2025: A Year in Review Through Tarot

A lot of people think Tarot is about looking forward, but I usually use it to check in on current energies. Today, one of the last days of 2025, I asked tarot to show me a card for each month for the past year so I could see my 2025 through the eyes of spirit. It was a really beautiful perspective for me. 2025, as most people know, was a really hard year for me. I made a decision to leave a very toxic work environment at a time the market was really rough. It took me way longer to find a job than I was expecting. This was pretty much entirely because I was holding out for what I really wanted. For the first time in my life I didn't want to just run from a job but I instead wanted to go within and decide what I was really looking for. It took some time for me to decide what that was, as I think the cards will show throughout the year. Some of these cards maybe surprised me a bit, but overall I think it shows a beautiful story of a girl who was divinely protected and finding her own power. I was expecting a lot more negative cards and strife but what I really saw was a journey of faith and trust in the universe. Here is my spread. If you are interested, I will break down each card and my 2025 journey below.

January - The World. What a beautiful way to start an incredibly transformative year. It's like spirit was telling me that this year was all about closing chapters and ending cycles to bring in new journeys. If you know about the year of the snake and year 9s (which I wrote about previously) this all makes sense. The world card to me is similar to the "death" card which is also about ending cycles. However, I like to think the world card is a little more forward thinking, asking us to think about what is next and where we want to go, as opposed to looking behind us to see what we need to close out or what patterns we need to stop. I love that. As I mentioned, a big theme for me in 2025 was me deciding what I wanted my career to look like and not just jumping ship to get out of my job like I had done in the past. I love this card for the beginning of my year. I knew that I wanted to leave my job, but my biggest challenge was deciding where I wanted to go and what I wanted my career to look like after.

February - Knight of Cups. This card may have thrown me off a little. To be honest, I think this is about this sommelier in Miami at the hotel I stayed at for two weeks in February, which cracks me up. But I do think he was a big catalyst of me being romantic and having crushes again for the first time in a long time. We flirted a lot when I stayed there though nothing ever happened (I was insistent on going to bed before he ever got off work, which was very late at night). I kind of love that though. I stopped messing around with "knight" energy - men who flirt but don't actually give anything. Years ago I probably would have stayed up late just for the prospect of a love story, this year, I valued my sleep more than a boy who wasn't willing to give me more. I kind of love that for me.

March - Justice. In retrospect, this is a beautiful card to pull this month. I had worked so hard at my job for the last few years on some really difficult teams. I kept my head down and did my job and let people treat me pretty terribly and I never complained. I always kept my positive attitude, I worked so hard, I was a good team member, and a very very good boss to my junior attorneys and made a point to never pass the toxicity down the chain. I always said that the good energy I put into work was going to come back to me, even if it didn't come from that same job, I knew the universe would bless me back with my positive energy. That is what the justice card is all about. Getting back what you give. March is the month I met my recruiter, and I love to think that the universe sent him as my justice card to help me along my journey.

April - Seven of Pentacles. I love this card so much. It reminds me of a quote from Hamilton "What is a Legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see." This card is about slow growth. This is the month my recruiter and I started discussing what I really wanted with my job. It's nice in retrospect because I didn't even get my job offer until July but I see how the seeds I was planting in April were leading me to where I wanted to go. It's also beautiful because I was feeling exasperated already in April that it wasn't working out yet, but was trusting the universe to protect me. Now I can see it was already happening back in April. Also, I went to France in April and got to see the first buds of champagne grapes of the year - which aligns pretty beautifully with this card too and the period I was at. Maybe I was just syncing up with the cycles of the grapes.

May - Queen of Wands. THIS IS MY FAVORITE CARD OF THE YEAR. This card tells me that spirit was waiting for me to claim my power before it was going to give me what I wanted, and that I found it this year. During my job search, I had to speak my life into existence and project confidence even though internally I may have been scared. I always hated the "fake it til you make it" quote but I do think this happened to me this month. I started talking so much about the future I was going to build, I started believing it, and it started coming true.

June - Four of Cups. This was a month where I had a few job offers but they still weren't what I wanted at least at the time. I was very focused on my base pay and was not willing to go below a certain amount. The four of cups is all about looking around at what you don't have and ignoring what is being offered to you. I don't think that is a bad thing in this instance. However, a change of perspective in July was necessary for me to move past this energy.

