What Each Zodiac Can Expect This January, According To A Tarot Reader
Aries
Your Card: King of Swords
To some degree, your new year will truly begin towards the end of January. You may find the start of this month to be a continuation of several themes from 2024 that will find some sort of conclusion. With that said, this month may be about cutting off dead weight and transitioning into a time of peace and cohesion among you and those around you. The King of Swords indicates a need to be direct and to the point with those around you. There is the saying “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer” but I don’t agree with this, so this is something for you to consider. This month will be about keeping your friends close and your enemies far the fuck away, Aries. Doing so will positively affect your personal life but even more significantly your career and personal goals. On January 3rd, Venus, the planet of love, joins Neptune the planet of dreams and illusions as well as Saturn, the planet of maturity and realities in your 12th House of solitude and privacy there is a need for strong boundaries. Don’t feel bad about keeping distance from those who seem to always be involved in some type of drama. Their energy could end up becoming your burden to carry which will distract you from the goals you’ve set out for. January will be a month of energetic spring cleaning for you, Aries. Let old (toxic) acquaintances be forgot and never brought to mind and you’ll end the month feeling lighter, more positive, and more at peace, ready to take on the rest of 2025!
Taurus
Your Card: The Hanged Man
Your New Year will start on an interesting note for you, Taurus. While most of us spend December contemplating the past year and where we plan on going next, this sort of reflection won’t hit you until later this month. With The Hanged Man, expect a shift in your perspective. Your month will begin with a need to make several necessary adjustments to move forward. Things will become clearer as the month unfolds, but this month you may come to realize that there are certain limiting beliefs you have about yourself that serve no other purpose than to hold you back. Your need for control is causing you to become overly attached to a specific outcome. This month will be about realizing that you can’t control everything and it’s a waste of time and energy attempting to do so. By the end of the month, you may find yourself in a philosophical mood regarding this topic due to a Mercury transit in your 9th house. You may come to realize that stressing and worrying about a situation will not change the outcome. All you’re doing is making yourself sick by concerning yourself with things you have no control over. This profound shift in your mindset will be a trend over the year, Taurus. It may take some practice, but you’ll find yourself truly embracing this new philosophy which in turn will bring you a greater sense of peace in the long run.
Gemini
Your Card: Four of Swords
This month you may find yourself re-evaluating your approach to life, Gemini. The Four of Swords suggests that you are taking some time to think deeply about how you’ve gone about life in the past. You’re assessing what has worked and what hasn’t worked. Naturally, since it is the beginning of a new year, it’s normal for all of us to reflect on who we once were and who we wish to become. However, for you, this reflection is centered around your means of accomplishing certain goals. The same problems you had in 2024 are still present now in the new year. Unfortunately just because the year changes, that doesn’t mean our problems magically go away. Thankfully you are being afforded some time this month so there is no need to rush. I know you feel as if you need to act now before things continue getting out of hand, however, the best thing for you to do is think things over and leave the issue be until you’ve achieved mental clarity. Once this happens, you’ll find yourself ready to return sometime by the end of the month. Something isn’t working right now and you will slowly unravel this mystery. And with a strong Venus influence occurring sometime in mid-January, you may realize that a piece of the puzzle and the best course of action moving forward is to give to others without expecting to receive.
Cancer
Your Card: King of Pentacles
You’re taking life more seriously, Cancer. It seems that your priorities are completely shifting and in a way, this shift is happening incredibly quickly. This shift is almost like night and day for you. Seemingly unprovoked. As if certain seeds had been planted into your psyche from life and things others have said and now those seeds are growing into deliberate actions that you will take next. The things you never took seriously you are starting to take more seriously. Responsibilities you neglected will become the forefront of your efforts. Family will become a huge priority of yours as well. This might mean finding ways to increase your income to support loved ones or doing what you can to heal certain wounds or traumas. A switch has flipped and now the things you once spent your time on are no longer important. What matters is stability, your long-term goals, and becoming a more responsible person in general. This is a theme that will play out throughout the year but right now you are beginning the initial steps of maturing into the new you.
Leo
Your Card: Two of Pentacles
Expect the unexpected, Leo. Like most of us, you have a lot of plans for the new year and high expectations of what’s to come, but to be honest, literally nothing will go according to plan this month. Absolutely nothing. You may find yourself face to face with several unexpected challenges, setbacks, or conflicting opportunities at once, especially during the first half of January. Here’s the good news, all of this is meant to be. Though you may feel as if you’re deviating from your path, all of this will inadvertently lead you to exactly where you want to go. For now, you’re just going to have to ride out the storm. The Two of Pentacles stresses a need for internal balance. This internal balance will help you get through whatever challenges lie ahead. As impossible as certain situations may feel, understand that focusing on controlling the areas of your life that you can control will not only improve your mental state but will also slowly remedy the situation occurring in your external world. You got this, just remember that no matter what, things will be okay. Some situations you find yourself in may suck for right now, but eventually, this will pass.
