Your Tarot Card Reading for the Week of July 21

Cosmopolitan

4 days ago

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!
Leo season and a New Moon in Leo are upon us, so let the drama commence. The Moon tarot card casts a mystery theme over proceedings, so expect dramatic revelations, powerful secrets to be unearthed, and illusionary bubbles to be popped. The Leo vibe ensures all of this sleuthing, truth-seeking, and honesty WILL be fun and uplifting, so don't fear the consequences of what ensues—sometimes it's best to know what's what, right? You can't build anything worthwhile on wobbly foundations so take time to find out where you stand in all the key areas of your life that you're looking to develop and work on. And Leo season also adds a dose of flair, confidence, WOW factor, and fun to everything. The New Moon in Leo ensures whatever you discover this week will be put to good use in activating a fresh start or clean slate. Here's to truth and new beginnings!
Whatever you're having, I'll have some too because it's obviously working! The Ten of Pentacles is a rewards card, a celebration of being on the right path, of doing the right things in the right way and with the right people. Your Aries empire is thriving, you are wealthy in ways that count, abundance is yours, and life is panning out as it ought to. So, celebrate! Take a week to show gratitude, give thanks, appreciate the folk around you and your own efforts, toast the good times, take wisdom from the bad. You are doing great, just keep going!
You're not known as a dreamer—you prefer tangible, practical, valuable things that you can see, feel, and count. What good are ideas and fantasies, really? Well, the Nine of Cups reveals they're the origin of all riches, rewards, and opportunities. Everything starts in the mind, so why not cultivate a powerful, ambitious imagination and make your fantasies really worth pursuing? Dare to dream this week, Taurus, and journal everything. Make these daydreams manifest IRL and watch your life take off!
Summertime is fun time! We are all reminded of school holidays, trips away, staying out late with friends, doing what we liked, tasting freedom and pleasure and spontaneous endless summer days. Recreate that feeling in your realm this week, Gemini—you are the zodiac's Peter Pan after all. Have a midnight feast, watch movies all day, make a water slide in the garden, eat ice cream every day, sleep late, read childhood books. Life is worth celebrating and enjoying, it's precious and fleeting, make this week a whole summer holiday in 7 days! You won't regret this, you'll remember it forever.
You're looking for inspiration and motivation this week and I am pleased that the Queen of Wands arrives to give you some pointers on your quest. Look for Fire sign women (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius), be they famous influencers or personalities, know-it-all colleagues, or lively friends. Look for classes, tutorials, online forums, new books or podcasts around a theme that intrigues you and that you'd like to learn more about. Look for places locally that have a show, event, class, gathering, circle, or sale on something that you're keen to get involved with. Seek and you shall find. This quest will be successful. Inspiration incoming.
Leo season is here and the Ten of Cups brings you love! Romance is always high on your agenda because lions love to love. This week will bring all the gushing vibes you enjoy: secret admirers, falling in love moments, new attractions, deepening bonds, declarations and grand gestures, gifts and compliments. If you're single, consider a charismatic Water sign (Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio) who offers you something creative and quirky. If you're attached then prioritize your love life this week and reap the rewards of feeling adored and appreciated (because everyone wants a Leo, duh).
It's time to declutter, Virgo, and I know that's music to your ears. Not just your physical space though, this one goes deeper. It's time to remove the dead weight from your life. Go through your devices and delete unwanted or outdated apps, photos, message threads, and playlists. Next, overhaul your daily stimulus sources—radio, music, shows, news channels, and TV—to see what doesn't bring you education, comfort, or pleasure. If it's not a source of one of those things, remove it. Consider yourself a curator called in to design the best inputs and environment for yourself. What does it look like? What needs removing? That is the task of this week. It will feel good.
Although your ruling tarot card is Justice which obviously has very close relations with Truth, you are a sign who can have a slippery relationship with total honesty and transparency. For starters, you're very diplomatic and charming. Truth can feel like bad manners. You're also an analyst and you just like collecting data and seeing all sides to all things, which makes it hard to pin down a singular version of anything. Truth is, well, multi-faceted, depending on who you ask, right? Well, this week you need to embrace truth. Your version. And then express it, say how you feel, speak up without a filter. And then listen to the response without overthinking. This dialogue will break new ground in a relationship that has gotten tense.
Step back and take a beat this week, Scorpio. Reflect and review your current workload, social commitments, to-do list, home routines, and work priorities. Are they right? Are they making life feel fulfilling and rewarding and in flow? If not, why not?The Seven of Pentacles has a "time out" vibe and gives us pause and space to consider what we're doing, instead of just ramming onwards at full pace. Life is fast, busy, demanding. Make sure you're consciously doing stuff you want or need to do. And maybe it's as simple as that. Matrix your life is terms of want and need. Whatever isn't in those boxes maybe doesn't deserve the time and energy it's getting.
Success once again, Sagittarius! Hooray for you! Jupiter's sign is always lucky, always winning (even when it feels like you're losing), and always optimistic about the odds (with good reason, see points one and two). The Four of Wands has you outgrowing your current goals or realm, it's time to step up to the next level or find new landscape to grow into. You need to do this regularly because you're so energetic and keen to advance, learn, grow, and have a go. Keep refreshing your horizons and ambitions. This is how you sidestep boredom or restlessness, which are dangerous allies for you (you know it).
Be still. Be quiet. Be passive. Make this week a glacial, calm lake of still waters. Glide through, making as few ripples as possible. Divert your energy from doing into thinking. Float on your back and gaze at the stars. Reflect, meditate, observe, analyze, daydream, fantasize, imagine. The High Priestess is hovering over you this week and is ready to gift you her wisdom and insights and ideas. They will bubble up from your own subconscious, but it is her quite magic that dislodges them, so think of her, be like her, seek sanctuary from busyness and just be still. She will speak to you soon.
You are sign noted for needing freedom and space. You like to roam, be spontaneous, and serve your own needs. That said, you love affection and intimacy and fellowship as much as the rest of us mortals. The Devil sees you kinda struggling between these two versions of you this week, and maybe having some stark revelations about what it is you DO and DO NOT need or want in your closest relationships. Work it through, don't back down, say your piece. You are responsible for how you live your life, no one else, and you're also responsible to take the consequences of that. The Devil tells us to be who we really are, and own the outcomes of that self's choices. Be authentic, everything will get easier when you are just simply who you want to be.
Abundance is your mantra and life theme this week, Pisces, and as the final sign of the zodiac that suits you because you have a little bit of the previous eleven signs in your nature. You are a melting pot of cosmic traits and forces. What would you like more of? What do you wish to attract and amplify in your realm? Focus on that this week, and be ready for whatever comes, even if it doesn't seem to have the right label for what you wanted. Say yes to it anyway, the Universe is bringing you a multitude of new opportunities and ideas. A flurry of energy. Welcome it. Be abundant.