Happy New Year, Tarot enthusiasts! I hope you have enjoyed the maiden year of the Mystic Arts Tarot Blog. We look forward to bringing you another year of tips and tricks for understanding and reading Tarot.
Can you believe we are now upon the threshold of another New Year, when all things have potential to manifest?
The point of New Year celebrations is that it’s a time for looking back at the previous year; at what did, or didn’t work out, and looking ahead to the New Year for a fresh start toward accomplishing whatever our heart desires.
Tarot happens to be the perfect tool for bringing forward in our mind, those epic fails and wins of the previous year, and what next thing our heart and Soul wants to work on in the coming year.
After all, as incarnated Souls, we’re on Earth to work on our pre-incarnate chosen lessons. A plus is, we can also manifest any additional goals we desire.
Setting Smart Goals
When setting a New Year or other goal, it’s advised to first determine if your desired goal is worthy of your time and effort. Here’s where the “S.M.A.R.T.” goal setting method, comes into play.
The simple yet effective S.M.A.R.T. tool was initially created as a tool to assess the validity of management intended business decisions, but can also determine if any goal, in any area of life, is both worthy and achievable.
Step 1. – Before attempting the New Year Goals Tarot Spread provided in this post, choose one desired goal for each of the 5 specific areas of your life as listed below.
Feel free to switch out categories for ones that better suit your personal goals. Just remember to add 3 more cards to your reading for any additional category you may add above the 5.
Romantic Relationships
Family/Friend Relationships
Career/Work/Finances
Health/Well-Being
Spiritual Path
Step 2. – After deciding on your desired goal for the above 5 categories, run each goal through the S.M.A.R.T. tool below to determine if it’s specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely.
If a goal doesn’t cut the mustard on every S.M.A.R.T. test below, just brainstorm how to adjust your goal so it will pass and thus be truly worthy of your efforts to achieve it.
S – Specific – Narrow down a general goal to a specific one that you can focus on.
M – Measurable – Choose a goal that can be measured, as in degrees or percentages of attainment.
A – Attainable – Don’t waste your time on “pie in the sky” unattainable goals.
R – Relevant – Choose a goal that is worthy and will make a difference in your life.
T – Timely – Choose a goal that’s achievable in the space of a year (or other chosen time period).
New Year Goals Tarot Spread
The below Tarot spread looks at goals for five specific areas of our lives; what has occurred in the previous year related to our goal, our desired outcome for our goal in the upcoming year, and how to manifest our desired outcome for our goal in the upcoming year.
Grab your Tarot deck and a journal to jot down your insights on the below 15 card goal oriented New Year Tarot Spread.
Shuffle, draw, and for simplicity, lay out the cards in five rows of 3 cards, in the consecutive numbered card positions listed below, but in any shaped pattern you like.
Then just allow your intuition to kick in and be open to receive any insights the Universe offers for your goals in the new year.
15 Card New Year Spread Positions
Romantic Relationship Related Goal
Card 1 – Last Year’s Results
Card 2 – New Year’s Desired Outcome
Card 3 – How to Manifest the Desired Outcome
Family Related Goal
Card 4 – Last Year’s Results
Card 5 – New Year’s Desired Outcome
Card 6 – How to Manifest the Desired Outcome
Career/Work/Finances Related Goal
Card 10 – Last Year’s Results
Card 11 – New Year’s Desired Outcome
Card 12 – How to Manifest the Desired Outcome
Health/Well-being Related Goal
Card 7 – Last Year’s Results
Card 8 – New Year’s Desired Outcome
Card 9 – How to Manifest the Desired Outcome
Spiritual Path Related Goal
Card 13 – Last Year’s Results
Card 14 – New Year’s Desired Outcome
Card 15 – How to Manifest the Desired Outcome
Take some time to ponder what comes up intuitively from the cards drawn, and jot down your insights. Then check back in monthly, or at least quarterly during the upcoming year, to see where you stand with each of your desired goal’s outcome.
NOTE – It will help to go over a list of your goals daily to manifest them. This is a powerful tried and true manifestation tool. But you will also need to take inspired action. For example, if you wish to change jobs, you will need to look for new job opportunities and apply for them.
Should you fall off track with a goal, no worries, just make a conscious effort to get back on track. However, if a goal has completely changed for you, feel free to revise it and draw new cards for your revised goal.
This spread is meant to be an evolving tool for you to track your progress in manifesting your goals in the upcoming year. Then start anew in January of the following year.
I hope you will give this New Year Goals Spread a try. I wish for you, the manifestation of your every goal and desire in the New Year. Happy Taroting!
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