Your weekly tarot horoscope for August 21 to August 27 and Mercury entering Libra

This week, Mercury (the planet of communication) enters Libra (the sign of pleasure, tact, love and indulgence).

So expect your communications to flow easily, feel effortless, yield happy chats and good dialogue, and perhaps get you what you need.

Don’t be shy to express your deepest desires this Mercury in Libra season. As my mum always said ‘if you don’t ask, you don’t get’.

Let the tarot guide you towards what you need to ask for this week, with each star sign’s horoscope for the next seven days.

Aries

March 21 to April 20

Tarot card for Aries for this week: Nine of Cups

Meaning: This Mercury in Libra season prompts you to ask for your wildest dream, your deepest desire, your ideal vision!

Truly, you can have whatever you want, Aries, because the Nine of Cups is a cosmic wish-come-true pass.

Talk about your no1 dream all week long, make sure it’s known by others, so that you’re vibrating with its energy and attracting like opportunities to manifest it IRL.

Check here for everything you need to know about being an Aries

Taurus

April 21 to May 21

Tarot card for Taurus for this week: Queen of Wands

Meaning: This Mercury in Libra season prompts you to ask for adventure, travel, exploration and new landscapes to roam around in.

The Queen of Wands brings wanderlust to your world, this planet is a big space and you want to see more of it, experience different cultures, broaden your horizons and spread your wings.

Express your travel dreams! Who knows where this might lead you…

Check here for everything you need to know about being a Taurus

Gemini

May 22 to June 21

Tarot card for Gemini for this week: Ace of Swords

Meaning: This Mercury in Libra season prompts you to ask for honesty from others, as well as compassion from them when listening to your truths.

You don’t often share how you really feel, you cover things up. The Ace of Swords reveals you want to express yourself fully and openly, without judgment.

You are ready for some deep and revealing dialogues with those closest to you this week.

Check here for everything you need to know about being a Gemini

Cancer

June 22 to July 23

Tarot card for Cancer for this week: Temperance

Meaning: This Mercury in Libra season prompts you to ask for support in adjusting to a change in your life.

It’s been a slow-burn thing, but you can see how different things are now, and it stirs your feelings up again.

Temperance reveals what an evolution you’ve been through, and now you stand in a totally new position, a different person, surrounded by changed circumstances.

Take it all in, talk it all through, get comfortable in your new normal.

Check here for everything you need to know about being a Cancer

Leo

July 24 to August 23

Tarot card for Leo for this week: The Tower

Meaning: This Mercury in Libra season prompts you to ask for support and understanding in dealing with something shocking and dramatic that happened in your past.

The Tower is a tough card about sudden events or revelations which rocked our world. You’ve had your share of these. It’s time to talk about them.

Enough time has passed that you can now discuss events dispassionately, see the life lessons, get a fresh perspective on it.

Talking is the pathway to follow to get to a new place of understanding and acceptance.

Check here for everything you need to know about being a Leo

Virgo

August 24 to September 23

Tarot card for Virgo for this week: The Magician

Meaning: This Mercury in Libra season prompts you to ask for investment, input, feedback and support for a new, creative idea or scheme or project you’re about to embark on.

This is a great time to launch a business, side line, venture, or to take a course or learn something new.

The Magician represents powerful, personal creativity. You want to make something, and it’s time to talk about it.

Check here for everything you need to know about being a Virgo

Libra

September 24 to October 23

Tarot card for Libra for this week: Nine of Swords

Meaning: This Mercury in Libra season prompts you to ask for compassion and space to share your deepest fears, to say them out loud for maybe the first time ever.

The Nine of Swords is like a therapy card, maybe you’re ready to actually seek counselling about something, or just to confide in someone you trust, or even just journal or mirror – talk it out.

Get all these anxieties out in the open. They will largely evaporate, and what remains can be dealt with.

Check here for everything you need to know about being a Libra

Scorpio

October 24 to November 22

Tarot card for Scorpio for this week: Ten of Swords

Meaning: This Mercury in Libra season prompts you to ask for release, escape, an end to something toxic or negative.

The Ten of Swords is a very cutting card. It tells you that it is time to depart, end this, move on.

It’s time to have that conversation (be it a ‘dear John’ moment, or a resignation, or a block).

End this torture, you have endured it long enough. Craft your speech, make it, and then don’t look back. You can be free.

Sagittarius

November 23 to December 21

Tarot card for Sagittarius for this week: Queen of Cups

Meaning: This Mercury in Libra season prompts you to ask for what you want in your ideal vision of your love life.

The Queen of Cups brings passionate and loving energy to your world, and you’re ready to manifest the relationship of your dreams.

To do so, you need to express your desires, say what you want, how you think it could be… and lead by example.

Be the change you wish to see. Set the tone. They will follow.

Capricorn

December 22 to January 21

Tarot card for Capricorn for this week: King of Wands

Meaning: This Mercury in Libra season prompts you to ask for excitement, risk, expansion, and new possibilities.

You’re ready to throw open the gates and invite new energy and opportunity into your realm, you’re ready to take chances, you’re ready to live large.

Talk about this, express your hopes, ask for introductions, applications, invitations, and openings.

Look for new news. A whole world awaits you.

Aquarius

January 22 to February 19

Tarot card for Aquarius for this week: Seven of Coins

Meaning: This Mercury in Libra season prompts you to ask for patience and space to change your mind and change course.

The Seven of Coins brings cross roads energy to your world. You are thinking of changing direction, in a radical way, but you don’t yet fully know how or when.

You want to discuss it without being beholden to your words because you’re kinda’ talking off the top of your head, seeing how it all sounds. Find a sounding board.

Pisces

February 20 to March 20

Tarot card for Pisces for this week: Knight of Cups

Meaning: This Mercury in Libra season prompts you to ask for romance, grand gestures, happy days and crazy nights, travel and good energy. Friends, lovers, family are all invited to enter a wonderful summer of love with you!

The Knight of Cups shows you want to share your wonderful life with others, to revel in good times with good people.

Make this a week of sending invites to all of your favourite people to do some exciting and inspiring stuff together, making magical memories.

This is what life is all about.