Taurus weekly horoscope: What your star sign has in store for June 22
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TAURUS
APRIL 21 - MAY 21
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Sticking to your guns on a family issue may not be easy, but you can do it when you keep circling back to why, rather than fretting over how.
You dislike conflict, but healthy debate can be so healing for you this week.
As for passion, the new moon loosens any shyness, and partners relate on a new level of absolute honesty.
Single? The One gets your name wrong the first time.
DESTINY DAYS
You have extra diplomacy on Tuesday; make sure you use it.
Go for "F" introductions on Wednesday and "M" competitions on Thursday.
Blast through cash barriers on Friday.
MAKE THIS THE WEEK YOU
Let yourself feel and appear more vulnerable, even if it feels risky.
Walk a favourite route in reverse to spot an amazing opportunity.
TAROT CHALLENGE
Recognising that luck and love can go in two very different directions but swing back your way eventually, this is the message on your Taurus Tarot card, THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE.
This week you have so much to learn from someone you may consider your enemy, or at least a rival.
And a new ability to see and accept all aspects of fate means you will not repeat recent mistakes.
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Cancer season emerges and a Cancerian New Moon so we are all going to be feeling a little more inclined to stay in, cosy up with loved ones, heal and restore our spirits, and tend to the things closest to home. We all need a reset week like that sometimes, right? Let the tarot guide you towards the key step you can take to make yourself, your soul energy, and your home realm feel safe, happy, inspiring, and loving. Let's feel good ! Looking for specific or deeper insight? Check out my brutally honest and direct reading here, with same day delivery too. March 21 to April 20 Tarot card for Aries for this week: Ten of Cups Meaning: Romance Whatever your relationship status, you can make your realm and self feel more romantic, whimsical, imaginative, carefree, loving, and beloved. Rituals, self care, pampering, nature, good food and plenty of hydration, soppy films or music, flowers on the table. You are Megan Markle sprinkling blossoms on breakfast! Well, maybe not, but you are romanticising your life – and it feels great. Head here for everything you need to know about being an Aries April 21 to May 21 Tarot card for Taurus for this week: Death Meaning: Transformation A makeover, a spring clean, a glow up, a regime change, a new routine or schedule, a spruce and revamp of your space, a new task or alliance in work, a change of opinion or outlook. Notice what is fading or ebbing away or feels false in your realm. And let it go. Release it from your grip. And let new energy replace it, new ideas and options, new opportunity and company. All change. Head here for everything you need to know about being a Taurus May 22 to June 21 Tarot card for Gemini for this week: Six of Swords Meaning: Release All Geminis are good at letting go of what's not serving them, it's a key trait of the sign, the ability to move on and not look back. Why do you hesitate now then? This 'thing' you're sick of has been a long time coming, and you've perhaps felt bad about severing the tie or felt reluctant to lose your 'only pair of shoes' (as they say). But it's time. It's the right time to do this. You are only blocking your own path ahead, you are only limiting your own energy. Walk away from what hurts or doesn't work. A new horizon will emerge. Head here for everything you need to know about being a Gemini June 22 to July 23 Tarot card for Cancer for this week: The Star Meaning: Manifesting It is your season and New Moon, after all, so you get all the cosmic goodies! The Star is a beautiful card of wish fulfilment and dreams coming true. It's an invitation to make your most heartfelt passion or goal a reality, and it starts here. The Universe will respond to your intent and overt steps and back you up with good fortune and unexpected opportunity, but it needs to see you get the ball rolling first. Make magic, Cancer, it's your time to shine. Head here for everything you need to know about being a Cancer July 24 to August 23 Tarot card for Leo for this week: Six of Cups Meaning: Nostalgia Revisit your childhood this week, literally or mentally, and replay the show reel, the happiest of times. Watch old movies, play your records, have a school disco, reunite with besties, get the photo album out, call family, daydream about your favourite times, take a trip to an old haunt. Sometimes we get so much healing and insight from revisiting older versions of ourselves and remembering what we loved, liked, hated, and thrived on. Sometimes it's a nudge to reinvent something. At the very least, process something. Head here for everything you need to know about being a Leo August 24 to September 23 Tarot card for Virgo for this week: The Devil Meaning: Desire Let yourself go ,Virgo, let yourself admit what it is you truly want or need, and just go for it. You set a lot of rules and boundaries and controls around your behaviour and thinking, and sometimes that's a good thing, makes you efficient, strong, protected, safe… but sometimes it thwarts your enjoyment of and ability to live a full life. We