2026 Tarot Reading

Megan Hamilton (00:01.462)
I'm Megan Hamilton and this is the Embracing Enchantment podcast. Well, Happy New Year. This is the first podcast episode of 2026 and there's been a few things going on in the world. And I don't know about you, but I am feeling that sense of momentum.

that comes when somehow a consensus is reached, which is by the way, really difficult to do in the climate. And people are feeling ready to be brave and talk about things, stand up for what's right, fight back.

all that stuff. I'm really feeling that. And maybe you are too. So here's how we're going to do today's

episode. I haven't done one of these in a little while. I haven't been solo for a little while, but this seemed like a really great opportunity to plan for the year, figure out how to find our courage, get right with ourselves so that we can use our voices. And one of the ways I can help with that is through tarot. So I am going to pull a card for every month of the coming year. Please feel free to

bookmark this in whatever way you want to or go to your calendar and on the first of the month, link back to the podcast and listen to that month's tarot reading, tarot card and or, you know, press pause right now, go grab your calendar and write down the themes and the notes and any ideas that come to you as we're going through this. So.

Megan Hamilton (02:07.886)
This is universal. is for all of us. This is themes to consider. And one of the things that's really important to think about is the universal numerological tarot card, Major Arcana Tarot card for 2026, which technically is the Wheel of Fortune. However, it can be reduced to the magician. So the Wheel of Fortune is 13. We get that by adding up. Wait a minute.

Megan Hamilton (02:35.214)
No, that's death. Wheel of Fortune is 10. We add up 2 plus 0 plus 2 plus 6. 2026. I'm going get 10.

10 can also be reduced, one plus zero to the magician. So themes of the Wheel of Fortune, themes of the magician. Wheel of Fortune is about cycles. It is about surprises, miracles, fortune coming to you. And it is also about that changing and preparing, right? Being a human on this earth necessarily means the full gamut

The full range of emotions, the full gamut of experiences, joy, grief, love, pain, all of it. The Wheel of Fortune reminds us of cycles, it's a turning wheel, and of ups and downs. So we want to prepare for that. The magician reminds you.

Megan Hamilton (03:36.91)
that you can make anything happen. Obviously there's a gazillion caveats with that and I won't get into them. Assuming if this is not your first time listening, then you know where my heart is.

and the incredible power that each of us have and how important it is for us to recognize that power within each other and support each other because as a community of humans, we actually do hold the power. And when we remember that, that's when change happens. So

That is the universal major arcana card for 2026. Those are the themes. For yours, you can get that by adding your birth month and date and 2026, and then reducing it down to either a card within the major arcana, which is zero to 21, or you can reduce it down to.

The smallest it can go if you would like. So I got death and the emperor, which seems fitting. Okay, so I'm going to get going. Make sure you've got your pens and pencils. If if you want to be writing this stuff down or you can just watch and check back in each month. What is our card for January 2026?

Megan Hamilton (05:06.988)
Seven of cups. We've got some choices to make and they feel overwhelming and we don't love that. But that is where we are. things to remember. Usually we get so stressed about making the wrong choice. However, there's that plane coming back in. If you can hear that in the background, I might be able to edit it out, but otherwise, sorry, I tried to wait for it, but I got to keep going here.

Generally, when we make a choice that adheres to our values, it is almost never the wrong choice. And if there are consequences as a result of it, often those can be adjusted. can keep making changes. Most things are not a devastating choice. Sometimes they are.

but most of the time they are not. So if you look at the seven of cups, the person is in shadow and their body language is in overwhelm, which is what so many people are feeling right now. What do I do? What do I do? Your job is to make the choice. And so a lot of people have been leaning to spirituality, to intuition.

in order to help make the choice when it doesn't, when logic is not working. And it's really hard to be logical when we are in overwhelm. When we're in a freeze response, our brains necessarily change what they're capable of essentially. So use your intuition, journal it out, make a decision and then keep steering yourself in the right direction. If things don't work out.

the way that you think they're going to, but we're going to be making decisions in January and committing to them. Okay. So what is our card for February of 2026?

Megan Hamilton (07:11.842)
Here we go. Two of swords, which is legit. The card I was thinking of with with that seven of cups. So here we are. We want to remember to protect our hearts. So we want to be discerning about who gets what aspects of us, especially in this particular climate where.

