Aaahhhhh....
I love The Moon the card and the planet. On my first trip to an astrologer at age 20 he mentioned how he was going to tell me I was a Moonchild, but no need I was wearing moon earrings and t-shirt.....I already had an inkling
A Cancer with a cancer moon, yikes....
At 21 I got the Moon symbol from the RWS tattoed on my back in green, it's beautiful....we made the mouth of it (well, the tatooist actually!) smile, but the eyes are still cross
Excuse the ramblings....I have always wondered why people fear the card, but I suppose it is to do with the night and darkness.
From my journal: I do think the Moon is a reflection card. Deception or self-deception, illusion, bewilderment is one side. Very emotional. The unconscious. Intuition, psychic, gut instinct.
A client was coming yesterday and I was shuffling the cards thinking about them, when the Moon just kinda jumped over and looked at me. I wondered what message it meant for my client?
Still waiting I decided to look at my new Mary K Greer book, Tarot Mirrors. Mary talked about the Moon being her Personality Card - "fascination with the mysteries and hidden depths of the Tarot."
As above, so below.
"As bodies are reflected in mirrors.
So incorporeal things are reflected in bodies,
And the intelligible Kosmos is reflected
in the sensible Kosmos."
I feel like I started to touch on this in the Star.
I went to an astrology lecture at Edinburgh Uni in 2001 and it made me think about how we reflected the stars and visa versa.
I have often thought that the Tarot reflects or mirrors us and when I read for someone I mirror them.
But where does this lead me? Well, for one I usually study my card Monday morn, but with the Moon I have felt very reflective or been reflecting on it before writing my thoughts. And two this struck a chord with me: "Fascination with the mysteries at a hidden depth."
HIDDEN DEPTH I feel as though now I am getting somewhere......
Perhaps when the Moon is in a reading it is telling you to look into it's mysteries, look into it at a hidden depth....
XTAX