are here to experience everything. Let yourself admit to a temptation and maybe even succumb to it. Set new rules or enjoy smashing the old ones altogether! Be a devil (for once). Head here for everything you need to know about being a Virgo September 24 to October 23 Tarot card for Libra for this week: Eight of Cups Meaning: A lucky break This card is a promise that something amazing is just around the corner. You can't see it coming yet but trust that it is, and therefore relax and enjoy where you're at. Don't chase anything, or anyone. Don't force an issue. Don't cling onto a dream that hasn't worked out. Let it all go. Something way better is coming along and you just need to be in an optimistic, relaxed frame of mind, ready to receive! Prepare to be amazed and delighted by what this week brings. Head here for everything you need to know about being a Libra October 24 to November 22 Tarot card for Scorpio for this week: Knight of Wands Meaning: Adventure This card is like Indiana Jones setting out on a hair-raising escapade and winning all the trophies, romance, rewards, and accolades along the way. He doesn't have a masterplan, he uses his wits and a heft dose of good luck, and this is your mode of attack this week. Jump in! Say yes! Do it! Whether it's travel, a big change, a holiday, a social event, a new course or project, a romance of blossoming friendship, invest in what makes your heart beat faster and give it your all. Go on a wonderful adventure. Who knows where it could lead? Head here for everything you need to know about being a Scorpio November 23 to December 21 Tarot card for Sagittarius for this week: The Tower Meaning: Revelation You are a very honest sign, ruled by Jupiter and willing to say things that others would suppress. A bruising but necessary and useful dialogue will unlock truths you didn't see coming this week but it's actually all a relief. You could sense an underlying tension or secrecy, and you hate that feeling of dread more than any event. Now you know what's what. Now you can react and rebuild and restore normality on your terms. So, have those tough conversations. Get the truth. Feel good about having a firm foundation again. Head here for everything you need to know about being a Sagittarius December 22 to January 21 Tarot card for Capricorn for this week: The Hermit Meaning: Solitude Music to your ears, I bet, as you are not keen on having your social battery drained nor having to be on show or colluding with others. 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Eight days apart, at the British Summer Time stage in Hyde Park, in front of a crowd of 65,000, two glittering, platinum pop titans will perform. First up, next Friday, is Olivia Rodrigo: 22 years old, 46 million monthly listeners on Spotify; 14 Grammy nominations; three wins; and about to headline Glastonbury. Then, on July 5 and 6, Sabrina Carpenter: 26 years old, 70 million monthly listeners on Spotify; six Grammy nominations; two wins; her song Espresso the biggest single of 2024 by a female artist. The pair have often been depicted as bitter rivals: two Disney Channel alumni whose overlapping journeys to superstardom were powered partly by lyrics that may, or may not, have been written about the same ex-boyfriend. But really, they are both lessons in how to pull off the Disney breakaway — what happens when young women wriggle out of their contracts and embrace their new freedom by singing about the brutality and reality of modern girlhood, its shattering heartbreaks and the fun of the rebound. One of the things that marks both of them out is the obsessiveness with which their fans pore over their songs and image-making, whether it's Rodrigo last week being accused on social media of ordering a Nashville music venue to take down Taylor Swift imagery before she filmed there — it was actually removed by the venue for legal reasons — or Carpenter sending the internet into meltdown with the suggestive cover art for her new album, Man's Best Friend. Rodrigo grew up in Temacula, California, a theatre kid in a family who did other things — her mother a teacher, her father a therapist. After various singing competitions and school productions, she was made the lead in the American Girl doll franchise movie at 12 years old and, the following year, cast in Disney's Bizaardvark and then High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, a mockumentary. Rodrigo was homeschooled, studying for her exams on set. 'Like, 'Oh shit, I worked my whole childhood and I'm never going to get it back,'' she told The Guardian in 2023. 'I didn't go to football games, I didn't have this group of girlfriends that I hung out with after school. That's kind of sad.' After a song she wrote for the High School Musical show went viral, Rodrigo sought a record deal, choosing not to make music for Disney's in-house label. She went with Interscope/Geffen. Disney allowed her to break her contract before the show's fourth series and, during the pandemic, Rodrigo sat down to write. In 2021 her song Drivers License went stratospheric, breaking a Spotify record as the first song to hit 80 million streams in seven days. The track reached No 1 in 48 countries on Apple Music, 31 countries on Spotify and 14 countries on YouTube. 'It's been the absolute craziest week of my life,' she said in an interview. 