Community Tarot Reading for the Week of March 30, 2026

Monday, March 30, 2026
Waxing Moon
No Retrogrades

Isn’t it wonderful to have a stretch of time with no retrogrades? Be careful, though; you don’t have to do EVERYTHING in the next handful of weeks. Don’t burn out. Set track, so when the retrogrades start up again and you have to slow down, you still have a path.

Wednesday, April 1, is the full moon. The full moon on April Fool’s Day, and a great day to work with both the Sun and the Fool cards.

I am not a fan of April Fool’s Day, since I find it’s too often used to excuse deliberate cruelty as humor. Instead, I choose to work with the Fool energy in a way that encourages taking new risks and trying new things.

I experienced elements of each of the cards in last week’s reading, but ended the week feeling much better than I did at the beginning.

This is our last week with the Mystic Storyteller Tarot. I’ve loved working with this deck over the month, and getting to know it better. I look forward to using it for my own readings often. The deck, The Mystic Storyteller, book and tarot is by Amanda Hughes, art by Roz Kazaz. You can read more about the artists by clicking their names, and buy the deck here.

This is one of my spreads, that I call The Elemental Spread. It is very similar to many of the Medicine Wheel spreads I’ve seen, but I made a few tweaks to the way I use it over the years.

We start in the center, with Spirit/Self. This is the overall energy of the week, and how we relate to it.

We move to the position above, with is North/Tangibles, connected to the element of Earth, advice on how to deal with the week on a tangible, materialistic level.

We move clockwise to the third position, East/Thought, connected to the element of Air, advice on how to intellectually deal with the week.

Then we move down to the bottom of the spread, the 4th position, South/Passion, connected to the element of Fire, advice on how to deal with the week from a place of passion and identity.

Then we move up to the left side of the spread, the 5th position, West/Emotion, connected to the element of Water, advice on how to deal with the week from a place of creativity and emotion.

We wind up where we started, at the spirit center, integrating all the information for the week.
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.

Center – Spirit/Self: The Ace of Pentacles
In the March 16 reading, this card was in the North, the position of tangibles. So something that was a tangible offer that week has become a driving force in our spirit this week. And it is an offer, the hand in the artwork is offering us this book with a pentacle on it. We are on a new tangible path.

 

 

North – Earth/Tangibles: Five of Cups
The 5 of Cups shows three spilled cups, and two cups still stable. Something is lost, something is retained. Often, the advice is not to focus on what is lost, but to remember what is still full. However, too often, the advice around this card doesn’t make room for grief. We live in a society that trivializes grief and rushes it. In order to walk the new path the Ace of Pentacles offers, we need to grieve something we’ve lost in this choice. Grieving is healthy, and makes room for what is new, as long as we look at is as a process rather than getting stuck in it. There’s a river depicted in this card, indicated flow. Let the emotions flow. Allow yourself room for healthy grief, so you have room to walk the path of the Ace of Pentacles.

East – Air/Thought/Intellect: The Hanged Man
I love the artwork on this card. The figure is literally hanging out and thinking. Things are scribbled out on the notepad, there are crumpled papers. The figure is in deep in the process, and deeply enjoying the process. The card landing in the East, the home of thought, is wonderful. You’re on a new, tangible path. You’re grieving what’s lost. But you don’t have to have it all figured out this week. Don’t rush yourself. Play with ideas in a relaxed and thoughtful way, and give yourself thinking room as well as emotional room.

South – Fire/Passion/Identity: The Empress
The Empress showed up two weeks ago, in the March 16th reading, in the position of Air. Now, she has cycled into the position of identity. In this position, it is about nurturing your creation and growth. Be kind to yourself this week, possibly kinder to yourself than usual. Listen to your body and what your gut instincts tell you. You know what you need; don’t ignore it.

 

West – Water/Creativity/Emotion: The Ace of Wands
The Ace of Wands is about starting a new, passionate path that is being true to yourself. In the position of creativity and emotion, it encourages you to create that path through imagination and emotion, taking your time (Hanged Man), and knowing that the Ace of Pentacles helps make it tangible.

There are two Major Arcana cards in the spread, the big energy. There are two Aces in the reading, meaning each of the suit’s energies bond closely with the other Ace’s energy. It also makes sense, since we are (finally) entering spring here in the Northern Hemisphere. The 5 of Cups looks like an outlier card, but it’s a necessary card of grief and release to help the path forward as one of steady growth, rather than regret. There are also two cards from the March 16th reading that show up again in this one, indicating a tie to what was going on in your life that week.

Did anything resonate with you, or did you get a different interpretation? I’m always happy to hear about it!

Next week, we start with a different deck and its companion oracle deck. I think you will enjoy them. Have a great week!