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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

X – The Wheel of Fortune

Drive: Eternal motion, changing, restarting, accepting of fate

Light: Unexpected changings, fortune, realization of luck

Shadow: Fatalism, a changing to the worse

Keywords: Jupiter; new beginnings, expansion, creativity, big breakthrough; self-realization; unexpected luck, growth

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

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

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

Four of Cups – Luxury

Drive: Emotional richness, stability of feelings, love without risk

Light: Maternity, protection

Shadow: Possessive ‘love’, restriction of others in order to satisfy one’s self, or just for wrong intentions

Keywords: Moon in Cancer, love, tenderness, emotional richness, care

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

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

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

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 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

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

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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