July - Temperance. This is the month of transformation, where all the magic happened. It's a beautiful moment of patience in the universe. My current job situation finally caught up to me and some stuff came to a head. I learned I had been thrown under the bus and the clock was running quicker than I thought for me to find a new job. It was terrifying to keep trusting in the universe, but I did. I kept my chin up. Thankfully, just a few weeks later this month, my new offer came in. I interviewed with my current company and within 6 days had interviewed with ten partners and received an offer the next day. I also really downplay this, but they gave me an offer to come in as a partner which was absolutely amazing. Looking at this card in retrospect you can see it's all about an equal exchange of energy. It's like the universe was saying it wasn't going to bring in a new offer for me until I had fully cut ties energetically from my prior firm, which happened this month. It shows a beautiful story of trust and divine timing.

August - Five of Pentacles. Look how sad and lonely she is. I hate to say that this was me, but it was. This was a really hard year for me that I had to face pretty much entirely alone. I wasn't telling anyone what was going on at my job - I didn't want to worry anyone. I had someone I really trusted at my last company who told me he was there to support and protect me, but come August, I felt totally abandoned. I felt so lost and alone during this time, my head was spinning. I had a broken heart as I had let myself have feelings for the first time in ten years. It triggered very deep abandonment wounds in me. Again, I had to keep my head up and pretend like things were fine but I was crying a lot behind the scenes while facing a lot of pain and fears that had existed in me since I was a child.

September - Seven of Wands. This card is like the universe saying you are right stand your ground, and I love that it came right after the five of pentacles. The universe wasn't going to let me stay down for long. I started more publicly sharing some of what I had been through at my prior company and finding my voice and power online. Looking at this card to me is such a beautiful thing because I know that spirit was standing behind me the whole time. I also love that it comes right after the five of pentacles. You can't keep me down for too long - just after the solitude and tears and loneliness I was back up remembering who I am. This was the month I started at my new job, and it's really beautiful for me to think that in addition to spirit standing behind me, I had a new team of colleagues who respect me who now also have my back.

October - Knight of Wands. This comes from another website to describe the knight of wands, and I'd say this is right:

• In a career Tarot reading, the Knight of Wands can indicate that you are changing jobs or launching your own business when it appears. This Minor Arcana card signifies high energy, enthusiasm and being up for a challenge. You are ready to throw yourself into work when it appears and have the ambition, drive and determination to get the job done.

I love this. I really poured into my career this year and started getting out there to network and develop business. One of my friends I met for lunch one day looked at me and said "you and I are the same. We are hunters." And I think that this card fully embodies that energy (and I also loved that a man said that to me, because I think a lot of men do not view women as their equals or think they could be as big of hustlers as them). I put so much energy into my new job when I started, getting out there to network and meet people, take on new projects. At my end of the year review, I was told how much everyone appreciated my eagerness, enthusiasm, and willingness to take on any project, as well as willingness to take initiative with networking opportunities. I never was given praise for these qualities at my last job, and I was very adamant during my hunt that I wanted to go somewhere that these qualities were valued. I'd say I found it and spirit agrees!

November - Flower of Life. This card is unique to this deck. It is a reminder that we are part of a bigger universe. I love this - as you can probably see, the first ten months of the year I was micro zoomed in on my job, as if that was all that mattered in the world. Once November hit, I felt settled in at my new job and felt like I could finally breathe, for the first time in years. I started remembering there is a bigger world around me, and felt like I finally got to re-join it.

December - The Magician. This is an incredible way to end the year. I think spirit is reminding me that I am the one who caused all of these beautiful things to happen this year. I had to tell the universe what I wanted, and manifest it (which includes taking concrete steps to making it happen). I love this for the end of the year and I think it is telling me to stay intentional about what I want. Before last year, I was not an intentional manifester. I took a back seat to my life. I trusted the universe so much and believed that if I was a good person spirit would send me what I wanted, and I trusted that spirit knew what was right for me more than I knew it myself. I did many tarot readings that were screaming at me that I couldn't do this anymore - I had to figure out what I wanted and ask the universe for it. That was so hard for me, but look how beautifully it worked out. I got a job that checked every single box I was looking for, once I actually sat down and decided what that was. Maybe next step will be a husband?