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 )

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

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

XVIII – The Moon

Drive: Entering the underworld, exploring the depths of soul, confrontation with the dark side

Light: Intuitively, wisdom, maturity, deepest self-realization

Shadow: Illusion, hysteria, fear, rejection of reality

Keywords: Pisces, Final Trial, Bad Turns, Illusion, Delusions, Karma Fulfillment, Facing the Unconscious, Threshold for New Levels of Consciousness

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

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

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

Knight of Swords

Drive: Intellect, science, enlightenment

Light: Sharpness of mind, logic, intellect

Shadow: Coldness, Zionism, ambiguity

Keywords: airy fiery aspect, goal oriented, ambition, passion, ambition, flexible thinking

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Eight of Cups – Indolence

Drive: Temporary success, but without further result, things thrown aside as soon as gained, nothing of lasting value, journey from place to place, searching for riches

Light: Transformation

Shadow: Depression, suicidal, whining, instability

Keywords: Saturn in Pisces, restraint, restraint, uncertainty, emotional inhibition, laziness, swamp, need for clear distinctions

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

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

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

Nine of Disks – Gain

Drive: Wealth, well-being

Light: Material happiness, gain, riches

Shadow: Greed for more, materialistic thinking, dissipation, abuse, exploitation

Keywords: Venus in Virgo, Growth, Growth, Profit, Cuff of Love, Wisdom, Creativity, The More I Give The More I Get

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

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

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

Four of Cups – Luxury

Drive: Emotional richness, stability of feelings, love without risk

Light: Maternity, protection

Shadow: Possessive ‘love’, restriction of others in order to satisfy one’s self, or just for wrong intentions

Keywords: Moon in Cancer, love, tenderness, emotional richness, care

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

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

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

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

Knight of Cups

Drive: Self-sacrifice, self-redemption, grace, poetry

Light: Compassion, solicitousness, sensibility

Shadow: Seducability, vanity, unsteadiness, sentimental obtrusiveness, artificial, untruthfulness

Keywords: fiery aspect of water, surrender to loved one, ability to give, reaching higher emotional levels, spiritual relationships, family of choice

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

Knight of Swords

Drive: Intellect, science, enlightenment

Light: Sharpness of mind, logic, intellect

Shadow: Coldness, Zionism, ambiguity

Keywords: airy fiery aspect, goal oriented, ambition, passion, ambition, flexible thinking

Eight of Cups – Indolence

Drive: Temporary success, but without further result, things thrown aside as soon as gained, nothing of lasting value, journey from place to place, searching for riches

Light: Transformation

Shadow: Depression, suicidal, whining, instability

Keywords: Saturn in Pisces, restraint, restraint, uncertainty, emotional inhibition, laziness, swamp, need for clear distinctions

Card 3 – Future

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