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 )
Princess of Swords
Drive: Impulsive, curious,
Light: Careful, courageous, serious
Shadow: Malicious, cruel, spiteful, wasteful, failure to recognize facts, aggression, destruction
Keywords: earthly aspect of the air, bringing clouds to light, victory over your mood, rebellion
Five of Swords – Defeat
Drive: Intellectual crisis, struggling against fate
Light: Realisation of limitations and restrictions, philosophy born in pain
Shadow: Loss, defeat, failure, poverty, fear
Keywords: Venus in Aquarius, fear of loss or failure, fear of awkward situations or experiences
XVII – The Star
Drive: The guiding light, living the moment, confidence in nature and life
Light: Creative hopes, optimism, trust
Shadow: Destructive hopes, illusions
Keywords: Aquarius, stimulation, crystallization, self-knowledge, radiance, clairvoyance, self-confidence, relation to universal intelligence
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
XIV – The Art
Drive: Dissolve and combine
Light: Balance and harmony, fulfillment, creation, peace
Shadow: Getting into extremes, splitting up and tearing apart
Keywords: Sagittarius, reconciliation of contradictions, balance, inner change, transformation, alchemy, creative power, quality change
THE THREE OF WANDS
Drive: Creativity, the will to begin, striving towards a goal
Light: Accomplishment, confidence, harmony of powers, pride, nobility
Shadow: Moodiness, overestimation of one’s self, conceit, rudeness, insolence, obstinacy, treachery pride, nobility
Keywords: Aries Day, Virtue, Integrity, Straightness, Honesty, Self-Confidence, Restart
Three of Disks – Works
Drive: Manifestation, understanding
Light: Progress, cristallisation, increase of substance,
Shadow: Sloppiness or neglect after a first gain was won, stop in the middle of work
Keywords: Mars in Capricorn, work, fatigue, progressive development, duty to self, self-confidence
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
V – The Hierophant
Drive: Search for hidden truths, trust in inner instincts
Light: Wisdom and knowledge as an experience independent from dogmatism and science
Shadow: Intolerance, esoteric nonsense
Keywords: Taurus, Spiritual Leader, Teacher, Counselor, Initiate, Inner Leader, Supreme Transformation, Spiritual Father
0 – The Fool
Drive: Changes, movement, the innocence of a child
Light: The positive break up of structures and limitations, selfless idealism, endless fantasy, optimism, trust to instincts
Shadow: The negative loss of structures, useless daydreaming, infantility
Keywords: Openness, trust, risk-taking, loyalty to ourselves, freedom, independence, creativity, performance, leapfrogging, follow-up of the heart.
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
Eight of Swords – Interference
Drive: Restlessness of mind, endless analyzing
Light: Realization of causality, accepting of limitation and relativity
Shadow: Confusion, aimless pondering, compulsive brooding
Keywords: Jupiter in Gemini, problems with endurance, suffering from tearing, decision making difficulties
Six of Wands – Victory
Drive: Happiness, victory, glory, pride of riches
Light: Creative fullness, satisfaction, triumph, success through energy and industry
Shadow: Vanity, reckless egoism, insolence
Keywords: Jupiter in the Lion, victory, success, joining forces, purity
Ace of Cups
Drive: The desire to melt in one another, sympathy, devotion, the beginning of a friendship or passion
Light: Emotional capacity, fertility, productiveness
Shadow: Alteration, diffusion, irrational thinking, hysteria, loneliness
Keywords: exuberant love, emotional purity, deep self-love, true devotion and acceptance
Seven of Cups – Debauch
Drive: Delusion, desire, ecstasy, neutralized victory, illusionary success, lying error, promises unfilled, drunkeness, violence, selfish dissipation, deception in love and friendship, success often gained but not followed up.
Light: Realization of false promises and hapless hopes, sobering
Shadow: Drunkeness of mind, getting lost in illusions, wrath, vanity
Keywords: Venus in Scorpio, high activity, annoyance, disgust
VI – The Lovers
Drive: Devotion, melting into one another, being one with it, love
Light: Full-hearted confession, trust, optimism
Shadow: Displacement, repression, giving up on one’s self
Keywords: Gemini, love, attraction, rapprochement, relationship, relationship, dissolution of contradictions in love, becoming conscious through human relationships
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
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
Six of Cups – Pleasure
Drive: close, deep emotions,
Light: Balance and harmony through the return to the inner sources
Shadow: Mental standstill, being afraid to move to not lose the current values
Keywords: Sun in Scorpio, desire, enjoyment, pleasure in sexual relationships, rich in sexual and love-energy-giving, emotional renewal, sensuality
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
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
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
III – The Empress
Drive: Devotion and maternity, Mother Nature, creating something new in connection of both inside and outside
Light: Maternity, love, trust, fluffiness, the joy of great abundance
Shadow: Greed, envy, jealousy, laziness
Keywords: Venus, beauty, love, motherhood, femininity, wisdom, the relationship of spirit and matter, inner and outer riches
Eight of Disks – Prudence
Drive: Consideration, prudence
Light: Realisation of coherences, ability to wait for the right moment
Shadow: Penny-wise and pound-foolish, hoarding, stagnity, immovableness
Keywords: Sun in Virgo, inner and outer riches, wisdom, development, care, caution
XV – The Devil
Drive: The freedom of spirit, independence of mind, anarchy of science
Light: Independence, wilfulness, never accepting dogma, never bowing the head – I don’t serve!
Shadow: Darkness, loneliness, being misunderstood and an outcast
Keywords: Capricorn, creative energy, procreation, humor, sensuality, sexuality, creative energy, individuality
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
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
Ace of Cups
Drive: The desire to melt in one another, sympathy, devotion, the beginning of a friendship or passion
Light: Emotional capacity, fertility, productiveness
Shadow: Alteration, diffusion, irrational thinking, hysteria, loneliness
Keywords: exuberant love, emotional purity, deep self-love, true devotion and acceptance
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
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
Five of Swords – Defeat
Drive: Intellectual crisis, struggling against fate
Light: Realisation of limitations and restrictions, philosophy born in pain
Shadow: Loss, defeat, failure, poverty, fear
Keywords: Venus in Aquarius, fear of loss or failure, fear of awkward situations or experiences
0 – The Fool
Drive: Changes, movement, the innocence of a child
Light: The positive break up of structures and limitations, selfless idealism, endless fantasy, optimism, trust to instincts
Shadow: The negative loss of structures, useless daydreaming, infantility
Keywords: Openness, trust, risk-taking, loyalty to ourselves, freedom, independence, creativity, performance, leapfrogging, follow-up of the heart.
Card 3 – Future
- Outcome of situation
- The direction that things seem to be moving in
- What you are wanting