This year
was the first time I did a Year Ahead Spread for myself. For this kind of spread you basically pull a single
card for each month as a theme or an energy you may want to explore for that
month. The first card you pull is your theme for the year. I also added rune to each
card to give the reading an extra oomph.
I intend to post my card of the month in the beginning of each month. For this
spread I’ve used the Wild Unknown Tarot but I might want to use the version of one
of the cards I pulled from another deck instead. Or I might even take the card from several
decks for comparison. We’ll see were this journey will lead me.
So for January I pulled the Nine of Swords which in this deck is a very disturbing looking card and it is definitely not a very uplifting theme to start the new year with. The Nine of Swords is all about anxiety, bad dreams, guilt and regret, destructive self-talk etc.
Luckily I got the rune Teiwaz (Tir) to go with it. Teiwaz is a warrior rune but also one of order, justice and rationality . You can compare this rune with the Emperor card.
I often am prone to this kind of behavior when I let negative thinking get the best of me. The worst things could happen if you would believe my internal gibberish. So I feel the energy of Teiwaz can be quite helpful. It is the rationality of this rune which speaks the most clearly to me in this context.
This rune awakes the inner sentinel which will defeat my Fear by showing me what it really is: False Expectations are Appearing Real. Such a clarity bomb often works a lot better than trying to ignore these thoughts or pushing them away. Both of these methods will often make our negative thinking even more persistent and intrusive.
I believe working with this pair could be a very interesting experience.
Motto: Since I do not know how not to think I want to be mindful of what I think.
