Wish 13

Before unfolding and reading Wish Thirteen on January 2, I drew cards for insight: “How will my wishes manifest in 2026?” Less a chronological and more a procedural spread, the 12 cards showed me how wishes are about habits; fulfilling them is a labor of love. New habits comport changing behaviors inflecting proportions of action, thought, mood, trajectory, embodiment. Manifesting wishes requires an agreement with self to feel and respond to the changes they offer. Building new patterns of life can mean letting go of old habits. Some die hard. Despite grief, releasing, untangling, parcing, retooling ‘bad habits’ can be heartbreaking, require will power, and promise joy. Ultimately shining on habits makes room for wishes to come true.

A word about Bad Habits

Good and Bad are clunky words. Like any polarity, it paradoxically offers an infinitude of variation. The space between a Good Habit and a Bad Habit is fuzzy, vibrates with oscillation, stretches across a continuum of possibilities. There are always good things intrinsic to bad habits and vice versa. Some people may consider habitude undesirable inandofitself.

For example, one of my wishes was to intentionally listen to music. I’ve started tuning into Trouble at home and the local oldies station in my car. Manifesting this wish invites less listening to NPR, turning off the television, and appreciating differently the silence of my home. When this wish comes true I dance, tap my toe, and sing along.

I love it when the Guides wink at me in a reading. Occasionally it feels like… ask a silly question, get a silly answer! It happens in my Flaming Wishes spread, twice.

At the changing of the year, I wished “to be open to the fish of imagination” inspired by the energy of the Page of Cups. The Fish of Imagination says “SURPRISE! I’m here! Now, what will you make of this heart’s project?” The Page of Cups appears as the last card in my Flaming Wishes spread.