Prophecy 2025: Part Five

Merry Meet and Welcome to you magickal souls!!!!

It's time to look back on the last three months of 2025 as well as the overal energy of the year. This will be the final review of this year before I start the next one for 2026.

October's Energy

Crocodile & Octopus

These cards are both associated with the element of Water which was really interesting as it was quite the emotional month.

When I first pulled the Crocodile card, I thought of a danger that was hidden, present, and always watching. I think this was to remind myself that while I might see dangers in others, I am also a danger to myself if I don't take care of myself, and defend myself when I have to. I needed this energy and had to stand up for myself as well as hide away from the world to acknowledge and integrate my emotions.

With the Octopus, I thought of agility, how they can solve problems, and are escapists. I needed to be able to solve problems, and I believe I did, or at least, the most immediate and important ones. I needed to be agile, able to bend and flex according to what I needed to deal with. I needed to be flexible with myself and not push myself to do more than I could just because I felt I had to. Burning myself out wouldn't have helped anyone, least of all myself. While I might not have needed to escape anything physically, perhaps I needed to escape from an emotional wound, a wound I had carried for years. Perhaps even since my childhood. Something I didn't know I needed to release before and something I don't even fully understand now. It was deep and not something I had expected to need time to deal with so I did feel like I was having to juggle a lot of things all at once, having to make use of all the tentacles of the Octopus.

Putting these two together, this moth was definitely emotional and complicated.

October's Resources

Ten of Swords

When I first pulled this card, I wrote notes that this could be a healing month for me, especially from deep wounds after a hard-fought battle. Perhaps even a fight that felt like a "final battle".

Now that I've been through October, I can easily say that this was a trying month. I felt like I had multiple internal (mental and emotional) battles that I had to fight in.

However, I did know that I wasn't alone. That when I needed to stop and rest, I had some kind of support I could lean on. That I wasn't alone and could rest for a while, spending some well-deserved time on deepening my practices of self-care and self-love.

Noticing all bar one of the Swords had been lain down on the ground, it appears as if October was more mental and emotional than physical.

November's Energy

Moth

This card is associated with the element of Air, which is my Sun sign's element.

Moths are typically active at night so they are nocturnal, which I feel like I have become as this month has progressed.

Among my notes from when I first pulled this card was the word transformation, as the Moth is like a night-time butterfly. They become in a very similar way to butterflies with the main difference

I feel like Moths can be misunderstood as they have their own unique beauty but don't appear to be as visually appealing as butterflies.

Another note I made about this card was: "never judge a book by its cover". This is exactly how I feel about Moths and in general. I know what it's like to be judged so I do my best not to judge others without knowing them on some level.

November's Resources

The Emperor

I had mixed feelings when I pulled this card as it's not typically one of my favourite tarot cards.

It usually feels very forceful to me, full of that authoritative energy but I think I might be starting to understand that it's also about a gentler kind of leadership. The kind that nurtures, loves and cares.

Within this card, I see a family that is enjoying themselves, filled with love, happiness and contentment.

I needed to remember how to be content, especially with control of certain things not being in my hands. I can still be content with what I can control and make a difference about.

But there is something I don't usually associate with this card and that's taking a step back to observe and maybe even review what has happened in the past.

December's Energy

Hawk

When I first saw this card, I thought of flying high, being watchful, and the fact that this is a predator.

I think this card was trying to tell me that I couldn't see the whole situation from my ground-level viewpoint, and that I needed distance to see the whole of the bigger picture.

During December, I was very much in Hermit-mode as I only left my home when I absolutely had to, mainly to my weekly weightloss group but I struggled to see all of the weight that I had lost in the 9 months since I joined my group. I managed to lose 2st 10.5lb (which is 38.5lb or 17.5kg) in that time, which is an amazing achievement but perhaps because of my childhood, I got a bit hung up on not achieving my 3st/42lb/19kg award as I felt I hadn't done as well as I could have done.

December's Resources

Queen of Cups

With this card, my initial thought was of emotional understanding, and perhaps this is the lesson that December taught me since I took a break from writing and from doing YouTube videos because I just couldn't focus.

I needed to sit with my emotions and let them wash up to and over me for a little while. To be honest, this isn't something I usually allow myself the chance to do but I had a timely reminder that it is something I need to do more often.

Really, I should have learned from my childhood that bottling up how I feel is not a good idea as I struggled with my mental health for years as a child and long into my early adult life.

My main resource for December 2025 was to take time and space away from emotional situations.

I didn't explain this in Part One of this series but I did attempt to pull a card to represent my themes for 2025. Because I prefer to review the cards I pulled in the Prophecy: Becoming the Seer workshop, I like to leave it until the end of the year to look back on how the year was to see if I can remember the times when this card was relevant or not.

Themes of 2025

The Magician & Page of Pentacles

When I first saw The Magician, my initial thoughts were of needing to be practical, while learning the theory. I also wrote down that I needed to practice what I learn.

I definitely needed to be practical as I faced an unexpected health issue (that is now waiting to be dealt with) that could not wait for initial treatment. Usually I would ask a close friend for advice on whether I should bother my local health service for particular pains but something within me recognised that it was serious and so I acted. I also didn't procrastinate quite as long as I might have in the past because I also knew that specific actions needed to be taken but could only be taken by me.

With the Page of Pentacles, my initial thought was that I needed to be open to learning while also marvelling at the world around me. I definitely needed to be open to learning new knowledge as my health issue took me on a learning curve I did not expect. While this Page is carrying a book titled "The Meaning of Dreams", the dreams I had that I remembered throughout this year were interesting and detailed but not regular. The wish-dreams I may have had were thrown out as soon as my health issue surfaced and I had to learn how to delay my dreams, while dealing with more important things (yes, physical health is way more important than my wishes). I did marvel positively at things, especially the natural world around me, but I also did so negatively where I wondered at why true waiting list lengths are not known rather than the "estimates" that are available publicly.

Overall, I'd say that the cards I pulled for 2025 were accurate, especially those last two cards. I know I pulled these cards in December 2024 but still, they show that no matter what unexpected turns the year ahead might hold, they can still be relevant.

I hope this inspires you to look out for Wise Woman Witchery's next Prophecy: Becoming the Seer Workshop (late December 2026 is when the next will happen).

Peace and love to all!!!!