Not just for the New Year holiday, the “seasons of the year” layout is always available. It is also popular for birthdays & anniversaries. The reading begins with the season we are in when you order, and continues through the seasons to come in to consider the entire year ahead. Available now in the shop
Easy!
Q: (M. Asks) “What will next year bring?”
A: 2019 will bring confusion and minor misunderstandings. You can totally change this future by reading and following instructions.
Yes-or-No Tarot formats can’t answer open ended questions like this any more than those magic 8 ball toys can BUT don’t forget 99.999% of the time, the more open a Tarot question is, the better the reading is. Set expectations can be more blinding than enlightening, so you actually did the right thing by keeping open-ness around your question.
So let’s do this instead. Let’s pull a card that will give you a theme, a general read of which way the energies are flowing for you for 2019 as it stands now. But remember all of it can change through your choices and actions. If you don’t like the card or the reading, it might hold a clue how you can change directions instead. It’s all cause and effect really, just like science. Each choice and action is a cause that gives a future effect. That is why “psychic” predictions are pretty unreliable, no more that that 50-50 coin toss probability it talks about in the disclaimer. If I make a specific “prediction” now, any little flutter of your intention could change it all 5 minutes from now. It is more helpful by a long shot to give you larger, more general ideas to help you navigate the larger, more general energy flows that seem to lay ahead.
Your card for today is: The Five of Swords
Ouf! I was teasing earlier when I talked about confusion and following directions earlier, before I drew the card. But the 5 of swords hints that this year might actually be headed in an unsettled direction. The word “jumbled” springs to mind. It doesn’t feel like it all has to do with you…that some might come from other’s indecisiveness and actions, but you have to play your part. “Clean vision” “clear planning” all come to mind. See the gray areas in the sky on the card? That might be clouds or it could symbolize the smoke, fog or confusion of a battlefield. It may be your strong suit, or it may be something you are learning, but it feels important for you to keep your head. No matter what other people are doing, no matter if they are making it easy or hard for you to do, your big task in the upcoming year is to be clear-eyed, and level headed, to see clearly and realistically, even when those around you do not. Hold on to hopes and dreams, yes, but don’t force them onto the world around you. See what is really there so you can do whatever needs done. The universe will unfold perfectly, but on it’s time frame, not ours. Things might not turn out how you want or expect….but if you are ok with that, it gives room and energy for things to turn out BETTER than you expected, too.
We’ll give Zombie Cat his formal introduction to TaoCraft Tarot a little later. Short version: Zombie Cat was inspired by Shrodinger’s famous thought experiment, an episode of “Menage A Tarot” podcast and the simple question “Why not both?”
You can order Zombie Cat’s yes-or-no readings anytime in the shop, but every now and again Zombie Cat shambles out of the shadows and gives yes-or-no readings for free in the form of anonymous blog posts. Ask Zombie Cat anything. Who knows what kind of answer you will get, but you will get an answer that is 100% absolutely guaranteed to contain words and maybe even whole sentences. Anything else, there is at least a 50% chance of it being dead wrong.
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2018 was weird.
There have been bouts of odd, uncomfortable energy plus lots of weird politics and empaths all around were having their resonant bells rung on a regular basis. Even the usual holiday zeitgeist seemed surprisingly laissez fair this year. The annual Elfcon frenzy could barely flog itself up to a level 4, but I’ll blame that on our newly emptied nest. With no little ones around, all-adult Christmas by comparison really is reduced to alcohol consumption and defending raw cookie dough on social media.
On an energy level, 2018 was filled with groanings of fatigue from the past and early rumblings of transformations yet to come. It would be nice if I could give you some easy Tarot, numerology, astrology, or other mystical explanation for it all, but I got nothing. Even here in woo woo land, stuff just happens, no matter how much we use our magic and intuition to navigate our way through said stuff.
This is a prime example. I pulled a card on Christmas Eve in the hope of finding inspiration for a happy little holiday greeting to post here. Out pops the 7 of cups. The seven of….what the actual wuuut?
Clearly, the energy of the card is about the new New Year and didn’t want anything to do with happy little Christmas greetings. OK. Cool. I can let it sit, abide with it until today. Like any good case of the niggles, this card wasn’t going anywhere.
The first and strongest mental image to come through was all shades of blue and white and gray, like blue skies and snow. But instead of snowflakes, the blue background was strewn with shards of clear plate glass, all with pointy edges, all irregular shapes, all different sizes. The message that came through loud and clear was CHOOSE YOUR SHARD. I think that means this:
2018 was shattering for many people. If it was a good year for you, bless and enjoy. This card and this message is for those who walked a rockier path this past year, if not literally, then emotionally.
Paradigms, self images, expectations, hopes, dreams, self doubts, fears; all sorts of things have been shattered this year for good or for ill. 2019 is not going to let us go back. Pick a piece. Choose your shard. What piece of the old you, the old way, is good enough to bring forward. What piece is your souvenir, your lesson, your cornerstone for the new? All the pieces can’t be put back together. We have to choose what, if anything, is worthy of time and attention. Like any piece of broken glass, that trough-put asks to be handled with card.
The phrase “through put” especially grabs my attention here. It comes from an episode of my favorite show “Mythbusters” when Adam wanted to put the mangled burned face of the old crash test dummy onto the new one as storytelling “through put” or continuity. A thread of the past that puts new things into perspective, and makes the whole story make sense. As shattered at things may have gotten in 2018, the new year 2019 demands it’s through put. It is about transformation, not obliteration. It asks for re-working, not abject discarding. And that is a lovely thing.
If through-put is demanded, that means the original, albeit changed thing had value. Whatever is being transformed has worth, and importance in its original form, or it wouldn’t be so needed now. It feels as if a time of transformation is coming, but one that must be rooted, real, connected to the past and built to last.
The seven of cups is often associated with choosing, and having many options. There is a caution here to not fall prey to “decision paralysis.” Yes, you have options, but take care not to dither or over-think. This is also a lesson in deep knowing. And deep experiencing. Plan, but live. Do, but be.
“Do be do be do” – Sinatra
Never forget to have a little fun along the way too. Part of disruptive energies like this past year is to remind us of what we have forgotten or neglected. Too often that something is laughter and kindness and fun. I hope that a lighter heart is part of the shard we all choose to bring forward into the new year.
Things may seem broken or in need of breaking, but choose a shard, big or small to bring with you as you build something new, something better. The advice is to not try to put it all back the way it was, that would be an impossible waste. Don’t dither or over think your shard choosing. If you mind doesn’t know, your bones will. Deep knowing is there if you take a quiet moment to listen for it. After all this IS a cups card, associated with water, intuition, and deep knowing.
2018 was weird.
That doesn’t mean 2019 can’t be transformed into something better.
Wishing you wonderful transformations and a happy new year!
Sage Sips / TaoCraft Tarot 
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