By Sarah Taylor
My apologies for the late running of this week’s reading, which was due to a brief illness. In future, we will post a notice for any missed articles and, wherever possible, we will run an alternative tarot article to maintain continuity. — Sarah
The Moon is another card who has been a familiar visitor to these pages over the past months — unsurprisingly, perhaps, when so many people are expressing a lack of clarity over what is going on in their lives and in the world at large.
As the flip-side of our sun-infused quotidian world, The Moon presents us with territory that we tend to avoid by going to sleep; we wake the next morning with little experience of the landscape over which it holds domain. In the same way, from an archetypal perspective, we are frequently unconscious of what hides in our own darkness; we sleep-walk through our lives.
This is what the presence of The Moon in a reading often indicates: a time when things are cast in deep shadows, where strange creatures and entities emerge and howl at our slow-dawning consciousness, as if wanting us to take notice of them, and when navigation through the obscurity is assisted by our connection to our intuition. Intuition is associated with the feminine, as is the Moon herself, which governs the cycles of the tides and our own watery natures. It also governs reproductive cycles, and it is this that is mirrored in the imagery of The Moon, suggesting a birthing of something from within our depths — something that seems simultaneously us and not-us.