Tarot forecasts: The week on cards

Life might be complicated, but certain tools can give you a sense of control and comfort. It might be your drive and resolve itself; sometimes it can be something literally mystical. And that’s our Tarot! We’ll be using our Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck and discerning from 78 cards what this week holds for you.

This draw has specifically been procured for The Daily Star readers and anyone else who stumbled upon this read. This is a five-card Tarot draw, picked specifically according to classical planetary occultism on the day of Sāturnus (Planet Saturn), in its threshold hour, so that it may show the significances of your life; let’s begin.

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Here’s how this works

First Card: Theme of the week; this is the overarching energy of your upcoming seven days.

Second Card: The challenge of the week; an upcoming trial you might face.

Third Card: A hidden opportunity you might receive.

Fourth Card: Where to focus your consciousness.

Fifth Card: The subconscious energy running beneath this week.

See the elements of this week

We should first look at the shape of this week's pull before delving into anything else: four reversed cards surrounding a single, powerful upright: The Wheel of Fortune.

This placement of it matters enormously. It tells us that on the surface, at least in the visible aspect of the week, things may seem to be blocked, and that can be frustrating. However, beneath it all, fate moves with subconscious momentum, suggesting that change is already in your favour.

Elementally, water dominates the horizontal arms of the cross, where the Queen of Cups reversed is on the left, Ace of Cups reversed on the right; this is a week soaked in emotional material, but stagnant water, water that is not flowing as it should. The Fire element marks the start of the week, and Air governs the mindset behind it. Only the Major Arcana here, The Wheel of Fortune, which is ruled by Jupiter, stands starkly out of the elements entirely.

This week's major astrological event is the Mars-Saturn square, meaning the coming days will show frustrating delays, but the progress will arrive through patience.

First Card: Eight of Wands (Reversed)

While upright, it shows swiftness with everything landing in its target; reversed, it collapses into delay, and everything seems out of order. Readers should expect matters moving slower than promised.

Advice: Show patience; what’s delayed is not necessarily denied.

Second Card: Queen of Cups (Reversed)

The challenge of the week is unusual: a deep well of empathy, the Cups. The obstacle of this week is likely an emotional burnout; it might be your own moodiness and self-doubt, or navigating someone else’s. You should expect to face situations where feelings run high, but communication runs low.

Advice: Be wary of tackling or taking on other people’s emotional weather as your own burden, or using emotional imbalance as an excuse to withdraw.

Third Card: Ace of Cups (Reversed)

Now, we are somewhere you will definitely want to be.

Here’s where this week turns kinder and shows you the benefits you could receive. The Ace of Cups reversed is an internal wellspring of new emotions. The hidden blessing this week is seeing the silver lining for what it is. You just simply need to recognise what you are actually feeling, and the present condition that fate put you in.

Advice: Just stop and think. Contemplate. Whatever blessings or benefits there are. It’s already in front of you.

Fourth Card: Two of Swords (Reversed)

Direct your conscious mind towards the stalemate you have been avoiding. The Two of Swords upright is the blindfolded figure holding two blades in careful, wilful balance; indecision as a form of self-protection. Reversed, you must face and actively choose a path that you’ve been sidestepping. Only then will you get what you want.

Advice: Caution and confusion are two different things; be more decisive.

Fifth Card: Eight of Wands (Upright)

Beneath everything, there is very good news this week. The Wheel of Fortune, ruled by Jupiter, is the great turning point you need. This is the undercurrent running beneath all those delays, frustrations and moodiness, and it's already turning to the reader's benefit. People carrying these emotions should understand that at the subconscious and fated level, this week is not blocked; it’s a hinge point, and the doors of opportunity are open.

Advice: This week may feel frustratingly delayed and emotionally guarded on the surface, but fate is playing her hand and could show you a favour underneath. Look for windows of opportunity and leap through them!