The next Full Moon is on December 26 (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Full Moons come around once a month and, for the day before, during, and after, bring a ‘pause’ moment.

They provoke reflection, rumination, bringing things to a conclusion, finishing off tasks, reviewing results, and thinking through how your life is going. It’s a time for thought vs action.

This Full Moon on December 26 occurs in the sun sign of Capricorn which means the moon is in its opposite sign, Cancer, a sign whose planetary ruler is also the Moon.

This is a really powerful Full Moon, as well as the final one of 2023. Cancer’s influence brings up themes of care, nurturing, family, home, healing, and deep rest.

Do you feel safe, secure, protected, at ease, peaceful? Do you like where your family and home life is at? Perhaps you can, after the bustle of the festive season, reflect on these questions. Does it provoke ideas for action in 2024?

Let the tarot guide you towards the key question you should ask yourself this Full Moon!

Aries

March 21 to April 20

Take that mask off – it’s your time to be vulnerable (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Tarot card for Aries for the Full Moon in Cancer: Nine of Swords

Meaning: You hide your fears and anxieties very deeply, most people think of you as mentally robust and confident but actually you carry insecurities like everyone else. Get them out this Full Moon. Find time to talk properly about your feelings and worries with close family or your partner or best friend.

Lean on others, Aries. They lean on you enough, I am sure! Stop trying to put such a brave face on it and express how you feel. A weight will lift, I promise. This is what relationships are for. 

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Taurus

April 21 to May 21

Talk it out (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Tarot card for Taurus for the Full Moon in Cancer: King of Swords

Meaning: Family and home are your priority. Security and safety are your bedrock. If things aren’t right there, then you don’t feel right full stop. You don’t compartmentalise. The King of Swords sees you wanting to talk fully, honestly, and imaginatively about your long term future and ideals in your home, wealth, and family life.

Where’s it all going? What’s the next big thing? What are you joining forces to achieve? Where do you want to live? What are the family plans? Talk it all though. Think ahead five years.

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Gemini

May 22 to June 21

You’re saying all the right things, Gem (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Tarot card for Gemini for the Full Moon in Cancer: Ten of Coins

Meaning: For a sign with such a flighty reputation, you’re actually incredibly loyal, home-loving, and eager to have closeness and certainty with your fave people.

The Ten of Coins promises you a happy-ever-after if you have the right conversations this Full Moon. Let people know how you feel about them, what you value and need, where you want things to go, what the future could hold. You’re a great inspirer and storyteller – paint a picture of a shared wonderful life and watch their eyes light up. Dream it and then do it.  

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Cancer

June 22 to July 23

Start the wheels turning now (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Tarot card for Cancer for the Full Moon in Cancer: Nine of Coins

Meaning: This Full Moon is an important one for you because it’s in your sign, this is a deeply personal and significant time to focus on, clarify, express, and plan your most heartfelt needs and desires around home, family, love, self care and security. Do what needs doing. Take steps now that can accumulate over time into a giant leap. The future starts here.

None of your ideals will happen overnight, we might be talking several years, but they all need kicking off now and investing in consistently throughout 2024 and beyond. You know what you really want. Start making it happen.  

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Leo

July 24 to August 23

Get others as excited as you are (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Tarot card for Leo for the Full Moon in Cancer: King of Wands

Meaning: You want more fun, more adventure, more spontaneous explorations and celebrations with those you love most. The King of Wands is you at your exuberant, vital, passionate self. You can’t dampen that lust for life, Leo, you have to serve it and those around you need to be a part of it too or you’ll start to lead more separate lives and feel disconnected.

Create ideas you can both buy into, tell them why it matters so much, be honest, be open to their needs. Create an environment you can have all the fun in the world in!    

