Week of December 21, 2025

Q1 2026 Quarterly Forecast

From the Hermit to the Magician • Thresholds, Timing, and Practicing Leadership

This episode is your Q1 2026 roadmap — not a hype reel, not a “new year, new you” fantasy, but a grounded look at how momentum actually returns after a 9 Universal Year.

We explore the energetic and practical bridge from the endings of 2025 into the beginnings of 2026, including why January feels strange on purpose, why February is the real doorway, and why Aries season in March is when the green light finally turns on.

In this quarterly forecast, we cover:

• Why the Solar New Year (Jan 1) is administrative, not energetic
• How Lunar New Year on Feb 17 (Fire Horse) opens the real initiation gate
• Why Mercury Retrograde (Feb 26–Mar 20 in Pisces) is a gift, not a delay
• Saturn’s move into Aries and what leadership accountability really means
• How the transition from a 9 Universal Year → 1 Universal Year actually unfolds in real life
• Why endings that work are quiet, clean, and final
• How community becomes stabilizing medicine in Q1
• What “practicing the Magician” looks like before momentum accelerates

This is a quarter about orientation, nervous system readiness, emotional clarity, and disciplined initiation — so that when forward motion arrives, you’re aligned enough to handle it.

🔮 Tarot for Q1 2026 — Tarot of Mystical Moments

January 2026

• King of Cups (reversed) — emotional recalibration, reconnecting without over-functioning

