Spooky season is well known and loved because it allows us a chance to put on a mask, dress up, pretend to be someone else. Alter egos and costumes can reveal aspects to our nature that we don’t embrace in ordinary reality.
Did you know that every zodiac sign has an alter ego character in the tarot cards? Each of us has a birth card paired with a tarot archetype (for example, Pisces is The Moon and Virgo is The Hermit).
Let me walk you through who your tarot character really is, and what spooky archetype it represents should you wish to embody that this coming magical, spooky season… maybe your alter ego is closer to home than you think!
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Aries
March 21 to April 20
The tarot’s alter ego for Aries: The Emperor
Your Halloween season archetype: The Warrior
Aries is, unsurprisingly, The Emperor in the tarot deck which embodies your sign’s natural leadership power and strength. Your fiery and courageous willpower makes you a protector and initiator.
This lends itself to a warrior archetype, which if you’re thinking of dressing up, unveils a host of soldier, assassin, warrior and superhero type characters from screen and page.
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Taurus
April 21 to May 21
The tarot’s alter ego for Taurus: The Hierophant
Your Halloween season archetype: The Witch
Taurus’s tarot card is The Hierophant which embodies spiritual leadership, tradition and custom, ancient structures and institutions. The Ministry of Magic? Perhaps, perhaps.
Taurean roots are grounded in traditional and natural rhythms, and the Earth element allows you to channel ancient wisdom and magic. This creates a beautiful link to witchcraft and wizardry, which you may enjoy doing more with this Halloween. Get witchy!
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Gemini
May 22 to June 21
The tarot’s alter ego for Gemini: The Lovers
Your Halloween season archetype: The Trickster
The Lovers is a dual-natured card: head vs heart conflicts, confusion and fluidity. Mercury rules the zodiac’s twins too, and reinforces the tricky nature of this tempting and shape-shifting card.
Playful and mercurial, you are the shapeshifter of the zodiac — curious, exploratory, and always testing boundaries. Loki would make a wonderful and fitting Halloween archetype character for you, we love to hate him, we never quite know who’s side he’s on, much like our Gemini folk!
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Cancer
June 22 to July 23
The tarot’s alter ego for Cancer: The Chariot
Your Halloween season archetype: The Mystic
Cancer’s tarot card is The Chariot which represents your force and drive when your heart is locked onto a goal or purpose (or person). Cancerians are unstoppable when roused. And this arousal always comes from a deeply spiritual and mystical place.
You have an inner compass. Embrace your mystical self this spooky season, channel your spiritual depth and psychic power to set a new life goal (it is Witch’s New Year on October 31, after all).
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Leo
July 24 to August 23
The tarot’s alter ego for Leo: Strength
Your Halloween season archetype: The Lionheart
Leo links with the Strength card in the tarot which is always symbolised with a maiden embracing a lion, or sometimes another apex predator.
Magnetic and bold, your power lies in confidence and courage; your willingness to tame shadows and beasts with your warmth and charisma. So be brave this Halloween and face a fear, or support a loved one to do so. Be the modern-day lionheart we all need and use your natural protective powers.
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Virgo
August 24 to September 23
The tarot’s alter ego for Virgo: The Hermit
Your Halloween season archetype: The Seer
The Hermit is your card in the tarot, and did you know we are in the Year Of The Hermit (as 2025 = 9, and this is the 9th card of the major arcana). Wise and discerning, you hold the lantern of insight, showing others hidden truths and paths forward, just like The Hermit or his spooky archetype The Seer.
If ever this were an invitation to get a reading (or learn tarot or oracle cards yourself) then this is the window of opportunity as the veils between worlds thins, and you can receive messages from beyond. This is your priority this spooky season. Messages await…
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Libra
September 24 to October 23
The tarot’s alter ego for Libra: Justice
Your Halloween season archetype: The Witch Queen
Justice is your sign’s tarot card which represents your resonance with truth, fairness, balance and harmony, you want everything on an even keel in your kingdom, and this presents a regal, queenly slant to your archetype.
You weave balance and harmony into every spell, conjuring fairness, beauty, and cosmic order. You are the magical regal ruler of your realm and you should embrace that and wield your power even more confidently… you deserve it, you know how to use it wisely and for good intent.
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Scorpio
October 24 to November 22
The tarot’s alter ego for Scorpio: Death
Your Halloween season archetype: The Necromancer
Halloween fittingly lands in Scorpio season as your sign’s ruler and tarot card (Pluto and Death respectively) rule over endings and rebirths, transformation, shadow work, death, and underworld magic.
Step into your necromancer shoes this spooky season and commune with the other side, Scorpio! You are the sign with all the psychic gifts so embrace this charged time of year to slip between the veil, through a séance, trance or astral travels, and see what lies beneath and beyond…
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Sagittarius
November 23 to December 21
The tarot’s alter ego for Sagittarius: Temperance
Your Halloween season archetype: The Alchemist
Temperance is your card and signifies harmony, moderation, blending extremes to make a new centre ground, alchemy and chemistry! With fire and vision, you blend opposites into gold, seeking higher truths and spiritual adventure.
You are a philosopher and a magician. Focus on the theme of alchemy this Halloween – make potions, mix and match ideas, people and activities to invent new outcomes, take the extremes of your life or mindset and blend them together and see what you create!
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Capricorn
December 22 to January 21
The tarot’s alter ego for Capricorn: The Devil
Your Halloween season archetype: The Shadow Weaver
Capricorns are linked to The Devil in the tarot, a sophisticated, worldly, ambitious and do-what-thou-wilt energy, which mirrors your nature. The Devil lives and moves confidently around our shadow self’s realm, revealing hidden desires and unmasking illusions, teaching mastery over temptation and self-control.
Be the shadow weaver this Halloween and master your own shadow self – understand how it manifests IRL, what it is protecting, and how you can embrace or comfort it so you can transmute its power and energy for good!
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Aquarius
January 22 to February 19
The tarot’s alter ego for Aquarius: The Star
Your Halloween season archetype: The Oracle
Aquarians are pure and natural truth tellers, always looking to build, progress, and to strive to make the world a better place by revealing the reality of things and improving them. Your card is The Star – the symbol of truth, purity, and wish-making. When you wish upon a star, people’s real selves are revealed in their heartfelt wishes, right?
Be an oracle this Halloween. Help to reveal truths, inspire folk, provide hope when there is darkness, and grant whatever small wishes you can to those you love and like. Be a literal ‘light-worker’, this is your natural state.
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Pisces
February 20 to March 20
The tarot’s alter ego for Pisces: The Moon
Your Halloween season archetype: The Mermaid
Always dreamy and liminal, you walk between worlds, a guide of intuition, magic, and the unseen. The Moon is your tarot card for this reason and relates perfectly to another symbol of your sign, and your archetype, the mermaid.
The Moon controls our oceans tidal forces, and the mermaid swims adeptly through them, bringing her beauty and wisdom to land too, but never really feeling at home there. You can feel like a fish out of water too, you feel so deeply. Embrace your mermaid self, your water element, and swim out to a place you feel at home!
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Kerry King has been reading, teaching and creating tarot for 30 years. Join her magical, exclusive Tarot Club for forecasts, predictions, lessons and readings straight to your inbox. Enjoy one month free for all Metro readers (no lock-in or commitment) over on Patreon.
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