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

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

Ace of Swords

Drive: Invoked powers. whirling force of mind, realisation, logic

Light: Realization, clearness, objectivity, intellectual aspiration

Shadow: Intellectual debacle, coldness, cruelty through logic, intellectual dissatisfaction

Keywords: spiritual purity, original thinking, brilliant thinking ability, divine inspiration, spiritual purity

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

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

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

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

Queen of Cups

Drive: Floating across the borders, drifting between reality and dream

Light: Imagination, poetry, kindness, sensitivity, emotional depth

Shadow: Diffusion, spinning around in irrational folly

Keywords: water aspect of water as above, open emotions, emotional independence, motherhood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Queen of Wands

Drive: Motion and transformation

Light: Independence, honor, spiritual visons, passion, adaptability

Shadow: Intolerance, despotism, jealousy, reckless passion

Keywords: water aspect of fire, self-knowledge, change, sympathy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Seven of Disks – Failure

Drive: Resignation, impatience

Light: The ability to wait

Shadow: Failure, disappointment, uneasiness, overhasty, stupid actions, unwise investments

Keywords: Saturn in Taurus, restraint, hesitation, resignation, hesitation, seemingly insurmountable obstacles, fear of failure

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

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

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

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

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

Card 3 – Future

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