Your weekly tarot horoscope reading for August 26 to September 1

Tarot card for Aries for this week: Strength

Meaning: Consider what the most empowering and positive piece of self development or character building you could do right now… and go do it. You are up to this challenge and the long-term sense of self esteem and confidence it will provoke, once you’ve done it, is invaluable.

Perhaps it’s asking for help, feedback, promotion, training, a new challenge, a fresh project. Perhaps it’s setting a standard or goal and holding yourself accountable to meet it. Whatever it is, you’ve got what it takes so go do it and feel fantastic.    

Tarot card for Taurus for this week: Justice

Meaning: There is an injustice or unfair influence in your realm right now that you want to address. Perhaps it’s how you, or someone close, has been treated.

Perhaps it’s over now but the bad taste remains and you feel lessons need to be learned or acknowledged. Perhaps it’s a live issue. Whatever its status, there is something to correct and tackle. Stand up and be counted. Say your piece, be heard, and feel vindicated.  

Tarot card for Gemini for this week: Nine of Wands

Meaning: Whatever you’ve been putting off, for at least the last couple of months, get to it this week Gemini and take action, ask for guidance, say your piece, be expressive and start the dialogue that needs to happen to move this to the next step.

The funny thing is that you’ve made this a big deal in your own mind, and it’s really not. Everything will go a lot smoother than you think, and the issues you dreaded might not even show their little faces! Just crack on and deal with it.  

Tarot card for Cancer for this week: Two of Coins

Meaning: You want expansion, a broadening of your ambitions, more work or scope, a greater say in something. More is what you want, and more is what you need to ask for (maybe even demand).

This is going to go better than you think because the Universe also thinks you’re ready to take on a greater load, so new ways and means will be opened up for you. If you don’t ask, you don’t get (my mum always says). Be demanding, be positive, be ready for everything to get bigger and better! 

Tarot card for Leo for this week: Six of Wands

Meaning: You’re entering a lucky phase, a winning streak, a period of time (about six weeks) when everything you touch turns to gold. So, Leo, line up the people who have influence over the things you want to happen, get better, make headway in, or overcome!

Be strategic here. If you know the Universe is on your side right now, then how can you best use that positive glow to tackle things you most want to be different? Make a cunning plan! And use your luck.  

Tarot card for Virgo for this week: Queen of Swords

Meaning: There’s an older woman in your life whom you have perhaps had on/off times with, maybe some harsh words, maybe some tension or disagreement. You don’t see eye to eye naturally, which makes any communication a little fraught at best.

Try again this week. Lean in and say hi, ask how they’re doing, offer to get together, show an interest. Something has shifted and the response you receive might surprise you. There’s something you need to talk about and now is the time.  

Tarot card for Libra for this week: The Hanged Man

Meaning: Surrender to a situation that has been stagnant or deadlocked for a while and you’ve been trying and trying to shift things and overcome the blockages. Just let it be. It’s not going to change just through your solo efforts or force.

Go talk to someone totally unrelated to it about something totally different… and from that conversation will flow an idea or insight about how to actually get to the root cause of it and make headway. Answers come from unexpected places sometimes.   

Tarot card for Scorpio for this week: Nine of Coins

Meaning: You are ready to have a big conversation with someone important about your long-term future. This is about practical, material matters like wealth, work or home. This is about putting down roots, investing over the long run, feeling secure about what you’re working towards and building.

This might be a work or home conversation, but it’s necessary so you feel you know where you stand and that your efforts are going into the right place/s. Get clarity, get reassurance, get agreement. 

Tarot card for Sagittarius for this week: Ten of Wands

Meaning: Someone needs to know that enough is enough, a line is being drawn in the sand, a boundary is being set. You are overwhelmed and tired of something. Whatever was once a favour or one-off event has now become the ‘new normal’ and you’re not happy about it.

You must speak up and you must change the dynamic too, stop doing the thing you don’t want to do, stop saying yes, stop being agreeable when they’re being unreasonable. This has to end. 

Tarot card for Capricorn for this week: King of Cups

Meaning: Just because you’re the strong, silent type doesn’t mean you’re not incredibly emotionally intelligent and very wise to other people’s feelings and needs.

A big conversation with a loved one this week will reveal your depth of understanding and make them feel like you truly know them, love them, and have their back. And the feeling is reciprocated. It feels good. Alliances and strong partnerships are your bedrock. Go build them and nurture them.  

Tarot card for Aquarius for this week: The Lovers

Meaning: You are seeking clarity, certainty, understanding, and direction. So much has felt like it’s been contradictory, ambiguous, conflicting or just plain weird recently, and The Lovers has you internalising that chaos and letting your mind get tangled up.

Take this week to unravel, smooth out, get the facts straight, re-order your priorities and ideas, and basically come to firm conclusions that you can work with. You may annoy some people who were pressuring you to do what they wanted, but that’s on them not you! 

Tarot card for Pisces for this week: Five of Swords

Meaning: Have a conversation this week with the person who has been most difficult to deal with recently, maybe you even feel intimidated or browbeaten by them.