I just did my very first ritual. How do

Yes, you can know — but not from the cards' feeling. All three seats came up reversed, and the tell in this spread is that shape itself.

Past — Eight of Cups, reversed. You walked away from something once and had doubts about it afterward. The ritual you're asking about sits on the back of that. The question under your question is whether you were right to leave, and a card can't retro-approve a departure; only the record of what happened next can.

Present — King of Wands, reversed. Enthusiasm running hotter than method. The beginner's classic trap is reading a spread and feeling a rush of "yes, this is right" — which is confidence, not confirmation. The King reversed is the person who announces they've started before they've written down a single thing they actually did.

Future — Queen of Cups, reversed. Under that condition the feeling runs hot, the discipline stays thin, and the practice turns inward: private intensity, no record anyone including you can check.

So — if in a few weeks you can open a page and read back, dated, what each draw said and what you did next, then you are on the path and the cards are working. If what you have after a month is only a felt sense of being on it, with nothing written, then the path hasn't been walked yet, and the feeling is what's carrying you.

The suit here is two-thirds Cups, so your channel is emotional — which is exactly why the writing matters. All minors, no Major: this is a craft with a procedure, not a calling with a fate attached.

Your step, before this weekend: start a dated log — one line per draw, three things only, the card name and position, one sentence of what it said, one line of what you actually did about it. Then read the first ten lines back in a week. That page is the only thing that can tell you whether you're on the right path; the cards cannot, and neither can the feeling.

Want me to save this spread to your journal so the log has a starting entry?