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Tarot Forecast 2026: Evolution, Revolution + Expansion Ahead (Michelle Nolan) - Episode 211

• Robyn Miller Brecker, Karen Loenser, Michelle Nolan • Season 2 • Episode 211

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It’s one of our favorite episodes of the year — our annual Tarot Forecast with the magical, intuitive tarot therapist Michelle Nolan.

If you joined us last year, you’ll remember that 2025 carried Hermit energy — a year of reflection, realignment, and deep inner work. We were asked to slow down, to turn inward, and to shed what no longer served us.

Now, as we step into 2026, the energy shifts dramatically. Michelle shares that this year is all about evolution, revolution, expansion, and creation — a bold invitation to move forward, embody your growth, and create from a place of renewed strength and purpose.

In this episode, we explore:

  • What the tarot reveals about the collective energy of 2026
  • How the lessons of 2025 prepared us for this powerful new chapter
  • The major themes of transformation and leadership that will shape the year ahead
  • How to channel 2026’s expansive energy into inspired action
  • Simple ways to stay grounded while navigating massive personal and collective growth

This year’s reading reminds us that we’re stepping into a time of powerful acceleration — one that calls us to evolve, rise, and create what’s next with courage and authenticity.

What You’ll Feel After Listening:
Inspired. Empowered. Ready to embrace the next phase of your personal and collective evolution — with clarity, confidence, and trust in your path.

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Robyn: And for the best wellness and spiritual practitioners, experts, products, experiences, and inspo, visit theseekingcenter. com. Every year we look forward to this one, our yearly collective tarot reading with the magical intuitive tarot therapist Michelle Nolan. If you joined us last year, you might remember that 2025 was all about reflection and realignment. We can't wait to hear [00:01:00] what will be revealed for this year ahead. Michelle will help us understand the energy so you can co-create your life with intention. Let's see what's in store together. Hi Michelle. Hi Karen. 

Michelle: Hi Robyn. Hi Robyn.

Hi Karen. 

Robyn: It's the 

most 

Robyn: wonderful 

Karen: time 

Robyn: of the year. That's right. Yes. 

Michelle: Magical. Remember December forecast, magical time of year 

Robyn: that December forecast stayed with me. that was incredible. 

Michelle: Yeah. Actually my daughter listened to it and she never listens to me 'cause she doesn't want to.

But she was like, I love that one.

Robyn: had to keep it in mind throughout because I'm 

Michelle: still living in mind. 

Robyn: there were moments that didn't feel so magical. But if you could keep that energy and see the light 

Then you could have a different perspective. 

Michelle: Always not easy to do, especially when you're rushed. 

 excited to see 2026 is about because we did have a interesting 2025, I feel like for everybody. 

Robyn: Yeah. What was your take just top line from last year so that we [00:02:00] keep that in mind as we start and look at this new year?

Michelle: Yeah. 

Karen: And did you feel like it really came to fruition too? I think that's always. Interesting. 

Michelle: Yeah, I look at tarot very different than astrology, even though I know Stevie and I have a lot of interplay with the astrological elements. But I look at it more as a conversation that's happening throughout the year, So if we shift and we react to things collectively, then that conversation changes. So in general, that whole 2025 was driven by the hermit energy, and that was like the big, takeaway. The very first half of the year, was extremely internal, a little slow almost like we were had to go inward, contract our energy so that we could eventually expand.

So the last half of the year was, if you remember, the hermit was basically saying, okay guys, you ready to get on this boat with me and I'm going to drive us in a different direction. If you are, great, if you're not. [00:03:00] Good luck to you. But if you are, then it was a silent leaving.

And what was happening towards the end of the year, , I remember that three a Pentacles energy where we're taking a smaller world and trying to rebirth it, rebirth, this kind of aglamation of energy that's happened. And that could be like just a smaller group of people, smaller community, smaller group of energy for yourself, and then we expand from there.

And I think that's where we're at right now. We're gonna go into expansion mode. 

Robyn: I'm ready for it. 

Karen: I am too. And I have to say there was. For many of us, I think that very distinctive energy shift, the first half the year did really feel that way. And then it was almost like it was two years in one.

Robyn: It really was. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. 

Michelle: And I think a lot of deep unearthing, It was deep transformation. It wasn't on the surface, even though it could play out that way, but it was like a a renewal at a deep level. So that really going, I think into 2026, you will [00:04:00] feel very stripped away, That's like the Queen of Cups when we talked about at the end of December, coming into January, where you're just renewed, The Queen of Cups has that vulnerable feeling like she's just took a shower and she's ready to take on the next energy. 

Robyn: it's a very different energy going into this new year than it was last year

and thank goodness 

Michelle: we can only go through so much transformation without getting exhausted. 

Robyn: So let's start. 

Michelle: Yeah. Okay. So how we did it last year, which I think works really well. I'm gonna do it by quarter, so we're gonna start with the first quarter. I have a different deck for every quarter so that it's just a fresh energy and the decks can talk to me how they want to.

