Tarot Tuesday:: The Moon

Follow the White Rabbit

Ever changing in the night sky, the Moon has inspired poets, magicians, priests, and man far back into the mists of recorded history.  It is there, a luminous body once counted as a planet.

Enlightenment Tarot

The Moon is Goddess and God, Brother, Sister, and Grandfather. The Moon houses a fantastic array of mythologies from rabbits to a man to ancient civilizations. It tugs at our hearts and inspires romance.

It also inspires nightmare and deception. The very fickle nature of the Moon is said to draw peoples’ emotions and driving them into lunacy, accidents, murder, and all kinds of general mayhem.

In Tarot the Moon is generally seen as a warning that not all is as it seems.

A veil has been drawn over the eyes of the questioner and when pulled aside they can be in for some harsh truths. This card, along with the Devil card, is calling for you to explore the Dark Teatime of the Soul. Walk the shadow roads and cross the threshold.

Moonlight softens the edges of everything that we see. As the light changes, wanes and waxes, so to do the shapes of what we observe.  Here we see the deception, but we enjoy the beauty of it that we do not desire to step across the boundaries. We do not struggle and so stay trapped in the web of lies and deceit.

The Moon card is associated with Qoph, which aligned with the back of the head. Here we have the connection to the subconscious.  Just as your waking mind is building, creating, and expanding, so too is your dreaming mind.  This is something we need to wrestle because all too often we let that part have free reign and then have no idea where the thought forms and egregores we have no intention of making come from.  We have unconsciously dreamed up our worst nightmares into being.

Thoth Tarot

The Moon can be an initiator into deeper mysteries.  First though, look to see what that soft and beguiling light is hiding.

Practical Study

Take stock of your mind and your mental state. Journal your emotions, your thoughts, and your fears to that they are laid bare on paper.  Examine them. Are these practical fears or simply limiting ‘what-ifs’? If they don’t serve a purpose banish them!  You do not need that kind of baggage hanging around your neck.