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Spades bring Earth/North/Winter/OldAge/Toil/Career/SacredSpace/Dharma/Discipline/Responsibility
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Three brings the trinity factor (creator, creative process, creation / preserver, maker, destroyer / beginning, middle, end / body, mind, spirit / father, mother, child) and with that comes wholeness, a completed circle.

This card represents a burial. When it’s drawn, it’s time to recognize that something must be put down, put away, let go or bid farewell. Move onward to the future for only the dead and buried memories exist in the past and you will be better for it. Whether it’s a bad habit, a relationship, or a job that no longer serves, let it go. Drawing this card means it’s time to move on, because time is up. This doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

The Three of Spades and The Owl have very similar energies. While the Three of Spades announces that it is time for a burial, The Owl tells us when a certain kind of death is coming. The Owl helps us cross from one kind of being to another with knowledge gained. The old self and old understanding of what is has to end, so the new self, armed with new knowledge, can begin to take flight. The Three of Spades is what tells us it’s time to bury the old self. After we have grieved our loss or dealt with the change, we have to put the past behind us to move forward.

Therefore, when we draw the Three of Spades, it means that we have passed to the other side and it’s time for a burial of the old. We have walked the void, like the owl, and come across as a new person. Putting to rest what we used to be, and reconciling it with the new knowledge we’ve gained and person we’ve become is part of the process. Seek out what died within or without, whether it was a bad habit, an ignorant way of seeing the world, or an old plan that no longer worked, and let it go.

Remember what the owl tells us—even through the darkness of the night of the soul, the hunt to find what must die can take us through it and into a new day. We just have to find what needs to die to become more than what we were.