My friend from yesterday was struck by how accurate my reading was for her, regarding the past six months and requested a six months into the future reading. I used the New Year spread from The Gaian Tarot and tweaked it a little bit. Since we are close to her birthday - I did a personal New Year and a calendar New Year. Personal is more about you and your actions and how you affect yourself and the world; calendar is about the world and how it affects your situation. It brought up some interesting references: the magic well in The 10th Kingdom, Faulkner's Sound and the Fury, Trump. I am glad to have this practice.

As I said yesterday, I don't do a reading for someone else without doing one for me, as well. Her birthday is 2 days before mine, so I will do the same spreads for me, too. And I might offer to another friend whose birthday is today. In fact, I think I will. Be right back.

Ok, that's done.

1. What do I leave behind in the Old Year?
Personal: Four of Air. A fallen-apart nest. Time alone, personal space, ideas stolen.
Calendar: Three of Fire. Holding me back, abandonment.

2. What do I open up to in the New Year?
Personal: Ace of Air, reversed. Metamorphosis.
Calendar: The Moon, reversed. Psychic, non-rational realms.

3. Key Opportunity of the New Year
Personal: Ace of Earth. Manifestation: good fortune, renewed health, nurturing, strength, grace, stability, an unfolding of the spiral path.
Calendar: Three of Water, reversed. Choose joy.

4. Key Challenge of the New Year
Personal: Lightning, reversed. The financial situation may last longer than expected.
Calendar: Justice, reversed. You may be reaping the consequences of bad habits.

5. Hidden Concern
Personal: Explorer of Water, reversed. Grounding spirituality in the physical world. Connecting brain to body and waiting for it there.
Calendar: Eight of Water. You are taking action to live authentically, even though it's very difficult to swim against the current. But the increased effort will make you stronger.

6. Deep Wisdom
Personal: The Magician, reversed. In what ways might you be refusing to take responsibility for your life or step into your own power?
Calendar: The Tree, reversed. Haste and aggressiveness will undermine your peace of mind.

7. Key Theme of the New Year
Personal: Awakening, reversed. You may be attached to old ways of doing things.
Calendar:  Two of Air. Silence and stillness.