I found several tarot spreads that look like lovely ones to do for the New Year:

BellaOnline Sacred Days of Yule Spread: "This spread will help you to learn to apply the tarot to enjoy and enrich your passage through the twelve festive days from December 20th to 31st. The meaning of each card in the spread reflects the energy of the festivity associated with each of the twelve days."

Aeclectic Tarot Holiday Spreads: Spreads for holidays - Christmas, Halloween, New Year and Pagan holidays such as Beltane and Imbolc.

Tarot Passage's January 2006 Tarot Spread of the Month: New Year's Revolution Spread: "We often make New Year's resolutions on December 31st for the coming year...and often we break them sometime around January 5th...or 15th, if we're really motivated. That's because we forget to think about the repercussions these resolutions can have, or the deeper issues surrounding these "bad habits" or long-term inclinations. This spread is designed to bring about a personal New Year's Revolution in behavior."

I also created a new one (I'm sure I'm not the first to think of it): a Christmas 3-Card Spead - Christmas Past / Christmas Present / Christmas Future.

The one I did this morning:

What it says to me: That I'm making progress! Every year I say I'm going to start Christmas shopping early, that I'm not going to take it so seriously. Last year I told myself that I was going to make all my Christmas gifts. I did make things -- I knit scarves and made handmade soap, but I also bought things for almost everyone--unconvinced that my handmade gifts would be good enough, would be enough.

This year I originally thought that I was going to buy everyone gift cards, that I wasn't going to try to buy the perfect thing for everyone, but of course, when it came down to it, I bought things. I couldn't just give everyone gift cards, it didn't seem right. I think I did pretty well, though, in getting the right things for people, and I didn't spend too much money.

The Knight of Cups, however, is a bit more relaxed. He's a romantic--sensitive, poetic, dreamy. His horse is moving, but slowly, picking up his feet, but with his head down. The Knight is a bit passive, somewhat withdrawn. But I see the Cups suit, as a symbol of creativity and emotion, as being an improvement over the suit of Pentacles in this situation. Christmas shouldn't be practical or cautious, it should be filled with emotion and romance. Not as far as money goes, but in thought and word and deed.

The Page of Cups as a symbol of Christmas future says to be driven by love and emotion and intuition -- to focus more on the spirit of the season and less on practical things. To be more aware of "heart's desire" and less about how much money i spent. It's a goal, anyway.

As my nephew says, "Happy Merry Christmas!"