NEW YEAR Tarot Card Reading - January 2026 - Video Post
- Marchia Brogan
- Jan 1
- 10 min read
Updated: Jul 14
Cards for New Year 2026
A Tarot de Marseille reading
for the year ahead
Our three cards are:
Justice
Temperance
The High Priestess
Welcome!
Happy New Year!
I've applied some seasonal Dickensian thinking to the traditional Past, Present Future Spread here. Hope you find it interesting! The unedited transcript is below.
*In the video I mentioned that Tarot is guidance rather than fortune telling - but omitted to add that like Scrooge, if we don't like the likely outcome (future card), we have the power to change it. It's not set in stone!
Wishing you a wonderful 2026
The Transcript
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Hello. Hi. Happy New Year. Welcome to the Tarot Experience with Marsha.
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Today, what I wanted to do is a new year reading that's a little bit different to your traditional
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um readings where we acknowledge what's gone on in the past year and what's what's ahead in different areas of our
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life for the future. This is based on the three card spread that we all know, past, present, future, but with a spin.
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And the spin is because it's Christmas, I thought, wouldn't it be fun to superimpose
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what the three apparitions told Scrooge in A Christmas Carol because they are
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the ghost of Christmas past, the ghost of Christmas present, and the ghost of Christmas future or Christmas yet to come.
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Let me show you what I mean.
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I just think it might take us a little bit deeper than the regular three card spread. I'm using just the major arcas,
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the 22 major arcana because they after all are the significant messages and that's what we want, isn't it? For this
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exercise and also I'm going to have to get used to putting them upside down because you're looking at them, not me.
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So, here we are. I will draw for us because obviously we're doing it as a collective.
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Ghost of Christmas past. Oh, already upside down.
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Justice, ghost of Christmas present, temperance. Getting that a lot recently,
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and the papes la, the high priestess for the ghost of Christmas yet to come.
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Now what I'm thinking is we all read the yeah the past is relevant to the to the
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present and the present um will will guide us towards
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the future outcome. But if we apply what Scrooge was told by each of those ghosts
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to past, present, future, as I said, I think we'll get a much deeper answer which will be interesting and fun
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hopefully. So, the ghost of Christmas past, what did that tell Scrooge? The ghost of Christmas past showed Scrooge some
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memories, some good memories, some bad memories.
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But the main message from those memories was how is that influenced? How was that made him the man he is today? Now I'm
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not saying that if we think about those memor our own memories we'll understand what a horrible person we are because
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[laughter]
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hopefully the likelihood is we're not horrible people.
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The memories can be good memories that have shaped us into the wonderful people that we are today. It's an exercise in
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going back to see what is behind the person that we are today. So, I think it might be good to sort of get [clears throat] a pen and paper and just jot down major influences in your life.
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Um, what has what has brought you to the point that you're at today?
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Now, the card we've pulled for that is justice.
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And justice by itself to me means
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your truth. What is the true you? It means coming karma. Karma is coming or you're
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going to receive karma if it's appropriate. Balance. It's about
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what is right? What is fair? Doing the right thing. It might even be legal justice. You know, if you take it at its
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face value. What is justice in your past? What does justice mean? Has your
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past been influenced by always wanting to be right, for example,
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or um or has it been been influenced by you always trying to find a balance?
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Have you always been the peacemaker?
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Have you always been the one who wants to do the right thing?
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In what area of your life, and we'll all be different, in what area of your life do you think that description fits? You
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know, maybe it's family. You've always tried to keep peace um with all members of the family. It might be
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[clears throat]
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um in your career, you've always wanted to do the right thing. And maybe that's
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caused you to miss opportunities because you were too reserved.
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Think about all the things that justice could possibly mean from your past.
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Now, what the ghost was um suggesting to Scrooge is that
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that past has influenced the person that he is today. As I said, not necessarily telling us that we're horrible. But if
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we're a lovely person, has that made us what we are today?
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Or is it something that we're hanging on to that we don't need to be hanging on to? Is it holding us back now and we're not realizing it?
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Excuse me.
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So, in our present position, we've got temperance. Now the ghost of Christmas present told Scrooge
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or showed Scrooge different realities of the current day. For instance,
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Scrooge is an Omiser. He doesn't celebrate great Christmas that humbug
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but look at the Cratchets. a very poor family financially
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but very happy to be together making the best of Christmas.
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Now did Scrooge
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appreciate before the ghost came? Did he appreciate other points of view? all the the other ways of living.