And then I have another four decks for clarifying if we need to dive deeper, if there's something else I need to extract out of there. But we'll base it in those quarters and see what happens. 

 Alright, 

Karen: let's 

Michelle: go. All right, spirit, please open this session, this channel [00:05:00] for the Seeking Center community. And for everyone that is listening, please give me clear and concise messages for what is you wanna speak with us about today.

And please allow everyone to have an open heart and open mind to receive these messages. And as always, we thank you for your protection and your guidance and your connection to it. Okay, so let's consider January to March. And I pulled a pretty colorful deck because I have this feeling that it would be, we would be coming into this year, like I said, refreshed, Hopefully everyone gets to take a break. And feels like they have energy to start the new year. So here's what I am getting off the bat. I love this, the strength card with the four cups. Okay. And funny the hermit is right next to it.

 And then the eight cups and the page of wands. This is absolutely the reflection. This is absolutely the reflection of the change. Okay. I'm getting the strength card [00:06:00] with that four of cup is very much about seeing the opportunity now. And the strength card leading the charge.

And it's funny because it's tiger energy for the strength card and tigers are elusive creatures, Normally the strength card is the lion, it's the Leo, Karen, which is you. Normally, but in this deck it's a tiger. And I think there's an important piece to that. The tiger.

Does things alone, The tiger says, I know who I am and I am going to do it my way. So I feel like the whole three months here is with the hermit and the eight cups. And the Princess of Wands is really making a pointed statement of, oh my God, I did so much work with that hermit. I did so much internal work to do this, the eight cups, to release everything, to just walk away, to just let everything go, to funnel all of that energy now [00:07:00] into the courage, which is really the strength card to do this.

A pivot. The change now, funny thing is you would think the strength card would have more of a powerful move, It would be more of a loud and proud kind of Leo energy, 'cause it's usually the lion. But like I said, the tiger here seems important to me. A tiger is more elusive. A tiger is more stalking.

A tiger kind of attacks from nowhere, even though yes, lions can do that, but I think they're a little bolder. This feels like the strength of the shift is not having to say, this is what I'm doing,, this is who I am, is not having to say here, everybody look at me.

I'm going in this direction. The strength is saying, I'm gonna do this with or without anyone in my corner, without anyone encouraging me I'm just doing it. 

Okay. 

All: Wow. 

Michelle: And so there's some strength here I'm picking up on. About how a [00:08:00] little shift can make a big impact.

can change an entire path. And with this hermit and the eight cups in the center of this, it's telling me it's all coming from that place of everything we stripped away. Because we did so much hermit work in 2025, if you were really aligned with that, you were literally blowing stuff up internally, That's what you were doing. Now , you might be walking around and everyone's saying, I don't really see what you're doing, or I don't really understand. what'd you do this year? ? And you might not even understand it. But then we get into 2026 and we realize, wow, I really did a lot.

And now. Every direction, I think from this point forward is navigating away from what we kinda destroyed, let's say, or stripped away in 2025. 

 it's a, this power that I'm feeling is not a loud power. This is an internal power. 

 This is like an [00:09:00] internal strength and also really based upon seeing kind of a quieter shift move in a big direction.

like it feels super strong to me, but yet feels like it doesn't need any affirmation anymore. 

Robyn: it resonates so much. with me that I'm crying. I'm emotional. I think that's so resonant.

Karen: Yeah. It also is aligning a lot with that last year being the year of the snake. And the shedding of the skin and really being able to come out now as a whole new person into this new year. I love the feeling of empowerment that you're talking about because it feels that is the antithesis of what I felt at the beginning of last year.

Robyn: yes, and we really were given opportunities over the last year 

To get clear on who we are. And I think that point of not needing the extra validation from outside sources and just this [00:10:00] inner knowing now, I think that's so true. And you're right, Karen, it was that shedding.

Of the snake and all of that to get us to this point. 

Michelle: yeah,, I feel the energy in the tarot when I'm reading and I can just feel the power surge, but it's so different. It's not loud at all.

Robyn: Oh, love that.

Karen: It's almost like the idea of the bear going into hibernation, Where we were in that period last year where we really did have to go within, and that is really what gives you that strength to come out in such a strong way. You don't need the collective for the strength. It's coming from your own inner self.

Michelle: the decks are really like instruments to me, right? And so I picked this deck specifically for this. First quarter and every other deck would have the lion as the strength card. 

Robyn: Wow. 

Michelle: And the tiger has a very different feel.

Tiger equally is strong, but the way a tiger moves is so much more covert. 

 [00:11:00] And like I said, elusive, you don't really know what that tiger's doing, but you can feel the strength of that being. So I feel the people that really aligns with that Hermit energy in the, in 2025 kind of became like a tiger.

Became like that kind of being where you feel it from them, you feel that they're strong, but they're not. it's a humility that is still there. that kind of just radiates. 

