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I have found that the number of cards in a spread change from each person I read for, even myself. Sometimes a seven card spread is too much to asimilate. At other times a three card is too little. How about the times you have layed out seven cards and the person you are reading for feels like they got an answer in the first couple cards?

The question itself must dictate the spread, not only in number but in arrangement. If you think the Celtic Cross is the answer, then I think you have to use it (for myself I take exception to the Celtic Cross not only in the name, but in the layout; it is most certainly NOT a Celtic Cross and I refuse to use the spread). Does the person asking the question really want an in depth answer? Hell, I'm not sure I do sometimes. Do we risk providing them with too much information, confusing them, or worse, mudding up the answer with too large a spread? Conversely, can we treat the question too lightly, too nonchalant with a simple three card spread?

When in doubt, I go back to what feels right. Maybe start with a simple three card read, then so a seven, or even a much more elaborate spread depending upon what I get back from the person. I do make sure though that if I am doing a second read, either fewer or more, that the question be changed, either to illuminate something read in the first read, or a question to follow up the first.