By Sarah Taylor
Although I’m using a different deck this week, the Queen of Disks (Queen of Pentacles) remains in the same position as she was in last Sunday’s reading. This time, however, her circumstances have changed.
Gone are the Eight of Swords and the Five of Wands. The inner struggle against mind and a lack of energetic organisation have been replaced by two cards that suggest something entirely different — an emergence, in fact, and a consolidation of energy.
What extricated her from her circumstances: her ability to tap into her inner knowing, and to act on it in the physical realm in a way that has created a sense of stability.
The woman in The Moon is naked — she brings only herself. She rests her forehead on her hand, eyes closed, her focus within. She is working with an ancient feminine force, intuition, one of the languages that connects us with Self. However, when we move into that landscape, we can also encounter fear, which comes in the form of disorientation, illusions, sometimes delusions if we don’t hold to our centre — because navigating by moonlight feels otherworldly, and many things remain obscured by shadows that can cause us to doubt their identity, and to doubt ourselves.
The key word that comes with The Moon is “trust”: to trust the inner voice that speaks when all other senses are dimmed. To hear and know its truth.