The festive week is upon us, and with it, the start of Capricorn season, so there’s much to do and a nice injection of practical, Earth-element energy to help us get it all done and dusted.
Magical things can happen the week of Christmas, it’s a ‘charged’ time of year, for good and bad.
Stay in the light, count your blessings, help other people, share love and kindness, treat yourself well, indulge in pleasure. Make the most of all that you have.
Let the tarot cards bring you a joyful gift this week. Let’s call it your cosmic Christmas card!
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Aries
March 21 to April 20
Tarot card for Aries for this week: The World
Meaning: Time to celebrate, Aries. Seriously, you’ve climbed mountains, overcome hurdles, pushed back against obstacles, and achieved much to be happy about in 2025. Bring the year to a joyful close with a toast to all you’ve done.
The tarot wants you to know that this is just the beginning. There’s more you achieve! Take the proof of your success and add it into the mix for 2026. Travel, new projects, promotions, and location or home upgrades or moves are all possible.
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Taurus
April 21 to May 21
Tarot card for Taurus for this week: Two of Coins
Meaning: Taurus, your cup runneth over this week! Love, friendship, wealth, health, fun, pleasure, success, and rewards are all flowing your way, like a culmination of all your good karma and kindness being repaid.
Accept everything with grace, practice authentic gratitude to every person in the moment, be present. Look around you with wonder and appreciate all that you have. You are wealthy in the ways that count.
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Gemini
May 22 to June 21
Tarot card for Gemini for this week: Ten of Wands
Meaning: Gemini, rest up. Stop working, Stop ‘thinking’ and just feel and flow through this week of magic, inner child memories and joy, nostalgia, and fun. Let yourself be guided by unseen forces, who somehow know just what you need.
Don’t be surprised if it’s a healthy dose of peace and quiet. This is winter. This is your season to restore, reflect, renew and recalibrate. You have earned deep rest. Enjoy it.
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Cancer
June 22 to July 23
Tarot card for Cancer for this week: Five of Swords
Meaning: A reunion and reconciliation is on the cards this week. A truce. A compromise or agreement (even if it’s just to disagree). But the upshot is that you feel vindicated, relaxed, and in harmony with the energy between you once again.
No more dread or wondering, no more overthinking or assuming. You have spoken, cleared the air, felt like you’re both understood, and you can move on now. Get back to the business of merrymaking and festivities, you’re in demand and folk want to celebrate with you!
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Leo
July 24 to August 23
Tarot card for Leo for this week: Three of Cups
Meaning: I am not at all surprised to see this card come up for you! It’s the party lover of the tarot deck, and promises a real good time all week long.
So, throw yourself headlong into the festivities and revels, the good company, the secret Santas, the family gatherings, the cheeky trip to the pub. Enjoy and make merry. You are the light, the life and soul of any gathering, so show them how it’s done in style! Gift them your presence.
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Virgo
August 24 to September 23
Tarot card for Virgo for this week: Five of Cups
Meaning: Healing and processing are on the cards this week. That doesn’t stop you having a good time too, not at all, but it means that as you go about your visits and revels, something inside you is mending and repairing.
A dulled spirit, a broken heart, an old wound… it’s getting better simply by the energy and company you’re keeping now. So make yourself at home with folk who inspire, uplift, and encourage you – they’re good medicine! Whatever has hurt you in 2025 is soon to pass and be a long-lost memory.
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Libra
September 24 to October 23
Tarot card for Libra for this week: Eight of Wands
Meaning: Venus is your planetary ruler which makes you the god/dess of love, money, pleasure and indulgence, this is your week to shine! Everyone will want to talk, update, and be with you. Good company all around, lots of news and gossips, plenty of invitations to store up for the year ahead.
The energy and networking magic you manifest this week will carry you into 2026 on a glowing wave of goodwill and good vibes. Get out there and mingle!
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Scorpio
October 24 to November 22
Tarot card for Scorpio for this week: Two of Swords
Meaning: Any lingering issues or outstanding decisions that have been dogging your heels in the tail-end of 2025 will magically be resolved this week, melting away like butter. And you will feel liberated, relived, and energised by the disappearance of these thorns in your side.
The Universe felt you needed a clean slate, so take it as your Christmas gift. Don’t stock up any more problems. Be good, Scorpio – and if you can’t be good… be careful!
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Sagittarius
November 23 to December 21
Tarot card for Sagittarius for this week: The Sun
Meaning: Of course, Jupiter’s child gets the best card of the whole tarot deck! The Sun bestows a year’s worth of joy, happiness, good luck, romance, passion, success, and fortune on you.
So get out there, be around folk you love and like or who have influence in your future. Be present and charming and happy and outgoing. Let your true nature shine and attract the people and opportunities meant for you, towards you. If you’re lucky enough to be going away this week – it’ll be the holiday of a lifetime.
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Capricorn
December 22 to January 21
Tarot card for Capricorn for this week: King of Cups
Meaning: Emotional intelligence is your currency as you navigate this busy, emotionally charged, and high energy week. And you glide like a swan, spreading calm and harmony, receiving gifts and love, amplifying the good and erasing the bad.
You are the person everyone wants by their hearth and you feel truly appreciated and needed. This warmth of feeling is better than any gift-wrapped treat. So enjoy your reputation, your place in the world, and how you make others feel. Well earned.
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Aquarius
January 22 to February 19
Tarot card for Aquarius for this week: Ten of Cups
Meaning: Your love life is set to sizzle this week! Enjoy the romance, the grand gestures, the declarations of passion, the new flirtations, the proposals (!), the feeling of being desired and needed.
Look out for Water signs if you’re single – Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio – and folk you feel immediate soulmate kinship with. If you’re attached, expect to fall even deeper in love this Christmas week, like a soppy made-for-TV movie! Time to get all mushy and doe-eyed.
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Pisces
February 20 to March 20
Tarot card for Pisces for this week: Eight of Cups
Meaning: There’s magical alchemy at play in your realm this week in that all the setbacks or losses or disappointments of 2025 are reversed, given a silver lining, seen in a new light, or replaced by something far, far better than the original hope!
Everything comes in at once, like a chain reaction, and it uplifts you so much. You are almost glad you endured the darkness because now the stars shine so very bright. You deserve all of this, so accept it with good grace and enjoy it.
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