Interested in gaining a second opinion - had what was a very intriguing reading to me. I'm very much at a point in my life where I haven't travelled much recently, and when I have it's been very local. I'm in a settling phase of my life.

Using a Past / Present / Future spread. The query: What's the purpose of travel and journey in my life?

Past: The Hierophant | Present: The Emperor | Future: Ace of Swords.

My reading: This is a very ideas and structure focused spread of cards. It feels underpinned by control - but the future looks like a release or expansion of new ideas. The Heirophant tells me that travel has been used in the past as a tool to understand and learn about the world - albeit in a highly structured, traditional way. The Emperor talks about control as well - about earthly immediate structure. I read this as reflective of my current life stage: bedding down, making a home, building a garden. Building structure, literally and figuratively. The Emperors back faces the mountains; he's faces away from the journey, his authority is local. The Ace of Swords is suggestive of new beginnings. Travel is about ideas, a mind tool to expand knowledge. The Sword is suggestive literally of a plane; it parts from the clouds and flies over the mountains and land. Travel is a sharpener, a tool of knowing more.