Tarot is for reflection, not instruction.Everything here is a suggestion to think about, never a basis for decisions about your health, money, relationships or anything else that matters.The choices stay yours.
Held up, and not by you
The day’s three cards for Aries. Every Aries who opens this page sees the same spread.
Where it starts
Eight of Wands, Reversed
Nothing you do this week will affect the thing you are waiting on, which makes it the one genuinely free week in the cycle.That is a gift.Stop refreshing.Rest while it is out of your hands.Whatever arrives will arrive whether or not you are watching for it, and you will meet it better rested.Let this week belong to you, not to the waiting.
What it asks of you
Ten of Cups
The ordinary good day
You could spend a dull, happy week inside your ordinary life: no occasions, no improvements, no photographs.The good arrangement is most itself during the uneventful weeks.A home that only feels real on special days is being lived as a performance instead of a life.Let this week be simply lived.You may find that the ordinary days are the ones you remember most fondly.
What stands in the way
Five of Pentacles
Outside the lit window
Your rest is not a luxury, though it is often the first thing cut when money is short.This week, spend nothing and rest anyway, as much as you can.Hard months are survived at a pace, and that pace is set almost entirely by sleep.Caring for your body now is part of getting through.You will face the practical problems far better once your body has been given a proper chance to recover.
Tonight’s sky and Aries
The moon’s phase sets the mood for all three cards above.The sign decides how they speak to Aries.
A waning crescent with Mercury retrograde: a deliberately slow few days.Nothing you decide now will be worse for waiting a week, so let yourself rest.
As an Aries, you tend to move first and ask afterwards.Before you act on this, give it an hour, not to change your mind, but to be sure the decision is truly yours.
Your own reading is different: three cards drawn for you and today’s date, and nobody else is dealt them.
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Rider–Waite–Smith, 1909 · art by Pamela Colman Smith