Major Arcana · XVIII

The Moon Year

Water

A Moon year has you moving through what you can't fully see. The knowing comes without daylight: the dream that says the thing your waking mind refused, the bad feeling about the offer that looks perfect on paper, the ease with a stranger you can't yet explain. This is a year to feel your way and trust yourself anyway. Your truth is allowed to be fluid, your read valid even when it makes no logical sense. Some passages only cross by feel. Moving that way this year isn't the same as being lost.

What to do with a Moon yearLet a dream or a gut-pull tell you something this year, and tell intuition apart from anxiety by how it sits in your body. When the map runs out, move by feel, and stay with the questions that don't have answers yet.

Your twelve months

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

January
The SunFebruary
JudgementMarch
The WorldApril
The FoolMay
The MagicianJune
The High PriestessJuly
The EmpressAugust
The EmperorSeptember
The HierophantOctober
The LoversNovember
The ChariotDecember
Strength

Element weather

How the twelve months balance across the elements.

4Fire months3Air months3Earth months2Water months

The rest of the cycle

The nine Majors a Moon year doesn’t touch.

The HermitWheel of FortuneJusticeThe Hanged OneDeathTemperanceThe DevilThe TowerThe Star
The full year-ahead reading

The whole Moon 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 Moon year calls for.

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