Here’s your 2026 New Year preview — your power card predicting each star sign’s 2026 vibe and key theme, be it career, love, or purpose.
Get a sneak peek into the coming year and start to consider how you want to work with that energy, control your destiny, and focus your efforts to create the life you can’t wait to wake up to!
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Aries
March 21 to April 20
Tarot card for Aries that defines 2026: Three of Coins
Meaning: This is a reputation-building year, a time of promotion, progress and opportunity brought about by your good standing with others. You are well known and well liked, and this is currency that can be used to ‘buy’ your position or role or opening.
It has taken you years to create this goodwill. Lots of good karma efforts have brought you to this place. So you deserve every reward and opportunity that is available to you. Network, hustle, influence, persuade, pitch. Good things ahead!
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Taurus
April 21 to May 21
Tarot card for Taurus that defines 2026: The Emperor
Meaning: This is the year you move from being ‘done to’ towards becoming ‘the doer’. Full control. Full autonomy. You lead, they follow. You challenge, they respond.
This feels good, this is your sweet spot. You have natural good instincts, courage and determination, all of which make you the right choice for being in charge. It’s time to rise.
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Gemini
May 22 to June 21
Tarot card for Gemini that defines 2026: King of Coins
Meaning: This is the wealth-creation, legacy-defining, pinnacle-reaching year where you bring your full, unfiltered power and talent to the table and are noticed, seen, understood and desired. You have value.
If ever you were going to go solo, start an enterprise, invest in yourself, fully demonstrate what you can do, create and invent… then 2026 is the moment to do it. Opportunity, fortune, reward and recognition will all flow towards you when you light that beacon of self belief and start showing your true nature and force.
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Cancer
June 22 to July 23
Tarot card for Cancer that defines 2026: Two of Swords
Meaning: You are in control of your destiny, and you design it by making the right choices that open up new doors and pathways, helping you to progress and move ahead in all life areas. Make two big decisions every two months – think in twos, in duality, in this or that. Challenge yourself to pick one or the other, not to drift or coast or wait for someone else to decide.
This is a year of great empowerment and liberation. You flex your decision-making muscles and realise how strong and brave you are, how much influence you wield over your own fate. It feels good. It starts a chain reaction of new decisions and outcomes. A game-changing year!
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Leo
July 24 to August 23
Tarot card for Leo that defines 2026: Strength
Meaning: This is your sign’s totem tarot card in the deck so this year will feel all about you (music to a Leo’s ears)! Time to act like the main character you know you are. Time to put your agenda, objectives and needs ahead of all else.
Time to shine, and let your full glow beam out and attract what you need and deserve. There will be challenges, but you will overcome them, and in doing so, prove to yourself how strong and capable you are – which is a feeling like no other.
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Virgo
August 24 to September 23
Tarot card for Virgo that defines 2026: Death
Meaning: Transformation is afoot. You will leave 2026 a different person to who you walked in as. And that’s empowering! Things are coming to natural conclusions, running their course, reaching the end, and you can feel it. Celebrate and release what has served its purpose in your life. Let it go.
Enjoy the ’empty’ phase… and then rebuild. Phoenix from the ashes, the comeback kid, the greatest story yet to be told in your life. Overhaul, upgrade, replace, build, glow up, change, move on, move place, change roles. Reinvent yourself and the Universe will help with magical good fortune and luck.
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Libra
September 24 to October 23
Tarot card for Libra that defines 2026: Four of Wands
Meaning: Onwards and upwards is the message of this card. You are starting to outgrow certain places, relationships or roles, and are ready for the ‘next level’.
This is a year to seek promotion, progress, new horizons, fresh landscape, new people and networks, and to push yourself further. You can do it, You are ready. Everything is waiting for you… the stage is set. Time to perform!
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Scorpio
October 24 to November 22
Tarot card for Scorpio that defines 2026: Eight of Wands
Meaning: Networking and communication and socialising are your key three ingredients to fulfil your potential, feel fantastic, and reach the places you wish to be at in 2026!
It’s all about who you know, and how you interact with them. So put your relationships first. Start with your family and inner circle, focus there first, prioritise them above all. And then work outwards. Think about who is in your life, who should be, who can help you, who you can help in return… create a network that is useful, resonant and healthy and it will support you through all of life’s challenges and adventures.
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Sagittarius
November 23 to December 21
Tarot card for Sagittarius that defines 2026: The High Priestess
Meaning: You are turning inwards much more, relying on intuition and even psychic ability. You are taking more time to reflect and think, to consider and turn situations over in your mind’s eye before reacting. It’s doing the power of good, for your relationships and also your life choices, and this success makes you want to be even more mindful and meditative.
As a result, 2026 is the year you unlock the secrets of your intuition and start an actual practice or ritual to help you dive into your subconscious, activate your imagination, utilise your dreams, and even see glimpses of your future. Woo woo time.
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Capricorn
December 22 to January 21
Tarot card for Capricorn that defines 2026: King of Swords
Meaning: This feels like the year you lay the foundations of the next decade. So look ahead. Use the long-term lens to make your choices and create ideas and options for yourself. Invest vs spend, legacy, future-proofing. Be rational, ruthless and smart in 2026.
It’s all for a future you, who is looking back and smiling at your efforts and will send the luck, strength, and coincidence you need (when you need it). Think decade vs months. Think about what’s best for you and yours in the long run, and take steps towards that.
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Aquarius
January 22 to February 19
Tarot card for Aquarius that defines 2026: Ace of Cups
Meaning: Things will be ‘birthed’ this year, be that actual children, or maybe even pets, new friendships, romances, commitments, new homes, new roles or creative ideas or passion projects. You are vibrating at a high level and ready to attract the things you desire and need into your life.
See yourself literally as a beacon in 2026, and keep vibrating at that right level, focused on the things you want. Don’t complain or whine, because that will muddy your energy. Keep your face turned to the sun and it will shine on you all year round! A beautiful year ahead.
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Pisces
February 20 to March 20
Tarot card for Pisces that defines 2026: Nine of Swords
Meaning: You are letting all the worry go. This is a game-changer because you can be a very big worrier – at times it has almost felt like a personality trait, so ingrained is it! But no longer. You have learned the secret of release, and that is to talk about your dread or fear, to say the unsayable out loud (the sky doesn’t fall in, after all) and let that energy out.
It enables you to turn your full gaze on the situation, evaporate the needless worry, and isolate the hard kernels of truth that need attention. You are taking this approach forwards and loving your life even more as a result.
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Kerry King has been reading, teaching and creating tarot for 30 years. Join her magical, exclusive Tarot Club for forecasts, predictions, lessons and readings straight to your inbox. Enjoy one month free for all Metro readers (no lock-in or commitment) over on Patreon.
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