Chapters do not start on New Year or on birthdays. They start when something ends quietly enough that you do not notice for weeks — and then one day the old routine simply does not fit. If something in your life has that feeling right now, hold it in mind and turn a card.
Judgement represents a call to awaken, evaluate your life, and be reborn into a more authentic version of yourself. The moment of absolution, leaving the past behind. A profound transformation is happening.
Read against this new stretch, Judgement puts the weight on renewal and calling. Read against a beginning, a card describes what the new stretch will ask of you. Beginnings feel like freedom for about a week; after that they feel like a demand. Knowing which demand is coming is what turns an ending into a start.
The same card has an opposite face, and it is worth holding both. Reversed, may indicate excessive self-criticism or ignoring an important calling. Listen to your soul.
So sit with the question you arrived with — What is actually beginning here? — and notice which of the two readings you flinched at. That flinch is the reading. It is the one piece of this page that came from you rather than from the deck, and it is the only piece that can change anything.
Answer your soul's calling. It's time to leave the past and be reborn.
You do not get to choose when the chapter turns. You get to choose whether you walk in reading the page or looking backwards over your shoulder.