It’s the beginning of a brand new 12 months once more, which signifies that it’s time for an additional clear slate.
The start of the 12 months is an opportunity to begin recent. It’s a chance so that you can reset the sure features of your life that you simply aren’t glad with — whether or not that’s via itemizing down your New 12 months’s resolutions, decluttering your area, or doing one huge clean-up to simulate that feeling of beginning over.
However many individuals search for some type of steerage once they flip a brand new leaf, and one of the frequent methods is thru the apply of tarot.
Whereas tarot has but to be broadly accepted within the Philippines, there are a myriad of Filipino practitioners devoted to preserving the artwork alive, and displaying curious onlookers that it may be a guiding drive for good.
Amongst them are Pau of Paghilom and Rob Rubin of Mysterium Philippines, who each supply tarot readings for purchasers seeking to face the brand new 12 months head-on.
However first — what’s tarot precisely?
Tarot is a type of cartomancy that sometimes makes use of a deck of 78 playing cards that every correspond to a particular archetype, although there are some cases the place readers would interpret playing cards in another way once they come out in reverse.
For Pau, tarot studying comes intuitively to her, in distinction with the readers who typically take a predictive method to it. She makes it a degree to get in tune with the vitality of her purchasers, as this helps her accomplish a studying that will get right down to what’s weighing on their minds.
“I exploit [tarot] personally and for my purchasers as properly. [I do an] intuitive studying of the energies of the shopper or myself along with the archetypes of the playing cards,” shared Pau, who began her tarot apply in 2018 whereas she was nonetheless working as a trainer.
When studying tarot, Pau defined that the circumstances surrounding the shopper additionally issues — from the individuals round them to their experiences, what they’re feeling for the time being, and the feelings dominating their temper.
“I set off introspection with my purchasers so on the similar time I’m studying the playing cards, they’re additionally studying into their [own] energies, feelings, and in addition their mindsets throughout instances of confusion. As a result of it’s crucial that my tarot studying is participative.”
In the meantime, Rob describes tarot as a instrument for empowerment. He emphasizes that whereas tarot can provide you a blueprint to discover what you’ll be able to obtain as a person, no studying is ever set in stone.
“In order for you readability, you wish to perceive the unknowns, the choices, the chances, the guarantees, the potentials, you’ll be able to have a tarot studying as a result of that’s going to present you readability of the problems which are necessary to you — be it profession, love life, spirituality, ambition. All of it’s just about addressable within the tarot. This golden rule we are saying in tarot, although, is we don’t predict dates of loss of life,” defined Rob, who began his tarot journey round three a long time in the past at 14 years previous.
A tarot studying, it doesn’t matter what side of your life it covers, can nonetheless change over time. The identical goes for New 12 months readings.
New 12 months, new me
It’s regular to search for some type of steerage after we welcome a brand new chapter in our lives. We’ve got all these previous experiences which have introduced us years’ price of life classes and alternatives for character improvement, but we generally don’t know what to do with them.
That is the place tarot is available in — and it’s extra frequent than you suppose.
In response to Pau, within the 5 years that she’s supplied her studying companies on-line, the “12 months forward” studying stays to be her most availed one. Her purchasers would typically begin reserving classes as early as October the 12 months earlier than, as much as February of the succeeding 12 months to achieve perception into how they’ll go into the brand new 12 months with peace of thoughts.
Pau would all the time use two spreads for these sorts of readings. First is the thematic one, which covers a person’s reflective vitality primarily based on their biggest classes from the earlier 12 months, and the way all these would hook up with their aspirations for the approaching 12 months.
“It’s very reflective when it comes to how your habits can have an effect on the totally different features of your life for the subsequent 12 months. So that they focus on your love life, profession, funds, spirituality, well being, well-being, and the opportunity of the energies primarily based in your present energies. It’s reflective to the purpose that it tells you, ‘Okay, as a result of these are your habits, these are your prospects,’” Pau defined in a mixture of English and Filipino.
In case you’re seeking to see modifications or motion in your life, this unfold will let you know what can occur primarily based in your present energies. However if you need one thing totally different, you’ll know that it’s a must to make radical modifications in your energies — as a result of the unfold has proven you your present capacities.
