By Isabella Vale, Founder of Tarot Masters
When I was pregnant with my first son, I didn’t know what I was doing. Not just about pregnancy. I mean in life. I was softening and stretching in ways I couldn’t put into words. Everything I thought I knew about control, identity, and intuition was unraveling.
And that’s when I started pulling cards more than ever before.
Now, looking back as a mama of two boys (they’re 8 and 12 now), I can see just how much tarot held me during that wild, sacred, uncertain time. It wasn’t just about answers. It was about listening. Trusting. Making space for the truth that was already blooming inside me, just like the tiny souls growing in my belly.
So I want to share a few of the tarot spreads I used during my pregnancies and what they helped me discover. Whether you’re pregnant now, planning to be, or simply nurturing a new beginning, maybe they’ll speak to you too.
The “Body Wisdom” Spread
My body felt like a mystery during pregnancy. Some days I was glowing. Other days I was swollen, exhausted, and overwhelmed. I created this spread to tune in without judgment.
3-card spread
Card 1: What does my body need right now?
Card 2: What am I not listening to?
Card 3: How can I nurture myself today?
This spread helped me reconnect with my body when I felt disconnected from it, especially during the third trimester when everything felt heavy. It reminded me that I wasn’t just growing a child. I was becoming a new version of myself.
The “Soul of the Child” Spread
I remember the night I felt my first son kick. I cried. I had this overwhelming sense that his soul was already here. That he had things to teach me. So I created a little ritual to connect with that energy.
4-card spread
Card 1: What energy is this soul bringing into my life?
Card 2: What can I learn from them?
Card 3: How can I support their journey?
Card 4: What do they need me to release?
I didn’t see it as predicting their personality. It was more about making space energetically, emotionally, and spiritually. Sometimes the cards were soft and joyful. Other times, they called me to let go of fears or old beliefs that didn’t belong in the world I was preparing for them.
The “Mother Becoming” Spread
I used this one a lot before my second birth, when I was already a mother but still shedding another layer.
5-card spread
Card 1: What am I leaving behind?
Card 2: What am I stepping into?
Card 3: What inner strength is rising in me?
Card 4: What will support me through the transition?
Card 5: A message from my higher self
This spread brought me to tears more than once. It helped me grieve the parts of myself I felt I was losing, like freedom, spontaneity, or certain dreams, while also showing me that motherhood wasn’t the end of anything. It was the great beginning.
Tarot as My Companion
Some mornings, I’d pull a single card just to breathe with it. No questions. Just presence.
The Empress came up a lot. Of course she did. But so did Strength. The Star. The Nine of Pentacles. And more than once, The Tower. Because let’s be honest. Pregnancy and motherhood are not all glowing and gentle. Sometimes they are pure unraveling. Pure transformation. Pure wild.
But tarot didn’t try to fix me. It simply said, “Here. This is what’s alive in you.” And somehow, that was enough.
Now That They’re Older
My boys are wild and tender and loud and brilliant. They have messy curls and curious minds. They sometimes help me pull cards for fun now, though they mostly like the dramatic ones. The Devil. Death. The Fool jumping off the cliff.
And when I think back to those early days, the quiet ones, the tired ones, the ones where I wondered if I was doing it right, I feel so grateful for the stillness tarot gave me. A place to return to. A way to listen inward even as the world changed around me.
If you’re pregnant now, or standing at the edge of any new chapter, I just want to say this. You don’t have to figure it all out. You don’t have to be calm or clear. You just have to be honest.
The cards will meet you there.
With love from one mother to another
Isabella Vale