August – and the wiccan festival of Lammas, held on the first of the month – represents the peak of the year’s energy and power.
We have blossomed, risen, and achieved. So it’s time to celebrate all that has happened, and the opportunity to still bring about change, growth and progress in what remains.
A Full Moon in Aquarius on August 9 invites you to release your ego and unfurl your true vulnerable self’s need and truths, while Mercury turns direct on August 12, allowing us all to get back to business!
Virgo season (from August 22) helps us refocus on the coming autumn season and plan ahead to organise the rest of 2025’s priorities and big rocks.
Then, the following day, a New Moon in Virgo nudges us all to manifest our ideas, bring practical steps to longheld daydreams, and get busy.
Ahead, you’ll find your star sign’s tarot horoscope for the month of August 2025, with three cards drawn for each sign and their meaning for you explained. You can also join my tarot club this month for free, and enjoy tarot straight to your inbox all month long.
Aries
March 21 to April 20
Tarot cards for Aries for August: Seven of Wands, Three of Coins, Seven of Swords
Meaning: August is a balancing act. You are making moves and setting powerful plans in motion, but you need to ensure you’re bringing folk with you instead stepping over them (tempting though that is) and realise that actually, some folk might be better left behind altogether.
The Seven of Wands is you busting moves on your key challenges, winning the battles, overcoming the odds, and feeling unstoppable. Aries in full flow is quite a sight! The Three of Coins nudges you to remember you can go even further, even faster, if you garner support, alliance, and investment from others. So do your persuasion as well as your power moves.
The Seven of Swords shows some folk might be feeling a little jealous or put out by your progress. If you get those vibes, then snip these people out of your plans. Don’t allow any opportunity for sabotage or interference. You don’t need that energy, thank you. You’re a busy bee!
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Taurus
April 21 to May 21
Tarot cards for Taurus for August: Six of Wands, Queen of Cups, King of Cups
Meaning: A wonderful August marked by blissful relationships and a strong sense of wisdom, peace, and contentment in your friendships, family, and love life. You have worked hard and are reaping the rewards.
The Six of Wands blesses your month ahead (in fact, the next six weeks) with luck, good fortune, success, and joy. Everything you touch will turn to gold. And the Queen and King of Cups focus this magic on your relationship realm and emotional state.
You feel great. You feel loved. You feel at peace with everyone and just happy to be around whoever you’re around. Folk trust you, come for advice, lean on your wisdom. You are supported, appreciated, and rewarded. Revel and relax in your safe space, your sanctuary, your inner circle. This is your fave spot!
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Gemini
May 22 to June 21
Tarot cards for Gemini for August: Ace of Swords, Five of Cups, Ace of Coins
Meaning: Break down in order to break through. That is a great mantra to keep in mind when it seems as if everything is ending, falling apart, going wrong. And maybe life has felt like that recently.
The Five of Cups sees you facing losses and setbacks, feeling genuinely moved and maybe even sensitive. You’re crying more than usual, but it’s okay. It’s a release. It’s natural. It’s what you should do. The Ace of Swords reveals that speaking your truth, sharing your vulnerability, exposing your fears is the way this August. Express it all. Get it out of your mind and into the world.
The Ace of Coins sparks a whole new fresh start that comes of this last, final release of the old, fading, dying, and lost. Honour your hardships, appreciate your lessons, nurse your wounds, heal your feelings. You’ve been through an ordeal. And now you’re coming through, back to the light, back to the feeling of optimism and hope, vs sorrow and grief. The darkness is ending, Gemini, and it’s going to be a glorious new dawn. Look up.
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Cancer
June 22 to July 23
Tarot cards for Cancer for August: Knight of Wands, Nine of Swords, The Hanged Man
Meaning: Living with fear or dread is way, way harder than tackling whatever it is that you’re not wanting to face. Courage is the act of feeling all the fear and doing what has to be done regardless. Fortune favours the brave, and good luck will always tip the odds in the direction of the one who takes a step. So it’s time to take a step.