February 2026

• Four of Swords (reversed) — emerging from burnout, agency returning

March 2026

• The Chariot (upright) — embodied momentum, disciplined forward motion

Anchor Card for the Quarter

• Three of Cups (upright) — community as medicine, reflection, and support

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Transcript

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Hello. Welcome back to your Woo Crew Private podcast. Today is super special. We are going to be diving into our quarterly forecasts for 2026. Those of you who've been with me a long time, remember when we used to do these on Loom and I do like the whole year, and it was like. An hour plus reading and it was so much information and I would go quarter by quarter. And what I'm doing out on the private podcast is I'm keeping them slightly more contained so that we do the most immediate quarter coming up in the quarter after. So this week will be quarter 1, 20 26. Next week we're gonna do quarter two of 2026. And then we're just gonna, as we advance through the year, touch on the current and upcoming quarter. Only because, um, as a reader I can tell you that when I try to do quarterly forecast for the whole year, while it is very fun for all of us 'cause who doesn't like trying to predict the future, it's really hard to do because the energy gets so diffused the further out we get. And I'm also gonna be really honest that the astrology has just been moving so fast. That, um, it's also kind of hard to, it's kind of like trying to land on a moving target out in the future. And so, um, so I, I don't wanna give you an accurate classic Mary predictions, but actual, like, actual forecasting. So that, that's what I would prefer to give you. Um, that's what you're paying for on this private subscription. Alright. So for, um, for this week, we are really focusing on practicing the magician. You're gonna see how this shows up in the reading. I wanna welcome everyone back and especially a warm welcome to those of you who joined super recently. This is. Probably the very first time you've ever had a quarterly forecast from me. I like to keep these grounded in a very practical place so that you can take all of like the super fun woowoo stuff, but put it into a place you can do something with it. Because reading your chart and getting your fortune told is a ton of fun, but it's not very used. Full. And it doesn't help you if it's leading you off course or getting you to believe things that aren't true so that you can deal with what's in front of you. If we, you have to be living under a rock, y'all to notice that in the past year, like there's been some tough shit to go through, and if I were just to give you sunny or you know, aspirational readings, it wouldn't help you as a business owner and as a reader. I feel like that's. Not ethical. Before we go any further, I want to give you explicit permission to relax. This goes for everybody. You do not need to understand everything immediately. Chances are you probably won't. I know that when I get readings and even when I channel, it takes a while to really integrate and see and feel everything. So just don't feel like you have to apply every insight right now. The work is very iterative. You will absorb what resonates and let the rest of it just compost. It will still help you. And over time you start to notice how your decisions shift without forcing them. So without trying to force something to be a certain way, uh, what pops out to you first? Start there. That, that, that is the advice. So this quarterly forecast is not about predicting a highlight reel. It is about timing, readiness and capacity. Because the first quarter of 2026 is not a sprint. We talked about that last week just a bit. It is so not a sprint, it is a threshold, however. So let's start with the really big arc. We are going from the hermit to magician. So if you map your tarot to your. Numerology in the astrology for the year 2025 was a nine universal year. If you're new to numerology, we get to that number by adding up the digits. 2025 is two plus zero, plus two plus five, and when you boil it all down, it comes to the number nine. So all of us collectively have been been experiencing a nine universal year. Which is really useful when you are working with clients and you need to know how to meet your clients where they're at. Kind of important in business, you know, and the tarot archetype that maps perfectly to a nine universal year is the hermit. And how do we get to that? We get to that because when you are working in a traditionally. Numbered tarot deck. The hermit is the ninth card in the major arcana. And so with the hermit, you get archetypal energy stamps, um, themes. So this was a year of introspection and endings. A lot of truth telling and a lot of quiet reckoning. There's probably a lot of things you went through privately unless you, as my biz bestie, Tanya Kubo, if you're listening to this, uh, loves to say unless you were crying on the shoulders of the internet. Maybe it wasn't so quiet. But, um, but definitely quiet reckonings and you can think about what were my clients going through? I bet they had a lot of quiet reckonings too. Which might explain some of the up and down behavior of purchasing patterns. So 2025 was a year where a lot of you, a lot of all of us, did very deep internal work that didn't necessarily look impressive from the outside. But I'm gonna tell you to give you such a huge vote of confidence. It is going to start looking pretty fucking impressive. Pretty quickly here. So here's the part people don't talk about enough. In my opinion, nine year endings do not magically resolve on January the first, just because we walk into the year of 2026. The, the, the themes of the nine year endings tend to echo and linger, and they take time to unwind in layers. So that's why 2026 