The Spiral Year is not a calendar you obey — it is a calendar you converse with. Twelve months, twelve Moon Glyphs, twelve Companion Spirits, and a thirteenth glyph — the Veiled Eye — that appears only in Blue Moon years.
Each month has its own question. January's Hollow Root asks what you are being invited to trust before you can see it. July's Blooming Flesh asks what in you is ready to be shared. The questions do not change with the year. The answers do.
A simple practice: at the start of each month, open the Spiral Year page, read that month's glyph and spirit, and copy its question into a notebook. Return to it once a week. By the new moon you will know what season of your inner life you have been walking through.
The Threshold Archetypes — the Choice Not Taken, the Becoming Knot, the Veilwalker, the Returning Thread — do not belong to any single month. They appear sideways. They turn up in a difficult week, an unexpected reunion, a decision you cannot make. When one of them surfaces in a daily draw, treat it as a doorway, not a description.
There is no wrong way to read the Spiral. Read it slowly. Read it badly. Read it on the morning of a hard day and let the glyph hold you for ten quiet minutes. The forest does not grade you.
If you want a deeper companion for this work, the Journal walks you through the full year, month by month, with templates for daily draws and seasonal reflections.