Major Arcana · VI

The Lovers Year

Air

A Lovers year asks your whole self to show up for the choice. It's the year of being known and not turned away: telling someone the thing you were sure would make them leave, and watching them move closer. The big choices land in the body. The ones that fit settle you; the ones that don't keep you slightly clenched no matter how good they look on paper. Expect to choose a person, a path, a place, and to feel whether you actually agree with the choice. What you want and what you value either point the same way this year, or you find out where they don't.

What to do with a Lovers yearWhen a big choice comes, check it against your values rather than your fears, and notice how it sits in your body. Name a need before it hardens into resentment, and let yourself be seen a little past comfortable.

Your twelve months

Each month steps one place forward through the cycle. The same twelve, in the same order, for any Lovers year.

January
The ChariotFebruary
StrengthMarch
The HermitApril
Wheel of FortuneMay
JusticeJune
The Hanged OneJuly
DeathAugust
TemperanceSeptember
The DevilOctober
The TowerNovember
The StarDecember
The Moon

Element weather

How the twelve months balance across the elements.

4Fire months4Water months2Air months2Earth months

The rest of the cycle

The nine Majors a Lovers year doesn’t touch.

The FoolThe MagicianThe High PriestessThe EmpressThe EmperorThe HierophantThe SunJudgementThe World
The full year-ahead reading

The whole Lovers year, woven

This page is the theme. The full reading walks all twelve months in the Almanac’s voice, reads the element weather, brings in how your Bearing meets the year, and closes with the skills and reflection questions a Lovers year calls for.

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