March 16 – 22, 2026
This morning, as I got out a deck to do the reading, a tarot themed sticker fell out of the box. The sticker does not go with the deck, so how it got in there I don’t know.
But there are no coincidences* so I thought I would mention it. The sticker is the Magician. What that says about this reading, I don’t know; except I’ve been thinking of how to approach these weekly energy forecasts that essentially say the same thing every time: things are very weird, hang on, do your own thing.
So yeah, I’ll have to be a Magician to take this reading someplace, and you’ll need to be a Magician to apply it and benefit. That’s what the Magician does. You show him something and he starts thinking, “Whoa. I could do cool stuff with that.” He never thinks, “What’s that, a basic stick? Big deal. Not interested.”
He’s always interested, friends. And we have to fight to remain interested, too, when we’d rather keep scrolling or find something to binge-watch while we wait the takeout delivery.
Here’s something new. In order to dial in the reading more, so we have a starting place and not such a blank canvas, I want to add some Lenormand cards to the reading. The Lenormand deck is a wonderful, Tarotish-not-Tarot deck of cards with very specific pictures. The pictures mean what they mean. There’s a snake, for instance. It means: SNAKE.
In Lenormand, there is not the big psychological, avatar type influencing and interpreting of the very fluid Tarot cards. It’s a snake, damn it. Stop trying to make it anything else.
With that in mind, I ask about the energetic weather for our upcoming week, first with Tarot to give us the influential factors, then Lenormand to see if those factors can be simplified into something that helps us more. Let’s try to turn “thirty percent chance of rain” into “you should absolutely take a raincoat.”
What’s our energetic climate this week?
- Page of Swords reversed
- Four of Swords reversed
- Two of Cups
- King of Pentacles reversed
- Ace of Pentacles reversed
HILARIOUS! Absolute bumbling and failure to get things right, with communications. There should be a Banana Peel Tarot card, because it feels that ridiculously bad to me.
Insert, into this absurdity, a brief moment of friendship and trying to make right. Yes, I really like you. Then, NO YOU CAN’T HAVE MY STUFF. And we’re back where we started.
With what’s going on in the world at large, I think we can see that pretty clearly. But this can also play out in your life; in either case, the theme is the desire for friendship, but not the contributing factors to make it so.
But I can’t dismiss that Two of Cups, upright, in the spread of reversed cards that go nowhere. Never rebuff an opportunity to take a step toward peace, even if you can’t yet agree on the details. That’s a hopeful note.
Now for the Lenormand cards – I will use a quick spread to ask what it might look like, if these suggested events materialize.
- Ship
- Scythe
- Moon
- Letter
- Book
That Ship! Here comes fast movement forward in an enterprise, and it’s most welcome. The thing is, it meets the Scythe. That card means cutting down and ending; on first glance, I’d think it would be good to have a speedy conclusion to something that has been in process. We love coming in to port, so we can get off the boat and be on firm ground again after weeks at sea.
This is skewed by the Ship meeting the Scythe, though. This is a sudden diversion, not the destination we originally booked. We’re docked, yes. But did we pack for this? Is it what we paid for?
The Moon is piling on a bit here, too. This fast ending to something that has recently gained traction is going to be emotional for us. We don’t have the clarity we want; we have the hazy glow of moonlight and some real vulnerability.
But when the fog clears, we’re handed the Letter, which means news. And specifically, news we did not know before, because that’s how a letter was traditionally received; we rip open the envelope to get to the unknown contents. Nobody ever sends a letter that reads, “I know we just texted for an hour about this, but I just thought I’d repeat it all over again.”
Letters bring news. Letters are startling and exciting. Books are knowledge. Like a letter, a book might contain information we did not know before but with this Letter-Book combo, I’m thinking the Letter will compel us to dig for answers and context. Whatever news that Letter delivers, it won’t be the end of it, and it will leave us with more questions than answers.
To put these together? The big steering currents are suggesting a lot of effort to make friends (peace) or to develop an understanding between two parties; but a lack of good communication complicates and delays resolution.
The Lenormand deck reinforces this, with its message of sudden endings, big emotions while trying to process that ending, and news that won’t tie everything up in a nice bow. We may be hit with a lot of information we did not know.
No, you can’t have my stuff. There’s a reason for that, and we are left grasping for answers in the (emotional) wake of it all.
“Well, I guess you could just go cry and write a poem about your feelings,” says the Magician, who has been poking at this pile of cards with his stick. “But I’m going to go figure this out.” He hopes you will do the same.
*In the simulated universe (cough, cough)
