Your Tarot Card for 2023
and year ahead spreads
I have already mentioned in this newsletter that I love the new, and the new year falls into this category. For the past few years I have formalized my process of moving into the new year by selecting a word for the coming year, and a tarot card as well. Last year my word was “believe” and my tarot card was the High Priestess. I knew I wanted something more. But I didn’t know what it would look like and I didn’t have a roadmap. Faith is not an easy word for me. It involves a certain surrender to something or someone else. As a Leo and enneagram type 8, surrender is not one of the top words in my vocabulary.
As I now understand how I live my life, there is always an element of faith, of belief in my own intuition, not only belief in but reliance upon it, which can guide me if I let it. There is no way I’d be able to read tarot cards if I didn’t lean on my strong intuition. The High Priestess represents that intuition and I allowed her to guide me through 2022. This year my intuition told me that I could grow my book business if I took a chance on a building up for sale, and faith friends to help me. My intuition told me that I could help people through the use of tarot and enneagram, in a way which was singular and unique. I let belief in myself guide me, through relationships I built this year, to launch a tarot/enneagram website and also this newsletter. Both of these new ventures are in their infancy, but the results are good, and I am quite sure that my decisions were sound.
On the cusp of 2023, thinking about what I want life to look like, how I want to feel, I realized that all the action of 2022 left me depleted. I didn’t take the best care of my body this year, my yang dominated over my yin, and especially toward the end of the year fell ill with back to back viruses, which I am still suffering from. I know I am not done creating, but I can’t continue to move at this speed. I’m no longer young. If I want to live to appreciate all I’ve created I need to slow down and embrace some healing habits to shore me up. I am not a fan of the New Year’s resolution. Resolutions, say “I am going to change! I’m not good enough. This year will be different.” In fact I am good enough, and of course this year will be different. All days and weeks and months and years are different. Change is inevitable. However, focusing on “health” in all its forms, physical, mental, spiritual, can help guide me to a better place in 2023, if I allow myself to be guided there.
That being said, the card that made most logical sense to me was Temperance, the card of moderation and balance. But life is rarely so clear cut and when I dreamed very clearly of the Page of Wands I had to reconcile my need for health and healing with the spunky, fiery Page, who is full of adventure and possibility. It occurred to me that this is perhaps my challenge for 2023. I don’t want to tamp down all my energies but need to structure them around some solid habits to keep me healthy.
How about you?
I’d love to hear what card you are thinking about as you move into 2023.
And if you are so inclined to pull a card for each month of the year and want some help interpreting them I’m available for this too.
Tarot Circle 2023
Paid subscribers meet in an intimate group to become more educated about the cards and to help each other interpret our own readings. We meet the second Sunday of each month at noon PST. All levels of experience are welcome. If you sign up you will receive a reminder e mail with a zoom link the week of.
My best wishes for a happy new year for you all, and you will hear from me next week. xoH
Curious about Ten of Wands, but writing you in separate email. love dad