 The strength.

Robyn: I love the symbolism of it. I really do.

Michelle: So I pulled the clarifying cards to that just to get some deeper knowledge there to that Strength the four cups. We are having this three of cups. So when we talked about the three of Pentacles at the end, what I just said about 2025, where we were taking like a unit, and making this new earth, let's put it that way, this new community Magnetizing together. And with the three of cups, it's a very different feel even though it still exists. It's [00:12:00] just like that Queen of Cups at the end of December, it's stripped away the rigidity and now it's the cup synergy of the three, not the three of Pentacles. Meaning that it is open, to be fluid.

It's open to expand. Where we're at now is going formless. 

. And you're gonna love this.

The hermit card is to the tower. 

All: Wow. Ooh. 

Michelle: So inner destruction.

So that is a powerful compass that just got rearranged and rerouted. Your internal self is now driving in a different direction. 

 And what I said about form, I remember at the beginning of 2025, the emperor was a big. Construct, Foundational things that have existed, the structures of stuff.

And that was a big part of 2025 and the shakeup of all that the eight cups is leaving behind the emperor. Wow. Meaning that we have [00:13:00] stripped away the rigidity of form, The rigidity of who we are internally and what we've structured. And then move that out to the collective energy then is completely fluid.

And it's not about starting over 'cause that's not the feeling I'm getting from it. It's about no more walls, so we can see further. We can see larger. We can see bigger, and that whole structure without it being there, allows us to, yes, rebuild eventually, but that's not the feeling I'm getting from this first quarter.

The first quarter is knowing that there are no walls. 

 And then shift the page of wands to the seven of cups, which is again, is the fluidity. This is the dreaming. This is everything that we were rooted in December about dream. We're shifting to this neptunian energy of this is a much more ethereal, bigger picture of boundless energy [00:14:00] and us shifting towards that direction that's can be real eventually.

Because I don't think that's where I'm feeling in this first quarter. It's knowing that is where the compass goes now. That's the shift that it goes there. It's that the belief system in this larger picture that doesn't have any form is really what we've aligned with. 

Robyn: And we're moving forward knowing ourselves.

 So clearly, 

Michelle: right. And clearly, but also unclear in the sense that the paradox there, I think is to keep things completely open because I'm, this is the whole thing I'm having. Yes. 

Robyn: But you have confidence in your beingness, I guess is 

Michelle: right. 

Confidence or the strength in believing that there are no boundaries.

Robyn: Yeah. 

Michelle: And if I can use the tiger, I think in this, because it's really standing out to me, I could use that kind of as a visual for people. That elusiveness like a tiger can [00:15:00] move quietly, And it's not associated with another group.

Tiger kind of hunts alone. And there's almost an elusive quality to this feeling I'm having where there's no territory anymore. Let's put it that way. What the connection is in the frequency of people that are like this, There's this oneness feels more like a connectivity of.

I resonate with your energy. Because you're like me in this way, you are feeling and thinking without limitation. 

 So it's a big energy. 

 not a loud energy. It's just a big energy. 

Karen: Quiet. Strength,

Michelle: yeah. Quiet strength. But really the stripping away of rigidity. and form. I 

Robyn: welcome that. Me too, please. 

Michelle: Yeah. 

And I getting like, as far as in the 3D form of that, 'cause this feels much bigger than a 3D kind of reading for this first three months.

But it does feel like, I know Lisa's talked about this before, like where the [00:16:00] veil feels like it's always getting thinner. 

This does feel like this to me. 

like 3D elements reality, if you think of it like that is just one version of knowledge.

 It's one version of experience. This feels like we're almost multi-dimensionally understanding that now. 

Robyn: And hopefully you're attracting those others that are in that same frequency, as you said. 

Michelle: And so the shifts, that seems very conceptual, but I think to really embody this energy in your own life These little changes can just be in this direction of the dream, quote unquote, Whatever that is for you, If it is to have something for your personal life, your self, your family, your job, your, anything in the world at large, anything that's shifting towards that larger dream, I think is the change that's happening here, we're believing it, because we're realizing that it's coming from that [00:17:00] internal space first, and then it creates the reality, the emperor on the outside later, But we have to have that internal compass first and the collective compass first.

Robyn: So take those little shifts and those little nudges because they're gonna keep moving you in that direction. 

Karen: I love what you said too, Michelle, about how it doesn't have to be a big shift, it's just like a little 

 you think about even on a compass, if you just shift just a little bit in your direction, 

It can Take you on a whole new path. So I love 

Michelle: One degree take one degree a day. 

Karen: Yeah. 

Michelle: Changes your whole world, honestly. Or where you end up, 

The other thing I'm picking up with it too is a little bit of a mastery of reflection.

part of, I think the gift with the hermit that we went through in 2025 

It is knowing how to tune in internally, Knowing how to really tune in and pull your energy in and listen to yourself, and then listen to that intuition.

