Welcome to December’s newsletter! December and January are reflective times of year for me. As soon as we tip into December, I start thinking of all the witchy and tarot rituals I can do to honor the past year and welcome the next.

Instead of doing New Year’s Resolutions, I do a Theme of the Year. Over the past few years, I’ve selected a Theme based on my Personal Tarot Card of the Year. Then, I have infused the entire year with tarot readings and spiritual practices to move me deeper into the Card and my Theme.

My Card of the Year practice has been a powerful driving force in my personal growth, spiritual growth, nervous system regulation, trauma healing, creativity, ambition, and living life to its fullest.

I’m proud to announce that I’ve written a guide to using your Personal Tarot Card of the Year for transformation and well-being. I’m doubly proud to be sending it to you as this month’s freebie. (More on this in the Tarot Thoughts and Spreads section below.)

Use of AI

I do not, have not, and will not use AI to create this newsletter, my tarot readings, the Personal Card of the Year Guide, my patterns, tarot spreads, tutorials, zines, etc.

Creation is a sacred act. Tarot is sacred. I will not desecrate them with AI.

Update on Donations

I have been donating the profits from my tarot readings to the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). In November, with the government shutdown and loss of SNAP benefits, I decided to donate to a local food shelf instead (Second Harvest Heartland). I’m planning to continue this donation through December.

Thanks to my clients, I was able to donate $63 to the food shelf.

I post accountability posts for these donations on TikTok.

This newsletter contains:

• Inner Artist Reading

• Tarot Thoughts and Spreads

• Witch Crafting

• Your Monthly Freebies

• Coupons to both of my shops

• In Case You Missed It

What is an Inner Artist?

Every single one of us has an Inner Artist. It’s the creative part inside all of us. Creativity shows up in our lives outside of making arts & crafts. You might be creative in the way you teach, creative in the way you lead, creative in the way you decorate your home, etc.

How can your Inner Artist be creative this month?

For this month, I pulled the Nine of Cups.

What a card for the last Inner Artist reading of the year! Acknowledge your Inner Artist’s accomplishments. Feel proud of all the creative things you’ve done this year.

You’ve built so much, you’ve overcome so many creative challenges. It’s time to enjoy all you’ve done. Get carried away with the joy of it!

Look inward to see what else your Inner Artist wants to accomplish. Let the joy of your successes energize your next project.

All my tarot thoughts have gone toward writing this month’s freebie. I am so unbelievably excited about making this available to you. I’ll be listing it in my Etsy shop (and eventually on Amazon).

What is a Personal Card of the Year?

Your Personal Card of the Year is a guide, a mentor, a door, and a mirror. It’s an energy and archetype to work with for growth and change, for comfort and support.

Your Personal Card of the Year is based on the numerology of your birthday and the current year. It’s a card particular to you.

Each year brings a new card, a new focus, and a new opportunity for transformation.

For an overview of the practice, watch my Card of the Year video on YouTube.

What is a Personal Card of the Year Practice?

Your practice can be anything you want. The point is that you move your Card of the Year out of the realm of a “fun fact” about you. Instead, you’ll work with it through regular tarot readings, reminders, and any other spiritual practices you want to include.

This is a basic overview of the Personal Card of the Year Practice:

To prepare, take these steps:

1. Calculate your Personal Card of the Year.

2. Choose a Theme based on your Personal Card for the Year.

3. Develop a tarot spread (based on the Theme and Card) for a monthly reading.

Your Card of the Year practice can take many shapes, but the core of the practice is:

• a monthly reading (using the spread you developed) to gain wisdom and insights

• using your Card and Theme of the Year to inspire, guide, and transform you.

Your Card of the Year practice can be enhanced with:

• a weekly Deep Dive reading

• daily draws

• nightly routines

• visual reminders

• spiritual practices

I’m winding down my year with The Devil and getting ready to start a year with The Tower. Don’t be sad for me…I can’t wait! After the amazing year I had working with Death (2023), the transformative year I’ve had with The Devil (2025), I know these “tricky” cards are where the growth is at!

Growth comes from the discomfort.

A Tower year is going to rock my socks in the best of ways!

Find your copy of the guide in the freebies link below.

Tarot Spreads

I don’t have a spread for you this month…I have 66 of them! Appendix A of the Personal Tarot Card of the Year Guide has multiple spreads for each card of the Major Arcana.

As part of my year end rituals, I honor the past year and thank it for everything it’s done for me. One way I do that is with a final journal entry.

I set aside time throughout December to re-read the year’s journal entries. I make a list of the goals I achieved, the challenges I faced, the changes I made, the fun I had. I approach the journal entries and the “wrap-up list” from a stance of gratitude. The goal is to honor them (even the difficult parts of the year).

If I find a piece of wisdom I want to keep, I record it on a notecard and save it in a recipe box. These “notecards of wisdom” become the basis for future spells, rituals, meditations, and tarot readings.

A Spell at the Year’s End

Identify things from the year that you’d like to honor. Write them down or print out images (or symbols) to represent them. Each item you’re honoring needs its own paper, so feel free to cut up a piece of paper or use sticky notes.

Place the papers with the things you’re honoring on a table/desk.

Place herbs, crystals, salts, etc. that correspond to your feelings onto the individual papers. For example:

• if it’s something you need to let go, sprinkle a little salt on it

• if it’s something you’re celebrating, put a piece of citrine on it

• if it’s something you’d like to continue to grow, or bring into the new year with you, put a piece of clear quartz on it

• if it’s something you worked hard for, put a piece of red jasper on it

• if it’s a wish that came true, put a bay leaf or alfalfa on it

• if it’s something you want to leave in the past, put some black pepper on it

Light a candle and sit with the spell. Give attention and energy to each of the things you wrote down.

Leave the papers out as long as you want to. I love the idea of leaving them out overnight between December 31 - January 1.

When the spell is done, cleanse the crystals and dispose of the herbs.

You can keep the papers if you’d like the reminders. Or, consider burning them or taking them out in the recycling on New Year’s day.

Subscribers get access to monthly freebies (including all the freebies from past newsletters).

Subscribers get 20% off both my shops for December 2025. I’m donating all the profits from my tarot readings to a local food shelter (Second Harvest Heartland).

• I have been sharing some tips on learning tarot. This post on TikTok is about “tarot recipes”. I’ve also shared about mind mapping card meanings and mind mapping your readings.

• I shared some pictures of things that aren’t altars (but are totally altars) on TikTok. I really can’t stop thinking about all the altars we surround ourselves with.

• I shared a glimpse inside my sacred creativity space on TikTok.