The Moon in different contexts

[maggiep]

I have been reading tarot on and off so feel free to correct me 🙂 
 

So I find that The Moon, regardless of the context, all meanings can apply: being delusional about something, but also being so in touch with your intuition others might see it as madness. It also means “not all is known… for now” but I rarely get it in readings about uncovering the truth. I get it mostly in readings about manifestations which for me establishes it’s meaning of “from dream to reality, guided by strong intuition”. 
 

Thoughts? Experiences? 

[Misterei]

The Moon is a complex card. It can have SO MANY different meanings.

 

I find this card more than others ... really depends which deck I'm using. Some decks emphasize the sinister aspect and delusion or deception interpretations. Whilst other imagery seems to foster the dreams and intuitions interpretation. Then there's all the astrological symbolism of the Moon itself which is quite rich and layered.  (I don't read this card as Pisces ... AE Waite went totally daft there imo).

 

I don't really follow your manifestation ... from dream to reality, guided by strong intuition. Not how I read it ... but then again I have a friend who gets the Moon whenever someone dies or is about to die ... so Tarot cards can form personal meanings for us all.

[BradGad]

Hi Maggie, 

 

Welcome to the forum, welcome to the tribe. 

 

Good questions, interesting questions.

 

I need to disclose: The Moon is my favorite card.

 

I need to disclose: I don't know why.

 

Random thoughts: I actively want to embrace the Divine Feminine, and feel Her presence in my life. I love how the idea of delving into one's unconscious can bring up really primitive, even scary, things... like that crayfish. There is that Native American story how each [man] has within [him] two dogs/wolves... the young person asks which will win, and the elder answers "The one you feed."  It clearly seems a dream landscape, ruled by dream physics (in physical reality, the crayfish should either be in or out of the water, but certainly not on). In a TdM deck, you would think at first those "energy droplets" would be coming down from The Moon, but if you look at their shape, clearly instead they are being pulled up to her. 

 

So many guides and LWBs give The Moon a scary or negative profile, but for me, this card is all positive.

 

But, I don't know why.

 

I like that you open the door to madness.

 

 

Edited March 2, 2023 by BradGad

[BradGad]

@Misterei…

 

> I have a friend who gets the Moon whenever someone dies or is about to die ... so Tarot cards can form personal meanings for us all.

 

Wowzers. Powerful. I believe you. But so different from my personal meaning. 

 

For me, she shows up like my personal, private female Obi-Wan Kenobi. A guide just as much into darkness as through darknes. The shape and angle of her face echos The Hermit’s (Obi-Wan vibes there). I have long sensed that I have an Angel (many times I asked, and she always came; many times I didn’t ask, but was saved)… The Moon feels like my Angel shown in the cards. Way more than those other silly official Angels you see all over the place in the other majors, tooting horns and shooting arrows and gazing benignly. My Angel doesn’t toot from above, but gets down there with me… as deep as I can go. Or deeper.

 

So, I’m weird and you’re right: It’s a complex card. 

[debs]

Really interesting. Like BradGad I like the moon card. It appeared the other day in a daily card reading and I read it as some unseen things are going on for me that I'm not currently conscious of at the moment.

[Ctgirl33]

I get the Moon a lot in my readings on a specific situation. I interpret it as plagued by doubts, suspicion, insecurity. It’s like there’s more there that I can’t see. But usually internally I feel very unsettled when the Moon shows up in a reading.