12/31/2025
Your Daily Tarot...
Eight of Pentacles
Last day of 2025 (buh-BYE!) and last day of our time with the Connolly deck (new year, new month, new deck!), and we have the Eight of Pentacles to remind us of all that we have achieved and will continue to achieve in 2026.
If that means you simply kept on breathing in and out--that's a massive achievement for this bizarre, mind-warping, and mostly agonizing in one way or another year.
When everyone is posting their end of the year tomes and creative fiction/autobiographical novels on social media, it can get a little thick in the schmaltz in there. Yes, Carol, we know you "learned a lot about" yourself this year and "manifested" your desires, even--we read your 69,212 posts. No need to summarize your profundities about yourself AGAIN.
Which goes to say: if you kept your learning lessons to yourself and conquered some demons and halfway summited an even remotely scary anthill of your psyche, that does not make them any less valid. Sometimes suffering in silence really does build character, fortitude, and chutzpah. You did it, you got through to the other side, and you didn't need a million followers to applaud you coming into the light. An exquisitely noble achievement.
As we head into 2026, let these experiences serve you well and know that you may have closed a door and opened a window. Leave any baggage at the train station, and take wisdom with you on your continuing journey, this magical mystery tour called Life.
The Bridges Healing Arts
The Bridges' Wisdom Center