January 20 ushers in Aquarius season – the eccentric, super smart, progressive and inventive sign of the zodiac.
Let’s pull a tarot card to reveal the Aquarian-esque innovative idea or new skill you need to lean into in 2026, where you’re being called to rebel, or the weird-but-brilliant opportunity that could change everything.
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Aries
March 21 to April 20
Tarot card for Aries for Aquarius season: Queen of Swords
Meaning: The Queen of Swords is ruthless, clever, and inherently solo, she loves to carve out her own destiny and show others what they can’t do, and only wonder at! Take on her ambition.
Start a new course, workshop, learning programme or entrepreneurial-focused project that will put you front and centre, make you do something solo and prove that you can, and will somehow dazzle other folk (music to your ears). You tend to lean to teamwork and collaboration but this Aquarius season wants you to step out solo and show them all!
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Taurus
April 21 to May 21
Tarot card for Taurus for Aquarius season: Ace of Swords
Meaning: You are going to say what everyone else is thinking, but won’t say. You are going to break the glass and shout the truth out loud and clear. You see everything, always have. You might stay quiet about most of it and keep your own counsel… but you can see that the time has come to air the reality and bring it to others’ attention to deal with.
Folk trust you. They know you’re not a dramatic troublemaker. They will heed your words so choose them wisely, but be direct. It’s time to rebel against ‘sweeping it all under the carpet’ and say what must be faced.
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Gemini
May 22 to June 21
Tarot card for Gemini for Aquarius season: The Hermit
Meaning: Come away from the world for a little while and enter your Gemini laboratory of invention! Time to research and plan your year ahead and add inventive flourishes and new news that really stimulates you.
It’s also time to work out how it all hangs together and what the steps are so that you can embark into spring with a shrewd, robust plan that you simply walk! Be quiet, seek solitude, ask questions you never have and find out the answers, create your own unique plan of action for 2026.
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Cancer
June 22 to July 23
Tarot card for Cancer for Aquarius season: Five of Swords
Meaning: Aquarius is a very honest and direct sign, never backing down or shying away from uncomfortable truths or situations, and this is your mindset right now. You have been patient and waited to see how something marked by conflict or estrangement would work out… well, it’s not working out, so you feel now it’s time to step in.
You want peace, a truce, healing and progress. You are the master of reconciliation and bringing folk together on the same page, and now it’s time to practice those skills – but with an Aquarian twist! So be very honest, direct and clear. Do something offbeat or eccentric to capture attention (and shut them up briefly) and then start mediating a peaceful outcome. Harmony awaits.
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Leo
July 24 to August 23
Tarot card for Leo for Aquarius season: Eight of Cups
Meaning: You are going to reinvent something that you recently lost, failed at or faced a disappointment around. It’s second chance season and it comes by being proactive and working to put things in place which address the root cause of the previous collapse or setback. Once bitten, twice shy, right? You don’t need telling twice!
Honestly, it will turn out that this second chance escapade works out way better than the original enterprise or relationship or role, so you will be glad you did it now vs then. Sometimes you need to lose something in order to truly value it.
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Virgo
August 24 to September 23
Tarot card for Virgo for Aquarius season: Knight of Swords
Meaning: You are simply not going to stand for something (that you always have) any longer. A line is being drawn. A boundary is being dug. A protective barrier is going up to stop this ‘thing’ bothering you anymore.
Hold your ground, stand firm, be rebellious and enjoy the feeling (you’ve earned it). Sometimes you have to be tough to be kind, because you’re not helping this person/situation by constantly sacrificing your own needs to make it right. Enough. Game over.
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Libra
September 24 to October 23
Tarot card for Libra for Aquarius season: High Priestess
Meaning: You want to invent and install a more spiritual practice and mood into your realm and every day life. And it starts here. You are an objective and analytical person, so do your homework first, look up what practices, rituals and skills others have found truth, comfort and enlightenment with, and what you’d need to do to try it out.
Consider scrying, tarot reading, moon bathing, herbalism, astrology, spellcraft, and more… there are endless options and it’s all about discovering what uniquely works for you, and you alone. This is a journey of discovery. How exciting! Your psychic era has begun.
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Scorpio
October 24 to November 22
Tarot card for Scorpio for Aquarius season: The Moon
Meaning: You are very attuned to the lunar cycle, being a Water sign, and you also share its key traits – secrecy and intuition. You are being asked to rebel against a ‘party line’ or façade you’ve been sold, and find out what’s really going on.
Use your skills of detection, validation, and probing. You can get to almost any underbelly, you have great research and truth-sensing abilities. What you find here will change how you go about something important, so make the effort and follow the clues, it’s time to crack this code and get the real answer!
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Sagittarius
November 23 to December 21
Tarot card for Sagittarius for Aquarius season: The Chariot
Meaning: This card is about movement, location, vehicles, taking the reins and going wherever you wish to go, so these are themes in question here. Maybe you’re going to learn to drive, or move home, or change country, or set up a new business, ambition, life goal!
It’s inspiring and it creates new momentum and forward motion in your realm, opening up your horizons. So think big, think global, and get moving!
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Capricorn
December 22 to January 21
Tarot card for Capricorn for Aquarius season: Six of Swords
Meaning: You’re rebelling against something you’ve always been a part of, and you now know it’s time to leave. You have outgrown this nest and want to fly! The timing is right too, which means no one will be upset or shocked by this, it feels like the next natural step and so it will go much easier and smoother than you believe.
Look to a new opportunity. Look to the future and your onwards path. It’s time to step away from what has gotten you here and embark on something new and challenging and inspiring.
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Aquarius
January 22 to February 19
Tarot card for Aquarius for Aquarius season: Eight of Wands
Meaning: You are ready to learn a new skill related to communication – be that writing, presenting, social media or comms channels, technology, or even singing! You have so many great ideas and the key to the portal of their potential communicating and sharing/selling them effectively. You have realised this and now want to mug up on the marketing or presentation of what you can do.
This is a game-changer, and will bring you immense success in 2026. It’s time to build a network in which you can fulfil your goals and get your rewards.
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Pisces
February 20 to March 20
Tarot card for Pisces for Aquarius season: The Hanged Man
Meaning: Everything is going to change for you when you change your own mind about something (or someone). A major epiphany and revelation is heading your way that will unlock the way ahead and get things moving as they should again.
It comes from within – a perspective shift, a powerful one. But you can help the process along by talking to folk you wouldn’t normally, asking weird questions, projecting yourself into other people’s shoes. See things differently and you will be struck by a whole new angle you’d never considered.
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