Past
The Hanged Man
Enforced sacrifice, punishment, loss, fatal or voluntary, suffering, defeat, failure, death.
Present
The Emperor
War, conquest, victory, strife, ambition, originality, overweening confidence and megalomania, quarrelsomeness, energy, vigour, stubbornness, impracticability, rashness, ill-temper.
Future
7 of Wands
Possible victory, depending on the energy and courage exercised; valour;
opposition, obstacles and difficulties, yet courage to meet them; quarrelling,
ignorance, pretence, and wrangling, and threatening; also victory in small and
unimportant things: and influence upon subordinates.