Your social media is being checked. All kinds of things are happening. So we want to be discerning about who we tell what to for sure. And we want to sit in our bravery. Again, we want to be decisive. We want to have clear communication. Sometimes this might mean looking at both sides. No, we only mean both sides when one of the sides is not stripping somebody of their humanity. Right.

it is often very helpful to look at the different angles because it is also very easy to demonize people.

and also not very helpful. Now, again, I am not talking about the absolute tyranny that is happening, but I am talking about if we are trying to have clear communication and come together in some kind of consensus, that often means looking at where the other person is coming from.

This is moon energy. is intuition and she is blindfolded. And I think of Star Wars. Is it the Empire Strikes Back? When Luke has that he's got to be blindfolded and he's got to be fighting that little robot ball thing with his lightsaber. That's what this reminds me of. We're going to make decisions based on our intuition.

Megan Hamilton (09:06.914)
which means we're gonna be cultivating our intuition and we're gonna have lots of opportunities to do that in January. Okay, what is our card for March, 2026?

Megan Hamilton (09:22.254)
Queen of Pentacles. We are going to be leaning into the magic of being alive, the things around us that are magical, and we are going to be cultivating that feeling and bringing forth different iterations of that feeling. So with queens, we are thinking of nature, intuition, nurturing, birthing, creating.

with Pentacles we are thinking certainly of career and money, sure, sure, sure, but also resources, what that means, how to divest from everything being about money and the magic of aliveness, which is also the name of a short course of mine if you're ever interested in that.

That bunny is showing us fertility, is March into April is when we start to think about spring, we start to think about rebirth, we start to think about fertility and growth and the seeds that we planted. So in March, you also may want to go back to some of the decisions you had to make in January and plot out just for your own sake what those decisions led to, because you might be surprised at.

some of the things that have happened as a result of those decisions and that intuition you were using in February. All right, what is our card for April 2026?

We're go, go, go at the aid of wands. are going to be, we're going to be doing a lot. We're going to have that fresh energy of spring, obviously. I mean, it might be snowing. I don't know what's happening in the world. As our favorite, one of our favorite astrologers, Channy Nicholas says, I'm recording this, you know, way in the past. I don't know what's happening. However, this is go energy. This is fire energy. This is movement. This is

Megan Hamilton (11:17.614)
and without conflict, right? All these wands are parallel and they are moving through a sky that is blue. are all full steam ahead. We are going forward. We are using our energy for the power of good. And we are feeling passionate and we are letting our passion and our values direct us forward.

All right, I am expecting that May will have some kind of rest element to it, but who knows what is her card for May 2026.

Megan Hamilton (11:55.246)
High Priestess. Okay. Something from February, one of the decisions of the intuition that we started to build in February is going to be amplified here in May with our High Priestess, right? So we have the same. There's a similarity to the two of swords as there is with the High Priestess. We want to be leaning into intuition. We want to be leaning into our magic. And again, we want to be discerning.

She is hiding that part of the scroll that she's holding and is it a Torah? Is it something else? The scholars are there's lots of different conversations about what she's actually holding, but we anticipate that it is some kind of holy text and she's not sharing it with everybody and you can think of this holy text as the core of who you are.

Megan Hamilton (12:52.45)
We want to have boundaries. We want to be using our intuition and we want to be remembering, right? She's between the pillars of Boaz and Jaquin and we want to be remembering that there is black and there is white. There's both and. That is one of the core principles of magic is being able to hold two seemingly opposite principles to both be true at the same time. So magic and science, for example.

Now the thing to remember about the high priestess is it is an enjoyable place to be, kind of like the hermit. But there's a second part, which is that we can't stay behind that veil forever. We are not the high priestess. She is not human.

but we can, I actually use her, that's my favorite card. I use her in inner family systems work. If you don't know what that is, you can look it up. Okay, we are leaning into June of 2026.

Megan Hamilton (13:57.972)
All right, so now we are at the nine of ones. So this is going back again to March, which was the eight. We're now moving along, which is where now there is a little bit of conflict from everything that we've been doing. There is a little bit of hurt. We do actually need to slow down. We might start feeling trapped by the enormous-ness of everything.

What's really important to remember about this card, because this is sometimes called the victim card. So anytime in tarot somebody has been hurt that is or, you know, there's there's some kind of ill we see it. So this person has a bandage on their arm. They have a bandage on their head. And they are protecting themselves with a wand, and then the ones are behind them. And so.

