March 31, 2025 Community Tarot Reading for the Week

Monday, March 31, 2025
Waxing Moon
Venus & Mercury Retrograde

I don’t know about you, but I’m still in eclipse hangover. There’s also the frisson of a new moon in Aries fighting the retrograde energy of Venus & Mercury to start the week. Fortunately, today the moon moves into Taurus, which is a little more stable, and then continues its journey throughout the week.

Last week was very much about relationships. There were some lovely surprises in a couple of instances, and some battles in others. I kept coming back to the reading for the week to try to stay grounded.

We have one more week of Mercury Retrograde to survive, and a little under two weeks of Venus Retrograde. From April 13 we have a handful of weeks retrograde-free until Pluto goes retrograde again on May 5.

I look at Mercury Retrograde as a vacation from magic and ritual. I keep up with daily gratitude and blessings, with meditation and yoga. I still bless when I clean. But I don’t start anything new.

I also do not do 1 on 1 tarot readings for anyone else during this time, because of communication confusion so likely during Mercury retrograde. While I will continue to post the community readings during the retrograde, your own interpretation and discernment will be even more important than usual during this time. Take what resonates; leave the rest behind. That is always true, but especially during Mercury retrograde. Take the time to really think about what does and does not resonate and why.

For the month of March, we are using the Midnight City Tarot Mini 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

I only used the tarot cards this week, because the information is reasonably straightforward. All five cards are Major Arcana, which means this week is about Big Things.

The Collective Energy of the Week – The High Priestess
Our High Priestess sits on a crescent moon. It’s a reminder to keep yourself above the fray this week, look for the symbols that come up to give you information, and most importantly, trust your intuition.

 

 

The Week’s Challenge – The Magician
The Magician is about having all the tools you need to create the life you want. This card depicts a beautifully decorated East Village fire escape, complete with magical tools. The challenge this week, as both Venus & Mercury tighten the screws nearing their end points, is to remember that these challenges are temporary. How we meet them and navigate them helps open our paths to the future we want, and we DO have the power to make it happen. The energy flows through the Magician, who then transmutes it through action into manifestation.

The Week’s Opportunity – The Lovers
This card doesn’t have to be about romantic love. It can be about partnership. Other decks often have three figures, indicating the need for a decision. However, look at this card – two hands clasped in harmony, facing a NYC skyline. This card, in this position, indicates the opportunity to join hands with those you care about to face the future.

 

The Week’s Stretch – The Hierophant
This ties into the earlier cards, especially the Lovers in the previous position. This week, you realize you can’t do it on your own. It’s time to be in spiritual community with others, and learn from a both a teacher and from your fellow students. And they will learn from you. You may feel like it’s just adding one more thing to your week, but it will be worth it.

 

The Week’s Comfort – The Wheel of Fortune
The art on this card depicts the Wonder Wheel at Luna Park on Coney Island. The Wheel of Fortune reminds us that everything is cyclical. We may be feeling stuck and challenged in this retrograde energy, but the days keep going, and it will change. Things will get easier; things will get more challenging. That’s the way of it. As these cycles happen, look at where you need to break patterns that cause you to repeat difficulties, or that hold you back. See where you can turn it into an upward spiral, rather than a hamster-on-a-wheel circle. This week, look around you and be aware of a lucky break. If you’re not paying attention, you might miss it.

Tomorrow is April Fool’s Day, which feels rather redundant this year, but there we are.

Next week, when we reconvene, Mercury will be going direct, and we will start a new deck for the month.

I’ve loved working with these decks this month, and deepening my work with them.

Did anything in particular about this reading resonate with you? Did you get a completely different interpretation? I’d love to hear from you in the comments.