March 2 to March 8, 2026
Last week’s reading was such a mess, I hardly know what to think about this one and guess what? (What?) It does not disappoint. Also, factor in the full moon on the 3rd. A full moon of such apparent heaviness, as per soothsayers and astrologers, that if you have no boots you should get some and prepare to shake in them. In fact, when I wrote out my calendar for the year, back in December, I noted, pleasantly, that this full moon is traditionally called the “Worm Moon.” That’s very Old Farmer’s Almanac, and not the reference being used now by other energy readers, which is to call this THE BLOOD MOON.
Really? Because that sounds like everything every astrologer has said about celestial events for the last six years, frankly, so get out of my face.
We’ll deal with the full moon in a couple days. Back to this week, as follows:
- The Magician
- 8 of Swords, reversed
- 4 of Cups
- 6 of Cups
- 10 of Wands, reversed
Here’s the thing about Magicians, before you get excited. Magicians do not care about results. You’d think they would, and you probably saw this card top of the list and got excited over the prospects for tremendous advancement through dazzling feats of effort, but please calm down.
Yes, the Magician is a great card. But he has to be read in the context of the other cards.
When I started grade school, one of the only interesting things about it was a playground activity I’d never imagined in my mostly solitary childhood. It was called, informally, Crack the Whip. I bet you can’t play it now.
To do Crack the Whip, you ran past the playground equipment and into the field, and grabbed hands with the other kids. Then the first kid would start running, and the energy would transfer down the line of clasped hands until ALL the kids were running, and the pack leader would direct what happened next by sudden turns, or stops, or wild changes of direction.
This was cracking the whip. The leader slung all the kids around and we loved it. If you have never played it, you should, if you can find any adults to run out in a field and do it but probably the ones old enough to get it, or who remember it (God bless them) will have bad knees or Carpal Tunnel, thusly prohibiting participation, and what a sad thing that is. Because Crack the Whip was a riot.
The Magician is an expert at Crack the Whip. And he is always at the head of the line, doing the cracking. He will absolutely never pause the game in order to find out if everybody is having fun, and if this is meeting expectations, and if the kid on the end has dislocated his elbow yet.
The Magician does not care about results, only process. Results? He’s already lost interest by the time you get to that part.
And so you must read the Magician in accordance with the cards that surround him, and in this week’s case, please prepare for your drowsy trance, after the brief flare of early entertainment shown you by the Magician.
Because after he does his thing, we settle back into inertia. The reversed 8 of Swords indicates that whatever the Magician engages in, it won’t be enough.
Four of Cups? Nope, not enough. The Magician did not move us from our stupor, our sense that what he’s offering…meh.
Six of Cups asks, “Magician, that’s cool, but could you please go back and do that thing you used to do, the thing we remember and really liked?”
Look, don’t ever say that to the Magician. Things you can say to the Magician:
- “This isn’t that impressive.”
- “I think you’re almost there.”
- “Could I have more?”
- “I just saw something interesting down the road, it was very shiny.”
These things will juice the Magician up, he’ll love it. But tell him to go backward? To revisit old territory? Do things he has already done? IMPOSSIBLE. You will just chase the Magician energy right out of the room. He’ll decamp and go elsewhere.
Anyway, so get ready for that. Nothing satisfies. Nothing is enough. Nothing relieves the burden. No love for the Magician, our hero. How do we deal with this?
Expectations. What did you think the Magician was going to do, anyway, fix stuff? The Magician fixes NOTHING. Please reframe your projections, because the Magician makes things happen, yes, but he kicks balls into motion. He does not care if they are aimed at the goal or not. He does not care if he gets the points.
If we are looking toward some energy to repair something in our lives, by way of returning us to where we remember last being comfortable, we will never be happy. Tarot reminds us in every single card (and there are 78 of them may I remind you) commenting on the human condition, to go forward, forward, forward.
So that’s what we have to remember this week, in order to navigate the energy and work with it. Razzle dazzle is happening but it’ll fly right over you if you don’t look up, because you’re walking with your head down, lumbering the same old cut out rut, holding on to the usual burdens.
Things are in motion. But you need to be ready to go forward, not backward, if you want to jump into this game of Crack the Whip and see what happens.