When we say this card is the victim card, okay fine. And sometimes people mean that to be like stop playing the victim, which by the way I hate.

because you have been hurt. The reason you are anticipating being hurt again is because you have been hurt. And as humans, we use past experiences to help figure out how we're supposed to behave in any given situation. So if you are feeling like you are ready for somebody to hurt you, let's give ourselves a lot of compassion and also

How do we move out of that? Because that is a very, know, operating from a defensive place is not very helpful in order to move forward, to be a good human, to do expansive work. And that's what we want for you. That's what we want for everybody. So again, we want to be kind of protective, but we also want to be brave.

Megan Hamilton (15:58.702)
That's all I'm gonna say about that. All right, moving into July.

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of ones. That work that you just did in June working on where this where the victim role is playing a part in your life. We are now moving into the world that we used to hold is now too small. We know more. We are passionate about more. We are ready to expand, but we're feeling a little bit stuck.

because when we make the choice to move out and move forward and increase our worldview, there is parts of us that are steeped in enculturation that we may not even be aware of that might hinder us from taking that step forward. So here you've got somebody who is standing at the wall of a castle, we assume.

Right? With two wands, one of them is bolted into the castle. So we might have to be ripping out that wand, right? There's going to be some discomfort in the choices that we're making. This person might be feeling stuck. They're behind a wall. We're going to have to step over. We're going to have to pull out some of the things that are foundational to us and rebuild. But unlike the tower, this is a minor arcana.

Okay, so we're going to be doing small steps towards expanding our worldview, which is a necessary part of growing as human beings. And that is our July. So we're now looking to.

Megan Hamilton (17:46.348)
or August of 2026.

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are three of swords here. Okay. All right.

Megan Hamilton (18:03.198)
if you have been bravely moving forward.

we salute you. And if you have been ignoring your feelings either because it wasn't the right time to have feelings, sometimes we can't actually feel our feelings in the moment, we will unravel. And sometimes we can't unravel for lots of different reasons.

Now is the time to take that time and feel your feelings. So if you've ever heard me talk about this playlist that I have, and I can't remember if this blog post is still up or not, but basically I have this playlist of sad songs, songs that are pretty sure to make me cry. And when I have, for whatever reason, not been able to feel my feelings, then I put it on so that I can get them out.

Right. And so you could do that with dancing, you know, adding some semantics to it might be really helpful. But we want to be feeling our feelings in August. We do not want to be ignoring them. And you may want to be creating a strategy around them. This is where the swords come in. You might want to be coming up with a plan for how you are going to navigate your feelings. It also could look like therapy. It also could look like somatic work. It could look like coaching. It could like all kinds of different things. But we are definitely going to be.

making sure that we are tending to our emotions because otherwise our emotions live in our subconscious. They live as fear stuff that we don't want to touch and then they end up making all the decisions for us and we are having none of that in the year 2026. No thank you. All right moving into September. We are too good for that. We can be brave. We can do that hard shit.

Megan Hamilton (19:54.09)
And in fact, we need to. September 2026.

All right. My God. Okay. Six of swords. Okay, so we are moving away from the difficulty towards something better. However, the fear facing the fear, bringing the fear with us, moving through, even though there's fear, that's part of the deal as one of my favorite things that Jessica door ever said. And believe me, there's so many is fears the price of admission. We've got six swords in the front of this boat.

If we pull those swords out, the boat sinks. We have to move through with the swords. There's a little bit of recovery that's happening from the body language of the folks in the boat. And on the one side of the boat, the water is disturbed. And on the other side, it's clear. we are moving in the right direction. Everything that we have been doing is...

is the right direction even though it hasn't necessarily been easy. But there is smooth water ahead and that is really nice to hear in September of 2026. So moving into October, what is our card for October 2026?

Megan Hamilton (21:21.026)
Page of Wands. So now we are beginning with a fresh fiery energy. have page energy, which we are starting a bunch of different projects. This is this is an extension of the eight of ones that we had in April. So now we are moving towards the next phase of the journey. We are going to be putting a lot of effort into this, but we have to remember, and this is really, really important.

we don't know what we don't know. And we don't know what we don't know what we don't know. So what that means is there's gonna be a lot of green energy.

in this new phase that we're entering. You wanna be asking people questions who know more than you. You wanna be getting a mentor. You wanna be reading books by people who are experts in this field. You are entering into this, that's amazing. There's so much you don't know. You can save yourself the hassle and save yourself from making the mistakes. Now, making mistakes is really important. It's part of growing. We learn from our mistakes. However,

Sometimes we can make mistakes that will harm other people if this work has already been done by others, right? We're not here to reinvent reinvent the wheel. Another lesson of the Wheel of Fortune, which is the major Arcana card for the year. So make sure you are. Looking to your elders, your experts, your the people who have done this work and learning from them as you venture into this new territory. And by the way, you're feeling kind of good about it.

