The Moon - Meaning of The Moon in Tarot Cards

The title for The Moon Tarot card is, ‘The Ruler of Flux and Reflux. The Child of the sons of the Mighty’. The image on the card is that of a waning Moon. This card signifies almost everything that creates trouble during night. This card indicates efforts and possible failures associated with these efforts. The Moon Tarot card is the path of blood and tears in which fear, weakness, and fluctuation must be overcome. The Moon also acts as a protector who is as a fierce as a watchdog. To be specific, it actually guards the way to attainment.

The colours that can be associated with The Moon Tarot card are dark crimson, reddish brown, brownish crimson and other plum colours. But, this card’s sombre hues are lightened by the translucent faint greens and yellows found in it’s counterparts. The Moon Tarot card can be usually associated with dissatisfaction, voluntary change, error, lying, falsity and deception. The effects and interpretations of this card can best read with other cards. This is because this card is usually dependent on the other cards.

The Moon Tarot card usually indicates deception, chaos and confusion. It indicates a foggy picture if it comes in a relationship. Such a person would never be sure about the relationship or the partner. A Tarot card reader, in such a case, should lower his expectations of clearing these doubts as he would usually not succeed. Boundaries are ill-defined, vague or non-existent. The only solution is to discuss this with the person and make him understand that clarity is important in life.

Sometimes deception, chaos and confusion can work for a person’s benefits. That is when a person does not want other people to know what he is up to. This card is good for spies, illusionists, stage magicians, politicians, and anyone else who do not want others to know what they are really doing. The Moon Tarot card is all about the real light from above and the false representation of that light from below. Other important things that can be associated with The Moon Tarot card are hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror and occult forces.

The distinction between this card and some of the conventional types is that the moon is increasing on what is called the side of mercy, to the right of the observer. It has sixteen chief and sixteen secondary rays. The card represents life of the imagination apart from life of the spirit. The path between the towers is the issue into the unknown. The dog and wolf are the fears of the natural mind in the presence of that place of exit, when there is only reflected light to guide it. The intellectual light is a reflection and beyond it is the unknown mystery which it cannot shew forth. It illuminates our animal nature, types of which are represented. The message that this card gives is that peace is gradually able to suppress the animal nature in any being.