Is the intention I set recently starting

The three-card spread came back all reversed, so the honest read is: not yet — what's actually moving is internal, not outward.

• Past — Eight of Swords, reversed. Before this, the intention sat inside a self-imposed limit: the rule, the fear, the "I can't until…" that framed it. Reversed, that cage is loosening or already loosening — but the loosening has not been spent on anything yet.
• Present — The Emperor, reversed. Right now you are trying to run the intention by gripping it: structure, rules, control of the outcome. Reversed Emperor is rigidity that has stopped serving you, or a plan whose authority is borrowed from someone else's timeline rather than your own. The major card here says the stakes are real — this matters to you — but the way you're holding it is the part that's stuck.
• Future — Three of Wands, reversed. Expansion, the first results, the looking-out-over-the-water card — reversed, the launch is not in motion. Plans exist; the ship hasn't been. Under the condition that nothing concrete is done, this stays where it is: preparation that keeps being mistaken for progress.

The conditional: if you look at the record of the last two weeks and find at least one real action you took on or after the date you set the intention, the Eight of Swords reversal is genuine release and the Three of Wands only needs a start date. If the record shows only re-reading, re-planning, and re-deciding, then the present Emperor reversed is the whole story — you're governing a thing that has no second act yet, and no amount of tightening will move it.

One step, within 48 hours: write the intention as a single dated, measurable line — a verb, an object, a date — then read back the last fourteen days of your calendar and messages and mark which lines have evidence behind them. The cards can tell you the energy is stalled; only that record can tell you whether it's stalled or just slow.

Which is it that you set — a job, a relationship, a move, a body or health goal? If you tell me, I can read the same three positions against that specific furniture instead of the general one.