Barleywine
One of the things that is often lost sight of in discussions like this, is that Tarot cards are mostly read along with others. In other words, as a spread. Even if you have only two cards, they still modify one another. So the moon alongside the Tower, is going to mean something very different from the moon supported by the four of wands and the Lovers. Tarot cards derive their meaning from the way they interact with one another in a given spread. The meaning is never fixed, but always subtle, always subject to the pattern they create and recreate in each reading.
The Moon card is Feminine, but the who or how of that femininity (what 'feminine' means in a particular instance) will depend entirely on her relations with the cards that surround her. And sometimes the configuration is a negative one, and sometimes it's positive.
A Tarot spread is a discussion, not a monologue.
Absolutely this. It goes right along with my assertion that tarot readings should be interactive and interrogative, not declarative. They don't (or at least shouldn't) operate in a vacuum.