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 )

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

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

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

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

Seven of Wands – Valour

Drive: Courage, fighting spirit, overcoming opposition

Light: Initiation, rebirth

Shadow: Getting attacked, facing hardships

Keywords: Mars in Lion, courage, boldness, effect, risk-taking, no compromise

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

Two of Disks – Change

Drive: Growing, proceeding. the begin of a project

Light: Flexibility, enthusiasm that a project proceeds

Shadow: Imbalance, the inability to accept a change, clinging to a status quo that is about to fade or change.

Keywords: Jupiter in Capricorn, change, transformation, continuous progress

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prince of Cups

Drive: The combination of Spirit and Soul

Light: Compassion, warmth, love, artistic intentions

Shadow: Selfishness, unscrupulousness, cruelty

Keywords: airy aspect of water; our desires, wishes, cravings; opportunity for transformation

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

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

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

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

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

XX – The Aeon

Drive: Birth, renewal, transformation, the realization of Utopia

Light: Knowledge of coherences, widened perception and the liberation of hidden abilities

Shadow: wrong identification, self-deception

Keywords: good judgment, open to criticism, critical self-analysis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Card 3 – Future

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