2025 isn’t done shaping us yet and maybe that’s a good thing.
Five of Wands Reversed — The Quiet After the Noise
The first card, Five of Wands reversed, tells us that the chaos we’ve been wrestling with is beginning to settle. Earlier in the year, many have felt tangled in conflict not necessarily with others, but within themselves. Competing desires, clashing priorities, too many voices telling us how to live, think, or move forward.
But the reversal of this card brings a shift. The noise begins to quiet. There’s a soft surrender in the air — not a defeat, but an understanding that not every battle is worth fighting anymore. We’re learning that peace isn’t found by winning; it’s found by walking away from what no longer deserves our energy.
Collectively, this card speaks to exhaustion and refinement. The realization that we can’t be everything to everyone, and we don’t have to prove ourselves to be worthy. It’s the slow unclenching of the fists, the moment we stop fighting the current and let life carry us for a while.
There’s maturity here the kind that only comes after we’ve tired ourselves out chasing validation or arguing with things that can’t be changed.
As the year closes, many will find themselves craving simplicity fewer arguments, fewer complications, more truth. It’s time to let things be easier, even if that means letting some people or dreams go.
Seven of Cups Reversed — Clarity After the Illusion
Next comes the Seven of Cups reversed, and it continues the theme: seeing through the fog. Upright, this card is full of illusions too many choices, distractions, and daydreams that keep us stuck in “someday.” Reversed, it’s the wake-up call.
This is where reality settles in. We’re being asked to stop chasing every possibility and commit to what truly matters. It’s the clarity that arrives after fantasy fades. There’s power in that moment even if it feels bittersweet.
Maybe this year showed you what’s not meant for you the jobs, relationships, habits, or versions of yourself that looked good on the surface but drained your spirit underneath. The reversed Seven of Cups doesn’t take away your dreams; it refines them. It brings you back to what’s real, what’s attainable, what’s truly fulfilling.
This card also carries an emotional tone it asks us to confront where we’ve been avoiding truth. Sometimes that means realizing that the life we thought we wanted doesn’t actually fit us anymore. But hidden in that discomfort is freedom.
By the end of this year, clarity will come not all at once, but piece by piece. What’s meant for you will feel calm. What’s not will continue to confuse you until you let it go.
Eight of Cups Reversed — The Pull of the Familiar
The Eight of Cups reversed is the heart of this reading, and it carries weight. Upright, it’s the card of walking away leaving behind what’s empty to seek something deeper. But reversed, it speaks of hesitation. We know what we need to release, but we linger.
There’s fear of the unknown here fear of change, fear of loneliness, fear that leaving something behind means failure. But in truth, staying where you no longer belong drains more energy than walking away ever will.
Collectively, this card mirrors where we are in the last stretch of 2025: aware of what needs to shift, but not quite ready to make the final move. Many will feel this tug-of-war between the comfort of what’s known and the call toward something new.
It’s okay to be in that in-between space. Sometimes we need to linger a little longer to gather courage. But this card also reminds us that time doesn’t stop just because we do. Eventually, the tide will pull us forward whether we’re ready or not.
The message here is gentle but firm: Don’t let fear of discomfort keep you in places that have already drained their purpose.
There’s a new chapter waiting it won’t look like what you thought it would, but that’s what makes it sacred.
Ten of Pentacles Reversed — Redefining What “Success” Means
And finally, we end with the Ten of Pentacles reversed, a card that hits close to home for many right now. It represents legacy, stability, family, security — all the things we build and hope will last. But reversed, it asks: What if success doesn’t look the way we were taught it should?
This card marks a reevaluation of what truly matters. Maybe the structure we relied on has shifted finances, relationships, expectations, or even health. It doesn’t mean failure; it means realignment.
We’re being asked to release the rigid idea of how things “should” be, and instead focus on how things feel. Maybe the family doesn’t look traditional anymore. Maybe the career path you once chased doesn’t bring you joy. Maybe you’re redefining wealth not by what’s in your account, but by how grounded and peaceful your days feel.
This card can also bring awareness to generational patterns — the ways we’ve inherited beliefs about worth, work, or love that no longer serve us. It’s time to question them. It’s time to build a version of stability that feels true to who you are now, not who you were told to be.
Though the Ten reversed may look heavy, it carries an incredible gift: freedom. The freedom to rebuild life on your own terms. To keep what works and release what doesn’t.
The Story of the Spread
When we read these cards together, they paint a very human picture:
We’re stepping out of the noise (Five of Wands reversed), clearing away illusions (Seven of Cups reversed), facing emotional hesitation (Eight of Cups reversed), and redefining what our foundation truly means (Ten of Pentacles reversed).
This is not a lighthearted message but it is real. It’s the kind of energy that precedes transformation. The moment before you finally take that deep breath and start again, this time with full awareness of who you are and what you value.
It’s the shedding season where everything that isn’t authentic begins to fall away. And though that can feel uncertain, it’s also profoundly liberating.
Because once you’ve faced the illusions, stopped the noise, and made peace with change, nothing can truly shake you.
The Lesson for What’s Left of 2025
The final months of this year will test honesty with ourselves and others. They’ll ask us to stop avoiding what we know deep down. To make the choices that free us, even if they sting.
But they’ll also reward clarity, simplicity, and courage. This is the time to simplify your energy, to anchor into what matters: peace, truth, and stability built from the inside out.
For some, that may mean leaving a job, ending an old dynamic, or confronting your own patterns. For others, it may mean learning to rest, trust, and stop chasing so much.
The universe isn’t asking you to do more. It’s asking you to realign.
Closing Reflection
So what’s left for 2025?
Growth — quiet, uncomfortable, but necessary growth.
You might not recognize yourself by year’s end, but that’s not a bad thing. It means you’ve outgrown what no longer fits. It means you’ve chosen truth over illusion, peace over chaos, and authenticity over appearances.
Yes, the road ahead may feel uncertain, but you’re walking it with clearer eyes. The reversed cards remind us that endings, confusion, and doubt are not punishments they’re clearing the ground for something sturdier to take root.
We can still come out on top not by forcing things to look perfect, but by finally accepting that “on top” simply means at peace within ourselves.
Let the rest of 2025 be the season you stop fighting what’s falling away.
Let it be the year you come home not to who you were, but to who you’re becoming.
With Love and Gratitude;
Kris
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