Meditative whisper. And I think there's something now with that mastery of that, why [00:18:00] we can move forward because we can always stay in tune with that or know when we need to do that reflection. And it's much easier now.

Robyn: I agree. 

Michelle: All right. Should we move on to the second quarter? 

Robyn: Yeah. 

Michelle: Let's see what the second quarter's about.

 So into this second quarter, so April, may, June, interesting how we left off with the page of wands, and we're starting off with the page of swords. And then we have the judgment, five of Pentacles and eight of cups again. So it's really talking to me about this five of Pentacles.

this whole second quarter is so much about limitation and how we don't believe in it anymore. It's like a constant judgment call. I'm constantly feeling it's like our internal workings are very different now. We just don't see this five of pentacles anymore.

We don't see limitation, we don't see low self-worth. it's like a very quick decision every single time.

That is not, for [00:19:00] me, that is not good enough. Whatever is going on in that second quarter that I even resonate with limitation, I don't even resonate with it.

 And this is in the mind now because when I get that shift from the change, now we're like doing these really quick judgements all the time. So if you think about that in the 3D, think that looks like where we push envelopes further, Where we push ideas further, where we push the boundaries of what we can do as an individual further, And then look at the collective, what we can push in the world. To accomplish. That's way more than what we had ever planned or expected. 

 So these are very quick judgements. once you set the course, which is more that page of wands in that first quarter, like that degree, karen said, you just click one degree left and you're going on this different course. 

And then when you're in the second quarter, you're not even realizing [00:20:00] it. But this is the way you're thinking all the time. It's like everything that used to be small, even look smaller. 

Robyn: It feels like we were rewired. 

Michelle: Yeah. 

Robyn: So now it's almost like you're going from this. Place of a knowing in a way, even though you can think of it in your mind, but it's really coming from your sacral area.

I feel like it's this internal central knowing, like a gut instinct. It's that intuition, which then allows you to make those very quick decisions, but they're really coming from that core rewiring and knowing. 

Michelle: Yeah. It's like very intuitive decision making.

And we realize that's the power because Interesting. The page of swords is to the emperor, meaning I changed my mind about rigidity. I changed my mind about limitation. I changed my mind about structure. That's what would the emperor would be like in the form that I'm feeling here [00:21:00] that.

There is no form anymore. This reality that we are seeing is created by our being. And then every individual being that's next to us and so on. And amplified. And amplified. So the idea that the judgment now is to the 10 and Pentacles, meaning everything, the more, So every decision is bigger, every decision is better, like it can be beyond what we think. And you're right, Robyn, because at five of Pentacles is to the Ace of Swords. That inner knowing, that everything before this was less, 

All: wow. 

Michelle: Everything before this was small.

And then the eight of cups to the seven of Pentacles the. Part of the inner workings, because this is almost talking to me, I think a little bit about how our internal structure is almost think of ourselves like a machine, Like you said, rewired. 

 if we're picking this apart, and we're doing that with the tarot and looking at how this machine works now, Like how we internally work [00:22:00] these eight of cups to the seven of Pentacles is saying, we don't need to build anymore. What we're doing is flowing. There's no accumulation of, we need to hold things. We constantly are moving in a direction of expansion. So if you think about that.

If we're trying to do that, we're not trying to hold onto Pentacles energy. We're not trying to hold onto what we're building. We're reacting every single day. Every moment intuitively. And that's what allows this kind of limitless being to keep expanding. 

 So again, it sounds conceptual and I think it feels that way to me, but if we're thinking of 2026 as this burst of expansion and power, '

I think it's the conversation that spirit's having with us saying that to really be fully in this energy, you have to forget the emperor. He cannot be part of this game anymore. it can't be about structure. 

Robyn: And there's probably gonna be some [00:23:00] people who have a harder time with that because they are still holding on to things need to be a certain way or in many ways they're limiting themselves feeling the need for very 3D type of limits. 

Michelle: Yes. And I'm gonna put real stuff in there. Nine to five job. Let's put that in there. Okay. The way I kinda feel this energy out, that would be the emperor. 

Saying that's how we did it. That's how we make money, We go to work and then we come home.

And that's exactly what the emperor would wants, but this energy is saying there's no nine to five, there's no time. 

Robyn: I cannot wait to see how this plays out. 

Michelle: sorry but this energy is loud in the sense that if you're aligning with this energy, this is future.

Karen: Could you, on the flip side of that, Michelle, I'm just thinking about people who might be coming into [00:24:00] 2026, feeling that powerful energy of that tiger. Like I think that's just such a lovely visual to keep in your mind. But then as you go into the second quarter, it could be also that you're in that, but then you also feel those challenges coming your way.

It's oh, I feel powerful. However, this is the 3D world I live in. That tells me I have to do it. That way I am limited. So it's almost keeping your eyes open to that might be presented to you in such a way that you might feel like you're losing that power of the tiger and have to go back to those old ways.