being a one universal year, and we get there because we add up the digits. Again, two plus zero, plus two plus six boils down to one. And so a one universal year doesn't mean that you wake up on January. First of 2026, just fully embodied as the magician. The magician card is the card that maps to the one universal year because the number one card in the tarot deck is the magician. What it means is that you are learning to be the magician. We're all green, we're all wet, we're all new, and we're practicing initiation instead of perfecting it. So you think about Q1 as the practice field. It's not necessarily like you're at the Super Bowl, it's Q1 is the practice field. So let's talk about the solar versus the lunar New year and why January feels strange on purpose. So if you're already getting that vibe, I know I am, and you're like, uh, it doesn't feel like January. Well, you're not imagining it. January 1st is the solar New year, but you wanna think of it as administrative and cognitive. And it's when we are gonna update our calendars and close our books and basically tell ourselves that a new chapter has begun. But our bodies are very human experienced bodies. They don't just flip switches just overnight, and that's why the real energetic doorway doesn't open until the lunar new Year on February the 17th of 2026. So we've been talking about this a little bit. I've been teasing it up the last few weeks. I want you to think of the Lunar New Year. This, it's like the door to the event expo finally opens and you can, and you actually have access. You can walk inside, you can feel the energy, and you can see all the people who are there, but you, you're not like running across the floor yet. If you've ever gone to a really big conference like South by Southwest or something similar, when you first like pick up your badge and get all your things set, the doors to the expo hall are closed. Nobody's allowed in. And then there's usually like, you know, your opening sessions in the main keynote hall and all kinds of stuff going on. And then later that evening or that afternoon, they have a big expo like doors open event, and the doors open. And so until you get to know where the vendors are that you're looking for, you're kind of wandering around. The crowd is really thick. You can't move very quickly, but you can get inside, and that is the feeling when we get to the Lunar New Year on February the 17th, and so up until then, it's like right now, you walk through the door on January 1st and it's like you are. Getting your badge, you're checking in to attend the conference. That's really where you're at on January 1st. So this lunar new year is a fire horse year, and that really matters for us in business because fire horse energy is bold and expressive. It's very entrepreneurial. It's also very fast, but it rewards courage only when there's structure underneath. So if it doesn't have that structure, it's basically just a bunch of, bro, dude bruhaha, it burns out just as quickly as it ignites. So the full green light doesn't arrive until we get to airy season on March 21st, 2026. That's when the action becomes embodied and not forced, because this is when our astrological new year actually begins, and this is when motivation finally agrees. With your nervous system because newsflash, you're still in your human body and you need to make peace with your human experience. You can't check out and pretend like you're only an astral bean. It's one of my biggest beefs with the metaphysical community where they're like, I don't belong on the planet. And they're like, I'm just gonna exist out here. And then they're also like, I'm so poor. And I'm like, I understand why. So we're gonna, we're gonna get into our nervous systems this year. We're gonna make peace with that. So the astrology that shapes quarter one is one of the most, in, one of the most important features of this is that mercury goes retrograde from FE February the 26th to March the 20th in Pisces. And it ends literally right before Aries season begin because Aries begins on March 21st. I am clocking. This is not a delay. It is a massive, massive gift and because it's on the calendar, it's literally in the farmer's all vernacular. So put it on your calendar. I've got Damon Salvatore, my cat, meowing on the microphone next to me, a green, put it on the calendar and treat it just like you would a seasonal expected activity. The retrograde forces a final review of messaging assumptions, emotional clarity, and intuitive signals. And because it's in Pisces, it's going to dissolve illusion, so it will not let you lie to yourself convincingly anymore. It's going to ask you between February 26th. Than March 20th before you go all in, what still needs to be released and you get a chance to examine that before airy season on March 21st begins, and the actual new year date that is like the equivalent of what January 1st should be. That's when that begins. You, you have a chance to examine that and get, make peace with that within yourself before you walk through March 21st door. So Saturn's movement into Aries in early 2026 adds another layer onto this. This is a big deal as we go through the quarter, of course, week by week, I will be going into depth on all these things. So again, don't feel like you have to like memorize all this right now. We, we will still go through it. Human time is remarkably slow compared to like overview forecasts, so we'll have plenty of time to look at them and deal with them in real time, which is far more useful than being like up ahead is this thing. But I do want you to mark on your calendar about Mercury retrograde because you can expect it. You know, it's like if you know a storm is coming. Pack an umbrella, you know, like it's, it is really, it's kind of common sense. So when, when Saturn moves into Aries in early 2026, it's