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Virgo

August 24 to September 23

Time for a friendship reshuffle (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Tarot card for Virgo for the Full Moon in Cancer: Seven of Swords

Meaning: This Full Moon, listen to your gut instinct and intuition. This is about other people and your inner circle: who deserves their place, who needs attention, who perhaps has not reciprocated your efforts and investment and maybe moves to a slightly more ‘outer’ position.

The Seven of Swords reveals you know changes need to be made. Not all relationships feel balanced and positive. Some are wearing thin, some are even bordering on toxic. Make adjustments and use your hunches to guide you.           

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Libra

September 24 to October 23

Disappointment can show us what’s really bothering us (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Tarot card for Libra for the Full Moon in Cancer: Eight of Cups

Meaning: The Eight of Cups is an invitation to let the imposter of disappointment into your realm this Full Moon. Not for long, just enough time to do its job, which is to alert you to something that is not working in your home or family life.

It has failed, and you know it, deep down. Just accept this and move on from trying to make it land. Why should it be all on you? Why do you have to be the one to do all the work? Withdraw. Try something else. Let them take the load, perhaps…

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Scorpio

October 24 to November 22

Ready to let this one go? (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Tarot card for Scorpio for the Full Moon in Cancer: Five of Swords

Meaning: Scorpio, work on mediation, healing, truces, repairs, and offering olive branches in your relationship landscape. Even if you’re the one in the right, be the bigger person and create the right circumstances for a healing discussion so things can move on.

The Five of Swords shows there has been stress and conflict. You are good at fueling it (you’re a deadly enemy, tbh) but it’s time to dampen the fires and create peace. This Full Moon, everyone feels the same. Everyone is ready to move on. Make it happen and feel the relief.       

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Sagittarius

November 23 to December 21

Work out what stability means to you (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Tarot card for Sagittarius for the Full Moon in Cancer: King of Coins

Meaning: Stability, security, certainty. You are seeking practical ways and means, this Full Moon, to make your wealth, home, and work worlds feel safe and strong. You want to bed down, lay foundations, repair breaches, create certainty, have strong plans, feel robust in yourself.

The King of Coins brings you all of the ideas, motivation and determination to do this and you are ready to make this investment in yourself. Without that strong foundation, you can feel a little unmoored and unstable. Put down roots.     

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Capricorn

December 22 to January 21

Learning is key (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Tarot card for Capricorn for the Full Moon in Cancer: The Hierophant

Meaning: Go have as many conversations with those you feel are either older, wiser, or have different life experiences to you. Seek a mentor, or several! Be open to new ideas and thinking this Full Moon.

The Hierophant sees you pressure-testing your own beliefs, outlooks, and opinions about wealth, work and home. Looking to others’ examples. Looking to see things differently and from an alternative perspective. Sometimes you have to stretch your thinking to find what’s best and right for you. Don’t live in a comfort zone, come out and find new ideas. And take them back to lab to make what you will of them for 2024.

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Aquarius

January 22 to February 19

A change of strategy may be in order (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Tarot card for Aquarius for the Full Moon in Cancer: The Hanged Man

Meaning: You are a radical and innovative thinker, Aquarius, and you enjoy making unpredictable leaps and moves… The Hanged Man asks you to reverse that trend this Full Moon and focus on the things which feel (or you want to be) permanent in your life.

Are you committing like you ought to? Do you put the right attention and energy into the things which create your stability? Do others feel you take them seriously? Think about this and make any necessary adjustments.   

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Pisces

February 20 to March 20

Where are these feelings coming from? (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Tarot card for Pisces for the Full Moon in Cancer: Seven of Coins

Meaning: Pisces, you feel stirrings this Full Moon of a deep desire to change course in an area of your life that currently feels stable (although maybe too safe? Even dull?).

You don’t need to do anything fast or radical, you just need to stop suppressing these feelings and let them flow a little, see where they take you, understand their drivers. The Seven of Coins is an omen of change, of new horizons… nothing too soon, but coming anyway. You will evolve to a new path in 2024 and it starts right here.  

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Cancer is a sign that’s big on home and family.