By Sarah Taylor
This week, we have three major arcana cards for our reading: The Moon, Strength, The Chariot. This is an archetypal reading — less about the day-to-day, more about the development of the soul’s calling, something that may well happen behind the scenes in the shadows rather than out in the open where it is easily identifiable. It could present itself as a felt sense — a feeling of being pulled or called in a direction that aligns with the quality of the cards as they work together.
First, The Moon. The Moon calls into awareness that which we are often unaware of. The Moon is our internal shadowland; it is our connection to a different language; it is our link to our intuition. It comes at us from an angle — and that is also the best way to approach it: to feel it as something peripheral, that we feel into before we give it shape with thoughts and words.
Here, The Moon is pointing us to a part of ourselves that wants to connect with us if we are prepared to communicate with it in its mother tongue. And that is also about The Moon: the mother, the feminine, beautiful chaos — or it can feel like insanity. Really, The Moon’s chaos is an organising principle that we can choose to allow to move through us. It can feel strange; it can feel threatening.
What is feeling threatened, however, is that aspect of us that wants to know immediately, to control, in order to feel safe. When we walk in the territory of The Moon, the best way to navigate is to allow ourselves to feel open to the unexpected and the unpredictable, while remembering that the security that we need lies inside — our own inner Moon, which then connects us with the archetype of this card. Our intuition can then direct us so that we align with the freeflow feeling and sensation.