Weekly tarot horoscope reading for February 23 to March 1, 2026

The tail end of February brings us into a Mercury Retrograde, which is not the demon that folk paint it out to be — especially as this one is in lovely Pisces.

See this three-week phase more as a time to do less, think more, and recoup your energy ready for the launch phase of spring!

Winter is almost over. What outside, external, world-facing ambitions, energy or activity do you most want to tap into and pursue?

Time to plan and prepare. Make this Spring season amazing by getting your priorities and hopes lined up now, so you can research and schedule accordingly.

So… let’s use the tarot to ask what you can be getting ready for spring right now.

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Aries

March 21 to April 20

Tarot card for Aries for this week: The Sun

Meaning: Spring starts at the same time as your own sign’s season, so it’s like a double whammy of good vibes, positive energy and action. The Sun blesses this season even more with love, joy, travel, success, and opportunity. The preparation you can do now is to imagine what you’d be doing if failure wasn’t an option. What makes you feel most excited? What would you love to spend your time on this Earth pursuing?

This is what you should plan to do this spring — seriously, the sky’s the limit. Write that business plan, invite your object of affection on a wild weekend, book a trip or holiday that makes you feel adventurous, apply for the promotion. Do it all!

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Taurus

April 21 to May 21

Tarot card for Taurus for this week: Five of Cups

Meaning: The key to the best ever spring that you can plan for now is to simply have no regrets. That is going to be your mantra. Imagine that it is now winter again, what memories of this season would you love to have made, places visited, spring-like activities tried, new food eaten, relatives visited etc?

Let this stance of ‘no regrets’ inform your priority to-do list and use this week to research and plan how you can land it over from March to June. This might be shaping up to be your best ever season, you know!

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Gemini

May 22 to June 21

Tarot card for Gemini for this week: Three of Cups

Meaning: As spring approaches, the sap rises, flowers unfurl, things heat up in all manner of ways. This applies to your nature too. You are a part of nature! So feel the warmth, light and fertile energies swirling through the air embrace you and lift your spirits. Focus on receiving the energy coming through and letting it change your mood, outlook and appetites.

Hibernation is over. Winter habits are over. Time to refresh, renew and revive your spring-like personality and true nature. Time to get outside, start sniffing the air, taking walks, looking with curiosity at what’s going on that you can get involved with!

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Cancer

June 22 to July 23

Tarot card for Cancer for this week: Three of Coins

Meaning: You do have a tendency to go into total hibernation during winter, and folk wonder if you’ve dropped off the face of the Earth. But you are missed. Your presence is powerful and when it’s removed, people notice. So, as Spring starts to come around, start thinking about your social life, family outings, networking and general human interaction once more!

What events are coming up, who have you not seen in ages, what trips or new places are there waiting for your attention, what professional relationships need some attention? Make a list, make a plan, start in advance now and get a head start.

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Leo

July 24 to August 23

Tarot card for Leo for this week: The Empress

Meaning: This is the card of love, passion, nurturing, mothering and fertility and this suggests your spring is going to be very loving and fertile in new additions to your life. Abundance, blossoming, creation, and growth. So… get your magic wand of manifesting polished and poised.

Where are you going to point it? What do you want create and make? What new things do you want to be birthed into your realm? Make a wish list. This powerful Empress energy is there to help you get what you desire and deserve. Know what you truly want, from the heart, and use that to guide your spring preparations and priorities. Also, look out for Taurus and Libra.

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Virgo

August 24 to September 23

Tarot card for Virgo for this week: King of Coins

Meaning: A new season is like you getting a new notepad or blank sheet of paper, on which you can project and plan a whole new era! Bliss. Vision boarding is what is needed right now. Create your ideal vision of where you want to be in terms of health, wealth, work and home this spring.

What jobs need doing, what outcomes are you looking for, what investments might be worth exploring, what career ideas are you brewing, what health and wellbeing goals do you have in mind? Get it all down on paper this week and take charge of making it into a you Spring Schedule 2026!

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Libra

September 24 to October 23

Tarot card for Libra for this week: Two of Cups

Meaning: Use your closest relationships – family, romantic and otherwise – to plan your upcoming spring season. What do you want to do with those you love and like? Get together with these folk this week and have a pre-season planning get-together. What films, outings, events, trips, gatherings, new places, foods, shows, classes or reunions might you all want to undertake, share and arrange?

Use this relationship-focused approach as the underpinning of your season ahead and you will feel loved, supported and valued. Getting together with people is your favourite thing. So, make it a real priority this season.

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Scorpio

October 24 to November 22

Tarot card for Scorpio for this week: Two of Swords

Meaning: Spring is always a busy time when everyone comes up for air, breaks out the hibernation cycle, and new invites, news and opportunities flourish. So get ready to be a lot busier real soon, Scorpio! As such, take a step back this week and look at the bigger picture of your year. What decisions are awaiting your attention that will shape your plans and priorities?

This card suggests there are at least two decisions you need to face into, process, research and decide, and this is the week to do it. Get all the info you can, discuss it, kick it around, sleep on each option and then make your move. Doing all of this now will help you come springtime when you’ve overwhelmed with new offers and ideas. You are creating a firm foundation from which to grow.

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Sagittarius

November 23 to December 21

Tarot card for Sagittarius for this week: Knight of Coins

Meaning: You love spring. You love the return of the light and warmth, the energising vitality of the sun’s rays, and the sense of new possibilities ahead. So, this is a good week to get all those outstanding jobs, tasks and chores done that you’d rather have out of your hair by the time the season starts and you want to be ‘out out’.

Work hard, make a strong to-do list and set to work, use your Jupiter powers of luck and fortune to get ahead and take a few chances. Invest your time and energy in things which need doing, so that you have more time and energy later when the ‘art of the possible’ in is play.

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Capricorn

December 22 to January 21

Tarot card for Capricorn for this week: Nine of Cups

Meaning: Springtime livens your spirits and makes you feel optimistic about life. And so it should, because the Nine of Cups suggests you have a magical season of wishes granted and dreams coming true awaiting you.

Use this week to consider your greatest wishes right now. Let your imagination roam, spend time walking and daydreaming, fantasise and invent ideals, scenarios, and outcomes that make you feel proud, strong and excited. And use these visions as the raw clay to mould your plan of attack for the coming season. Whatever you wish for is possible this spring, don’t waste this hopeful energy by second guessing or undermining yourself.

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Aquarius

January 22 to February 19

Tarot card for Aquarius for this week: Ten of Wands

Meaning: The Ten of Wands wants you to eek the very last drops of hibernation restoration and rejuvenation energy out of this tail end of winter. Rest up. Do little. Heal and process and reflect and take in good stimulus physically and mentally.

Spring will be busy, active, demanding, fun and lively. A great time. Expect several months of high energy and new news. For now, recharge your batteries so you have even more juice when the time comes and you need that vitality and stamina. This is worthwhile rest.

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Pisces

February 20 to March 20

Tarot card for Pisces for this week: The World

Meaning: The World is a card of completion and achievement, a recognition that you have ‘done’ winter and are oh so ready for spring. For you, it will mean new challenges and ambitions to pursue, new travel and location plans or moves, and a fresh sense of where you’re heading — and why. A renewal of purpose.

For now, enjoy this tail end of winter, celebrate the season’s achievements and successes, reflect on what you’ve done and learned, measure your progress against your goals, and start to notice what things or areas of your life might also be coming to a conclusion, along with the season. It’s time to let go, and then go again!

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