Past · Present · Future
The classic spread: where you come from, where you stand, where you go.
Past, present and future is the most practised three card spread in the world, and rightly so: it tells a path. The first card lights up what led you here, the second names what is at play now and the third traces the direction your story is taking.
It is the ideal spread when you feel a turning point: it puts your situation back in perspective instead of freezing it. The future it shows is not a fate: it is the current path, the one your choices can still bend.
✦ The 3 positions of this spread ✦
- Your past
- Your present
- Your future
✦ How the cards are shuffled ✦
No lazy random draw: Arkarma shuffles a real deck of 22 arcana the way hands would. Seven riffle shuffles broken up by cuts, some of which turn part of the pack over: that is how reversed cards are born, in clusters, as on a real table. Your question and your day enter the shuffle: ask the same question on the same day and the deck will be shuffled exactly the same way. Only your hand, by choosing other cards, can change the answer.
The deck then spreads before you and it is your hand that chooses: the intention, the moment and the gesture. The reading that follows takes up your question word for word and answers you as a reader would, card after card.
✦ Frequently asked questions ✦
Is the future it announces certain?
What question should I ask for this spread?
Why is my card of the past so accurate?
Before you draw, you can explore the meaning of the 22 major arcana: every card of your reading has its full page there, upright as well as reversed. And for another view, the 10 spreads of Arkarma await you.