3 Card Tarot Spread ~ Past, Present, Future
Card 1 – Past
- Energies and events that are in the past yet still effect you
- How your past either holds you back (blocks) or helps you move forward (growth)
- What you need to take from the past and use to your advantage today
Card 2 – Present
- What is going on for you right now
- The energy of the present moment
- Opportunities and challenges that are currently being presented to you
Card 3 – Future
- Outcome of situation
- The direction that things seem to be moving in
- What you are wanting
Look closer at each card and ask yourself what it represents:
Some possibilities are:
- A person in your life
- A situation
- Your emotions / feelings
- Your thoughts
- You and the way you are approaching things
- A new way of seeing things
- A possible solution
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Major Arcana
Wands
Cups
Swords
Disks
Random Computer Generated Cards for Your Spread:
( If you get a duplicated navigate left or right one card )
Two of Wands – Dominion
Drive: Courage, determination, the will to conquer
Light: Power, creativity
Shadow: Destruction, shamelessness, revenge, restlessness
Keywords: Mars in Aries, warlike energy, dynamic pioneer, domination of the situation
Nine of Wands – Strength
Drive: Spiritual truth, realization
Light: Combination of the consciousness with the unconsciousness, great success but with strife and energy, victory preceded by apprehension and fear
Shadow: Conflicts, Contradictions
Keywords: Sun in Sagittarius, power, perfection from the combination of conscious and unconscious energies
Four of Disks – Power
Drive: Stability, security, gain
Light: Assured material gain, rank, success, wealth, productivity
Shadow: Fear of loss, avarice, greed for more, over-estimation of material wealth
Keywords: Sun in Capricorn, domination, openness
Four of Swords – Truce
Drive: Manifestation, balance of powers
Light: A chance to reflect, a rest from fighting, tolerance, generosity
Shadow: Cold truce which means no peace at all, isolation, forced restriction
Keywords: Jupiter in Libra, tranquility, focus, mental purification, integration, expansion, expansion, balance, clarity
X – The Wheel of Fortune
Drive: Eternal motion, changing, restarting, accepting of fate
Light: Unexpected changings, fortune, realization of luck
Shadow: Fatalism, a changing to the worse
Keywords: Jupiter; new beginnings, expansion, creativity, big breakthrough; self-realization; unexpected luck, growth
Ace of Swords
Drive: Invoked powers. whirling force of mind, realisation, logic
Light: Realization, clearness, objectivity, intellectual aspiration
Shadow: Intellectual debacle, coldness, cruelty through logic, intellectual dissatisfaction
Keywords: spiritual purity, original thinking, brilliant thinking ability, divine inspiration, spiritual purity
Prince of Wands
Drive: Activity, energy, impulsiveness
Light: Energy, creativity, passion, swift, strong, rather violent
Shadow: Restlessness, impatience, destructive powers, cruel, intolerant, prejudiced
Keywords: airy aspect of fire, intensity, flourishing love, intuitive creativity, from darkness to light
XII – The Hanged Man
Drive: Devotion, acceptance of fate, maturity
Light: Overcoming the ego, changing life, a new sight of the world
Shadow: Standstill, rejection, loss of perspective
Keywords: congealment, ending a stuck situation or relationship, releasing, giving up, giving up, learning to see from a new perspective, the need to break old patterns of behavior
Queen of Wands
Drive: Motion and transformation
Light: Independence, honor, spiritual visons, passion, adaptability
Shadow: Intolerance, despotism, jealousy, reckless passion
Keywords: water aspect of fire, self-knowledge, change, sympathy
Princess of Wands
Drive: Passion, joy of life
Light: Enthusiasm, courage, beauty
Shadow: Greed, arrogance, poverty of true feelings, superficial, theatrical, cruelty, instability, domineering, a gossip
Keywords: earthly aspect of fire, getting rid of fear, new beginnings, optimism, increased perception
Card 1 – Past
- Energies and events that are in the past yet still effect you
- How your past either holds you back (blocks) or helps you move forward (growth)
- What you need to take from the past and use to your advantage today
XXI – The Universe
Drive: Entirety and competition, harmony between spirit and body
Light: Being home in one’s self, inner independence, the ‘mental paradise’
Shadow: False visions, being on a street to nowhere
Keywords: Saturn, completion, cosmic union, liberation from bondage, closure of karma
Ten of Wands – Oppression
Drive: Cruel and overbearing force, thirst for might
Light: The chance to think about it, learning
Shadow: Cruelty, excessive pressure, selfish and material ends, dogmatism, aggression
Keywords: Saturn in Sagittarius, suppressed emotions, withheld energy, isolation, aggression, separation
Eight of Wands – Swiftness
Drive: Excessive force applied to suddenly, very rapid rush, violent but not lasting
Light: Progression, ideas, creativity, motion, changes, development
Shadow: Rashness, thoughtlessness, rapacious, insolent, jealousy
Keywords: Mercury in Sagittarius, clear, direct, fast communication, clearing up misunderstanding
Six of Disks – Success
Drive: Overcome of crisis, success
Light: Wealth, generosity, nobility
Shadow: False pride, taken everything for granted, prodigal
Keywords: Moon in Taurus, inner and outer manifestation, success, transformation
I -The Magician
Drive: Self-realization, a strong will, the energy to have one’s way
