When should I do a yearly reading?

Most people do it on New Year’s Eve or in January for the calendar year, or on their birthday for their personal year. You can do it anytime, though. The reading always covers the 12 months from the moment you pull.

Can I do a yearly reading every month?

We suggest once a year. A yearly reading works with long cycles, so pulling it too often waters it down. For a closer look at a single month, use the monthly reading.

What if I don’t like my yearly reading?

The cards don’t show a fixed forecast. They show where things tend to go from where you are now. If the reading points to a hard stretch, you can use that to make changes before it catches up with you.

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Yearly tarot reading: 13 cards for the year ahead

Thirteen cards: one for each month, plus a theme for the whole year. A personal compass you can come back to month by month.

13 cardsPlain English3 minutesA good yearly ritual

Theme✧of the year

1✦January

2✦February

3✦March

4✦April

5✦May

6✦June

7✦July

8✦August

9✦September

10✦October

11✦November

12✦December

A compass for the year

Start your yearly reading

Think about the year ahead. Pull 13 cards and get a reading for each month, plus a theme for the year that ties all the cards into one story.

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How the yearly tarot reading works

The yearly tarot reading is a traditional thirteen-card spread that looks at the whole year ahead. The first card carries the theme of the year, the tone that colors every other card. The other 12 cards each describe one month.

The year-ahead spread on My Horoscope has these positions:

Theme of the year: the overall mood and main theme of your year.
January: the mood of January.
February: the mood of February.
March: the mood of March.
April: the mood of April.
May: the mood of May.
June: the mood of June.
July: the mood of July.
August: the mood of August.
September: the mood of September.
October: the mood of October.
November: the mood of November.
December: the mood of December.

The key to a yearly reading is to read the months as a sequence, not one at a time. You see how one month leads into the next: which parts of the year look busy, which look quiet, and where the turning points may fall.

What the yearly reading shows you

The theme of your year
The tone that runs through the whole year.
The mood of each month
A theme for each of the 12 months: what to expect and what to focus on.
Busy stretches and quiet ones
When in the year to push ahead and when to give yourself room to think.
Turning points
Months when something may shift, in your favor or against it.
The arc of the year
The overall shape of the year and how its mood changes from January to December.

When to choose the yearly reading

The yearly reading makes the most sense around New Year’s or your birthday, when you’re already taking stock and setting intentions for a new cycle. It’s a reading for people who want the big picture and a sense of which themes may stand out in the next twelve months.

It also helps when you’re going through a major change, like a breakup, a career shift, or a move, and want to understand the chapter you’re entering and what to expect from it.

Don’t pull it every month. The yearly reading is for long cycles, and its strength is the wide view. Pair it with the monthly reading: the year as a map of the whole road, the month as a close-up of each leg.