Three-Card Spread

 

 

Difficulty: Very easy

This simplistic chronological spread can be used to shed light on the influences that have passed, current influences, and what is approaching in the near future. Not much explanation is necessary for this simple tarot spread.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Three-Card Reading

The Past Queen of Swords

The Present 10 of Swords

The Future 4 of Swords

 

 

 

 

The Past

Queen of Swords

Her right hand raises the weapon vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair the left hand is extended, the arm raised her countenance is severe but chastened; it suggests familiarity with sorrow. It does not represent mercy, and, her sword notwithstanding, she is scarcely a symbol of power.

Reversed Meaning:

Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.

 

 

 

 

The Present

10 of Swords

A prostrate figure, pierced by all the swords belonging to the card.

Reversed Meaning:

Advantage, profit, success, favour, but none of these are permanent; also, power and authority.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Future

4 of Swords

The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb.

Divinatory Meaning:

Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit's repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last that have suggested the design.