2019 is a year of new beginnings.
Yeah, I know. We say that every New Year, then nothing changes. The world is covered in resolutions, predictions & good intentions when January 1st rolls around. This year, the energy of it seems different. It feels like it just might be real this time. The energy for transformation and re-invention has been building for a while now. For me personally, it began in when my daughter started college. Newly empty-nested, I let Modern Oracle go and began the moderately terrifying work of re-inventing my Tarot work from the ground up.
I’ve seen that kind of new purpose happening all around. A personal trainer turned tarot reader, a musician turned personal trainer, an energy healing created her personal brand, a perfume maker reformed her old brand, and a long time martial arts friend passed the teaching baton to his students and began a new career altogether – just to name a few. If you are thinking of stepping into your power and becoming who you truly are, then join the party! You are most definitely not alone.
Last week, I started to do the typical Tarot reading for the new year thing. I even went so far as to pull cards and stare at them for a long while before realizing I’m done with this particular exercise. I’m done with predicting the national energy for the masses. TaoCraft is about talking with you. Yes, YOU. You, right there reading this screen. I’m done worrying about “getting it wrong” with the yearly predictions. I’m over trying to be inoffensive and neutral in order to convince everyone of the value of Tarot and trying to coax people into buying a reading. Don’t get me wrong. I WANT business. I want all the paying customers willing to work with me. I NEED the work and money as much as anyone else. I might shell out a little for traditional advertising, but I am no longer willing to pay the price of being less-than or inauthentic in order to pander to the public. Like that movie said “If you build it they will come.” TaoCraft is built on authenticity. I’m here to help YOU, not to enlighten the general public. If you don’t resonate with what I offer, no worries, no judgement. It just checks one more thing off your list in the search for the thing that does resonate with you. Sometimes finding what you don’t want is a big step toward finding the very thing that you do.
For my part, authenticity keeps negative energies at bay. If someone objects to what I do, fine. There is the door. No more bending to fit. No more coaxing, cajoling, or convincing. This is about lighting a candle and let those who need this particular light come and be welcomed.
So a new year Tarot spread is out the window. The next thing to go is the “word for the year” idea. Usually a particular word or concept would slowly emerge as as a theme for the new year. This year is very different. Right away it is clear 2019 is going to need more than one word.
When I looked intuitively at 2019, the mental image that came was like a storm of mad hornets. No one word is getting us through that. How DO you navigate something like that? What came to mind then was high skill close formation flying like they do at air shows, combined with pure instinct like schooling fish, flocking birds, or Han Solo in the asteroid field in The Empire Strikes Back. Each individual does their part, so everyone doesn’t bash into everyone else. That not only does that take skill and instinct, that takes mindfulness. You can’t re-invent yourself in the middle of a storm of hornets if your mind is somewhere else. In short, 2019 is asking us for transformation, authenticity, and mindfulness.
No general, nation wide, tarot spread this year. No idealistic, pie in the sky words or themes. For 2019 we simply have things to do, people to be and moments to live mindfully. Let’s do this.
Sage Sips / TaoCraft Tarot 
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