The Hanged Man and Nine of Swords have had you in a headlock, a dead end, a limbo. A situation you want progress or change in, but haven’t see a way to do it without breaking eggs, so to speak. Please speak up about this situation and ask for advice. You have exhausted your own options and ideas, but there are others, I assure you! And one is the winning answer.
The Knight of Wands brings in a chance encounter or conversation, a lucky piece of advice, an example set that you can follow. Notice it, adopt it, and do it. You can get past this long-term blockage this August, but you have to act.
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Leo
July 24 to August 23
Tarot cards for Leo for August: Ace of Wands, Three of Cups, The Emperor
Meaning: Leo season is here and it’s all about you, bb! Time to unleash the party, let the good times roll, and kick back into your most regal, confident, high vibration self.
The Three of Cups brings the invites, parties, celebrations, and joyful events that light you up. Say yes to everything on offer, although let’s be honest, you would anyway.
The Emperor brings your natural leadership and authority to the foreground too, meaning it’s a great month to make demands, set agendas, persuade others of your pitches and ideas, step up and take control, or even seek and land a daring promotion. Folk are responding to your powerful energy.
The Ace of Wands asks you to start something new, exciting, authentic, and creative. A hobby, lifestyle change, creative course, trip or location move, new role, or project. A new lease of life awaits!
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Virgo
August 24 to September 23
Tarot cards for Virgo for August: Ace of Cups, Two of Wands, Page of Cups
Meaning: Choose what makes you happy, lights you up, brings peace, spreads good vibes, creates happiness. Sounds twee or maybe too simple, but it’s your recipe for joy this August. And we are moving towards your sign’s season, so you get an early pass to suit and please yourself!
The Two of Wands is a nudge to choose consciously, be over and deliberate about what you let into your life and prioritise. You can’t do it all. Do what works for you.
The Ace and Page of Cups prioritise the following (I know you love a list): Water sign folk (Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio), creative projects or classes, watery places and wanderings, spa days, swimming and bathing, falling in love, being romantic, creating wonderful date nights, being spoilt and taken care of, getting a new pet, starting or growing your family, listening to your inner child, evoking nostalgia, reuniting with old friends or long-lost family.
That’s quite a list to go at! Choose your joy, Virgo.
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Libra
September 24 to October 23
Tarot cards for Libra for August: Six of Cups, Six of Coins, Seven of Swords
Meaning: If you keep your face to the sunshine, you won’t be immersed in shadows. If you focus on creating as much love, joy, and goodwill as you can, then any negativity will simply be diluted or flushed out. It’s about balance, and, as the sign presiding over the symbol of the scales, you’re all about balance. And harmony.
The Six of Cups and Coins are like the good guys here. They promote affection, playfulness, fun, reunions, good karma, generosity and help. Be the best person you can be to as many people as you can, and simply follow that rule. It’s the route to a great month ahead!
Not only that, it will do a secret job for you – get rid of the toxicity or negativity that lurks. When you vibrate at a high level and glow with goodness, the shadows and malevolence will retreat, be beaten back, and that is what you’re going to do this August. The Seven of Swords sees you overcoming the tinges at the edges of your realm and pushing them away. Do good, be good, feel good, create goodness.
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Scorpio
October 24 to November 22
Tarot cards for Scorpio for August: Knight of Swords, Judgment, The High Priestess
Meaning: These cards give me Warrior vibes, but like a guru or spiritual warrior, a mystical solider fighting back the darkness and spreading enlightenment and empowerment all around! Wow, what a month ahead!
The High Priestess starts it all off by bringing a flurry of intuitive insights and ideas your way, they all rise from within, so this is also a nudge to be passive, still, meditative, and mindful. Spend time in solitude, actively try to stimulate your sub conscious. Tune in.
Judgment is what you receive. Clear-eyed and inspiring insights about yourself, your nature, your desires, your power and purpose. Use this wisdom. Craft new goals and pathways around it.
The Knight of Swords then brings you the power, force, determination and courage to enact the changes your new insight demand. Life won’t just carry on as is. You need to take different steps. And you will… gladly.
