March 3, 2026
This is how it works, putting together a moon reading with a weekly reading. You have two energies, and it’s like wearing a sweater in the house with the air conditioning on.
One, it is hot outside. The house would be stuffy and too warm if we did not have the AC. But (two,) the AC blows on me and makes me cold, requiring a sweater, and so I’m trying to be comfortable while simultaneously being too hot and too cold.
Somewhere in there is balance. And so it is, with the energy forecast of our weekly reading, blended with the moon reading. All of the factors in a reading are like arrows aimed at a target; some will hit, some will not. This is the element of chance and randomness that keeps our existence from being static.
This week’s lovely full moon is traditionally called the Worm Moon. This year we’re affected by an eclipse, so this casts a shadow over the Worm Moon, turning it into a Blood Moon, or as I’ve also seen it referenced: the Worm Blood Moon. Which is better than calling it the Bloody Worm Moon, so there’s that.
Our cards for the WBM:
- Page of Pentacles
- The Tower
- The Sun, reversed
- 6 of Wands, reversed
- Justice
The foundation: that Page of Pentacles. Pentacles address issues of food, money, and shelter. They speak to the things we must secure before we can jump off and start doing other things, if we want those things to have the best chance of success. The Page is letting us know what is most important for the next two weeks.
The Tower: usually, I am ecstatic to see the Tower, because I love it when stuff gets stirred up and anthills kicked over. And the Tower always references something that needs to go, because it doesn’t work and it holds old energy in place so it becomes stagnant and harmful.
But we’ve got a reversed Sun card, and then a reversed 6 of Wands, so it gives me pause. We never want to see the Sun reversed, it’s just incredibly sad. The Sun is pure clarity, and if it is reversed, it is unable to offer that. It’s like somebody throws a bag over the Sun’s head and locks him in the trunk of a car, drives around aimlessly, then abandons the car at the airport.
6 of Wands is the dismal side of that card’s energy, too. 6 of Wands, when it is upright and celebrated, means great victory and, failing that, at least the energy to brazen it out and keep everybody motivated until the victory comes.
The Tower falls, but it doesn’t make anything better. It doesn’t make anything clearer, and better not schedule that party. Too soon? Yep.
But let’s circle back to this ray of hope: Justice. That’s a confusing card for people, because they think it means the highest reckoning, the verdict we all want the judge to issue, the sentence that seems appropriate and fair, the bad guys thrown under the jail. It’s not, though. Justice energy functions simply to get things back on track.
When there is a vehicle pileup on the highway from an accident, the priority is to get aid to the injured and clear the wrecked cars off the road in order to make traffic flow again. The emergency responders are not interested, at that time, in figuring out how the accident happened or who might be at fault. This will be addressed later. Right now the priority is Tarot Justice; it restores order.
That gives us the two cards bracketing this reading, Page of Pentacles and Justice. So I think the best course of action during this moon phase is based on doing what we need to do to secure our foundational matters, and make sure things flow forward in an unobstructed way. Will we understand the big picture, feel great about our efforts, celebrate? No. But do it just the same.