 But just keeping in mind that you always have that power within to not Yes. Fall into those boundaries. I, 

Michelle: yeah, absolutely. I think this is a very unique and difficult, I would say alignment in the sense that it is really asking for a [00:25:00] large faith and belief in the more in the limitlessness.

 And that is really hard. I think that's hard for everybody in every situation in their life, but like I said, I think. The hermit at the beginning here is trying to acknowledge again,, how much power we've really created coming into 2026 by this internal rewiring, by the internal restructuring.

this feels very much like spirit loudly saying this is what the future looks like. The future looks like quick reactivity. It looks like doing one thing today and doing a different thing tomorrow. This looks like lack of routine. This looks like flowing within Multiple groups, multiple jobs, multiple situations, and the fluidity of that is allowing for that growth to be huge. 

Robyn: Yeah. Like the old rules don't apply.

At all. That's the thing that we [00:26:00] hope you are hearing like old rules don't need to apply as you move forward in 2026. 

Karen: what you're saying too about the fluidity aspect and this idea of just shifting a little, it's not like we're saying quit your job in second quarter. Just leave necessarily. It may be being open to other opportunities that will expand you even further and that might push you off in a direction that you ultimately could leave that more.

 Confined job situation. So it's being fluid in that sense to seeing what those options are. That might come your way as well. 

Michelle: and I think the second quarter seems really tied into financial for me and job and security, that kind of thing. And that might be where the test is maybe like how, Karen, you were describing like the challenge, The test is to understand where security really is for you now, Security is not necessarily the nine to five, right? It's not [00:27:00] what you thought was stable is not stable and that's okay. Because I think what the whole point of this is we're learning to react fast. we're learning to grow, expand quickly in different directions.

In multiple ways at the same time. So if we're thinking, we were just talking about AI a little bit before this, That's part of this, this whole idea of how fast something can grow and if we allow for the rigidity not to happen. We don't get tied into watching something grow.

It becomes More of a, it can happen any day, very quickly. Every day is completely different. And I think that this wasn't the way we operated before. We were like slow growing. and this doesn't seem like this.

This seems like multiple ways of expansion very quickly without even tallying it. 

Robyn: Okay. Wow. 

Michelle: I'm saying these things out loud just so people understand. Like I say these things out loud [00:28:00] and even my own brain doesn't understand

it's how this works for me, but I'm listening almost at the same time I'm saying it. I will say this does sound like when we talked about a new earth, this feels very much like that. 

All: Wow. 

Karen: I wanna just add too, I think around that whole job and financial aspect too, I think that when you're talking about the emperor that is what tends to limit us in our thinking and limits that fluidity of who we are. So that reminder that. We're seeing a world that's really changing and offering opportunities to reevaluate that for yourself

Michelle: yeah, and I would also say in personal too, right? This kind of feels like what we've set up, maybe even with other people in the traditional format of how relationships work, This can look like, oh, I'm collaborating over here, or, and collaborating over there. And we're mixing it up all the time.

Like a resume. I would look at [00:29:00] this a resume means nothing. what you tell me you can do for me in this moment right now is what actually matters. 

Robyn: totally. 

This is gonna be very interesting, Michelle. 

Michelle: I know. And the other part I'll just touch on with that second quarter is also spiritually.

Okay. 'cause we, this feels a little 3D to me, but spiritually, the idea of the traditions of, I would say religion or anything that gives a really hard line structure people aren't resonating with that limitation as much. And now I believe everyone has their filter of whatever they believe in is right for them.

I think that's important. But it does feel like there is an opening here of being able to break out of that kind of rigidity so that we can just feel more connected to all of it.

Okay. Second quarter, now we're moving to the third

 july, August, September. I love this. A little. Maybe not as intense. Okay. Oh my God. The emperor's [00:30:00] coming up again. So 10 of cups, the emperor, two of and the nine of wands. So the big focus here now that I'm seeing, we're almost done with this year, but the big focus is the challenge and the friction between these cups energy and the pentacles energy.

It's like real and not real structure. Structureless tradition. newness. And it's these big conversations that are happening between those two elements. And I think it's like earth energy versus water energy. And this 10 of cups leading the charge on this third quarter is trying to stay in that fluidity energy and almost ramping it up.

It feels like what we are trying to do is fill up in this energy of almost pushing against the emperor again, Always pushing up against the structure, but we have to do it [00:31:00] in a bigger way. And because this dance that's happening with this two pentacles here and this nine of wands is if I was to look at how the energy is, this is where the rise hits the kind of pinnacle, where it's here is the ultimate question. Do you want the emperor or do you want the 10 of cups? Now what does that mean? That means the emperor is equally as strong, tradition, structure, stability, being in charge, knowing exactly what you want, who you are, all of that is a very strong energy.

