months.
If your question has a page of its own, start there instead: does he love me, will he come back and the rest of the love readings are written for specific evenings.
Start the love spread
Deal it at the love spread when you have ten quiet minutes.
The honest version of this reading is less exciting than the one that promises to read his mind, and it is the one you can actually use tomorrow.
Questions people ask
Is there a position for how he feels?
There is a card for them, and it is not read as a report on their feelings. It reads what is actually visible from where you are standing: what they do, what they have said, what anybody in your position could see. No card reaches further than that.
Can I use this spread for a relationship I am already in?
Yes, and it works particularly well there, because the middle position has something concrete to describe. Long relationships tend to get read more accurately than new ones for exactly that reason.
What about a spread for how someone feels about you?
It is the most searched love spread there is, and it is the one that does the most damage, because whatever card lands gets read as a message from a person who never sent one.