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 )

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

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

Ten of Cups – Satiety

Drive: Seeking for inner competition and fulfilment, kindness, generosity

Light: Optimism, self-consciousness, love combining all the elements of spirit and body

Shadow: Sentimentality, inner emptiness, debauchery, wantonness, waste

Keywords: Mars in Pisces, satisfaction, fulfillment, radiation, gratitude

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

Ace of Wands

Drive: The wish to create

Light: sudden illumination, enthusiasm, inspiration, creativity, spiritual hunger, vigor, energy

Keywords: fire, high or strong energy, transformation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Ten of Cups – Satiety

Drive: Seeking for inner competition and fulfilment, kindness, generosity

Light: Optimism, self-consciousness, love combining all the elements of spirit and body

Shadow: Sentimentality, inner emptiness, debauchery, wantonness, waste

Keywords: Mars in Pisces, satisfaction, fulfillment, radiation, gratitude

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

Two of Swords – Peace

Drive: Peace, arrangement of differences, a good compromise between soul and mind

Light: Beginning of analysis, balanced force, contradictory characteristics in the same nature

Shadow: Difference, disagreement, opposites calmed down by cold logic only, unsolved tensions

Keywords: Moon in Libra, inner peace, decision-making, decisions on relationships or situations that result in peace.

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

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

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

Five of Cups – Disappointment

Drive: Disillusion, pain, loss, sadness

Light: Sobering, realization, separation as a consequence

Shadow: Bitterness, emptiness, treachery, deceit, detraction

Keywords: Mars in Scorpio, unfulfilled hopes, lost sense of balance, problematic relationships, old wounds

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

Princess of Disks

Drive: Creation, growth, birth, making

Light: Generosity, kindness, love, faith, sensitivity and concentration

Shadow: Wasteful, prodigal, illogical, stubborn, all too dependent and changeable in her opinions

Keywords: earthly aspect of the earth, pregnancy, Mother Earth, birth, renewal, harmony

Card 3 – Future

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