 So the question is, you can have all of that be all of what you are, what you've been, or 10 of cups is asking the question, are you really that or is there more it's a really difficult question to ask, Because the resistance is here. I feel it. The resistance is knowing, if anything in your life has gotten [00:32:00] so strong and stable, you would never ask the question, should I take it down?

It's rare to ask that question. Should I remove it or should I not listen to that emperor energy? Should I not listen to that strength? But the 10 cups is a much more limitless feeling of, does it still make me feel happy.

Does it still make me feel good to be in this rigidity? And I think this kind of peak energy that I'm feeling where it's asking this final question of the breakdown, Are we able to break that down completely and know that the 10 of cups is providing this kind of opportunity again for do we believe in more?

Do we believe in something bigger? Do we believe in something that we haven't even felt yet? again, seems a little conceptual to me but I think what it's really asking throughout this whole year [00:33:00] is, to see the power in something that doesn't exist. And match it to something that does exist.

And what is more powerful? Something that exists already that could be very successful or something that doesn't exist, and the idea that the power in something that doesn't exist is actually where they want us to be.

Robyn: It's catching up with a lot of our thinking over here. Is 

Michelle: it? 

Robyn: yeah. I think for several years, Karen and I have always said, when you're doing something that's never been done before, you're doing something that's never been done before.

And most people have a really hard time with that in our society, so you get so much pushback, but you have to have such conviction. And knowing that, we may not know exactly how that all is supposed to look, but we know. That we're supposed to be doing something that's never been done before.

And I think that feeling can reverberate to so many other people. And it feels like the energy that you're feeling for [00:34:00] 2026 is finally catching up with us in making that much more of a possibility and pushing against , fitting in a box because this is the way it's been done.

And you have to , take this step in order to get to the next step and I think what Karen and I have always said that's not the way that we think personally. Robyn here has never played that way in life.

I just haven't. . And I think that has really been challenging. Because I've always gotten that pushback of no, but you have to start here in order to get to the next thing. And I'm like, no. Why? Just 'cause you say so. Just 'cause society says so. 

Karen: Exactly. And I think it's such a call and affirmation for people who are maybe coming into 2026 with this feeling of the tiger of coming out of this last year of really being called to do something else and maybe feeling in second quarter that fear of leaving the comfort [00:35:00] zone of this is how it's always been done.

And then affirming as you're going into the third quarter of the year that Yeah, but so much of the world is changing. We are all being called to reinvented in so many ways and not take the road that everybody else has traveled before. So it's really affirming that, that is. A good direction to go in and not to be afraid of that.

Robyn: And it feels like you have to stand in your conviction. You're now being called to stand in your knowing of who that tiger was coming into this beginning of the year, as Karen was just saying. And so third quarter, it's who are you? what are you willing to stand for?

Michelle: Yeah. And stand against too, because like I said, this feels like a ramp up. 

Yeah, 

Robyn: I agree. Stand against. That's right. '

Michelle: just to clarify, this 10 of cups is going to this three of Pentacles, right? So when we, went back to end of 2025 saying like we created, we alchemized a kind of core community of people who generally.

[00:36:00] Are vibing with the same frequency, That they start feeling like there is more to this reality than what exists here. And it was a nugget, but the stronger version of that was the belief in it, right? The feeling of it, the feeling that exists. Maybe those people are everywhere around that we don't even connect with on a day-to-day, but we feel like that's happening, We feel like that's growing. And then with the emperor and the sun, this tells me that what has been more powerful, what is more seen is what the structures that are more visible to us still hold so much power because we can see and touch it, Like the job, the money, the traditional formats of let's say identity and marriage and all the things that We've said that this is what's right, and this is what's wrong, is still very strong with this sun energy because it's visible and we can feel and touch it. But the two app. [00:37:00] Pentacles is saying, look who comes in as the nine of wands as what we're resisting. The empress, she's the absolute yin and yang of the emperor.

Meaning that the pinnacle that I'm feeling at the very top of this mountaintop is what is stronger, the unseen or the seen. And the empress is about growth. The emperor is not about growth. The emperor is about the build, but the emperors is a limitless. She's limitless. So she's the feminine energy of the emperor, meaning that if we allow her that fluidity to happen, the unseen is where.

The growth is and so I feel like this jarring from the beginning of this year, all the way up until this third quarter that we've been inching up this mountaintop and then the emperor and emperors get to battle it out. O 

Karen: Oh, that analogy.

Robyn: All right. Analogy. I know I'm taking my money on the empress, but Yeah. 

Michelle: I know. And I, sorry for everyone that this sounds like so [00:38:00] conceptual, but it just, it feels that way to me, Because it feels like what we're doing is like we've restructured ourselves internally, and now it's how do those, people walking around on this planet that have done that, how do we come together?

How do we build something together? so I think the, again, the challenge, which I like, Karen, that you brought that up, the friction here is do we trust what's known or are we putting trust in the unknown?

Robyn: Yeah. 