shifting from emotional accountability into leadership accountability. You'll feel less of the thing, like, I understand my limits, and it'll feel more like. Well, what am I actually going to do about those limits? And then we will also have Neptune transitioning out of Pisces and into Aries, and it's gonna reinforce this theme. So they're like stacking layers on top of each other, these outer planets. They're really helping us reinforce these things. And with Neptune, it means that intuition is gonna really want direction in the coming year. Vision is going to want action. Faith is going to need movement. In case you haven't noticed there's an action, there's a very verb based thing going on here. So it's not just like, oh, in theory isn't that so nice? Like I have morals. It's okay. Like, okay, but what do you do about your morals? Or like, I have ethics in my business. I tell everybody about my ethics in my business. Yeah, but what do you. Do with those ethics? Like when, when the shit hits the fan, do you actually enact upon those ethics? Or do you just like look real good on Instagram? You know, like these kinds of things are gonna start coming out and you're gonna see it in other people. But your audience, your customers, they want this from you. This is where the leadership shows up. It becomes a magnetizing, polarizing force. It's not just enough to say something. I mean, obviously you have to say it in order to communicate it, but you also have to. Do the thing. And then we'll also have Uranus, which is gonna continue to shake up money, tech, media, and communication. I'm so here for this. I'm predicting this is Mary's famous predictions. I'm predicting the AI bubble's gonna pop in 2026. We've talked about this in previous readings. This is not a bad thing. Um, it's not fully exploding. Yes. The yet this s. You know, movement, but clearly training you to simplify, diversify, and stop relying on a single lane is going to be very important. So, diversifying your revenue streams just a little bit, not in a crazy way. Um, don't be married, don't have 20 things going on at the same time. But maybe don't put all your eggs in one basket. You know? So like when you see these entrepreneurs and they've just like abandoned what they've done and all they're doing is teaching AI this and that and selling cheap little bots and stuff, um. Like they, you, you're gonna see them, you're gonna see them stumble a little bit during the year. And, and, um, once the, once that bubble pops, it's going to e ree equalize out the playing field. And AI will stop being this fad and become like just a tool. Kind of, kind of like in the way that we used to do things with SEO. People were like, oh my God. SEO it was SEO everything like 10 years ago, and people were selling their PDFs with their. Keyword directories and everything. And, and, and then, and then, and then the SEO bubble popped, like tech changed. And, um, and, and it evil evened the playing field. So, so the same thing's coming for, for our AI crew. It's gonna be interesting to watch it happen. Alright, the core teaching of the nine year to the one year transition, this is one of the most important lessons to carry with you, is that endings that actually work are not dramatic. They're just final. That's it. It, that's it. They, they, they're very quiet. They go largely unnoticed, and there's a difference between speaking to be understood and speaking to complete something. Completion doesn't require agreement, resolution or response, it requires truth said clearly once. Without cleanup. So in business especially, clarity often comes after one clean exit. It could be from a role you've got, it could be from a responsibility that you've been carrying, or it could be from a pattern that just like quietly drains you, like maybe you're the one who's always doing, you know, the emotional labor for a group or always organizing that, that group you've got for lunch or whatever. But like ending, exiting those, those responsibilities would be very. Clarifying for you. The moment that you stop compensating for it, then your momentum will return and you'll know something is truly complete, not because it feels exciting, but because your body stops bracing and you stop rehearsing and you stop justifying things. And that's how your nervous system marks completion. You will feel it in your nervous system and you will know, not because somebody told you, but because you know. So we'll talk about our tarot anchor for the quarter. For Q1, the anchor card from the tarot of mystical moments is the three of cups upright. It was the card on the bottom of the deck. That's how I pull your anchor card. So with this, we wanna really look at how this is not solo initiation. Community is medicine in this quarter of QQ one. It's not about socializing for distraction. So be really somebody's guidance is, is in here saying you need to be real careful about making the distinction between I'm lonely or I need collaborators. True collaborators. Because if you go into it with, I'm lonely, and especially if you're not aware that you're lonely. You'll end up finding the wrong collaborators and it might work for a hot minute, and then it blows up and you're unhappy again, and you're still cleaning up that residue from the nine universal year, which is not a bad thing. You know? Maybe you need that, that lesson one more time. But being in spaces that reflect you accurately and don't require you to perform is really what we're going for. So if you do try to do Q1 alone and you're like, I'm just gonna raw Dogg it alone, and I'm gonna be the lone wolf, or I don't trust anybody. It's gonna feel heavier than it needs to. It doesn't mean you can't do it, it's just gonna feel heavier. And why carry all that burden? You know? Um, that burden's gonna start feeling really heavy, really quick. So