Yes, I am super late with this written version for January but there is value in working with it at any point and also to help look back at the month in order to more clearly step forward into the next. Enjoy!

3 of Pentacles – January Oracle Intuitive Reading - Year Wheel 2026

3 of Pentacles

Let's look at the January card. For January we are going to the Robin Wood Tarot by Robin Wood published by Llewellyn. We have the 3 of Pentacles. We see a stone worker, creating, carving, probably high up either in a church or in a big building. It could be a cathedral or could be a museum. He is creating what looks like the feathers of wings. The Pentacles being the five-pointed star in a circle, can represent the earth element. It can be finances. It can be coins. It can be safety, security, and home life. You may read into it differently as well, which is fine. Take whatever you read into it. And I also see the balance with the different elements plus spirit plus the earth. The balance of all things.

Here we see our older gentleman. He has experience. He has learned how to be doing his trade, his craft, and his skills. He is doing it meticulously. He is creating those little indentations that make the feather look like the feather. He has his work tools. In the image, you can see there has been other work done too. There is gold behind. There is what looks like white stone. And our pentacles are in gold with red behind them and blue behind that. The worker has a feather in his cap.

From the picture, I am looking at January to remind yourself of your skills and your abilities, to remind yourself of your tools, and to remind yourself of your experiences. All of that is tying in with who you are now and how you are living in January 2026. Sometimes we forget because it is life and we get busy. We might not remember these details and then say: Oh yeah, I have this skill. Oh yeah, I learned that lesson. Oh, I remind myself I know how to do that and sometimes I forget. I am going to bring that forward. I am going to remind myself what all that is, so that I can step forward in it more confidently and utilize my skills. Then I can also get help for what might be missing and what I might need assistance with, going through that process too.

You can balance yourself by reminding what you already have, what you are skilled at, what you are grateful for, and what you can utilize out of your own skills. You can also balance yourself by bringing in what you might be missing or what you might need in that moment that you might not otherwise have.

In the three, I also get the sense of what we sometimes refer to as “two steps forward, one step back”. In response to this, it is almost bringing an energy that says “don't worry about that too much because there's still forward and there's still the energy of today, that present moment, and then what's happening tomorrow.” If you are finding that you are always doing one step forward, two steps back, then maybe that Letting Go card (the first theme card for 2026) speaks to you deeply because there is something important in the past that you need to or would benefit from healing, letting go of, walking through, working on, or understanding better. Or perhaps even carrying with you because there may be something important in it and you keep forgetting or you keep denying it. See it as taking that step forward.

The three is saying let us do the two steps forward one step back, if we are not doing the three steps forward starting with the real present moment, the zero moment of present, and then three steps forward, with the woohoo energy that comes with, we are in the next moment or the next part that becomes the new present!

If you are doing some kind of forward and back a little bit, forward and back, that is also practice. Every trade has practice where they make errors, where they learn something, and then do it maybe wrong, or not the best, and then do it better.

All of this is tying in with the end of this month and its energy, compared to where we are midmonth when this reading was done.

You can also look back at the beginning of January and see how this already applies for the January you have been living and experiencing. We do want to learn though. We do want to learn from what has not worked and what we do not want to repeat. This is so we do not keep doing back, back, back, rather than oh advance - oh learn - oh appreciate - oh gratitude - ooh create - going forward, with balance.

I also feel that the wings are bringing in some sort of angelic energy. Some of you may believe in the angels in all different ways, guardian angels, archangels, and special task angels as I call them. Feel welcome and remind yourself to connect with your angelic energies, your guardian angels. You can speak to them every day. You can call upon the archangels. Everybody can at the same time. They have that skill set. They have that ability and that energy. And you can connect with them and ask them to remind you of who they are and how they work and what they can do for you. That is a Kyle Gray tip, the author, creator, and speaker: “Thank you for reminding me of your presence.”

Ask them to help with things that are going on. “I am trying to work on this thing. I would love some help. Thanks very much.” The reason we ask, and we give gratitude for it is because we have free will. We do not have to work with angels or other people or other energies, the divine even, if we do not want to, but we can. So, if it feels helpful and valuable to you, then bring them in. And you can also just let them support and be present if that feels good for you. That is also in this energy of this three for me with this reading.

What else comes up for you for the January?

Remind yourself of all you have accomplished whether it is just in January or in your whole life or maybe looking back at the past year and saying "Oh yeah, this is what I learned last year in 2025. This is what I've experienced. This is what I've accomplished. These are my achievements. Let me put them up to remind myself so that I can feel empowered with that. I can feel confidence with that” and step forward in a good balanced way with that knowledge.

That is January 2026.

Peace and Love, blessed balance of experience, movement, and creation,
Sheila

BlueWater Oracle
The 3 of Pentacles card is from the Robin Wood Tarot Cards by Robin Wood, published by Llewellyn. Thank you for the wisdom and guidance through your cards!

This is the written edited version of my January video reading. Check out all the insights and reading messages in my Year Wheel video plus the theme cards for the whole year. Here is the direct link to the January card reading video section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiXFg-I_VZk&t=556s

The year’s theme cards video sections can be directly linked to here:
Letting Go – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiXFg-I_VZk&t=296s
Gaia – Nurturing – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiXFg-I_VZk&t=5696s
Creativity – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiXFg-I_VZk&t=5820s

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