Your Tarot Reading for the Week of May 12

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!

The Flower Moon (Full Moon in Scorpio, yikes) and the King of Cups are going to join forces to make this a hella emotional week. Thankfully, it’s all going to become good in the end because the King of Cups is emotionally intelligent and compassionate and will land us safely. Secrets, lies, illusions, and mysteries will surface and reveal themselves in their full glory, likely around the theme of hidden or suppressed desires and needs—whatever has been pushed down will come right back up again. So, pay attention, listen carefully, notice who is sending out mismatched signals between their words and actions. And notice your own secret desires swirling in your dreams and fantasies too. Can you honor them? Can you manifest them? It's time to live authentically as you truly are, and let others do the same.

Give yourself permission this week to do whatever it is that you’ve been daydreaming about but doubting yourself over. Stop spiraling and circling the same questions and urges over and over. Take a positive and pro-active step in the direction of your passion or interest and feel empowered to embrace whatever it is that YOU want to do. The Page of Swords can talk you in and out of things, but eventually you have to jump in or move on. Jump in.

Strength is a wonderful card of recognition and reward for the challenges and obstacles you’ve overcome, aka the private struggles that you’ve endured that no one else really even knows about. You are stoic, resilient, wise, and forceful. You are the one who outworks and outlasts the others. You are the strongest bull in the herd! Celebrate your power, Taurus. Reward yourself for every ounce of energy you’ve expended on difficult things recently. You deserve this applause. Let it be heard.

Geminis have multiple sides and personalities, everyone knows this, and it can be hard for you to fully see, know, and understand your true nature as a result. Slow down and sit with yourself, by yourself, in solitude and contemplation this week. Judgment asks you to discern the deepest, longest-running, most-spoken-of, strongest talents, interests, and traits in your armory. What makes up you? Pin this down and a flurry of insights will emerge, namely what you should be doing in life and what the next step is. This contemplation will yield powerful, game-changing results.

You are a cardinal sign which means you’re born at the start of a season and you are a natural starter! The Fool is the patron saint of fresh starts and new beginnings in the tarot deck (because it’s the first card of the major arcana), so this is a week that you can write a whole new and exciting story for yourself. It will come about from a surprising angle, in a weird manner, and make you do something unexpected! Technology, travel, and humanitarian causes may be involved, and possibly an Aquarius person with a very inventive, bold mind. Ingredients for a compelling and groundbreaking week ahead!

Fertility, pregnancy, love, family, romance, creativity, nature, home, and hearth. These are the gifts and blessings from The Empress tarot card—take what you will! Whatever appeals or is relevant, the underpinning theme is one of relationships. They matter, they define us, they form the boundary and shape of our character and personality. It matters who you spend your time with and invest your faith and trust in. So, choose wisely, choose consciously. And celebrate the bonds you’ve made.

You are one for the long game, you enjoy executing a long-term strategy with consistency and steadfast persistence. The equally persistent Nine of Pentacles invites you to concoct and activate a new long-term plan of improvement and growth this week. It’s something meandering around or between the themes of home, work, wealth, or health. It’s about building for the future, creating a lasting legacy or structure, making things better for a future you. Nothing will happen overnight, the results will be a while away, but the pride and satisfaction of being on this path will be immediate.

Put purpose into whatever it is you’re doing this week. Even if you’re having a lazy old time, make it THE laziest oldest time ever, and know exactly what you want out of that chill time and what the objective is for taking a break. The King of Wands doesn’t drift along, feeling done to, being buffered by everyone else’s energies. He sets out his intentions and organizes his time and energy around them. And this is the nature of your attitude and approach for the week ahead. Be consciously mindful and aware of what you’re doing, and importantly why you’re doing it.

A prize, bonus, windfall, or promotional opportunity is heading your way this week, Scorpio, and it’s well deserved. You’ve been behaving yourself and putting out positive energy and Lady Karma has taken account of this. Your reward is due. Look out for golden sparkling edging or glimmers, old coins, discs, or circles made of precious metal, crowns, or tiaras. If you notice any of these omens then your prize will be nearby in terms of time or space. It’s going to feel like a magical gift from the cosmos, and maybe it is!

A major brainwave or idea will come to you this week and you won’t be able to stop yourself getting it down on paper and trying to make something of it. This is a lightbulb moment! Feel yourself to be illuminated and inspired. It’s likely going to focus on either something creative and artistic, or a relationship and romantic question. What comes to you is precious, maybe even a little supernatural. It’s hard to separate intellect from intuition and instinct sometimes, and maybe all of them are at work here to bring you the answer. Use your inspiration to fuel a step built upon it, and you won’t go far wrong. This is going to open doors.

Ready for a new hobby or activity, Cap? The Ace of Wands invites you to start a project that suits you, that serves your true nature and interests, and is maybe something you’ve had a go at before and have come back around to again. It could be a trip or holiday idea you’ve long wanted to experience, a new lifestyle or health and wellbeing ritual or practice, a course or workshop to learn something you’ve fancied understanding or learning how to do. It could be a new purpose or ambition in your work realm that requires some training or research. It could be a creative project. Whatever it is, start now and enjoy great success down the road.

The Hanged Man represents limbo, a pause in your progress, an obstacle or blockage. You have perhaps felt frustrated recently and like your usual efforts aren’t achieving their usual results. The message here is that this is a necessary pause. You need to surrender to the limbo and let things be as they are. Don’t try and force your way. A new mindset or perspective on this is brewing and it will surface this week, perhaps through a weird conversation with someone you don’t often speak to. Let new ideas emerge; be open minded. The way ahead is unconventional.

Solitude is your goal this week. Pisceans need regular time outs from company and overcrowding because you absorb other people’s vibes and energies. You need to cleanse, purify, recalibrate, and restore your spirits. The Hermit invites you to take a purposeful and positive break, to shift the stimulus you usually consume, do less and think more, research a project or theme that really inspires you. Put good things into your mind and you will feel uplifted and motivated. This is a great week for creative pastimes, reading, and learning. Just step back from the drama. Be alone. Rest.