Keywords: Encountering and releasing our inner fears. Facing our Shadows. Illusion and fantasy. Dreams and nightmares. Entering the image world of the soul. Peculiar or strange. Bewitchments. Glamor. Descent into the Underworld. Deep inner questing that leads to the rebirth of light. Reincarnation. Reawakening or resurrection. Dream work and visualisation. Exploring the depths of the subconscious. Occult knowledge. The realm of the dead.
Message
The Moon card represents the depths of our
unconscious and the fantastical aspect of our
being, It is eerie and illusory by nature and
relates to the deep psychological images of the
Soul. When the card appears, it is often an omen
that something mysterious, elusive or intangible
is contained within the issue, This may relate to
the nature of the situation, indicating that
there is a illusionary or cryptic quality presente
or that the issue is deeply woven in our
Subconscious. Sometimes The Moon emerges when
we are fearful or feeling lost experiencing
haunting thoughts or emotions that the path
ahead seems incomprehensible, In this aspect the
card is related to the sinister moonlight of our
fears or nightmare. We are urged to take one
step at a time along this mysterious paths to be
aware of our inner signs and intuition in order
to pass through these mists toward the light. The
Moon is also a calling for us to look to our dreams
and Subconscious for understanding, We must
put aside rational reasoning and trust in the
realm of our imagination. Fantasy and creativity
can aid us in revealing hidden messages from our
unconscious, To unravel these messages we can
employ dream analysis, create very spontaneous
art, such as creative writing or painting. This
should be done without any logical thought, but
rather just a series of almost random thoughts
and feelings. When the exercise is complete we
can use our reasoning mind to interpret and analyse them. The card can also be a call for us
to live out our fantasises, to explore the
unknown or dare to divert from what is safe and
known.
The Moon teaches us that the night of fear and
confusion will Soon come to an end. We have
reached the depths of despair or soul-searching
and the sun will soon arise, This relates to the
aspect of the card as a journey through
darkness to reach the light where we will be
reawakened to the oys of life and deepest
understanding. This promise of morning arises
after we have delved into the pit of our deep
fears and gained control of our shadows. These
fears and shadows then reveal themselves to be
just illusions, that only exist because something
is blocking the flow of light. Discovering what
these blockages are and sweeping them aside
leads us to transformation and freedomo This
requires a journey into the underworld of the
unconscious depths and can be a daunting
experience, where we must resist being led
astray by shadows and illusions which are merely
mirages projected from irrational fears eclipsing
the light. In these times everything seems
strange and unfamiliar or extraordinary, our
senses are heightened as we regress into more
primal instincts. We should not fear these
experiences because they cannot harm us.
Rather we can view them as an enticing ghost
story that concludes with an emergence into The
Sun (the following card) and towards deepest self knowledge. We will also gain greater skills in
intuitive knowledge and expanded awareness. In
many cases The Moon is a sign that we are
feeling lost or wandering aimlessly and that we
must find our way back to our path find clarity of
purpose, Although this card is shadowy and
peculiar it is not always disturbing, It can be
bewitching, and has tremendous power to inspire
creativity and visualization and and enhance enhance psychic
abilities.
Analysis and Symbolism
The chilling moon hangs like an omen over an
eerie path of poisoned mists, The mysterious
light it casts is the only guidance we have (the
subconscious) into the depths of the soul, The
narrow path leads up between confining
tombstones (the Underworld) toward the
cathedralg which is the sanctuary and eventual
escape from our fears into the twilight of day.
The Vampyre Bride represents our confrontation
with our shadows and a personification of the
fear Surfacing from the unconscious, Her
ethereal gown illustrates a fear of being
swallowed by the realm of the dead and our inner
poisoned darkness, Everything is intangible and
sinister for the egog whose only guide is the
bewitching moonlight. In her hand, the bride
holds a blood stained sickle, its moon shaped blade
a symbol of dark intrigue. She has become the
bride of death a mirror of nothingness and
illusion, It is midnight, the very depths of
darkness and the axis where the deepest loss ignites the flicker of promise toward escape into
the twilight, Like a pupa within a cocoong She has
become only intangible substance, yet to be
reduced to this pulp of nothingness is the process
of metamorphosis that will transform her into a
new form. She emerges as a mothg reborn,
enticed and directed by the moon into the light.
She has journeyed into the Underworld, faced
her fears and conquered her shadows, Around
her neck she wears the symbol of Pisces which is
the zodiacal trump of The Moon.
The moonlight that illuminates our nightmares
can also guide us towards psychic messages and
occult truths, It can be a signal for us to reject
the ordinary and release ourselves from the
prison of normality that we cling to for security,
and to expand into the mysterious universe that
urmurs within the deepest parts of our soulo
We can employ flights of fantasy and imagination
to overcome blockages and to gain intuitive
understanding of situations and issues. Any
experience in which our more primal senses are
stimulated can lead us to undiscovered truths
and alternative perceptionsg whether through
intense dreams, fantasy, psychological and
Physical exertion or intense eroticism, We can
glimpse behind the mirror of the soul and explore
our personal underworld of mists and
enchantments, Many of these mirrors reflect
from the depths of old memory woven into our
Subconscious. They are partly geneticg passed on
from our ancestors as archetypical themes and emotions that relate to the passions, the
struggles, and the hopes of human existencea
Perhaps these archetypical motifs emerged and
evolved from a need to understand the world
around them and their place within it. The motifs
became like a spiritual map, expressed in their
myths and stories. They were also pathways that
can be used to explore and decipher mysteries of
the spiritual realm, This mythical framework
originates from an ethereal core within each of
us presented to us as messages from our higher
self in Symbol dreams and fantasy. Not only is
this deeply woven web a map of our metaphysical
landscape, it iS the language of our unconsciousg
which Speaks directly to US through symbols
events and seeming coincidences in our everyday
lives. This synchronicity is purely natural just
nature at its subtlests formless beginnings, the
foreshadowing and unfolding of our reality, as
well as unique messages from our personal psyche.
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