What do you need in March? Discover it with tarot cards! Let it go or become stubborn, only the cards can tell us

March can make us feel indebted to ourselves from the very first days. Not in that slightly gloomy way typical of January, when resolutions weigh on our shoulders like stones and we keep promising ourselves that over the months we will manage to fulfill them, but in a more subtle and sneaky way: it's as if something around us is finally starting to wake up, and we find ourselves there, still half asleep, with the vague feeling that we are missing out on something important. We don’t even know exactly what, maybe we just need to understand if the direction we took at the start of the year is the one we want to follow for the remaining nine months, or if perhaps we still have time to make a U-turn and leave at the first available turn. March is also the month when someone asks us how we are, and we reply that yes, we are fine, but in reality, it’s a lie we tell ourselves to avoid confessing that things are not fine at all, that our life is a huge question mark, and we don’t feel exactly comfortable in our own skin.

Tarot reading for March 2026

This month I decided to use tarot cards to try to understand not what might happen, but what we actually need. Not "in life" in a general sense, but right now, in this month that feels so uncertain for us. As always, don’t look for a definitive answer in the cards; you know they don’t give precise answers and certainly can’t tell us which path we should take: let’s allow ourselves to not have everything under control for once, take a deep breath, and find the time to look inside ourselves. What do we need right now, not to be happy, but to be at peace?

I drew three cards for this March. Which one attracts you most: 1, 2, or 3?

What do we need this March?

Four of Swords

The Four of Swords is a card that almost no one wants to see, yet in the end, almost everyone needs it. Deadlines rain down like March spring showers, but we can’t do everything because after a while our body decides to send us a signal: stop, or it will only get worse. What we need right now is, therefore, to stop. And this doesn’t mean just postponing to the next week, or taking half a day off to patch things up. It means that anything we have planned must be pushed to a later date. The problem is that we often don’t know how to do this without feeling guilty. We have become accustomed to justifying ourselves every time we need a moment of rest, and we only feel good in rest when we have "earned" it, as if standing still were a privilege. The card disagrees: it says that some things only fall into place when we stop obsessing over them. And I assure you, this is not laziness: it’s the only way to start feeling what we truly want, instead of automatically saying yes to every request, adding more pieces to our already crowded planner.

Ace of Cups (reversed)

The Ace of Cups, when upright, is the card of overflowing emotions, something eager to emerge. When reversed, however, nothing comes out of the cup: it’s not that it’s empty, but what’s inside can’t get out. We have been suppressing our emotions for so long that we no longer know how to express them. And the Ace of Cups tells us that we need this: to let our emotions out as much as possible. We don’t have to do anything grand. Often, even a quick little cry will suffice. Do you know what we really need? A mental space where we can allow ourselves to feel again without self-censorship. Maybe we are ashamed of a personal situation and think we have no one to talk to. Or we want to feel in love, happy, safe again, but feel that if we did, everything would inevitably fall apart. Blocking our feelings doesn’t make them disappear; it just makes them louder in the silence. This card reminds us of that, and asks us to listen to our emotions, even a little, just to avoid completely collapsing.

Seven of Wands

The Seven of Wands is the card of someone already at the top, but who can’t stop keeping their guard up, and over time, this wears you down inside. And we understand this feeling perfectly, because that exhaustion of always being alert, never allowing yourself to lower your guard, is one of the most draining feelings there is. What do we need now? To stop justifying ourselves. Neither to others, nor to ourselves. There is this habit of having to explain every choice we make, to convince someone that yes, we are doing the right thing, and that no, we are not overdoing it, and that the time and energy we invest in something totally make sense. And the problem isn’t even that others ask us to justify ourselves: often we do it alone, in our heads, at any hour of the day (but especially at night). What we have built is ours alone, without favors or luck: it’s the result of choices often made against the current, of moments when we persisted even when it would have been much easier to give up and choose something safer. So, we really need to recognize our own value, without waiting for someone else to do it for us. And remember that not every criticism deserves a response, not every outside doubt deserves to get under our skin. Could it be that we are fighting a battle with ourselves that we have already won?