The Moon
The Moon card symbolizes intuition and deep, often uncomfortable emotions. It highlights the inevitability of fear and anxiety, warning of potential danger and urging caution. This card represents the primal instincts that alert us to threats, emphasizing the importance of listening to these feelings. In its inverted position, The Moon reflects mental health struggles and a complete loss of clarity to fear, suggesting a need for professional help or a reevaluation of one’s mental state.
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General Warnings
You know, you’d think that I’d be a fan of this card. It’s about intuition, and who doesn’t love the moon? That’s why doing your homework in tarot is important. This card is about intuition, but not the fun kind. It’s about the feeling you get before you get in an accident. Before natural disasters, animals oftentimes behave erratically. That’s this card. It’s the same primal thing we share with the dog and the wolf: something is coming and it isn’t good. The way that the path seems illuminated is creepy. You can’t see where it’s going, and you can’t see well enough to make your own path. You have to trust someone else to make decisions for you.
Anxiety and Control
Anxiety, nervousness, looming towers, rough water, and a freaky lobster rising from the depths. There is a lot of power present, but it’s the kind that you can’t control, and you’re not going to like the process. When this comes up in a reading, one of the things that I talk about is that sometimes we’re scared for a reason. Sometimes there is someone down that dark road with bad intentions. Sometimes you don’t just have a cold—it’s worse. Sometimes that guy who gives you the creeps at the store is exactly what you think he is. We’ve got the amygdala and the hypothalamus hidden beneath our prefrontal cortex telling us that sometimes there is a freaking lion out in the tall grass, and maybe we should get the hell out of there.
Real Fear
I think that fear—real fear—is dismissed a lot these days. You’re paranoid! You’re being overprotective or 'projecting' or whatever generic phrase has become popular lately. I get this a lot with my kids. I’m very, very protective, and whenever someone questions me, I remind them that it takes eight seconds to kidnap a child. Eight seconds. You’re damn right that scares me, and I’m going to protect my family. That’s the Moon card. Reminding you to walk with authority to your car, to lock the door to the house, and to remember that every tool is a weapon if you hold it right. How will you wield your fear? Is the blade facing toward you or away from you?
The Nature of Uncertainty
Why are we afraid? Because we don’t know. We don’t know. There is such anxiety tied with uncertainty. I’ve been poor. I’ve been unemployed. I’ve been sick, dying, and mostly dead. I’ve been devastated and heartbroken a dozen times, but there was more certainty to my life than uncertainty, so I was okay. Not knowing, not being sure, not having answers, not being able to control a single goddamned thing—this is the Moon card. This is fear.
The Moon Inverted
This is about mental health issues, depression, or letting fear completely overcome you and paralyze you. Often, if I get this card in the wrong position—if it is the final outcome, if it is crowning and covering everything—I will ask the querent to go see a mental health professional immediately. When the Moon card is inverted, that means that fear has won. That you’re not thinking clearly, or have completely blinded yourself to the danger that’s around you. Time to trust your instincts instead of that cool, cold light in front of you.
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