Tarot Spread for the New Year

Tarot Spread for the New Year
1. What do I leave behind in the Old Year?

2. What do I open up to in the New Year?

3. Key Opportunity of the New Year

4. Key Challenge of the New Year

5. Hidden concern (pull from bottom of the deck)

6. Deep Wisdom / Advice from God/dess (pull from middle of the deck)

7. Key Theme of the New Year

If you keep records of your readings, the last card (#7) could become the first card (#1) in next year’s spread.

by JOANNA POWELL COLBERT

New Beginnings Tarot Spread

New Beginnings Tarot Spread 
From http://hermeticrose.com/2010/08/the-fool/

This layout follows the rough outline of the Fool’s body as shown on the card–poised like a bow and arrow prior to release. A drawn bow holds a lot of tension and potential. When you start a new project it’s much the same. You are the bow embodying both the tension and potential that will carry the project forward. Your enthusiasm is the energy that bends the bow and draws the string. This spread seeks to give you an opportunity to consider some of the forces that may effect your aim and become aware of resources you can use to support you in your goals.
Instructions
Shuffle the deck while thinking of your intention for the reading. You may wish to focus on this course as a new project. Or, you may be at the start some other new direction. Hold one or the other in mind. Remember the cards are a mirror to show you what you aspects of the situation that you might not be aware of. For example you would think you would be aware of your conscious position, but often you don’t fully realize the stance you have taken. The cards, like a dream, are there to help you see these things and make adjustments if necessary.
After you have shuffled the cards to your satisfaction, deal them out in the order shown on the layout. Do not deal out a card for the Outcome Card.
The Outcome Card will be the major arcana card equal to the sum of the numeric values of all the cards in the reading. Give the value of 4 to Kings, 3 to Queens, 2 to Knights and 1 to Pages. If the sum is higher than 22 add the numbers of the sum together. Use the final number to select the appropriate major arcana card.
What are you leading with (position 1 – the Right Hand)? Where is the tip of the arrow aimed? Then, what are the forces that propel the project forward? What resources do you bring (position 2 – Sack)? Look at the position 3—what might be the areas of vulnerability? Position 4 (the dog) will show you instinct to be trusted?
Consider the distribution of suits. Do you have several wands or cups? What is the distribution of the cards telling you. Do you have more than two major arcana (including the outcome card)? If so, this may indicate a project that already has much momentum.
What do you take away from this reading? How has this reading contributed to your self-knowledge? Write a short paragraph.
Make note of your reading and your reflections in your tarot journal. For example, if you drew the seven of swords, go to your seven of swords page, note the date, the reading, the position of the card and your associations about how it might apply to your life.
by KATE WARWICK-SMITH

New Year Spell/Ritual

New Year Spell/Ritual
by StarFields
The basic structure of this New Year's Spell is to use the 12 houses of the Zodiac like a clock face to place intentions for the 12 months of the coming year.
For each clock position, we place a marker and evoke our intentions with a simple spell.
Each clock position corresponds to one of the houses of the Zodiac, starting with Aries at 1 o'clock and finishing with Pisces at 12 o'clock.
When the whole clock/year/zodiac is complete, we bless the whole thing altogether and let it become a symbol sphere, which makes it more than the sum of its parts.
Here is the whole New Year Spell, step by step:
Preparing for the New Year's Spell
1 – Aries – Seeds, new beginnings, inspiration, new projects, birth.
2 – Taurus – Earthly success, material wealth, physical health.
3 – Gemini – Communication, messages, information.
4 – Cancer – Relationships with self, other people and higher forces.
5 – Leo – Art, romance, luck, free will, creativity, love.
6 – Virgo – Service, family, community, organisation.
7 – Libra – Harmony, balance, negotiations, resolutions.
8 – Scorpio – Magic, philosophy, sex, death, alchemy.
9 – Sagittarius – Spirituality, universal consciousness, law, science.
10 – Capricorn – Power, authority, fame, empire building.
11 – Aquarius – Renewal, evolution, transcending the old, transpersonal.
12 – Pisces – Soul, karmic matters, mysteries, far journeys.
Copy out the 12 houses of the zodiac below and consider what you want to have happen for the next year in that department.
For example, 1, Aries, is about new beginnings. What do you want to begin or start afresh? Make up your mind and write it down, for example, I want to start exercising regularly.
Put your desire into this form of spell:
Lord of the Stars
now hear my plea:
Bring (...) to me
in perfect love and harmony
this is my will, so shall it be.

In our example, we could choose to say:
Lord of the Stars
now hear my plea:
Bring wondrous exercise to me
in perfect love and harmony
this is my will, so shall it be.

