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:
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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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

Prince of Swords

Drive: Idealism, intellectual agility

Light: Creativity, rich of ideas, intelligence, mastery of words

Shadow: Harsh, malicious, unreliable, cheating, crude

Keywords: airborne aspect of the air, creative thinking, cutting through all complex, backward issues, getting rid of limited thoughts and models, clear perception

Ten of Wands – Oppression

Drive: Cruel and overbearing force, thirst for might

Light: The chance to think about it, learning

Shadow: Cruelty, excessive pressure, selfish and material ends, dogmatism, aggression

Keywords: Saturn in Sagittarius, suppressed emotions, withheld energy, isolation, aggression, separation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ace of Disks

Drive: The beginning of creation

Light: A creation, a begin, a chance

Shadow: Avarice, dissatisfaction with material circumstances, something was born but is not allowed to grow

Keywords: inner and outer riches, great success, body and soul, matter and spirit, union of heaven and earth, wholeness

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

XI – The Passion -Lust

Drive: Energy, passion, charisma, joy of life

Light: Power, vitality, unconditional devotion

Shadow: Weakness, dissatisfaction, depression

Keywords: Lion zodiac sign; passion, multidimensional creativity, talent, power, animal energy; overcoming old fears and innuendo

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

VIII – Adjustment

Drive: Will for knowledge, harmony between reality and instinct, objectivity

Light: Balance, justice, fairness, always looking at both sides

Shadow: Self-righteousness

Keywords: Balance sheet, balance, focus, balance, balance of contradictions, truth

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

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

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

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

Card 3 – Future

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