january forecast
these readings are timeless. Trust what resonates and allow yourself to let go of what doesn’t.
A quick note before we begin: If you want to see the year ahead through a wider lens, I’ve just released the 2026 energy map: your year of becoming — a collective tarot reading exploring the key themes shaping the year. I’ll share more at the end.
You keep having this looping thought. I should be happy. I should be grateful. My life is ‘great’.
You berate yourself for not getting up early, not hustling hard enough, but, actually, that’s all just an illusion. It’s more convenient to call yourself lazy than to risk going after what you want because it feels so vulnerable.
But this January, you’re being asked to look at your life and see the good in it, but also: allow yourself to want more. To dream bigger.
It’s not about making plans in the typical ‘new year’ way. It’s not about expanding your bank balance or your status, it’s about expanding your capacity for authenticity.
a dangerous intelligence
And one of the reasons you feel like you ‘should’ be happy is because you’re subscribing to a picture-perfect life that someone else designed. The family. The mortgage. The steady job.
Even if you don’t have those specific things, something in you is still attached to the stereotypical image of success and feels as though breaking away from that to follow your intuition is too dangerous.
And here’s the thing: you’re right, it is dangerous. It’s very dangerous to have the kind of intelligence that you have — the connection to ancestral wisdom, the knowing that you’re destined for something that will confuse others, the raging momentum in you that is ready to flip the table of your life and see how things land.
But you didn’t come here to play safe, and you certainly didn’t come here to put on a performance of contentment.
Do you feel that?
The wound in you that has been poked and prodded, again and again? For decades?
A subtle, but forceful, nudging that has repeatedly put you back in place, but it’s a place that suits the system — and severs you from source.
draw the line
No more. Not this year. Not this month. Not this day. Today is the day that you make the switch, the month you commit to making messy decisions because the mess is the process of recalibration.
This month might feel fast for you, even though there isn’t much happening externally. But internally, you’re visiting yourself five years from now, talking to that you, asking for advice, absorbing her lessons. Back and forth you go, hopping timelines and closing the gap between them..
Attachment is also a huge issue this month. It’s a sticking point, but also, a tipping point.
Notice the things you hold on to this month. Ideas, beliefs, outcomes, perceptions, people, places, items… the moment you release is the moment you move. The resistance is the thing that is causing your upset, not the actual thing.
In the 2026 energy map, we dive into exactly what creative habits, expectations, and rules you're clinging to that feel safe but are actually limiting your becoming. ≥≥≥ check it out
focus on this
In order to get the year off to a positive start, releasing should be your focus. Grieving. Get lost in the loss.
Admit to yourself that you’re fucking sad, admit to yourself that you’ve been poked and prodded and judged and nudged. Embody the rage to release it. Create space.
If this resonated, and you’re looking for wider orientation, the 2026 energy map offers a look at the themes we’re all stepping into as a collective. If you want to avoid the traditional trappings of new year and, instead, do the deep work of actively facilitating your own becoming, this one’s for you.
Love you,
Fiona
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Cards pulled: 10 of cups, Ace of Swords, 4 of Coins, Knight of Swords
Tarot deck used: Queer Tarot by Ash & Jess
