Greetings, gremlins, and welcome to not only our first card pull for the month of January but also our first pull of 2026! Happy New Year!

Congratulations on making it to this point, by the way. I knew you could do it.

As it's a new month, it's time to switch up decks, and we're bringing my beloved Believe in Your Own Magic oracle deck back out for this month. I'm doing this for a couple of reasons. The first is that it's generally a very good deck for vibe checks, which a lot of my weekly readings tend to be. The second is because since this is a brand new year, this feels like the ultimate time for vibe checks, so... here we are.

Now, as always, before we get to this week's reading, please make sure you are all nice and cozy before you continue reading this post. This is not necessarily a reflection of what card will be drawn. In fact, I'm typing this bit before I've even drawn a card. However, I find that coziness helps put me in a better space to receive whatever message the cards may have for me.

Also, please remember that this is a general reading for the collective. It might resonate with you or it might not, and that's fine. Take what you need from this or don't. It's entirely your choice.

Now that we've gone through our reading preamble, let's get into our card for the week and answer our usual question: "What do my followers need to keep in mind to live their best lives this week?"

Our answer this week comes in the form of Stars, reminding us that it is entirely possible to manifest the things we want in life.

It's the start of a new year, so this makes it the perfect time to try to dream big (or, you know, small depending on the things you might want). Maybe you'd love a vacation or to move to a particular place. Maybe you'd love a new place to live or a new car. Maybe you just want to find a wardrobe that just feels like you.

But wishing and dreams are only part of it. You have to put in some work, too, and part of that work involves believing that you actually deserve those things you want.

Believe me. I know it's sometimes incredibly hard to let yourself believe that you can have those things, but manifesting the things you want in the world only really works if you believe you can have them or you believe you have them already. And yes, maybe it's a little delusional, but aren't we allowed to be every now and again?

So providing those things you want aren't going to hurt anybody else, dream big. Let yourself believe you can have those things and how happy they would make you to have them. 

And remember: you deserve them. You've been working hard and you're absolutely allowed to have nice things.

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Greetings, gremlins, and welcome to our first proper card pull for the month of December! Can you believe in a few short weeks, it'll be 2026? Because I'm not sure I can. Where the heck did the year go, anyway?

Since the year is coming to a close and we're settling into the colder months now, I thought maybe we'd close out the year with one of my favorite decks: the Cozy Witch Tarot Deck. If the art style looks familiar, that's because it's done by the same people who did the Believe in Your Own Magic Oracle that I utilize for vibe checks while streaming. I'm quite fond of those two decks as the art's pretty cozy and feels like a warm blanket. Not to mention that I don't think I've seen a more "me" tarot deck in my entire life.

As always, before we get to this week's reading, please make sure you are all nice and cozy before you continue reading this post. This is not necessarily a reflection of what card will be drawn. In fact, I'm typing this bit before I've even drawn a card. However, I find that coziness helps put me in a better space to receive whatever message the cards may have for me.

Also, please remember that this is a general reading for the collective. It might resonate with you or it might not, and that's fine. Take what you need from this or don't. It's entirely your choice.

Now that we've gone through our reading preamble, let's get into our card for the week and answer our usual question: "What do my followers need to keep in mind to live their best lives this week?"

Our answer this week comes in the form of a named card that is unique to this particular deck: Toxic Witches. This is actually the equivalent to the Devil in most traditional tarot decks.

Now, while this could acknowledge that you're trapped in some negative cycles of your own making, my gaze on this card goes directly to the people in the background having a conversation, which leads me to believe this is pointing more towards other people rather than yourself, dear readers.

In life, we all have to deal with some painfully negative people. However, these aren't your everyday negative folks that you can just ignore. These are the people that sink their claws in slowly to the point where you don't even realize they're doing it. These are the people that will cut you down little by little until you're a shred of your former self. These are the people that you feel like you can't escape from no matter what you do because they mask what they do by saying things like "I'm just being realistic" or "I'm just looking out for you." They claim to have your back, but in reality, they do not.

Did you think of someone immediately when you read the above paragraph? Maybe a family member? A friend? A coworker?

If you did... y'all, you really do not need people like that in your life. Maybe this person doesn't even realize they're doing it, but please trust me when I say you don't need people like that dragging you down. Your light deserves to shine in this world.

This week, consider maybe putting some distance between yourself and whoever those people are. Consider if you need to cut them off completely. Think about what you need to do for your own well-being here. In this particular case, it is 100% okay to be selfish.

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If you enjoyed this post and are perhaps interested in acquiring a reading of your very own, I do keep tarot commissions open over on my Ko-fi.

I also have a shop full of all of the commission readings you can find up there, plus a couple of extras I won't be sharing anywhere else. You can find it over here.