How many cards does the Three-Card Spread use?

The Three-Card Spread uses 3 cards: the 22 Major Arcana.

What do the positions of the Three-Card Spread mean?

The positions are: Past, Present and Future. Each card is read as the answer to the question of its position.

How do you read the Three-Card Spread?

Read it from left to right like a story: the central card is the pivot and colours the other two. Dignities are calculated along the line: the present card is modulated by the past and the future. Three Major Arcana point to forces that exceed personal will: the advice concerns the attitude with which to go through them.

A spread · 3 cards

Three-Card Spread

Past, present and future: the trajectory of the matter read through the archetypal forces of the 22 Major Arcana alone.

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Past

Present

Future

The positions

Position 1
Past
The forces that produced the situation and that still act as its root.
Where does this situation come from?
Position 2
Present
The current knot: the dominant energy at this moment, what the querent is dealing with now.
What is the heart of the matter right now?
Position 3
Future
The most probable tendency if the forces in play continue without a change of course.
Where is the situation heading?

How to read it

Read it from left to right like a story: the central card is the pivot and colours the other two.
Dignities are calculated along the line: the present card is modulated by the past and the future.
Three Major Arcana point to forces that exceed personal will: the advice concerns the attitude with which to go through them.