This is your year for magical manifesting

Did 2025 leave you feeling like you’d just completed a 365-day marathon? A bit exhausted and wrung out, and wondering “What now”?

It’s not surprising. In numerology, 2025 was a Year 9 — the last year in the nine-year cycle and, like the end of all cycles, a time for endings, release, closure and tying up all the loose ends. It was also a time for goodbyes and maybe even discovering it was the end of an era in some way — which can make the closing months of a number-nine year a bit of an emotional journey. But those endings had to happen to make way for something new — and here it is: 2026.

Hello 2026 — and a New Beginning

It’s a new year, and the outlook is radically different. This is the Year of the Magician.

2 + 0 + 2 + 6 = 10 and 1 + 0 = 1, so this is a Year 1 — the start of a whole new cycle with all the energy and exuberance you’d expect. This is a year to start new projects, create new ventures and devise a new life-path for yourself if you wish.

Imagine opening your front door on a crisp January morning — the sun newly risen, the air tingling with freshness and just a hint of sparkling frost to blow away the cobwebs and make you feel truly alive. Where will you go? What will you do?

This is the energy of a Year 1, full of crystalline clarity — active and energetic, with no hanging about. And in Tarot, the card that goes with a number-one year is the card also numbered 1: The Magician.

The Magic of the Magician

The Magician is all about manifesting — bringing ideas out of the imagination and into reality. What do you want this year? What can you dream, and how will you make it happen?

The Magician stands at a table with all the tools of their craft. They’re the same ones The Fool carries in their pack, representing the four elements — and they’re the only things you need in order to manifest everything you want:

· A Chalice (water) representing your emotions, and your ability to form relationships, make connections and forge strong bonds with others.

· A Sword (air) that represents your mental agility and your ability to question, think and plan, with foresight and logic.

· A Wand (fire) that stands for ambition, courage and determination — and the passion to keep learning and growing.

· And finally, a Pentacle (earth) that signifies your willingness to roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty with practical action to build your resources.

Spread Your Wings and Live Your Dream

Use these tools to build your dream — with faith and courage you can manifest what’s in your imagination and bring it into the real world as magically as any magician in this Year of New Beginnings.

Helping you is The Wheel of Fortune — also a Year 1 card (because it’s the card numbered 10 in the pack, and 1 + 0 = 1 also). Fortune is on your side — whatever was keeping you stuck in a rut has just shifted and it’s time to get moving.

If you’d like some inspiration to plant a seed and get you started, sit down with your tarot deck and ask the question, “What is opening up for me now?”