By now you will have heard from many quarters that 2019 is going to be a challenging and ‘interesting’ year for most of us. So here at Silvermoon we thought it would be good to do a general projection for the four quarters of the year to give some idea of what we could expect and perhaps to use as a very loosely constructed guide… So here we go… Please bear in mind that this is a rough guide and in no way should you take it as ‘set in stone’.

Spring. The card that came to my hand for Spring this year is The Hanging Man. This card indicates a time of waiting and a time of indecision, also within this card is the feeling of ‘sacrifice’ or having to give something up to gain something else… So what we are seeing here is delay… Indecision… Confusion and possibly even conflict. This could manifest in feeling obliged to look for new employment or radically alter the way you are doing things at the present time. There will be generally a feeling of dissatisfaction in many areas of life… The best way forward here? Take each day as it comes, focus on the things close to your heart and make sure you have the love and support of those close to you… We will get through this difficult time!

Summer. The card for summer is the Three Of Swords. All swords in the sacred tarot are difficult, some more so than others and the three of swords is not the happiest card in the world! This card focuses on Interference… Lack of balance… Inability to progress… Enforced change. So during the summer months of 2019 we need to hang on to what we actually have. Trying to push outwards may not bring advantage in the long-term, and what actual advantage we do get may simply cause more confusion and turmoil. This should be a time of consolidation more than anything else, we often have more assets than we really think about, for example: sometimes we feel the need to buy something new and then later find that we have something that would be equably suitable already up in the loft that we had totally forgotten about… Apply this lesson to many parts of you life and you will see what I’m saying here, think very carefully about what you spend money on this year and ask yourself do I really need it? Explore all options before splashing out! As the summer progresses there may be ways forward but we need to go really cautiously at this time and consider all our options!

Autumn. The card for autumn is the Ten Of Swords. (This just gets better and better!) And this card tells us: Things can’t get any worse! We have literally scraped the bottom of the barrel… The card represents the inability to move forward and more interestingly, the end of a bad time! So yes in some ways this card is actually more positive than it appears on the face of it, this card is saying to us “This is as hard as it will get… The tide will soon turn, and so we must be ready for it”. After this card comes new ideas and new opportunities… so as the autumn creeps on, there will be a lightening of the oppression that has covered this in the earlier part of this year and perhaps… Just perhaps we will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Winter. And here we have The Ace of cups! The tide has turned and for many of us we are once again on safe ground. Many of the worse situations of the past months have either been resolved or have initiated changes that have taken us to a different place in our lives. If we have been cautious and not tried to fight uncertain situations, and simply consolidated and planned for the future then we will be raring to go! The Ace of cups represents: overall balance and happiness throughout the different areas of your life. It also represents Abundance, satisfaction and overall success!  There is a feeling of new beginnings and re-creation and above all love!

Conclusion. No matter how we look at this it is going to be a very difficult year for most and yet it seems as if when we get towards the end of the year we will have turned the corner… But I could not leave this prediction for 2019 here without taking one special card to represent the year that we have just entered.

That card is The Magician! Which tells us that no matter how difficult things become… no matter how glum the prospects for the future is seem, we can create what we need in our lives… The Magician has all the tools that he needs..He is connected to the heavens and to the earth... he has the sign of infinity above his head....We have the power of the magician who can Change… Challenge …Transmute and Recreate if we keep our heads and let our hearts lead us!                        Brightest blessings to you all for 2019! Crystal Green x