The opposite unfold is the month-to-month one, which covers how a person would plan for the subsequent 12 months of the brand new 12 months primarily based on the chances that may occur then. This unfold will nonetheless depend on your present energies, however it’ll dig deeper into what precisely can occur to you this 12 months as Pau will even focus on the inner and exterior forces that come into play. It’ll make you conscious of the forces you’ll be able to’t management, and the components you can nonetheless change. These items are laid out for every month.
The sort of “12 months forward” studying that works greatest for you’ll rely by yourself priorities for the approaching 12 months. Do you wish to have a information for every month of your life? Take into account getting the month-to-month unfold. Do you crave reflection and making sense of your energies? Possibly the thematic unfold is for you.
Rob, in the meantime, affords to his VIP purchasers what he refers to as an “annual forecast,” the place he types a roadmap for the subsequent 12 months of their lives. In the course of the studying, Rob would additionally decide the vitality a shopper would have for every month, and would then present them with a information to plan their 12 months.
“For instance, you wish to get married in June, however in that month, throughout the studying, we see there’s nothing however dangerous playing cards there. Then, we would let you know, ‘Hey, let’s not try this in June as a result of we don’t wish to be a part of that sort of vitality,’” Rob mentioned.
What it’s good to know earlier than getting your studying
Each tarot practitioner is totally different.
Pau deems it necessary for her purchasers to enter her readings already realizing what they wish to achieve perception into. It doesn’t should be particular — only a gist of all of it can work. Usually, the querent can simply inform Pau that they’re feeling confused in life and don’t know what to do, and she will take it from there.
“For me, intention is essential. Kaya tawag ko sa mga questions ng mga querents could be intentions. What are your intentions on this studying? Kung wala kang particular query, ano na lang ‘yung ba’t ka nandito?” Pau shared.
(For me, intention is essential. It’s why I consult with the questions of my querents as intentions. What are your intentions on this studying? In case you don’t have a particular query, inform me as an alternative why you’re right here.)
The identical factor goes for Pau’s “12 months forward” readings, the place she would ask purchasers what occurred within the final 12 months resulting in the studying, together with what their targets or intentions are given these experiences. Some purchasers choose to be extra-specific, whereas others desire to maintain it a bit extra normal. However for Pau, something goes.
Rob, in the meantime, takes a special method. For him, his purchasers don’t even should say something.
“You simply want to inform me it’s good to have the studying after which we’ll set it up. And I all the time extremely counsel to my purchasers that we have now it on Zoom so you’ll be able to have a full recording as a result of it’s a variety of data. It seems to be on the 12 months per 30 days. It doesn’t matter you probably have an thought or not,” he instructed Rappler.
When he begins roadmapping every month of the 12 months, he would inform his purchasers what they need to and shouldn’t be doing, and what their choices are.
However tarot readings — above all else — are speculated to empower you. They aren’t speculated to be fatalistic and shouldn’t dictate your life. It’s supposed to present the facility again to you slightly than the opposite method round.
“If I instructed you tomorrow that it doesn’t matter what you do, it’s set in stone, you’re going to Solaire and also you’re going to gamble away all of your cash and turn into bankrupt. What are you going to inform me? You’re going to say, ‘Then guess who’s not going to Solaire tomorrow?’ An actual reader will give the facility again to you,” Rob mentioned for example.
And in 2026, as a normal outlook, Rob attests you can get what you need this 12 months, however it’s good to work for it. The cardboard for 2026 is The Chariot — which symbolizes victory.
“With the cardboard being the chariot for the 12 months, you may get your coronary heart’s want this 12 months. You simply should be prepared to place within the work for it. If that is the 12 months you say you wish to drop some weight, this may be the 12 months you drop some weight, however you have to be prepared to pay the value for it. You have to be prepared to place within the effort. Don’t simply be idle about this,” he mentioned.
In response to Rob, the vitality that 2026 brings is drastically totally different from that of 2025.
“The tip of 2025 was very, very morbid. There have been a variety of deaths as a result of it’s the snake 12 months. It’s just like the snake shedding its pores and skin earlier than it’s over. After it sheds its pores and skin, as soon as 2026 begins, then all the pieces’s going to begin transferring fast-paced. It’s the 12 months of the Horse as properly. Horses and chariots [are related to each other], so it’s actually in alignment,” Rob mentioned.
That mentioned, maintain a optimistic mindset that 2026 could be a nice 12 months for you. If there’s a giant objective you wish to obtain, maybe tarot will help provide you with that foresight and peace of thoughts. – Rappler.com