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Sagittarius
November 23 to December 21
Tarot cards for Sagittarius for August: Queen of Swords, The Fool, The World
Meaning: What a card combo – the sky’s the limit this August, Sagittarius! The Queen of Swords sees you in a solo, independent, doing-it-for-yourself mode. You feel focused and inspired, like a laser beam honing in on what really counts and how you alone can most and best make a difference. Do your thing!
The Fool and The World are the tarot’s first and last card which combine to predict a momentous time ahead. Something powerful will end, draw to a natural conclusion, and be released from your realm (maybe a version of yourself) leaving space for growth. And the growth will be positive, inspiring, and exciting.
The Fool is about new beginnings that occur unexpectedly, out of the blue, and take us places we didn’t think we’d be going! You love an adventure and that is just how it’ll all feel – potentially involving technology, travel, location change, progressive ideas and causes, Aquarius people and basically radical, fresh thinking. Get ready to tear up the old script and start afresh.
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Capricorn
December 22 to January 21
Tarot cards for Capricorn for August: The Magician, Queen of Coins, Eight of Swords
Meaning: You don’t always see yourself truthfully or fully. You can see yourself through a glass darkly, in a negative filter, without the real power and skill you truly possess. And the Eight of Swords sees you projecting what you assume others think of you back over your own self image. It’s not the right way, Cap, so stop doing it.
The Magician and Queen of Coins want you to refocus on the truth of your nature. And the truth is this: you are creative, imaginative, inventive, skilled, practical, ambitious, conscientious, and powerful. No other sign can achieve as much as a Cap in full flow. It’s just finding that flow. That is the quest of this August.
Seek creative classes or self-taught practices, meditative rituals and ideation, briefs and challenges allowing you to invent a new product/process/system, things to do at home or in the garden that get your hands dirty and have a tangible output, time to listen to creative, artistic folk wax lyrical about their talent and how they nurture and use it. Put yourself in these kind of flows and your own magical power will emerge. You need to stop projecting what others think (you don’t honestly know) and start focusing on what you can do. You will be amazed.
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Aquarius
January 22 to February 19
Tarot cards for Aquarius for August: Ten of Wands, Queen of Wands, Five of Wands
Meaning: A trio of Wands cards means that August is going to feel lively, energising, inspiring, and creative! Get busy, Aquarius, because there’s so much to go at and achieve and experience. The Queen of Wands asks you to design your month. Think about what you want to do and live like. Consider feasibilities. Research events and happenings and opportunities. List up priorities, and schedule them. Put this upfront effort into August and it will repay you handsomely.
The Five of Wands asks you to keep a troubleshooting hat on! Nip things in the bud. Notice any little brewing issues or squalls and step in to squash them. Keep things flowing. Don’t ignore or suppress symptoms of disquiet, because they’ll only get louder. Take action early, it’s easier.
The Ten of Wands also asks you to put plenty of time in your calendar to relax, freefall, do very little if not nothing! Rest is essential. Rest is where we process, heal, and reflect. And there’ll be plenty to mull over this busy, happy month.
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Pisces
February 20 to March 20
Tarot cards for Pisces for August: Four of Swords, Nine of Coins, The Moon
Meaning: What is it that’s bugging you, Pisces? What feels like unfinished business or an unanswered, but deeply important, question? The Moon tunes you into the mysteries in your realm so let your mind be open and your intuition ready to receive. Ask for signs to show you what requires investigation or action.
The Four of Swords asks you to be passive, still, and at rest whilst this process unfolds. This is about setting the scene for your subconscious and nervous system to unfurl and release the secrets they’ve been holding within. Do meditation, yoga, early nights, daydreaming, guiding visualisations, gazing into candle flames, listening to alpha or theta wave music – all that jazz!
The Nine of Coins predicts that what you uncover, address, and answer will set the foundation for long-term growth, progress, and new pathways leading to success. You are being adjusted, moved onto a slightly different trajectory. It comes from tuning into what feels ‘off’… and setting it right.
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