August draws to a close in Virgo season with Mercury moving into Mercury-ruled Virgo, which is like a triple dose of the planet’s influence.
Communication, travel, commerce, and the power of your mind are relevant, and will drive the experience of your week. Which of those themes resonates most?
You are getting Mercurial power surges to help you be successful in your goals there, further amplified by this week’s lunar eclipse and Full Moon in Pisces.
Everything starts in the mind, all ideas have potential and capacity to change lives. Let’s use the tarot to help decide which ideas you will bring to life — and base your to-do list around — this week.
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Aries
March 21 to April 20
Tarot card for Aries for this week: Ten of Wands
Meaning: Mercury is actually offering you a kind of retrograde situation this week, urging you to chill out, stay home, not make any major decisions, deals, or moves, and simply observe life at arm’s length for a few days.
Burnout might be closer than you think, with a spell of overwroughtness on the horizon if you carry on at the pace and scope you’ve been operating at. You have a huge engine, but even you need rest, repairs, and restoration. Take that time this week, however you can and for as long and often as you can. Future You will thank you for it.
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Taurus
April 21 to May 21
Tarot card for Taurus for this week: Ace of Swords
Meaning: Mercury is the planet of communication, and it’s all about getting chatty, conversational, and even a little confrontational this week. Speak up and speak out! It’s important that you’re honest and even more important that you remain calm and receptive to the feedback or response you get from your honesty. You might be surprised.
You will definitely learn things about folk that you do not know right now. And it might take some adjustment to get your head around things not being entirely as you thought they were. But this intel is worth its weight in gold. You need it. So, go talk to the folk you need to talk to.
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Gemini
May 22 to June 21
Tarot card for Gemini for this week: Ten of Cups
Meaning: Mercury is your planet and when it’s surging in such concentrated forces, your own charisma, power of attraction and Gemini-ness get amplified too. So, you’re at peak powers this week, and it’s a good time for relationship building, alliance forming and, best of all, romance and love.
If you’re single, get out there and mingle. If you’re attached, then create a wonderful escapade for you and them. Make magic memories, draw closer, plan for the future, be secretive and intimate and build your wonderful world of togetherness. This is a week you can fall (deeper) in love!
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Cancer
June 22 to July 23
Tarot card for Cancer for this week: Ace of Coins
Meaning: Mercury is very shrewd and business-minded, just like you, but more quick-thinking and flexible, so put together, this is a great week to work on a new idea, especially something career-related or entrepreneurial, and get things moving.
Rome wasn’t built in a day, nor will this project be. However, Mercury’s powers mean that you can get further faster than you think. Build the foundations, research the first steps, put a year-long schedule and strategy down that inspires you to think this is all achievable and feasible… and simply get going. You will succeed.
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Leo
July 24 to August 23
Tarot card for Leo for this week: Five of Swords
Meaning: Mercury rules over communication and, lord knows, you feel like you need new or better words to extract yourself from a tense conflict that has become draining. This week will bring things to a head and that actually makes you smile, you’re ready to unleash, and you’re ready to clear the air.
Don’t add fuel to the fire, but do stand your ground. Establish facts, hear each other out, see what common ground there is you can agree on and what you can bear to agree to disagree on. Then, maybe the rest of it can be parked, put on pause, or weighted down by a resolution to carry on and focus on that common ground. If not, and all else fails, you can walk away.
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Virgo
August 24 to September 23
Tarot card for Virgo for this week: Six of Swords
Meaning: Mercury is your ruling planet and I feel, with this card of departures, is giving you a magical pass to go anywhere you like, especially away from things, places, roles, or people that you’re tired of. Sometimes walking away is the best feeling in the world!
Putting down a heavy load that you’re sick of carrying feels good, you’re reminded how free and easy life can be without this burden. You get a new lease of life and optimism. So, notice where you are being offered a way out from something you can’t stand. And take it. No hesitation. This is a gift.
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Libra
September 24 to October 23
Tarot card for Libra for this week: Nine of Swords
Meaning: Mercury is a planet governing the mind, the mental thought processes and memories that shape and narrate our experiences of daily life. The Nine of Swords suggests yours have got a little anxious lately, maybe you’re worried that the past will repeat itself, or that the future feels too uncertain to instill any confidence in your present.
Talk about it. Express these fears. This card’s presence is a reassurance that this is all vapour, hot air, clouds and weather. When you try and pin it down, it will disappear, leaving you clear-headed and creative again.
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Scorpio
October 24 to November 22
Tarot card for Scorpio for this week: Five of Coins
Meaning: Mercury is reminding you that whatever is lost… can be rebuilt, replaced or restored. You have options, you have resources, you have time and freedom. Come back to the world of communication, commerce and opportunity. Come away from the shadows you’ve been lingering in, and seek ideas and steps that start to add energy and light back into your realm, wherever it has dimmed or left.
There has been a phase of grieving or regret that was necessary because those emotions are heavy and need to be acknowledged. That phase is now passing, and you’re ready to get back into things. We have missed you.
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Sagittarius
November 23 to December 21
Tarot card for Sagittarius for this week: The Empress
Meaning: Mercury is pointing you in the direction of your family, your home, your inner circle and loved ones. This is a week to talk to them, share your love, tell them how you value them, reminisce on good or funny events from the shared past, break bread, come together for a reunion, discuss and establish ideals, visions and plans for your future.
Pour love into the places you find it. Show love to those you welcome it from. Be present, be kind, be optimistic. What you sow this week will be reaped for the rest of 2026.
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Capricorn
December 22 to January 21
Tarot card for Capricorn for this week: Queen of Swords
Meaning: Mercury is an intellectual force and so is this Queen, which suggests you’ve had the ideas of ideas, and are ready to fly solo with it. Maybe it’s a businessy thing, a side line, a new venture. Maybe it’s about networking, teaching, coaching, or learning. Maybe it’s a personal development goal or educational endeavour you’re ready to tussle with. Maybe it’s a new skill or practice you’re dying to learn and do.
Whatever it is, you will know it, because this idea just won’t die down. It’s aflame in your mind, and this is the week to put it into action. Take that first step now. Do it solo.
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Aquarius
January 22 to February 19
Tarot card for Aquarius for this week: Page of Cups
Meaning: Mercury has very playful energy, it’s a youthful force, and so is the Page of Cups. I often think of this card as an inner child energy. So what idea might your inner child be reminding you of right now? Something you once yearned to do, or a person you miss and want to find, or a place that lives in your memories but you haven’t returned to in years.
Where is your mind taking you in your childhood? What nostalgic and happy times or events come through in dreams? Something wants resurrection and ‘adult you’ can deliver the wish that ‘little you’ once cared about so very much.
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Pisces
February 20 to March 20
Tarot card for Pisces for this week: Ten of Coins
Meaning: Mercury has strong business links, promotes global commerce and connection, and the Ten of Coins backs that wealth-making ambition up. What are you thinking of doing? Something bold and potentially lucrative. Maybe a new role with global aspirations, or a service or product that can travel well, or an expansion of your territory in work to new realms.
This move has long-term success written all over it. Nothing worthwhile happens overnight, however, and you will need to make a commitment and stick to it. You are ready to embark on a long-term plan for long-term security, stability, and wealth.
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