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The point of the ghost of pre of of Christmas present was to show him that material the material world and
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possessions and money isn't the be all and end all. That is not what makes happiness. That is not what makes ultimate success.
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And so it was showing him an alternative way of looking at things.
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Just because you do things a certain way doesn't mean that's the right way.
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Now, in our ghost of Christmas present, we've got temperance.
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So, temperance is about moderation. It's about perhaps pulling back on something that's that
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you're obsessed with that's taking over your life because you you're the excuse me the attention that you're giving to
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that is causing neglect in other areas of your life. It's about balance
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learning how to pour from one to another in equal measures. It's about moderation.
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So here for the ghost of Christmas present
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that's about showing us how to tolerate other people and how they live. That's
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my interpretation of that. Temperance is telling us to be, you know, it is a time, Christmas is a time when we
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perhaps get angr with family members either because we're spending a lot of time with them or because we don't see
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them very often. And there's a reason for that.
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Tempers get flared in the supermarket car park because it's crowded. Just be
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tolerant is the message with with the temperance card for that.
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Be aware of you don't necessarily know what's going on in someone else's life.
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If someone shouts at you, just deal with it calmly because they might have had a the worst day of their life. You don't know that.
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So the ghost of Christmas present for us is temperance.
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Now, what the ghost of Christmas future or Christmas yet to come showed Scrooge is
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that and it's the same as when for when we do normal past, present, future.
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Tarot isn't a fortunetelling medium. Tarot is for guidance. Tarot shows you if this happens and this
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happens, it's very likely that that will happen, which is exactly what the ghost of Christmas future was telling Scrooge.
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If you continue to live as you are, this is the future for you. And for
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Scrooge, it was seeing a very lonely old man dying, friendless.
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Nobody gave a monkeys about him because he had never given a monkeys about anyone else.
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What goes around comes around. Again, the justice, the karma.
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So, we have the high priestess.
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Oh, now that's a strange one to get in that position, isn't it? Because the high priestess is a very
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a very positive card. It's telling us, normally I would say the high priestess is there to tell us to be more spiritual.
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Look to your higher self.
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Look for advice. I always think of the high priestess as somebody who's forgot the book of old wives tales
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and she is expert in knowing what's what this knowledge is all about and she will
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share it with you. She will share the relevant part of it with you if you ask for it. It's about acknowledging your higher self and your spirituality.
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And if you do have any kind of spiritual um talents to develop those.
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Now, how does that fit into the ghost of Christmas past telling Scrooge
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that this is how things will will turn out, right? So for us, the message is not one
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to scare us. If you do that and that that will happen like with Scrooge for us the message is if you do that and
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that it will be for the good. You will be a much better person. You'll be more fulfilled as a person.
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So if we look at what went on in the past and we acknowledge
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what was fair, what was just, or if it was if that was something that we think has held us back by always
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wanting to do to be right and not listening to the opinions of others.
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If we acknowledge that we can become more tolerant, more eventempered
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in not only in our heads but in the physical world, we will become better people. And if we become better people
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in the physical world, our spirituality, our peace of mind, our
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acceptance of what's going on around us will be better and we will know we have
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the support of our higher self and we are being the best that we possibly can be.
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So I think for us that card is very positive whereas the
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Scrooge the message from the um the ghost of Christmas pres uh future wasn't a me were a positive message.
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So I hope that helped. I think it was quite fun to do but do you see what I mean? you can get a bit deeper
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um than your normal past, present, future. Well, I got a lot out of that exercise.
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[laughter]
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So, I am hoping to do more videos and I've just got to get better at setting them up
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and I am hoping to be back on in a couple of days time.
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I do have a full new year reading, a new year spread, which is 12 cards if you're interested.
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And there are various ways of working with me, as you'll see from my website.
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I've recently added email and audio readings to make it easier because a lot of what I do is is is parties and events.
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But doing uh offering readings by email and audio is something that I I am more
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than happy to do. So if you're interested in that, just go on the website. The link to the website will be
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in the comments and I will leave you to enjoy your New Year's Day. Thank you for joining me.
Sync to video time
Looking Ahead at 2026
Reflect on what's been
Be considerate to yourself and others
Trust your inner wisdom.
This is a collective tarot card reading for 2026. so take what resonates and leave the rest. For legal reasons in the UK, all readings should be regarded as being for entertainment purposes only.
If you'd like guidance that's personal to your own situation, I'd love to welcome you for an individual online Tarot reading, or perhaps you'd like to host a Tarot party or meet up at one of my public events?
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