January, 2026. The, uh, the card for the month is the King of Cups in reverse. Which means that January is not about emotional recalibration. The King of Cups reversed isn't emotional immaturity, it's emotional reconnection. So after a long hermit year, the nine year was a hermit year. Many of us all have gone inward so deeply that reconnecting with people, clients, and collaborators is going to feel tender or awkward. And so this month of January with this king of cups in reverse and that three, three of what do I got, three, three of cups upright on our, um, bottom of the deck for our anchor card this month of January. With all of that is going to ask you to soften your emotional armor. It's going to ask you to notice where distance becomes a survival strategy and reconnect without over-functioning. Somebody else's guide is in here saying that Part of this too, that I didn't write out in my, in my draft, in my script draft to read to you. Part of this for you is the sustainability factor of it. Because someone in here is like, oh, I do those things. But it's like you do them in peaks and valleys where it's like, like I'm trying to sort out my glucose right now, so I've got a, I've got a continuous glucose monitor plugged into my arm and I have this app and it shows me exactly what my blood sugar's doing at every moment of every day. And, and if I eat something that is like. You know, irritating my system. Like the line will spike really high and then it will come down and drop. And it's sort of like, what I'm seeing is that, you know, you do, you do. Integrate with people and you do connect with them, but you'll like do it in big peaks and then you'll disappear. And then you come back in this big peak and then you disappear. And so January is your month to figure out can you make that la that graph line more even. It's not gonna be, listen, it's not gonna be, you know, super glamorous. It's not glamorous work to be an even person in business. Um. It's just consist boring, good old consistency, but it's the thing that helps grow the energy in your business in this year that is super, super important. And so what happens is that January becomes a month where you aren't leading from mastery, like. Telling people, look how I mastered the system. It's like, no, you're just leading from honesty. Like, you know, as you figure out how to regulate that curve a little bit more, um, it gives that three of cups energy for the quarter, all the other people around you 'cause businesses, people, it gives them a chance to then reregulate around you and realize, oh. This person isn't going to like spike really high and then ghost me and then come back and then ghost me and then come back and like, they're used to that pattern. And so what happens is they respond in kind where they're like, oh, there they are again. And they're like, all right, I'm gonna go off here and do this other thing now. And then you're like, where are the people? I need them to help me. I wanna collaborate. And they're like, sorry, boo, I'm busy. Like I went over to like regulated curve people. And so you, you wanna get into that regulated curve too. Whoever that is for. I hope that's helpful. Um, we'll get into February, 2026. Now the card of the month for February 26 is the Four of Swords Reversed, and this is one of our timeout cards in the Tarot deck reversed. So February's really a wake up point. It's like coming out of that timeout, four of swords reversed, marks the transition out of burnout. Gotta love that. Listen, I've been in burnout a long time. I'm so excited to hear this. So we're not sprinting yet, but also no longer checked out, and our curiosity really returns. Motivation stirs gently and you'll really feel your agency begin to restore itself. It's sort of like you can, you feel like you can partake in your own. Your own business, your own life. Again, it's a very refreshing feeling. This aligns perfectly with that lunar New Year energy.'cause remember the lunar New Year's on February the 17th. So growth here isn't about fixing anything. It's about formally ending your participation in what no longer belongs to you. I love this theme of like, does this belong to me? It does not. Bye-bye. Like should make a t-shirt out of that like bye and that, and we get to the lunar New year and you're just like, yeah, bye. Just Irish exit right outta there. Um. And then we move into March, 2026, and we've got some big major arcana energy, which makes so much sense. It is the chariot in the upright position with the chariot here we've got March being all about embodiment. And then Mercury has now also gone direct at the end of the month. And airy season activates the day after Mercury goes direct and the chariot confirms forward motion, but chariot's gonna carry you through the whole month of March. So the chariot's gonna be there with you through most of that Mercury retrograde. But, but it will confirm the forward motion only if alignment is in place, which means you have that Mercury retrograde to figure out what is not in alignment. Can I get honest with myself about what is not in alignment? And then direct your direction will matter more than your speed, and you'll really understand why you'll feel it and you'll be like, oh, I don't have to compete with all these people. Like they're trying to move really. Fast. I said it in last week's reading. I'll say it again in this week's reading'cause we're doing the quarterly forecast. All the other entrepreneurs out there trying to look real fancy, make up for lost time.'cause they checked out mostly in 2025 or trying to take advantage and jump and beat early on 2026. They're gonna burn the fuck out by Q2 if they just like burn all the gas. If they do that, it's, it's gonna be real hard. And so. Direction matters more than speed. Half of them are also pointed in the wrong direction. They're