Michelle: And I think they're asking us to keep that faith of the unknown, 

Robyn: all right. Now, where are we going? 

Michelle: Okay, last quarter. So October through December, we'll see how we end this crazy year. A lot of power, like the whole thing, like it feels actually the visual that I got was like, it's like Greek mythology, like Zeus, in the gods are battling.

Yeah. That's how it feels. Wow. Okay. so the very end here, we have the five of Pentacles, which was in that third [00:39:00] quarter. Five, the Pentacles, the 10 of swords, the tower, and the nine of wands. I'm not kidding. Like whatever this happened in this year is not messing around. This is such powerful energy.

This is like just brute strength. Okay. So that five of Pentacles that was in that second quarter, and the knowing, remember you said Robyn, that Ace of Swords was to that five of Pentacles. 

 The knowing that what exists here and what I've realigned myself to the Limitlessness.

 The boundlessness, knowing that the five of Pentacles energy, the stuff that's not enough or it's so old or it's so limiting is just we need to kill it. We need to kill it every single place in our world that is not on this trajectory of fast moving growth and limitless growth, right?

Is like no one wants anything to do with it. Nothing. 

Robyn: Awesome. 

Michelle: yeah, [00:40:00] and then to the tower energy, the ten of swords to the tower. this is the clash of the titans. This is how it feels to me. 

Robyn: Damn. We are like end this year. Like fierce, 

Michelle: fierce.

But again, it, oh my God, the five of Pentacles to the tower as well. I'm not kidding, this feels like the clash of the titans. if I have to put this into real life? ' cause this feels so conceptual. Is. The clash is between what exists and what doesn't exist.

In your life, Because I know people are gonna listen to it. What the f is this girl talking about? The things that don't exist, and I'm gonna use real world stuff. Let's say somebody is I'm never gonna find love in my life, that's for everybody else. That's a thing that doesn't exist, Having that limited belief doesn't exist. The idea that you can have that exists, And so knowing where those things are in your life, I think this is what makes you really align and [00:41:00] reformat.

 To this direction that I realized very quickly, if I say to myself, I absolutely can have that, I absolutely can have love in my life. We kill that off really quickly. 

 our reality is very fast moving change with what our internal frequency is like 

Robyn: that gives me so much hope.

' cause you can apply that to so many areas of your life. 

Michelle: But I will say this, I still am getting these messages of the clash of how the world works. 

Robyn: that feels very collective to me. 

Michelle: It's very collective. But I wanna give people some kind of internal things that they can look at for themselves.

Robyn: Absolutely. 

Michelle: I'm not gonna lie, this feels a little scary because it's such a big energy clash, Where we're looking at the world not existing, how we thought it should exist and the kind of fight between the stuff that has existed and what doesn't exist and that stuff that doesn't exist is gonna move so much faster.

 but I think everyone being on that train of [00:42:00] saying, I want to be on the side of the growth is where you will be happiest because what that 10 of cups here in the middle of the year, it's saying when we're aligned to that, it actually feels really good to move that quickly and to change that fast, there is a little bit of a unraveling I think of what we know and it's just not gonna be here anymore at the end of the year that ten of swords the Queen of Swords to the King of Pentacles. Again, the Pentacle's energy being the main thing, what we know as structure just won't exist. And the more we are aligned to security 

 Honestly, I feel like the more we don't do well in this year. 

 Security is the compass that is not gonna be around by the end of that year. 

Robyn: Or what you think is security. 

Michelle: Yes.

Robyn: Which would be interesting to me if we looked back at 2020, 

All: Yeah. 

Robyn: Where that started to break down and where we are now and think [00:43:00] about how much has changed. In these last five years now leading into six years. 

 So much has changed. And I think there's a lot of people who would say that things are very different, but they're living more fulfilling lives.

not everybody, but this is forcing us to continue that shift of what we thought was needed. Yeah.

Karen: And I think many of us would also say the last six years at least, have shown us that there is really no security. 

Robyn: yes. Thank you, Karen. That's right. 

. I think that's key. 

Karen: But I can also see it's still gonna be a tall order for a lot of people. 

Robyn: For most, 

Karen: that clash of the Titans energy that, you're expressing, Michelle, I think is going to be an experience a lot of people face if they follow this path, Because all of us are still attached to the 3D in some shape or form. It's it, yeah. That's why we're here. However, I think our challenge is how do we let go of some of that with this idea of [00:44:00] all the possibility that could be there we let go of those beliefs that could really be holding us to an old paradigm that is never gonna serve us.

Michelle: And I think this feels looking now at the whole year. I'll just end this, the tower to that page of wands, what was the very beginning of all of those degrees of shifts that happened from the beginning of the year. 

 End up in the tower at the end of the year, meaning we shifted in this direction continuously till that clash went to the pinnacle.

 And then the nine of wands goes to the fool means this is where that wall breaks. I'll be honest, this whole reading feels like revolution. That's what it feels like. 

