Monday, March 3, 2025
Waxing Moon
Venus Retrograde
We are in March! Here in the Northern Hemisphere, there’s a hope that spring will soon arrive.
Last week was definitely a challenge. For me, there was a lot of 5 of Wands Energy. The Hanged Man helped, and I even achieved a little of the 9 of Pentacles. But, overall, it was an emotionally challenging week, and I felt wrung out by the end of it. The political landscape contributes a great deal to the stress. I do not have the privilege of pretending it doesn’t directly affect me on a daily basis.
For the month of March, we are using the Midnight City Tarot Pocket Deck, written and illustrated by Jackie Franco, and her full-sized City of Dreams Oracle deck. They work really well together. Both decks are New York-centric. As someone who spent many years living and working in theatre in New York, this deck speaks strongly to me. The quality of these decks is wonderful. They feel good as one handles them. You can learn more about the decks and buy them here.
If you’re new to the weekly readings, this is a spread of mine. It’s read from left to right, 5 cards. Any card that needs more interpretation can be built into further, above and below, with either more tarot cards, another tarot deck, or an oracle deck.
These interpretations are mine, based on my experience, intuition and responses to the artwork. You may have a different experience. This is an overview of the week as it stands now; every decision we make from the moment of the reading can change the outcome. If there’s something in the reading that worries you, you have the information ahead of time so that you can plan, make better choices, or handle it differently than predicted for a better outcome. Tarot sets out possibilities, which you change through your choices and actions.
Left to right, the positions are as follows:
1. The Collective Energy of the Week
2. The Week’s Challenge
3. The Week’s Opportunity
4. The Week’s Stretch
5. The Week’s Comfort
Let’s dive in!
The Collective Energy of the Week – Queen of Wands
The Queen of Wands is someone who is comfortable in her own skin and her own power. She knows who she is, and doesn’t try to hide it. She’s vibrant, fun, and confident. In this card, she’s on a rooftop patio, watching fireworks over the city. This card is about inspiring others by being yourself. Since it’s the energy for the week, it advises us to inspire each other with our very presence.
The Week’s Challenge – 9 of Coins
9 of Coins (or pentacles, in some decks) This is about allowing yourself the luxury you’ve earned for yourself. Luxuries are anything that makes you feel special and abundant. It can be something complex, or it can be something as simple as taking yourself out for a manicure, as shown in the card. With Venus in retrograde, there’s a need to reassess finances and our relationship to money. That warns us not to overspend. But, at the same time, having this card in this position encourages us to do something nice for ourselves this week to make us feel like we’re living in abundance, and to recognize how much abundance we really have in our lives (even though everything on a larger level is determined to make us feel hopeless and poverty-stricken). Allow yourself a small indulgence to remind yourself that we do live in abundance, even when factions are trying to gaslight us otherwise, so they can remove that abundance and keep it for themselves.
The Week’s Opportunity – 1 of Coins
This is equivalent to the ace. It shows an acorn (set in Prospect Park). An acorn holds the possibility of growing into a sturdy oak, if nurtured and cared for. This week, we have a new opportunity to build something beautiful, strong, and tangible on the physical plane. By allowing ourselves moments of abundance (the 9 in the previous position) and going forth in the world comfortable in our own skins (the Queen of Wands), we put ourselves in a position to recognize this new opportunity and nurture it.
The Week’s Stretch – Death
Again, don’t be afraid of this card. It’s about transformation. It’s okay to mourn what you’ve left behind. In fact, it’s healthy and necessary. In order to make room for the 1 of Coins in the previous position, we have to let go and close out something else. We have to clear space – does that sound familiar? Because the same card showed up in the same position last week. In the Cozy Witch Tarot, we had the Broom, which is the card representing Death in that deck, encouraging us to sweep out what we don’t need. And last week, we were in the waning moon. Having the card in the same position this week, with the turn into the waxing moon, indicates that we didn’t clear out everything we needed last week, and it’s ongoing. Block in some time this week to think about what needs to be cleared away, honor it, and remove it, so that you have room for the wands and coins earlier in this reading. Look at the art on the card. The tree is losing its leaves. But next spring, it will have new buds and grow again, revived.
The Week’s Comfort – 5 of Wands
The 5 of Wands is a card of conflict. The dogs are barking at each other. Their leashes are tangled up. There’s a stack of trash bags in the background. How can that be a comfort this week? Chances are we’ll feel conflicted about letting go of something, about the new opportunity, about our self-worth (Venus retrograde again), and about allowing ourselves a treat. The comfort is that this is temporary. The 5 is a card of motion, and the middle of the suit. Things accelerate from here.
Exploring this card further, the Foundation of this conflict and discomfort is Letting Go. This ties into the stretch card for the week of Death. Let go, make room. The art on it is even a leaf which could have come off the tree in the Death card. Right now, in all the chaos, it’s very hard to trust anything, especially our own intuition. There’s a lot of toxic positivity going around, blaming us for feeling scared. Now is the time, more than ever, to dig into our personal Queen of Wands and be who we are. Trust our own intuition. Clear away what’s not working to make room for what is. With the Venus retrograde and an incoming Mercury retrograde in a couple of weeks, it may not show up quickly. And the gap between the clearing out and the new possibilities can be scary. But we’ll be ready when it does. The 1 of Coins in the opportunity position this week indicates that it is already a seed, but we must make room for it to grow.
Does anything in this reading resonate for you? Or is your interpretation different? I’d love to hear from you in the comments.