Tarot year card · 1

The Magician Tarot Year Card

A year for beginning with what is already on the table, and for finding out what your own hands can do.

The Magician tarot year card, card 1
The Magician1 · Tarot year card

A year of The Magician

The Magician holds a year of starting. The tools are already in front of you, as they are on the card's table, and the year turns on whether you pick them up. Plans that stayed in your head tend to want a first real step. People who have this year card often describe it as the year they stopped preparing and began.

What the year asks

It asks you to say what you want plainly and to act on it with what you have now, not with what you might have later. The shadow of the card is the clever start that goes nowhere: many openings, no follow-through.

Sitting with it

Write down one thing to make, start or say this year, and the first concrete step. Notice where you wait for permission you do not need.

Questions for the year

  • What is already on my table that I keep overlooking?
  • What would I start if I trusted my own skill?
  • Where do I talk about a thing instead of doing it?

Who has The Magician as a year card

Under Greer's method The Magician is nobody's year card between 2000 and 2099. It last fell in .

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The Magician: full tarot card meaning

Everything needed is already on the table.

If it is also your birth card

The Magician is also a birth card for some people. In the year it comes round as your year card, the theme you were born with is the one the year brings up.

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