January New Moon 2025

The Major Arcana card, the Hermit, is the image for humanity for this new moon. It seems fitting for this card to appear, considering winter is often a ripe time for soul searching and deep self-reflection. The Hermit represents creation, rebirth, awakening, and is a call to bring to light the inner wisdom of our souls. We’re being asked to retreat and/or set aside some solo time to find our inner light that will help guide our way. The info is beyond the rational intellect, and it may feel difficult to access and acknowledge our authentic selves. However, this is the beginning of a new year – one deemed by some as the “great awakening” – and the Hermit card depicts precisely that: an awakening within that leads to a new beginning.

January Full Moon 2025

For this full moon we are graced with the Queen of Cups card, reversed, from the Thoth tarot deck. The queen of cups cannot be fully understood by rational means. She is the receptive, intuitive, feminine aspect of ourselves that lives in the great mystery. She is full of love, kindness, and gratitude and dissolves doubt. She surrenders to the ocean of love and is receptive to all possibilities.

At this time, we are being asked to observe this quality in ourselves or lack thereof.

With the card reversed, the question is: how have we become disconnected from our intuition and compassion for ourselves and others?

In what way can we tap into this aspect of ourselves more fully?