New Year Tarot Reading

What follows is a sample reading of the following New Year Tarot Spread from Biddy Tarot.

2022 was a year of collaboration, working with other people, appreciating the group effort. No one is an island and the value of other people’s input makes the thing better and a success. There was general peace and harmony throughout the year with some celebration as we were coming out of Covid. This all makes for a feeling of stability and security. 

The next twelve months will be a time for truth-seeking and practical mindedness. Getting down to the essence, not accepting flimsy reasons and setting good personal boundaries with a sharp clear focus. It will be time to let people know what you want and how you want it. Clarify what you mean in all instances. You will be bold in this endeavor and sometimes a bit impulsive. You might get some blowback from others who don’t expect this new position from you. Stay true to your meaning and don’t let self-doubt or fear of change dull your aspiration to set your position. i.e. don’t let your mind or old programs sabotage yourself. You are in control of your thoughts. You and only you.

You will bring passion and optimism to your relationships. Get ready for some adventures! Your health and well-being will be good with perhaps a tendency to over-indulge in the good life. But generally speaking you will be in good health and that will reflect on your outlook and your generosity to others. 

You will spend time growing your spiritual energy and inner fulfillment. There is an abundance in this area and a fertile space for deepening and sharing. You are coming into a fullness here with a growing love and acceptance which manifests for the good of others. Nurture this area and allow it to grow your being.

In the year ahead your focus should be on manifesting through your gifts and talents to create a solid base for yourself in order to contribute to the benefit of others. You are a natural nurturer but you must know that your cup needs to be overflowing before you can share with others. Take good care of yourself in body, mind and spirit and you will happily help others to feel secure, loved and able to manifest for themselves.

To be responsible and accountable for oneself requires courage and perseverance. Once you have found your truth you must protect it and never give it away or fall victim to other people’s censure. There may be those who do not accept your new strength happily or they may be jealous and want to take you down. Draw upon your self-confidence, self-belief and know that you can overcome these tests.

Now is not the time to be apathetic or disheartened in any way. The task at hand is clear and the year ahead is filled with strengthening of self which will lead towards greater self-love and love for all. 

Weekly Tarot Card – The Magician

A magician typically pulls a rabbit out of a hat or makes the pretty lady disappear from the box after exclaiming a few choice syllables and waving a red handkerchief. Everyone oohs and ahhs because these creations appear out of the air…and it’s called magic.

This Magician of the Tarot is enlightened. He uses the elements of the earth, appearing here in the symbols of the Tarot, cup as water, pentacle as earth, sword as air and wand as fire, in order to manifest into physical reality the divine directives sent to him from heaven. His resources are within reach…laid out before him on his designer’s table. He is the human connector of the divine on earth and his form of magic is pure as the white of his tunic and vital as the red of his robe.

The Magician appears this week as Mercury goes direct and we leave the retrograde cycle. We press forward with new insights and revitalized energy, knowing that we have the resources at our fingertips to materialize our dreams onto this earthly realm. Let us align our purpose with the divinity within to create for the benefit of all.

Weekly Tarot Card – The Magician

You’ve got the power! …To manifest your desires. All the tools and resources are at your finger tips. Go create…but remember to connect heaven and earth in your deliberate creation and do not stray far from the benevolent source of all life. White for purity, red for vitality, the four tools of tarot energy–cup, pentacle, sword and wand. Let’s make a garden of beautiful flowers and travel together in a world of light. We’ve got the power!

Weekly Tarot Card – Ten of Cups

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What a delightful card for our upcoming Thanksgiving holiday here in the states. A happy family of husband and wife in a graceful embrace waving and dancing children look out to a verdant green landscape with blue stream running through it and a quaint cottage up on the hill. A radiant rainbow of ten golden cups arches up above shedding divine light on the entire scene. Whenever I see this card I am struck by the fact that the figures are faceless. In truth, the husband and wife face away from us. We have no idea to whom they are waving. This is the “everyman” family, the traditional picture of ultimate achievement in the suit of cups having to do with emotions, relationships, intuition, flow.

How does this picture resonate with you? Does it capture the comfort, security, and bliss at the top of your relationship scale? There are many different kinds of families. I knew a person who didn’t have a good relationship with her family and gave shelter and care to beings from the animal world. That was her family. The familial bond does not necessarily have to be by blood. It is fostered with love and caring. In the end we are one big family and the rainbow of golden cups shines on us all. Let us look to the good in each of us and expand the concept of family so the blessings of this holiday season travel gently on a path of love and light.

 

Weekly Tarot Card – Seven of Cups

IMG_0315This week be prepared to be served up all kinds of choices–some good, some bad, some perplexing. What is that shrouded figure coming out of one of the golden cups? Is it a ghost? After all, Halloween is Wednesday! You are cautioned to weigh each option carefully and meditate on the illusory aspect of desire. Seven is the number of assessment and knowledge. Cups are love and relationships. Don’t get carried away by your idealistic nature. Dig a little deeper for the truth. Remember…”all that glitters is not gold.”