The Moon
The Moon represents intuition and shifting temperaments, like the tide it controls, bringing both dreamlike calm and unsettling illusion. It highlights a duality between soothing imagery and lurking threats, suggesting that shadows may hide truths as well as keys. In the upright position it can blur reality and illusion, provoking anxiety, paranoia, and confusion. Reversed aspects point to releasing fear, engaging the subconscious and intuition, and confronting one's shadow to restore clarity and imagination.
Keywords
Poem: Stanza 1
The milk light of moon reveals that which we fear, her shadows are tricky and their purpose unclear.
Poem: Stanza 2
The Moon summons up that which we dream, but the shadows it casts hide what needs to be seen.
Poem: Stanza 3
Its inky blackness may hide the key but in releasing our demons we set our inner self free.
Meaning:
The Moon is an intuitive card of ever changing temperaments, much like the tide it controls. Although it can have a calming or dream-like quality, it is also associated with anxiety and illusion. This is indicated by the duality between the peaceful dragon and the ominous, shadowy wolves lurking all around her.
Meaning (continued)
This is because while the shadow cast by The Moon may be a call for serenity, the upright position distorts the lines between illusion and reality, driving one to panic and paranoia.
Upright keywords:
anxiety, confusion, self-deception, compulsive lying, rejecting intuition, irrational behavior, out of touch with reality, phobias, fear, illusion, insecurity, madness, nightmares, vagueness
Reversed keywords:
release of fear, the subconscious, pleasant dreams, intuition, confronting one's 'shadow self', fantasies, day dreams, subsiding anxiety, imagination
Visual Description
A luminous full moon and scattered stars hover near the top with the Roman numeral XVIII above. A pale, serpentine winged horse-like creature arches downward over a dark, reflective pool, its flowing mane and feathered wings catching the moonlight. Two dark canine or wolf-like figures rise from the shadowed water among swirling waves and reeds, and the border at the bottom displays the title "The Moon."
Children of Litha tarot
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