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 )

Nine of Swords – Cruelty

Drive: Going into the depths of a subject, with all consequences

Light: Facing up facts, realizing truth

Shadow: Cruelty, pain, despair, lack of pity

Keywords: Mars in Gemini, cruelty towards yourself and others, self-accusation, self-punishment, self-torture, heartless passion, bigotry, revenge, martyrdom

Ten of Disks – Wealth

Drive: Wealth, security

Light: Completion of success, material security, well-being

Shadow: Greed, laziness, poverty of feelings, dullness of mind

Keywords: Mercury in Virgo, inner and outer riches, visibility of inner wealth and ability to share it with others

Knight of Wands

Drive: Expansion of spiritual individuality

Light: Inspiration, spiritual activity, a strong will

Shadow: Despotism, egoism, intolerance

Keywords: fiery aspect of fire, dynamic forward movement, increased insight, imminent changes

Queen of Cups

Drive: Floating across the borders, drifting between reality and dream

Light: Imagination, poetry, kindness, sensitivity, emotional depth

Shadow: Diffusion, spinning around in irrational folly

Keywords: water aspect of water as above, open emotions, emotional independence, motherhood

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

XIX – The Sun

Drive: Aiming at the light, living for generous, unconditional principles

Light: Vitality, generosity, warmth, self-confidence

Shadow: Self-complacency, dazzling, promising much and doing nothing

Keywords: Sun, High Level Creative Energy, Awareness, Fulfilled Love Relationship, Wisdom, Spirituality, Transformation, Spirituality

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

Prince of Disks

Drive: Solidity, increased material, growth

Light: Unwavering, industrious, enduring, reliable, practcal, reasonable, careful

Shadow: Stubbornness, corruption, avarice, phlegma, dullness, coldness

Keywords: Earth’s Airy Aspect, Structure, High Energy in Material Matter, Unshakable, Caution, Meditation, Physical Activity, Steadiness

Ace of Disks

Drive: The beginning of creation

Light: A creation, a begin, a chance

Shadow: Avarice, dissatisfaction with material circumstances, something was born but is not allowed to grow

Keywords: inner and outer riches, great success, body and soul, matter and spirit, union of heaven and earth, wholeness

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

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

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

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

Five of Wands – Strife

Drive: Challenge, the will to break out, contest, struggle, conflict, rashness

Light: Refreshment, renewal, boldness

Shadow: Struggle, conflict, destruction, spiritual crisis, prodigality, trickery

Keywords: Saturn in the Lion, unfulfilled desire, desperate, timid, futile struggle, inhibition

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

Queen of Disks

Drive: Fertility, womanliness, security for family, home and materials

Light: Kind, charming, great-hearted, truthful, stable, sensual

Shadow: Moody, foolish, undecided, weak, dependent

Keywords: water aspect of the earth, fertility, nutrition, overcoming the bleak, barren past, physicality

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

Three of Cups – Abundance

Drive: Pleasure, healing, sensuality, conception

Light: Good luck, joy, satisfaction, passive success

Shadow: Greed, raw lust, excessive pleasure, over-abundance

Keywords: Mercury in Cancer, giving and receiving love, rare, valuable feelings and perceptions that can be passed on in confidence

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

Ace of Disks

Drive: The beginning of creation

Light: A creation, a begin, a chance

Shadow: Avarice, dissatisfaction with material circumstances, something was born but is not allowed to grow

Keywords: inner and outer riches, great success, body and soul, matter and spirit, union of heaven and earth, wholeness

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

Knight of Wands

Drive: Expansion of spiritual individuality

Light: Inspiration, spiritual activity, a strong will

Shadow: Despotism, egoism, intolerance

Keywords: fiery aspect of fire, dynamic forward movement, increased insight, imminent changes

Seven of Disks – Failure

Drive: Resignation, impatience

Light: The ability to wait

Shadow: Failure, disappointment, uneasiness, overhasty, stupid actions, unwise investments

Keywords: Saturn in Taurus, restraint, hesitation, resignation, hesitation, seemingly insurmountable obstacles, fear of failure

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

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

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

Knight of Disks

Drive: Strife for material success and wealth

Light: Clever in material matters, patient, industrious, reliable, strong and enduring

Shadow: Stubbornness, dullness, jealousy, grasping, stagnant

Keywords: fiery aspect of the earth, doctor, healer, financial investment, harvest, work and fatigue

Two of Cups – Love

Drive: Love, unity in difference

Light: Harmony, pleasure, mirth, love, friendship, passion

Shadow: Dissipation, waste, silliness, subtlety

Keywords: Venus in Cancer, inclusive love, happy relationship, mutual emotions

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

Six of Swords – Science

Drive: All-embracing thinking, science, research

Light: Success after anxiety and trouble, search for truth

Shadow: Too much rationalism, distrust

Keywords: Mercury in Aquarius, analytical skills, ability to unite thoughts, all-round vision, all-inclusive understanding, objectivity

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 3 – Future

  • Outcome of situation
  • The direction that things seem to be moving in
  • What you are wanting
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