Light: Activity, power of life, impulse, energy
Shadow: Aggressively, egoism, the abuse of power
Keywords: Mercury, communication, fun, easy communication with all possible forms of communication, flexibility, sharpness, genius
Prince of Swords
Drive: Idealism, intellectual agility
Light: Creativity, rich of ideas, intelligence, mastery of words
Shadow: Harsh, malicious, unreliable, cheating, crude
Keywords: airborne aspect of the air, creative thinking, cutting through all complex, backward issues, getting rid of limited thoughts and models, clear perception
Five of Disks – Worry
Drive: Material crisis, worry about material things or health
Light: Reconsidering of values, managing to get along in hard times
Shadow: Fear, loss, failure, destruction, hindering, unpredictable changes to the bad, worsening circumstances
Keywords: Mercury in Taurus, trouble, pondering, pessimism, problematic communication, fear of existence
Three of Swords – Sorrow
Drive: Melancholy, facing up a painful truth
Light: Understanding, sobering, losing beautiful but false illusions
Shadow: Disappointment, pain, sadness, separation, sorrows
Keywords: Saturn in Libra, annoyances, doubts, lack of light, lethargy, jealousy, depression, tripartite obsession, troubles, uncertainty, anxiety
VIII – Adjustment
Drive: Will for knowledge, harmony between reality and instinct, objectivity
Light: Balance, justice, fairness, always looking at both sides
Shadow: Self-righteousness
Keywords: Balance sheet, balance, focus, balance, balance of contradictions, truth
Four of Swords – Truce
Drive: Manifestation, balance of powers
Light: A chance to reflect, a rest from fighting, tolerance, generosity
Shadow: Cold truce which means no peace at all, isolation, forced restriction
Keywords: Jupiter in Libra, tranquility, focus, mental purification, integration, expansion, expansion, balance, clarity
Card 2 – Present
- What is going on for you right now
- The energy of the present moment
- Opportunities and challenges that are currently being presented to you
XVI – The Tower
Drive: Breaking up structures, destroying the old, getting rid of obsolete loads
Light: Sudden realization of the truth, the will to change old ways, to recreate life and start something new
Shadow: Blind destruction
Keywords: Mars, profound transformation, healing, old destroys to make room for new, spiritual renewal, self-knowledge
VII – The Chariot
Drive: The will to conquer, courage, victory
Light: The awakening of powers, the way ahead, searching and finding one’s place in life
Shadow: Megalomania, insensitivity, running against walls
Keywords: Cancer, New Beginnings, Good Change, Self-Examin
IV – The Emperor
Drive: Mastery of the will over nature, a sense for law and order, plan and structure
Light: Creation, recognition, stability, realism, responsiveness
Shadow: Despotism, complacency, poorness of feelings, lack of fantasy; rationalism as a prison
Keywords: Aries, Pioneering, Discovery, Leadership, Initiative, Creative Wisdom, Outstanding Leadership, Call to Action, Boldness, New Beginnings, Paternity, Authority, Tenderness, Desire for Adventure
Nine of Cups – Happiness
Drive: Love, optimism, trust
Light: Luck, compassion
Shadow: Self-complacency, self-indulgence, vanity
Keywords: Jupiter in Pisces, happiness, passionate love, deep joy, blessing
IX – The Hermit
Drive: Retiring from life, retreat from the masses, looking into one’s self, introversion
Light: Wisdom, realization, mental maturity, the inner light
Shadow: Numbness, loneliness, bitterness
Keywords: Virgo, finding our own inner light, moving inward, fertility, perfection, finishing, harvesting, being at peace in our inner center, wise leader
Eight of Wands – Swiftness
Drive: Excessive force applied to suddenly, very rapid rush, violent but not lasting
Light: Progression, ideas, creativity, motion, changes, development
Shadow: Rashness, thoughtlessness, rapacious, insolent, jealousy
Keywords: Mercury in Sagittarius, clear, direct, fast communication, clearing up misunderstanding
XIII – The Death
Drive: Death and Rebirth, end and begin, transformation and metamorphosis, inner wisdom, consequence
Light: Make place for something new, get rid of old loads and achieve new spaces
Shadow: Fear, loss
Keywords: Scorpio, death and rebirth, transformation, scorpion-snake eagle, liberation from old temptations, external changes, passing away, renewal
Four of Wands – Completion
Drive: Perfection, rest after labor, completion after effort and trouble, structure, control
Light: Competition, well earned rewards, rest after labor
Shadow: Overestimation, torpidity, loss of tranquility
Keywords: Venus in Aries, completion, unification, possibility of new beginning, perfection
II – The High Priestess
Drive: The desire to find the inner sources, the own springs
Light: Being one with the beginning of all, aware of the wisdom from the subconscious, intuitive knowledge, patience
Shadow: Dreaming, changing moods, doubts, ignoring of reality
Keywords: Moon, Road to Intuitive Forces, Healing, Independence, Internal Balance, Enhanced Self-Confidence
Queen of Swords
Drive: Independence, freedom of mind and soul
Light: Wisdom, imagination, self-confidence, perceptive, graceful
Shadow: Coldness, inaccessibility, cruel, deceitful
Keywords: water aspect of air, discarding old masks and roles, lightness, intellectuality, objectivity, logic, purity, rationality
Card 3 – Future
- Outcome of situation
- The direction that things seem to be moving in
- What you are wanting