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The Magician Year

Air

This is the year the tools turn out to be already in your hands. A Magician year is for making something real: you stop researching how and open the document, you have the conversation you already know the words for. Scattered energy becomes a single clear aim. Whatever you'd filed under someday or out of reach is usually built from what's already on your desk, and the year keeps handing you the moment to pick it up and point it somewhere. You are more resourced than you've been treating yourself as.

What to do with a Magician yearName the one thing you actually want this year, out loud, then take inventory of what's already on your desk to build it with. When the impostor story starts, set it down and pick up a tool instead.

Your twelve months

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

January
The High PriestessFebruary
The EmpressMarch
The EmperorApril
The HierophantMay
The LoversJune
The ChariotJuly
StrengthAugust
The HermitSeptember
Wheel of FortuneOctober
JusticeNovember
The Hanged OneDecember
Death

Element weather

How the twelve months balance across the elements.

4Water months3Fire months3Earth months2Air months

The rest of the cycle

The nine Majors a Magician year doesn’t touch.

The FoolTemperanceThe DevilThe TowerThe StarThe MoonThe SunJudgementThe World
The full year-ahead reading

The whole Magician 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 Magician year calls for.

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