just like, I'm burning my fuel. And you're like, yo, it's, oh, I am seeing a scene. This happens to me a lot. I, I am seeing a scene from a movie. Um, to give you an example, it's like the mummy, the original Mummy, where the ship, the boat burns, and they're all in the water. And then Remy's like, like O'Connell, like, look, I've got all the horses. And he's like, you're on the wrong side of the river. It's that. It's that. You'll be like, you're on the wrong side of the river, which is gonna be really interesting to watch happen. So it's really a disciplined movement. It is not a chaotic hustle. And this is when your confidence becomes physical, physically embodied. When you can become physically embodied in your human experience as an intuitive being, you're gonna be like, wow, this is a hole. Other way to live. You stop asking, should I, and you start asking like, okay, but how do I do that and how do I get to there? It's, it's a very different question. So a really simple action prompt as you move through January or early February is to identify one situation where you are still managing emotional labor for something that isn't yours anymore. And I want you to write one sentence that formally ends your responsibility for it. You don't have to send it, you just have to mean it. That's how your magician energy, energy really begins. And Q1 isn't about. Proving anything. It's about practicing leadership from a grounded, regulated place so that when the green light hits, you're actually ready to move. And that is really this Q1 picture of strong and embodied preparation. You know, it'd be like an Olympian. I keep seeing a track and field meet like Olympians and it's like an Olympian showing up to the track, getting ready in their lane, and it's like. They just sort of posed and pretended to be a runner without having done the reps and the work beforehand, or if their mental game isn't on, you know, on par with where they're at in that moment. They can't, they can't perform in the race. Can they still race? Yes. The, the gun's gonna go off. Every was gonna go bam, and like all the runners are gonna take off, but it doesn't mean that they're going to be performing the way that they want. And, and you know, I've got someone's guide in here who's sticking with this analogy about the runners, and they're saying that the big reason why you want to focus on direction and not speed is because somebody else might be moving really fast, but like they're running really sloppy or they think they're going really fast, but then they gas out at the end and other people are able to catch up and like pass them. Like, how many, how many races have you seen? On Olympics and TV where like you see someone in the front, they take off right away and then someone, the dark horse comes from behind and just like smokes everyone's asses and it, it's that feeling, you know? And so when you're thinking about, but how's my performance and how do I pace myself and how do I make sure I don't burn out? But I win the race for me? Because you may not come in first in that race, but you might clock the best time you've ever run. Ever in the history of all you're running, and that is the most. Wonderful accomplishment of your running career, you know, and, and that's really the energy that we're heading into this new one Universal year Together with it. Remember, you are part of a collective, so you're absorbing this reading first for yourself, so you understand it for you because you need to. But then you can also look at, back out at the macro and look at your audience, the customer reach that you have in your networking activities, et cetera, et. Cetera, or even just watching marketing that's going on through other people's emails that they send, what they post on social whatev, you know what they're doing on podcasts, whatever. And you can see where these themes show up with them too. And you can start to meet your best clients where they're at and talk to them in a way that helps them. More clearly identify, yes, you are the obvious. Yes, of course I wanna work with you. Or of course I wanna buy my product through you because you are in alignment with me because people want alignment now. And, and not everybody has the, the words for it. And not everybody's, you know, tuning in for readings like this. That's not how they process the world. But because you process the world this way, you can frame it, you know, in a way that helps you be more productive and helps you have a bigger, you know, return on investment on like. All the things you do in your time and your energy and your efforts, and that is the reading for Q1. Um, I, I wanted to split Q1 and Q2 because otherwise it would just be, it just felt like too much information. So I want you to absorb this, this week. We're not doing CEO pillars, um, but I want you to really think about it this week because we've got this pivotal time in the next. Two weeks through the end of December before we hit that first week of January, to have a little bit of integration time to absorb what pops out for you here. Remember, keep what resonates, compost the rest, and, and then to let that naturally guide you that that is the right thing at this time. And then we'll dive into Q2 next week, and we will talk about what's coming up in April, may, and June. That's gonna take us to the whole first half of the year. And, um, there's some really exciting stuff coming up. And then the second half of the year, just like from, you know, astrology that's already on the calendar like y'all, it is a wild ride. It is a wild ride. And so if we do too much ahead and we get distracted from what's right in front of us, we lose anchor with what's actually here. You as a human, need to live through Q1. So I want you to be able to focus on anchoring into Q1, and that's what this reading is all about.