I don't think I've had quite such an earth-heavy daily 3-carder before! This is just a personal daily spread, and as you can see I have Two of Pentacles (Harmonious Change) in the past, the Devil in the present, and Three of Pentacles (Material Works) in the future. 

Against initial appearances, this is actually quite a positive spread for my daily reflections. But first of all, the elemental dignities: the Devil is Capricorn, so another Earth card alongside both the Pentacles cards. So the two flanking Pentacles boost the Devil to the max! 

My reading of this: in the past, I've been mosying along, balancing tasks, making choices where either option was pretty ok, and advancing with reasonable progress and harmony. But now, I'm overloaded with tasks, partly from a desire to excel, to win, to prove to myself and others I can do it; but also because I've kind of got trapped in the inexorable bind of constantly taking on work that looks like it'll help carry me forwards. So at the moment I feel little liberty; my daily round is interesting, even rewarding, but everything I do seems planned out, fixed, like I'm acting according to a diabolical schedule with little freedom of choice. 

All of which is true. 

In the future, though; well, Material Works speaks to collaboration, creativity, and success. Personally this is deeply encouraging; it suggests that the current mountain of restrictive labour and constraints on choice and time will pay off. 

Given this is Pentacles, I'm interpreting all of the above in material terms. It's possible the activities concerned could relate to my music, or to my writing, or in general to daily efforts to sort out my finances; but the overall movement suggests that the unavoidable laissez-faire of the recent past, which I'm trying to rectify, is in the process of being dealt with. 

Blessed be.

S x