Virgo
Your Card: Ace of Cups
During 2024, you may have experienced a betrayal by someone you once trusted or cared about. After going through the process of healing from this pain you are finally stepping out of solitude this month and are ready to connect with the world again. The Ace of Cups suggests that the pain inflicted upon you carried a great lesson and so month you may find your entire emotional perspective shifting. There is a new emotional beginning happening this month, Virgo. One that is helping you to put your ego aside and focus on the shit that matters. The petty drama or battles that once consumed you no longer matter in the grand scheme of life. All that emotional energy you wasted worrying about the wrong things will finally be put to good use. And with Venus highlighting your partnership sector, you may find yourself becoming more and more appreciative towards the people you do have in your life. This could also indicate a new emotional beginning with a friend or someone from your past. If you wish to make amends with certain people in particular, the best way to do this is to be totally honest and say exactly how you feel without fear of getting hurt. It might be scary, but you won’t regret it. All in all, this month is about emotionally opening up, learning from past mistakes, and rectifying those mistakes. All in all, I would say you have a great start to your new year this month. Though you typically prefer the safety of solitude, you will soon find that life is better when shared with others.
Libra
Your Card: Five of Pentacles
It seems that you may be heading down the wrong path at the start of the month, Libra. For whatever reason, you may not be seeing things for what they are or are becoming too concerned with distractions to keep your mind off of the problems at hand. This is most likely to do with some sort of workplace situation. With that said, take the advice of those closest to you because they can see things more clearly. Thankfully with Mars being prominent in your 10th house of accomplishments later in the month, you will be able to rise above the situation. Perhaps you are surrounding yourself with bad company and it’s having an impact on your mental state. We all convince ourselves that we are immune to the effects of groupthink and those around us but this is never the case. We are all influenced by our surroundings whether we realize it or not. This could explain why you were unable to recognize the path you were heading down initially. But as I said, once you start seeing positive results take place in your life, you’ll feel more drawn towards sticking to what’s working and cutting out what isn’t.
Scorpio
Your Card: Three of Pentacles
I think you will find this month to be incredibly rewarding for you, Scorpio. To begin, Mars will be retrograding in your 9th house of travel and education during the start of the month. With that as well as the Three of Pentacles present in your reading, it seems that this month will be about creating something meaningful with the people around you. You are embracing teamwork, compromise, and shared goals to manifest something special. This could be a collaborative creative project or it could be related to new shared hobbies with a romantic partner or close friend. Whatever the context, the message is the same. This collaborative effort will result in something truly special for all involved. If this seems unclear right now, then as the Full Moon on January 13th approaches, things will be more clear.
Sagittarius
Your Card: Queen of Swords
Though this is a little ways away, sometime in late January, Mars highlights your 8th house of mystery and the afterlife. If you’re mourning the loss of a loved one or are missing someone from your past, their presence may be felt and through that, new perspectives may take root. This has a lot to do with how you’re choosing to move forward with your life. Specifically, this will have to do with your income and other ways you can make money. The Queen of Swords is about a balance of emotions and intellect but as with all the Queens of the court, she prioritizes her intuition and what her heart is trying to tell her. With that said, you may feel a lack of meaning in your current day-to-day life and will find yourself seeking more meaning. Though you’ve settled into an effective routine, it isn’t offering you much more than stability. So this month you will be exploring other passions that you could potentially capitalize off of. It’s never too late to pursue something different. Don’t think that you’ve wasted time working towards what you have now. All your efforts could be put to use in unexpected ways if you follow your heart and trust the process.
Capricorn
Your Card: Four of Cups
It seems that the New Year won’t be off to any significantly big start for you, Capricorn. If anything, the real adventure taking place later this year will be a slow-burn build-up. This month you may be seeing certain hints or synchronicities that have to do with the bigger plot points of your year, but again, things will coast for now. With that said, the Four of Cups indicates a great level of indifference that you are probably feeling. Life is just doing its thing. There will be as many ups as there are downs this year but what is consistent is your indifference. It seems that you just don’t care anymore. And I don’t mean this in a bad way. What I mean is that, after the shit show that 2024 was, you have adopted this mindset where you just accept what is happening and handle life one day at a time. Life isn’t good or bad, life is just life. As I said, the real turning point of your year will take some time to manifest but maintaining this mindset will be integral for you. Enjoy the peace, and don’t feel like you have to make any decisive choices or actions now, because life will unfold as it will until the path becomes clearer.
Aquarius
Your Card: Five of Swords
It seems you may be feeling rather disappointed for a good portion of this month, Aquarius. The Five of Swords suggests that you are overwhelmed by what has been taken away from you. Like you deserved more from a certain situation but got little to nothing in return. But putting yourself down and beating yourself up will do nothing to improve the situation. January is a time of hope, new beginnings, and about making plans for the future. It is a time when many of us wipe the slate clean, and do our best to start on the right foot. But just because it feels like this year isn’t starting on the right foot, doesn’t mean it is going to stay this way. There is a new unexpected beginning that may occur sometime in mid-January with Venus entering your financial sector with Saturn and Neptune. With that said, your finances may take a positive turn thus improving your mood and giving you the boost in confidence you need to turn this month around. So not all hope is lost just yet. If it makes you feel better, things will take a positive turn by the end of the month.
Pisces
Your Card: Three of Cups
This month you are refreshing your wardrobe and your aesthetic and enjoying the things you’ve worked so hard to accomplish throughout 2024. Whatever sacrifices you made were worth it and January is about enjoying the things you’ve worked for. The Three of Cups indicates abundance in most areas of your life but specifically more so in your social and personal life. You’re starting the year off on a positive and social note. You will find yourself able to confidently step out of your shell and try experiences you otherwise were too afraid to try in the past. You’ll also be joining a new community where you’ll likely meet many different characters who will play a significant role throughout your year. So enjoy this January. There are many amazing memories you have to look forward to.