Mars moves into Capricorn this week which means power meets purpose, ambition meets determination.
It creates a sense of unstoppable progress, an irresistible force, an ask that won’t be denied.
Work and career are key themes with these two planets, as are competitions, challenges, personal growth, and education. You are getting better, stronger, faster, clearer.
Let’s use the cards to tell you what you must pursue for yourself this week!
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Aries
March 21 to April 20
Tarot card for Aries for this week: The Hermit
Meaning: You are seeking a truth, an enlightenment, a fact or validation. And nothing will get in your way. You are a heat-seeking missile of honesty and illusion-busting.
Put your full power into investigating, exploring, researching, ideating and fact-checking something that is very important and personal to you. Don’t stop until you feel the ‘click’ of a home truth landing. That’s your final destination and game changer.
2025 has been a ‘Hermit year’ as it’s the 9th card and this is a 9 year. Chances are this truth relates to the lesson/outcome of your 2025.
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Taurus
April 21 to May 21
Tarot card for Taurus for this week: The Taurus
Meaning: You need clarity, within your own heart and mind. You feel conflicted, torn, tempted, distracted… and you’re a creature of stability and certainty so this sensation is unwelcome.
Whatever it is that has unsettled you or caused uncertainty… name it, understand it, assess if it is something you should heed or pursue, and make a choice. Choices design your life, your fate and future.
Make a choice that delivers your values and ideals. And then let this rest.
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Gemini
May 22 to June 21
Tarot card for Gemini for this week: The Wheel of Fortune
Meaning: You are entering a powerful phase of growth and transformation. In Chinese astrology, we are moving from the year of the snake (loss, shedding, dispelling illusion) to the horse (momentum, progress, thrusting ahead).
It’s like 2026 is starting early for you – of course, you’re always ahead of the curve – and you’re already laying down the big rocks and goals, starting the plans – maybe so that the flow will carry you into 2026 easily and you can rest over Christmas…
Be the early bird, get the worm. Start your transformations.
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Cancer
June 22 to July 23
Tarot card for Cancer for this week: Knight of Wands
Meaning: You are entering into a (risky) what-the-heck mindset that sees you throwing caution to the wind, remembering you only live once, and using that outlook to forge ahead with all kinds of decisions, steps, and new adventures. Good for you.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. You have to speculate to accumulate. This final spin of the wheel of 2025 is a lucky, happy, serendipitous and horizon-expanding one for you. Even as the year winds down, you are up for new news, faces, and opportunities… and they will come your way.
Take a chance. Say yes. Do it. Do it all!
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Leo
July 24 to August 23
Tarot card for Leo for this week: Three of Coins
Meaning: You are attracting positive and important attention and folk are ready to collaborate with you – so now is the time to pitch, propose, suggest, co-create and advance your ideas that need the buy in or support of others.
You will get further than you ever thought possible this week if you let others in.
You’re always in demand and folk always want a slice of whatever you’re working on… and that goes double at the moment. So, don’t waste this aura and energy. Ask and you shall receive!
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Virgo
August 24 to September 23
Tarot card for Virgo for this week: Queen of Swords
Meaning: You are feeling clear, precise, cold and ruthless. This is Mercury’s ‘warrior mode’ and therefore it’s time to press ahead with a solo project or ambition that others have perhaps spurned or ignored. You do you.
Any projects, tasks or enterprises requiring intellect, strategic thinking, debate, negotiation or crafty moves should be prioritised because your mind is sharp and your instincts primed.
Put your mega-brain into something worthwhile that’s just for you. The results will flow.
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Libra
September 24 to October 23
Tarot card for Libra for this week: Ten of Wands
Meaning: You are going to take your time, slow things down, streamline and strip back the load – and no one can force you otherwise. You’re in wind down mode.
Winter = hibernation. Winter = rest and restore energy.
You are firmly moving into that phase, mind body and spirit. You are pushing back on demands and challenges, clearing the decks of chores and commitments, so that what you do give energy to gets the best of you.
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Scorpio
October 24 to November 22
Tarot card for Scorpio for this week: King of Swords
Meaning: You are making bold, clear-eyed, ambitious plans for your future, and they don’t involve anyone else’s needs or demands. This is all about you, and so it should be.
So often our hopes and dreams are diluted by having to fit in, serve a structure, play a role.
This is not like that at all. You’re tired of playing by others’ rules. In fact, you’re not going to. Decide what you must do or get in 2026, and set those wheels in motion now, whilst Mars is in Capricorn. You won’t be denied.
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Sagittarius
November 23 to December 21
Tarot card for Sagittarius for this week: Five of Wands
Meaning: You are making things right. You are healing, rebuilding, repairing and reconstructing. This could be a building, project, role, relationship, self identity or anything that has been strained or broken in 2025.
You bring good energy wherever you go, and though you may smash a few eggs, you always end up with a lovely omelette that everyone enjoys!
There’s no malice in you. Whatever you messed up this year can be rectified. Maybe even improved. Set to making right the wrongs, and enter 2026 with a clean slate and a happy heart.
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Capricorn
December 22 to January 21
Tarot card for Capricorn for this week: Seven of Swords
Meaning: You are a naturally prudent and shrewd person, you can smell a rat, so to speak. And you’ve felt recently that someone in your wider realm has presented a sham, a false front, a deceitful story – but you uncover this, this week, and put a stop to it.
The truth will out because you are on its tail!
When you uncover what is going on, you can take steps to avoid the outcomes or intentions at play. And when you side-step this whole thing, you will be rewarded with a new friend or opportunity, one you can trust and invest in wholly, without fear.
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Aquarius
January 22 to February 19
Tarot card for Aquarius for this week: The Chariot
Meaning: You are seeking a move, a change, a shift, an expansion. A new purpose has swung into view and it’s making you change direction or step off the well-trodden path into new and exciting territory.
The Chariot is a very powerful card, amplified by Mars and Capricorn. I feel like whatever your boldest ambition is… this is the week to make a risky leap towards it, one that you need good fortune and positive energies to help you land.
You’ll make it. This is it!
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Pisces
February 20 to March 20
Tarot card for Pisces for this week: The Hanged Man
Meaning: You are saying no. You are putting down your tools and busyness and surrendering to the situation you’re in, without trying to force it any other way. This is an answer in itself. Inaction is the answer.
Why? Because this isn’t your mess. This isn’t something within your control. This is not your responsibility. So stop and refocus. Leave this whole thing alone.
Somehow, it’s when you do this that the unseen forces (you’ve been unknowingly fighting) will sweep in and do what needs to be done to unlock the energy and bring resolution. Just step back and watch.
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