Manifest Your Best Year Yet with the 2026 Tarot Spread

This spread is designed to help you consciously step into 2026, rather than simply going with the flow and hoping for the best. Tarot offers far more than prediction — it is a powerful tool for co-creation. Think of it as your own personal development coach, with the added gift of intuitive and psychic insight.

Use this spread to gain clarity on what you truly desire, understand where your energy is best placed, and prepare yourself to actively shape the year ahead — creating your best year yet.

Getting Started

You can use any tarot or oracle deck with this layout. Before you begin, cleanse your space and your cards using your favourite incense. Light a candle if you wish, then close your eyes and take a few slow, deep breaths, allowing your energy to settle.

Set the intention to receive guidance that serves your highest good.

When you feel ready, begin shuffling your deck. Draw seven cards and lay them out in a row from left to right. I like to note the cards I’ve pulled in my journal, so I can reflect on the messages and insights as the year unfolds.

Card 1 — The Theme of 2026
The overarching energy of your year

This card sets the tone for 2026. It reveals the main lesson, vibration, or life chapter you are entering. Rather than looking for specific events, feel into the energy. Is this a year of expansion, healing, courage, recalibration, or mastery? Let this card guide how you approach decisions throughout the year.

Card 2 — What Is Ready to Rise
What part of you is ready to be expressed more fully?

This card shows an aspect of you that wants space, visibility, or permission. It may be a gift you’ve hidden, a truth you’re ready to share, or a desire you’ve delayed. This card invites you to stop holding back.

Card 3 — What Must Be Released
What is no longer aligned with who you are becoming?

This is not about loss — it’s about levelling up. This card highlights habits, beliefs, roles, or attachments that have done their job. If something feels heavy, stagnant, or repetitive, this card confirms it’s safe to let go.

Card 4 — Where to Focus Your Energy
What deserves your time and attention this year?

We cannot give energy to everything. This card reveals the area of life that will respond most powerfully to your focus in 2026. When you feel overwhelmed or distracted, return to this card as your compass.

Card 5 — How to Work With the Year
What will help you move in flow rather than force?

This card offers practical wisdom. It shows how to move through 2026 with less resistance and more ease. This may be an attitude shift, a new way of responding, or a reminder to trust timing rather than trying to control outcomes.

Card 6 — Support Available to You
What unseen or underestimated support surrounds you?

This card reveals help you may be overlooking — spiritual, emotional, or practical. It’s a reminder that you are not doing this alone, even when it feels that way.

Card 7 — The Gift of 2026
What is the deeper reward waiting for you by year’s end?

This card shows the outcome of walking your path consciously in 2026. Trust the timing of your life and allow this card to remind you that everything unfolds exactly when it is meant to.

After the Reading

Take a moment to reflect. You may wish to journal on each card to glean deeper insight and return to your notes throughout the year.

Tip

Choose one card that represents your wish fulfilled. Take a photo of it and set it as your screensaver, allowing it to act as a magickal manifesting anchor for the year ahead.

The Tarot Cheat Formula

The Tarot Cheat Formula by Claire Stone is a refreshingly elegant addition to the modern spiritual bookshelf. Designed for those who feel drawn to tarot but overwhelmed by its complexity, this beautifully considered guide strips the practice back to its essence—without losing its depth or magic.

Published by Rockpool Publishing, the book introduces Claire’s signature three-step “cheat formula”, offering a clear, intuitive framework for structuring tarot spreads and interpreting cards across love, health, finances and life direction. Rather than encouraging memorisation, it teaches readers how to read the story of a spread—making tarot feel accessible, human and immediately relevant.

What sets The Tarot Cheat Formula apart is its tone. Calm, empowering and quietly confidence-building, it feels less like a manual and more like a trusted mentor guiding you back to your own intuition.

Claire’s long-standing experience as a psychic and spiritual teacher shines through, yet the language remains grounded and welcoming.

With thoughtful explanations of the Major and Minor Arcana, elemental influences and practical examples, this is a book that grows with you. Whether you’re a curious beginner or a seasoned reader seeking clarity, The Tarot Cheat Formula is a timeless, confidenceenhancing companion—one that reminds us tarot is not about prediction, but perception.

Discover: www.clairestone.co.uk