'My entire life just, like, shifted in an instant.' Four months later she released her debut album, Sour, a pop-punk triumph about her teenage heartbreak, the songs searing and seething with anger, underwritten by longing and ache — all written by a 17-year-old, with her producer, Dan Nigro. Though she stretched her legs in the ballads, it was her stroppy, plucky rock which was particularly satisfying. Critics, with some arch surprise that it had come from a squeaky-clean Disney-kid, gave the album rave reviews. At Glastonbury 2022 she brought on Lily Allen to sing Allen's 2009 banger F*** You, dedicating it to the Supreme Court justices who had just overturned the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in the United States. 'I'm devastated and terrified, and so many women and so many girls are going to die because of this,' Rodrigo said on stage, having spent hours memorising her speech. As well as being a great song with crushing lyrics, it created a perfect storm of gossip and intrigue. 'And you're probably with that blonde girl,' she sang, 'who always made me doubt — she's so much older than me.' Fans were convinced she was singing about her former Disney co-star Joshua Bassett, with whom they thought she had a romantic relationship. The 'blonde girl', they suspected, was Sabrina Carpenter, who was rumoured to have dated Bassett the next summer. 'I put it out not knowing that it would get that reaction, so it was really strange [when] it did,' Rodrigo told Variety. 'I just remember [everyone being] so weird and speculative about stuff they had no idea about.' She also said she and Carpenter had only met 'once or twice in passing'. 'So I don't think I could write a song that was meaningful or emotional about somebody that I don't know.' In January 2021, two weeks after Drivers License blew up, Carpenter released Skin. 'Maybe 'blonde' was the only rhyme,' went the lyrics. 'You been telling your side, so I'll be telling mine.' She, like Rodrigo, was not drawn on specifics. 'The song isn't calling out one single person,' she wrote on Instagram. 'Some lines address a specific situation, while other lines address plenty of other experiences I've had this past year.' The internet whirled, creating soap opera plots around them. They both later said they received a barrage of death threats. Bassett told People magazine that he received so much hate that he was taken to hospital, diagnosed with septic shock. 'I have a right to stand up for myself,' he told GQ. 'People don't know anything they're talking about.' For his part Bassett, 24, has just been on a European tour, playing venues in Glasgow, Birmingham and London that are about 20 times smaller than his apparent exes' Hyde Park performances. Carpenter, meanwhile, has hit mega fame. Her sixth album, Short n' Sweet — she is 5ft tall — debuted at No 1 in America. Her single Espresso went platinum in more than a dozen countries and won a Grammy for best pop solo performance. The Disney empire first claimed Carpenter, who grew up East Greenville, Pennsylvania, at 12 years old, signing her into a five-record deal, after which she starred in its show Girl Meets World. After family-friendly pop, Carpenter broke away from the label after just four albums ('I definitely didn't fulfil my contract, thank god,' she told Vogue) and signed with Island Records at 22. Her fifth album, Emails I Can't Send, took a turn towards something more grown-up — and cheeky. 'Woke up this morning, thought I'd write a pop hit,' she trills. Her image shifted again for Short n' Sweet, taking on a hyper-femme, soft-edged, Betty Boop look, her blonde hair big and bouncing. As Time magazine put it: 'She's short, she's funny, and she's horny.' But as she became more of a sex bomb, she got more sardonic. 'You'll just have to taste me when he's kissing you,' she sings in Taste. Her video for Please Please Please featured her then-boyfriend, the actor Barry Keoghan, shortly after his viral scene in Saltburn, in which he is so lustful for his friend he drinks his bathwater. During her performance at Coachella, she swapped her lyrics around with a wink. 'He's drinking my bathwater like it's red wine,' she sang. After their break-up, the internet is again spinning with speculation that her new song, Manchild, relates to him. 'This song became to me something I can look back on that will score the mental montage to the very confusing and fun young adult years of life,' she wrote on social media. It includes the couplet: 'Never heard of self-care/ Half your brain just ain't there.' Carpenter's amped-up naughtiness, however, now runs the risk of tipping into alienation. Her recent album cover, which shows her on her knees in front of a man's legs, while a hand pulls her hair, drew enormous criticism including from Glasgow Women's Aid. Her caricature of the sexualised, submissive woman suddenly looked exactly like the thing it was supposed to be riffing off. At Hyde Park, Rodrigo and Carpenter will hit the same stage on successive weekends after sold-out arena tours, their fans trailing in stomper boots and eyeliner (Rodrigo) or sequins and pale-pink babydoll dresses (Carpenter). It is a very modern coming-of-age story, two young women whose specificity of lyrics and canny presentation of their personal lives have whipped up a frenzy of speculation; whose rage and cheek and charm has been released on the world; who dazzle and glitter — and kick 'em where it hurts.
