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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Ten of Swords – Ruin

Drive: Transformation

Light: Rebirth, realization, the end of a cycle, wisdom through pain and loss

Shadow: Ruin, loss, destruction, separation, pain, catastrophe

Keywords: Sun and Moon in Gemini, fear of insanity, broken heart, fear of the destructive energy of accumulated anger, negative thinking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Seven of Swords – Futility

Drive: List, trickery, cleverness

Light: Unmasking of illusions and disguises

Shadow: Treachery, deceit, illusion, amorality, evil tricks

Keywords: Moon in Aquarius, discouragement, despair, unsteadiness, fear of existence, negative expectations

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 3 – Future

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