Right? This is a dapper human. We love that. fun fact. The salamanders on the tunic of this page represent the animal that can walk. So pages are sorry.

Megan Hamilton (23:18.478)
Wands represent fire and salamanders walk through fire and come out the other side. And so we're starting that journey of

all kinds of different salamanders. Once you get to the king, the salamanders close up kind of like an Ouroboros. So it's like a completion of whatever several journeys we've begun. Okay, moving into November of 2026. What do need to know?

Megan Hamilton (23:52.558)
Queen of Swords, all right, we have moved into a more nurturing and matriarchal leadership. We love that for us, for everybody. The Queen of Swords works really nicely with the Wheel of Fortune in the sense that we are reminded of cycles, which are represented by the moon on the throne, and butterflies, which are metamorphosed.

Metamorphosis, transformation, also represented on the throne. Swords are in the realm of air. We associate them with brain stuff. strategy, communication.

writing any stuff related to the brain. Now, this queen has cut herself free, which is represented by the two frayed ropes on either and either wrist of hers and her crown is butterflies. So there is there is freedom. And I'm guessing by November 20, 26, this will be very welcome.

It seems like some stuff will be have shifted in the summer and now we just keep moving in a positive direction and let's keep that going because all of us collectively are responsible for that. So.

We're moving into leadership, clear communication, directions, directives from a supportive and rooted in nature perspective. And finally, what have we got for December of 2026?

Megan Hamilton (25:42.606)
of that wands cycle that began in April. We're now at the 10 of wands. We have been really carrying a lot, doing a lot, navigating a lot, feeling into the fire energy, pushing through. Now we talk a lot in this industry I'm in about, you know, like not pushing yourself too hard, not burning out and absolutely.

And also sometimes that is actually what's required in order to turn around a

culture that is veering into danger, oppression and fascism. So the thing to remember with the 10 of wands is this is this is a completion. And so if you've been carrying a lot, you are you're coming home, right? The home is just beyond here. Now, this person can't see it that you may not know that yet, but you're almost there. So keep going.

You're almost there. And then once you've had a chance to recover, we want to think about everything that you picked up along the way. Was it all of yours to carry? And if it was, it might have been. But if it wasn't, make sure we learn for that for next time. So we don't have to carry such a heavy burden.

Megan Hamilton (27:18.87)
and our shadow card inner work interesting nine of cups

This card is asking you to really lean into the love that exists in your life and be thankful for it, honor it, right? It may not be exactly where you thought you were gonna be. It may not be exactly where you want to be, but there is always love in your life. It doesn't have to be from people. And how can you take a minute to really honor the love that's in your life and

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Use that to find more love in your life, because we our brains go in the direction that we that we put forward. So you may know that I collect a lot of four leaf clovers. I wonder if I can show you easily if you're watching this on YouTube, I have a tattoo of a four leaf clover. And actually, it is a direct replica of Pamela Coleman Smith, who did the drawings for this 1909 Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

I got one of a drawing of hers of a four leaf clover and tattooed it to my wrist. And I find 50 to 60 upwards four leaf clovers every year. And people are like, how do you find so many? And I'm like, I look for them. That's it. We find what we're looking for. So if you're looking for ways that you suck and nobody likes you, you're going to find those ways. But if you're looking for ways that you are

worthy of love and that people do love you, you're going to start to see more of that. Again, we're not bypassing shadow work is not about bypassing and overriding and not looking when you feel the icky come up when you're taking a look at this concept. That's when you want to pull out your journal and be like, OK, what what is conflicting about this for me? Why is it hard for me to lean into where I am loved and why do I want to be seeking the ways that I can't or shouldn't be loved?

That's great opportunity to be like, huh, I just noticed this about my brain. But we want to be leaning into all of the ways that we are loved. And, you know, I'll say this, if it doesn't feel like anybody in your life loves you right now, you know who always loves you? Your guides and the universe. OK. You can find out more about the show.

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Megan Hamilton (30:21.354)
Make sure you're bolstering yourself to be brave and to really lean into your values this year because I think we have the potential to make some big changes and they are necessary and they are possible and we have to keep that in our hearts.

Until then, here's to building an Enchanted.