Welcome, I’m so glad you’re here. Yearbook of You is a year-long journey inspired by the cycles of the Minor Arcana.
If you’re new, I recommend you read the introduction [link] to understand the shape of this program.
The start of school years hold the mix of emotions tangled into beginnings. I can remember excitement for a brand new planner (goodness I adore a new planner), excitement to see my friends. A really good first day of school outfit that shows everyone I’ve become worldly and new over the summer. Depending on the classes I had, I even remember my readiness to jump into learning. At the same time I also remember the sadness of saying goodbye to the relaxed days of my favorite season, fear that parts of myself that I thought I’d left behind might follow me, and the understanding that I was about to be locked into a period of hard work.
You never started a school year from scratch. You carried forward everything you learned in previous years and over the summer, and entered with a whole range of emotions from anticipation to wobbles of fear.
The PLANT constellation works the same way. These four cards, the Aces, don't ask you to be ready or resolved. They ask you to take what you've harvested from your last season, all of it, the excitement and the grief, and plant it with intention. Over the next four weeks, you'll plant four seeds: for your heart, your energy, your mind, and your material world.
The questions are:
What are you choosing to grow with what you've gathered?
Can you trust that something will grow without a guarantee?
The PLANT Constellation
What the Aces teach: Beginnings don't require a blank slate, they require willingness to use what you have to support your growth. Each Ace plants in a different realm: heart, energy, mind, material world. The Aces ask you to say yes before you have proof it will work. That takes trust.
Constellation pattern: All four Aces are about beginnings, but each suit asks you to plant in a different realm. Together, they create a complete picture of what it means to start a new cycle while honoring all parts of yourself.
Suit order note: For this first half of the journey, we always begin each set with Cups: heart first. This is by design. Before you choose wisely, weave connections, or face struggle, you need to learn to listen to your own feelings and intuition. In the second half, we'll shift the order. That shift is part of the teaching too, a move from foundation to adaptability.
Each week is labeled lighter or deeper based on the structure of the practice. How it actually feels for you may be different. A week labeled lighter might hit you hard. A week labeled deeper might feel like relief. Trust your own experience over the label.
What’s Coming In the Next Four Weeks
Week 1: Ace of Cups
Falling in love with yourself
The self-date ritual: adorning yourself, treating yourself with the care you'd offer someone you're trying to woo
Discovering what self-love actually feels like for your body
New Relationship Energy
Week 2: Ace of Wands
A nudge from the universe toward your passion pursuits
Dreaming big: writing down everything you want
Choosing 2-3 dreams to focus on this year
Week 3: Ace of Swords
The cut of discernment
Releasing what doesn't serve your chosen dreams
Saying no to everything else to protect what matters
Making space by letting go
Week 4: Ace of Pentacles
Renewed connection to your resources
Touching what's yours, noticing abundance or scarcity
Identifying what physical resources you need to support your dreams
Getting grounded in the material world
Integration note: Week 5 will be a pause to reflect on all four Aces and notice the thread: self-love leads to clarity about what you want, which requires releasing what doesn't serve, which grounds you in what you need.
Ceremony for Beginning
Go outside and find a seed. In a seed pod, on the ground, tucked into a pinecone, pressed into the soil. If you can't find one outside, check your kitchen. A dried bean, a spice, anything that was once alive and holds the potential to grow.
Hold it in your palm. Feel how small it is. Feel how much it contains.
Say out loud or internally: "I am beginning a new cycle. I carry forward everything I've survived, everything I've learned. I am planting with intention."
Plant the seed somewhere it can grow: in a pot, in the ground, anywhere. This seed grows alongside you through the year.
Notice what happens to it as the weeks pass.
If You’re Entering Here
If you're starting this journey during a beginning in your life: new job, new relationship, new home, birth, major change. The Aces meet you at the threshold. They remind you that you're not starting from scratch. You bring gifts forward. Plant them with care.
If you're starting this journey during a harder season, that's okay too. You can begin here and let the Aces meet you gently, or you can turn to STRUGGLE (Week 19) or TRANSFORM (Week 36) and circle back to PLANT when you're ready. There's no wrong entry point.
Ready to begin? Head over to Week 1: Ace of Cups.
