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Your Weekly Tarot Card Reading Is Asking What Your Priorities Are

Kerry Ward
5 min read

You don't need to know the difference between a three-card and a Celtic cross spread to get the most out of a tarot card reading. All you need: your Sun sign! Here's what I do: Shuffle my tarot deck and pull out the cards in order from Aries to Pisces, plus one general card for everyone so that you can get specific advice around your personality. Let’s go!

A GENERAL CARD FOR EVERYONE: THE LOVERS

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Photo credit: Raydene Salinas Hansen/Rider-Waite deck

Sometimes we can all get a little scattered, feeling torn between priorities and places and people. Staying committed and attentive to any one thing at any one time can be tough in a busy, crazy world. This week, notice where you’re feeling divided or conflicted. Some of it is just ~noise~, but some of it may be because you need to change goals or refocus. Pay attention, figure it out, and act accordingly.

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ARIES: KING OF SWORDS

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Photo credit: Raydene Salinas Hansen/Rider-Waite deck

This week is all about your future goals and the strategies you’re putting in place to achieve them, Aries. The King of Swords brings you rationality, solitude, and with them, focus. You're being clear-eyed about your immediate ambitions, evaulating where you’re at with them, and what needs to happen now to progress. It’s all about planning.

TAURUS: KING OF WANDS

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Photo credit: Rider-Waite deck/Raydene Salinas Hansen

For a sign that loves to stay at home and cozy up, you sure are out and about this week. If there’s a social scene, trip, or new spot to check out, you’re checking it twice. Sometimes your ruling planet Venus gets the better of your bull nature, Taurus, and you just have to mingle. The King of Wands has you in high spirits this week; make the most of it and go have fun. Who knows where it’ll lead…

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GEMINI: EIGHT OF CUPS

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Photo credit: Raydene Salinas Hansen/Rider-Waite deck

The Eight of Cups is a signal from the tarot that you need to press "pause" on something you’ve worked really hard on. Gem, it’s just not working. Acknowledge this, take a sec to feel sorry about it, and then drop it and move on. Your time and energy is way too precious to waste on this. Bigger and better endeavors lie ahead. The sooner you move on, the sooner you'll find them. Onwards!

CANCER: FOUR OF COINS

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Photo credit: Raydene Salinas Hansen/Rider-Waite deck

Whatever you do, don’t get stuck in a rut. The Four of Coins is a little red flag waving at you as you stride on by, determined to stick to some meandering, overgrown path. Stop, take a breath, look at your map, and change course. Make a good decision based on what you know now, not where you started from. Don’t get stuck.

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LEO: SIX OF WANDS

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Photo credit: Rider-Waite deck/Raydene Salinas Hansen

Congratulations, Leo! The Six of Wands reveals you’re in exactly the right place at the right time, and major rewards are headed your way. Karma must owe you! Whatever has been going on, recognize that it’s all played a role in getting you to this very spot. Applaud the successes, acknowledge the setbacks, and extract the life lessons. No one’s life path is straight, narrow, and direct. We all taking turns and diversions. You'll be rewarded for your efforts this week, so enjoy it.

VIRGO: TEN OF COINS

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Photo credit: Rider-Waite deck/Raydene Salinas Hansen

Planning could be an Olympic sport for you, and you’d win the gold medal every time. You live for organization and five-year plans! The Ten of Coins sees you making big decisions this week, ones that focus on long-term priorities. You recognize that it all starts HERE. Nothing happens overnight; it has to be worked for, and that takes time. You love having a long-term goal to focus on, and this week will see you shaping that up.

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LIBRA: FIVE OF SWORDS

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Photo credit: Rider-Waite deck/Raydene Salinas Hansen

Some conflicts and arguments are petty and pointless. Some, however, serve to illuminate a cause of strife and division that can be healed. Decide, this week, which category the current conflict on your plate falls into, and treat it accordingly. Withdraw altogether and move on, or work on finding a cause and having a compassionate dialogue. Either way, you’re winning.

SCORPIO: THE WORLD

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Photo credit: Raydene Salinas Hansen/Rider-Waite deck

The World is the tarot’s final card. It represents global travel and aspirations, life cycles, and beginnings and endings. As one thing rises, another falls. Everything is moving and either growing or fading. Take some time to look for the cycles and patterns of things in your life, and recognize where they are in their natural life cycle. Adjust your energy and commitments accordingly.

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SAGITTARIUS: QUEEN OF COINS

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Photo credit: Rider-Waite deck/Raydene Salinas Hansen

You love playing and messing around, but there’s a harder side to your character, too. The Queen of Coins has you in a leadership position this week, gathering your resources and commanding the troops around you. People are listening to you and doing what you ask, because you have natural authority when you know you want. Anything is possible this week. This is the time to get ahead.

CAPRICORN: FOUR OF SWORDS

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Photo credit: Raydene Salinas Hansen/Rider-Waite deck

The Four of Swords is the tarot’s "doctor's note." It means you’ve been working too hard (again), Cap. Your energy is not infinite. You need to switch OFF in order to be switched ON. Take a look at your schedule and clear some space. Less is more. Swap work for something that relaxes and recharges you. You need a time out.

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AQUARIUS: TEN OF WANDS

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Photo credit: Rider-Waite deck/Raydene Salinas Hansen

Doing too much means that you’re spreading your attention across too many things and missing the details, and you hate being anything other than fully engaged. The Ten of Wands reveals you don’t realize just how busy you’ve been recently. You’re nearing a ~tipping point~ when that level of activity stops being constructive, and starts being messy. So stop. Prioritize. Scale back. Focus on your key goals.

PISCES: THE HERMIT

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Photo credit: Rider-Waite deck/Raydene Salinas Hansen

Pisces, you love staying home by yourself. Fall is your favorite season, and we’re not quite there yet, but you can have a week of ~cozy time~ if you wish. Hygge up! Make a PSL! The Hermit reveals you could use a chance to stay in, rest, catch up on your chores, and make a fe wpl. Solitude is healing when it serves a purpose. Make a list of what you want to get done at home this week, and stay in and do it.

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