How To Become More Empowered, Based On Your Zodiac + Tarot
ARIES
Your Card: Ten of Cups, reversed
In order to feel empowered, you need to seek true emotional fulfillment and let go of what brings you disharmony. There’s no use wishing for what you don’t have or dreaming up a different life when you have the power to fix what’s broken in your world now. Let go of whatever makes you feel disconnected from yourself. Act in alignment with your values and desired future outcomes. Seek out what makes you happy and what brings your life meaning.
TAURUS
Your Card: The Emperor
If you want to feel more empowered, you need to feel more secure and in control. This means learning to establish strong boundaries with others. Be assertive. Express your wants, needs, and desires. It might make you feel vulnerable, but others can’t show up for you the way you need them to if you’re not willing to communicate your feelings. Instead of being passive-aggressive when someone has wounded you, admit your anger and hurt. Vulnerability isn’t a sign of weakness, Taurus. It’s the complete opposite. You also need to set boundaries with yourself. Implement the structure, order, and discipline that will get you where you want to be.
GEMINI
Your Card: Page of Wands
Have faith in your ideas, Gemini. Stop minimizing their potential and brilliance. You’re bursting with inspiration and creativity, yet something stops you from executing or sharing that output. You have a truly original way of thinking. No one’s mind is as beautiful and boundless as yours. Let yourself be guided by your imagination. Embark on a new adventure by turning those ideas of yours into something tangible and launching them out into the world. Explore new avenues if you feel tempted to. Life isn’t just about the grind—it’s about what makes your heart sing.
CANCER
Your Card: Ace of Cups
Renewal is what it’s going to take for you to step into a more empowered version of yourself. You can’t have this new beginning without letting go of all your emotional baggage. It’s time to do the work required to release everything that weighs heavy in your heart. When the closure you desire isn’t afforded to you, you have to give it to yourself by moving forward and letting what’s dead stay dead. Your unhealthy attachments to the past stop you from evolving into who you could be. Let yourself heal, finally. Only then can you undergo the growth you seek.
LEO
Your Card: King of Cups
Leo, the King of Cups urges you to be kinder to yourself. Learn how to be at peace with your own feelings, even when they’re ugly, even when they’re hard to carry, even when you wish they didn’t exist, even when they scare you. Instead of numbing your emotions, or shoving them down, or shaming yourself for them, let yourself feel them. Process what you need to process. Heal what you need to heal. Forgive yourself for the things you need to forgive yourself for. Practice having more self-compassion. Hold space for yourself the way you do for others.
VIRGO
Your Card: Nine of Cups, reversed
True empowerment won’t come unless you start seeking a more authentic sense of fulfillment. Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop wishing for the things that you don’t have. Stop placing so much value on money and material possessions. Stop looking for happiness in things that are ultimately empty and without meaning. Look for true happiness within the depths of your own being. Search for joy in the connections you have with others. Derive pleasure and satisfaction in the things you find truly meaningful. It’s nice to have a life that looks good on paper, but there are things that matter more.
LIBRA
Your Card: Eight of Wands, reversed
The only way to empower yourself is by taking control of your own life. You, and only you, are in charge of writing your story. Your destiny is in your hands. You get to decide what it is. Stop waiting for life to just happen to you and get out there and create the life you want for yourself. You can’t continue just getting by aimlessly. You can’t continue “winging” it. You can’t continue hoping for the best. You have to plan for the best. Have a clear direction in sight. Set a clear intention for yourself and work hard to manifest it.
SCORPIO
Your Card: King of Pentacles
Become more empowered by manifesting material and financial success through hard work and dedication. Invest in yourself by planning for your future economic health. You need a plan for lasting abundance and stability. It’s time to get serious about your finances. Set clear financial goals. Come up with a step-by-step game plan to achieve each of them and attain the worldly success you desire. You need to start thinking long-term.
SAGITTARIUS
Your Card: Justice, reversed
Taking accountability for your mistakes and transgressions will grant you an indescribable sense of empowerment. It’s never fun to admit when you’re wrong. No one likes to expose their flaws or admit that they’ve done things they’re not proud of. The thing is, slipping up doesn’t make you a bad person. What makes you a bad person is the refusal or inability to right your wrongs. Take responsibility for whatever you’re guilty for now, before it’s too late. It might feel terrifying in the moment, but you’ll feel so much better after—not to mention, it will also give you good karma.
CAPRICORN
Your Card: Three of Swords, reversed
The only thing stopping you from embracing your true empowerment is the pain you refuse to let go. You’re allowing your sorrow to have too much power over you. Take your control back by releasing it. Don’t let whatever big loss or heartache you experienced define you and dictate your future experiences. Start moving forward from it. Work hard to heal it and learn from it. Allow yourself to find hope again.
AQUARIUS
Your Card: Three of Cups
Although you know how to socialize and enjoy spending time with large groups from time to time, at your core, you’re a loner. When you’re going through a hard period, you tend to isolate and distance yourself from your family and friends. It’s okay to need some breathing room from time to time. What isn’t okay is to keep your struggles to yourself and refuse to ask for help when you need it. You’d be surprised at how empowered community could make you feel in your times of need. Try opening up more when you need to let someone in.
PISCES
Your Card: The High Priestess
You’re an incredibly intuitive person, Pisces. You’re also an incredibly kind person who chooses to see the best in people and situations, even when they don’t deserve it. Often this makes you betray your intuition. The High Priestess is a reminder to follow your gut and instincts. Empower yourself by letting your instincts guide you and ditching that pair of rose-colored glasses you cling on so tightly to. Trust yourself.