Karen: And explain what the fools card is. 

Michelle: That is where everything is zeroed out. Where we are completely starting over.

So recap here. This is such a big energy. I think is this spirit says, [00:45:00] we did all the work in 2025 to be ready for this. We did all the work to listen to the hermit, to adjust our internal workings, to be ready for the revolution. To be ready for the clash, the war, if you wanna put it that way, The energetic war that I think is how this feels in 2026. The people that are aligned with it set themselves up, It was like training that set themselves up for 2026 to be on board with this new way of living. And the new way of living is about fluidity. It's about quick reaction. It's not about a slow build, it's about more of what can exist in this moment right now, and when do I need it. I'm even relate this too, to like education. So the traditional form of education probably doesn't look like it's gonna be similar, It's like kids don't need to learn everything about everything because they need a historic view.

They can access that stuff when [00:46:00] they need it in a moment. 

And then use it, right? So if you think of those types of big structures, that's just not how we're gonna live anymore. How we're gonna live is in momentary success, I need this for right now. who do I call and how can I get there?

And I think all of this is about understanding that's where the limits are no longer Resume. I don't think it matters the degree. I don't think it matters the idea that where you live doesn't really matter. I can do this job from way over here and it's fine. So that idea is where I think the fluidity is where I see this pinnacle of clash, it's in the what has existed, The structures that actually want those things to exist. Because what would they do without it? Are would get really loud. And this other format is saying, I challenge you 

Robyn: And there'll probably be enough people ready to challenge it 

Michelle: right at that point. Yes.

'

Michelle: [00:47:00] Cause that three app Pentacles is there. It's like that unit has come back together. 

to say this is. Pentacles being like, , you are just forcing us in limitation. Like I don't wanna drive to work to be there at nine o'clock because I have to do this job.

Don't you trust that I can do this from home and I will get it done and X, Y, Z. It feels very real world like that to me. 

Robyn: Wow. 

Karen: And this idea of creating things that haven't been created 

Robyn: revolutionary in that sense too. I 

Karen: love 

Robyn: that. Yes. 

Karen: frontier. 

Robyn: I think it's really exciting.

Karen: Me too. 

Michelle: Yeah. It's really exciting if you've aligned with that hermit. 

 and really ask yourself, am I doing what I'm doing in my life because of expectation of this is how things have been, I'm not questioning. anything or anybody, I'm just grinding it out.

I'm just showing up. Are you dialing it in because the hermit's saying, I've been asking you this all last year. Who are you? 

Robyn: [00:48:00] And I will say, if you listen to Stevie's astrological forecast, there's a lot of alignment, and I would say in what came across in hers, very high level is very much that fast and quick change.

 in that second and third quarter. There's a lot of that energy, that fire and air energy That's going to lead to major change by the end of the year. It's very similar and it'd be interesting if you haven't listened to it, go back and listen to it.

It's very. Helpful to have both to really validate one another and there's little nuances, I'd say in each. 

However, very overall similar. 

Karen: And also in that feeling of last year, it felt like things might be happening more to us, and they feel this year you have more of that sovereignty to really make those choices for yourself and follow all of that.

[00:49:00] Like you were saying, that inner work that you've done and even if you feel maybe you haven't done that. I think just to reckon back to that, to tiger energy, we all have that within us. And remind, yourself you have that power within you. 

Robyn: And having that reflection time to know it all happened for us.

So yes, maybe last year was about things happening to you, but 2026 is all about. That they're all happening for you and for all of us together as we move forward. 

Michelle: Yeah. And I think not to be blunt, but I am is in this type of energy. I think any type of spiritual belief system, whatever it is really important because the anchor of that is going to this feels like the external reality is gonna change so fast, that if you don't have that anchor of spiritual knowing that things are [00:50:00] working in your favor at all times, then for the people that don't resonate with that, this is gonna feel like their world just blew up.

Robyn: Thank you, Michelle, for helping us navigate, giving us this forecast and a map. And we know we'll be touching base every single month because we always like to stay in that present energy. But I think this snapshot of what is to come is really helpful and I'm excited for it, even though it sounds like a lot.

 I feel ready. 

Karen: I feel like I'm going into Star Wars. 

Robyn: Yeah. Do too. 

Michelle: Yeah, it's definitely like the people that already are like, they've been wanting this. Yeah. They've been wanting this evolution. It's a revolution and an evolution. I think those people, hopefully, we're all here, are in tune with it. 

Karen: Thanks, Michelle. 

Robyn: And if you'd like to have your own personal reading with Michelle, you can reach out to her at [00:51:00] m@mtnolan.com. You can also catch her in the Seeking Center Community, which is Seeking center community.com.

We are always doing live events and there will be other offerings, so thank you. 

All: You're welcome. 

Robyn: Here's to 2026. 

All: Here's to 20. It's gonna be a ride, people. 

Robyn: It's, we're on it together. 

Karen: Let's go.