The Year of the Magician
One Word: Competency
In Tarot and numerology practices we will often reduce a given year to the sum of the numbers that make up that year, until we get to a single digit. In doing so, it unlocks a key or a theme that can be applied to the duration of said year.
Let’s try it. 2026, for example, would be 2+0+2+6, which equals 10. Could we use 10 in tarot? Sure, and there would be nothing wrong with that. In most circles I’ve come across however, potency is paramount, so we further reduce. Why leave it at 10, when you can add 1 and 0, resulting in the number 1? That’s about as potent, or dense a number I can think of. And in the tarot, the number 1, brings us to Key I, The Magician.
There are several things that I could say about this card. But for the purposes of offering something to the collective that can be of use, I’m going to keep it simple. I always say, “another way to say simple is to replace it with potent.” And here we are, keeping it potent. The magician is about many things, reciprocity, love, passion, purity of intent, elements, tools, as above so below, but the thing I want you to take with you throughout the course of 2026, is the word, “competence.” Above all, The Magician is competent. The figure has full understanding of what they’re working with and explicit agency to do as they wish. There is no doubt; Self, or otherwise.
2025 was the year of The Hermit. I had a lot of thoughts about that, which I share here via images I posted on Instagram around this time, last year. But primarily, the word of 2025 was, “refinement.” Refinement as in going inward and refining the self amongst the chaos. Those of you out there who found yourself doing such; Curating that inner space and getting to know thyself a bit better, will have everything within grasp to seize the days ahead in 2026. All the tools to do what you Will, will be available to you and you will be competent in wielding them. Those of you who did not, will have some catching up to do, but not all is lost. Every day is a new opportunity to engage in a way that’s right for you and your highest good.
Occult thought leaders for years have said that magic is something of the intersection of Imagination and Will. The important thing to remember about your Will, is that you need to know yourself completely and have agency over every part of yourself before you can adequately direct said will. I hope for all of us, that we find a way to know and understand ourselves on such an intimate level that we can each express the workings of our Imagination through earnest and developed Will for the greatest good and highest purpose.
With harm to none.
Free Palestine!
Free the hunger strikers!
Free Ukraine!
Believe Women!
May all people experience peace.
Merry Christmas!
I say that because it’s what I celebrate and I wish you joy and ease, but if you celebrate anything else; Happy Holidays, Seasons Greetings, etc., Go. Love.
Welcome 2026!