Work your way through all the 12 houses/positions so you know what you are going to say; write it down if necessary.
*Personification Note For The New Year's Spell: You can choose to direct your spell to another entity than the Lord of the Stars. For example, you can evoke the Lady of the Stars, Jesus Christ, "my higher self" or any entity you personally feel will get the job done for you.

2. Gathering The New Year's Spell/Ritual Ingredients For The New Years Spell
The base pattern for this spell is to light a white candle for each one of the 12 sub-spells/positions. This can be a candle or a tea light and when all are lit, you have a quite wonderful "circle of lights."
*Personalization Notes For The New Year's Spell: For those who can't manage 12 candles for whatever reason, you can use other markers instead, for example 12 clear quartz crystals, or 12 pebbles at a pinch. The main thing is that something happens after you have spoken the spell. Either you light the candle and place it into the circle, or kiss the crystal/stone/marker and place it in the circle. That concludes the 12 individual sub-spells each time.
There is no need to cast a circle for this spell/ritual as the completed Circle of Lights is clearly its own circle and focuses the energy of the 12 spells by virtue of being an established circle; but if you want to cast one and invite the quarters, by all means, feel free to do so.
If you want, you can mark out the places on your New Year's Spell clock before you start with chalk/sand circles, or by placing pictures of the Zodiac signs down, or using a ritual cloth or painting with the Zodiac circle upon it. It's not necessary however as the Circle of Lights comes into being anyway when you light/place the markers.

3. Doing The New Year Spell/Ritual
Be clear in your mind what you are going to ask for on each one of the positions; have it written down if necessary.
Set a nice ambiance (many practitioners prefer to take a ritual bath and get dressed in ceremonial clothes and jewelry before they start).
Have your candles ready to hand and the space to place them.
* Personalization note: You can do this New Years Spell on a table top, or on the floor, and you can be inside the Circle of Lights, or outside of it and make it smaller.
Relax, loosen up any tense body parts, take three deep breaths and evoke:

On this night,
I bless the year to come
My will be heard,
My will be done.

Light the first candle, evoke the requisite spell for the 1 o'clock position and place the candle in the 1 o'clock position.
Take a deep breath in and out and clear your mind.
Pick up the next candle, light it from the 1st and evoke the spell for the 2 o'clock position.
Repeat until the whole Circle of Lights is established.
With both hands over the circle in a clockwise direction, evoke:

On this night
I bless the year to come
My will was heard,
and it is done.
Bow and either blow out the candles or if safe/possible, leave the candles to burn out through the rest of the night.

New Year's Eve Spell 2014

New Year's Eve Spell: Out with the old, In with the new
From magicalrecipesonline.com
On the day before the New Year's Eve take out your broomstick (or electrical vacuum cleaner) and clean your home, chanting : "Negativity begone, out of my way once and for all!".
Try to vacuum your house starting from inside and finishing at the door. Once finished open the door and proclaim one last time: "Negativity begone, out of my way once and for all!".
Then prepare a mixture of salt and blessed water and sprinkle the mixture in your house saying: "Negativity is gone, a barrier of light is built to protect me and the ones I love!".
Try to put your best effort in both processes as
a) negativity is the worst debris you want in your house
and b) protecting yourself and the ones you love is a fundamental step to achieve stability in your life without disturbances and interference.
If you feel like it, cast a magic spell for protection and create a protective magical amulet for you and the ones you love and present it to them as a gift.

Now moving to the second part:
Ingredients:
1 pomegranate (try to choose a really nice one)
1 white candle
Chips from the bark of red sandalwood (optional)
Incense of your choice (choose your favorite one)

Now you can either choose the night of the 1st day of the year or the previous night after the clocks have passed 12 and the new year has come. Have a relaxing bath, dress beautifully, put your favorite perfume and cast the spell showing the true witch that you are:
Light the incense and the candle, hold the pomegranate in your raised hands and proclaim:
"Gods and Goddesses that made the Earth and Stars I call upon thee
Hear me this sacred night, I invoke your light.
Come and bless me, my house and the ones I love,
Good luck will only follow us once and for all.
Pomegranate, divine promise, eternal life,
You are mine I hold thee,
Your countless blessings send to shower us all,
And as I said so be it."

Crash the pomegranate to the ground and say:
"Good luck, blessings of the Earth and Stars will now shower us,
in divine love our hearts we trust."
The spell has been released. Gather the seeds and bury some in the ground.
Take the juice and mix it with red sandalwood (alternatively use only the juice).
Make small marks inside your house saying:
"Good luck, the blessing of the Earth and Stars will only shower us".
Your spell is done, may the New Year bring you love, luck, happiness and fun!