The Moon

Traditionally, The Moon has a bad reputation. A medieval monarch wouldn't hesitate for a second upon seeing The Moon in a spread – there is some conspiracy here!

Something secret, hidden, fraught with danger.... This card implies the presence of unpleasant emotional manifestations in everyday life. These could be envy and jealousy, and where they are, plots and deceit are not far behind (and as forms of them – thefts and losses). Where there are plots – there is danger, where there is danger – there is uncertainty and fear, where there is fear – there is avoidance. Under The Moon, we either mislead someone, someone misleads us, or we deceive ourselves about something. The slogan of this Arcana is whispered: "According to unverified data under unexplained circumstances..." and as for what happened or will happen – guess for yourself. But keep in mind that everything is not as it seems, and the line between accurately working intuition and illusion-generating imagination is now blurred more than ever.

Actually, the main message of The Moon is that now is not the time to embark on any bold adventures, nor is it worth testing your endurance.

This is a warning card, saying that one should exercise caution, that the desire to avoid danger should be paramount right now, you need to watch your every step, as the risk of losing your way is very high. This can be a difficult task, for example, if an alluring prospect of making good money or obtaining something is looming before your eyes.

It indicates that the events currently unfolding are beyond our full control. They may have unpredictable consequences as a result of an unexpected influence. It is impossible to draw correct conclusions based on incomplete information. Moreover, the information may be "incomplete" not because someone is hiding something, but because we ourselves experience an unwillingness to face the truth. There is a hidden danger, a risk of falling into a trap, a possibility of sudden changes, because hidden forces are tangibly operating in the situation. Other cards can suggest who will end up in the role of the secret enemy for now, but in reality, we don't really know where the danger will come from.

The Moon foretells difficulties and obstacles, and implicit ones at that; it is not immediately clear what they consist of or what they represent. The probability of making a mistake is very high. What seemed so clear and understandable yesterday is covered in darkness today, the landmarks are gone. It's like being in a forest – everything seems nice during the day, but at night the sensations are completely different.

A dark streak. There is an opinion that we are talking about a period of one month (the cycle of the Moon).

Dark mysterious energies, irrational behavior, immersion in the world of the Soul, instincts and fantasies, walking on the edge. The power of the unconscious makes us unreliable people, but it also brings great dreams, premonitions, subtle riches.

For the most part, The Moon leads deep into the imaginative world of the soul, dreams, and revelations, but sometimes it also predicts ordinary travels, not just astral ones. In the end, the most important thing on this card (after the Moon itself) is the Road! If The Moon falls, for example, as the leading card of a yearly spread – this is that very darkest hour just before the dawn. It says that a person is standing on the still-dark threshold of a new day. This is a very important and profound, albeit difficult, moment in their life. It may be experienced as depression, but in fact, during this time, the soul is gathering strength and learning a great deal, just as it happens in a dream, before waking up to a new life and moving to a new level.

Anxieties and fears, hesitations and uncertainty. The Moon often falls when a person intuitively feels that something is approaching, that various numerous influences (often underlying, it is even difficult to express in words what they consist of) are combining into one threatening force, but they still don't really understand what is happening. An undercurrent is carrying them somewhere. Under The Moon, we cautiously balance on a narrow path like this, trembling and feeling like tightrope walkers in the dark. Usually we are quite scared (if the Nine of Swords is also nearby, then almost to death), and do not know what to do next.

Fear of taking an important step. A feeling of vulnerability and defenselessness, self-doubt, timidity. A sense of danger. The Moon can indicate that a person is experiencing discomfort due to piled-up tasks or the need to be in public, and they would very much like to avoid both. In any case, they are uncomfortable and a bit scared.

In this card, The Moon demonstrates its power over water and over the soul. A human, as is known, consists mostly of water. The psyche, the inner world, are traditionally correlated with the water element. This is an archetypal symbol of the unconscious. We find ourselves at the mercy of mysterious irrational forces. This is not someone's will, as is the case with The Devil. These are some external influences or mysterious undercurrents in one's own soul – we intended to do one thing, but we do something completely different, not even really understanding how it happened. It is twilight. By analogy with the phrase from the eponymous movie about "my personal heroine", we can say that The Moon Arcana "is our personal Twilight". It is our personal "Twilight". The twilight of the soul in which we wander – and sometimes find our way. The Moon provides an opportunity to plunge into the frightening, but at the same time mesmerizing depths, to get acquainted with what is hidden within us. Fears, secrets and memories, intuition, dreams, and symbolism are subject to it.

Through The Moon, contact is established with the secret components of the personality, with the images of our desires, fears, and aspirations – the result can be both depression and inspiration. Under The Moon, we plunge into the dark worlds of the soul. Sometimes it reacts with its appearance to the process of psychotherapy and even simply to reading poetry or prose of the "Silver Age" or touching the art of decadence. Also, its appearance in spreads increases when the nights begin to lengthen and it gets colder, and people are overcome by despondency, fear, and uncertainty.

The Moon effectively redirects information for processing to the unconscious, because consciousness turns out to be ineffective for some reason. It stays with us when our all-powerful ratio abandons us, and it is worth thanking it for that. It is The Moon that does the "dirty" work, staying with us in the darkest hour. Its light shines on us maternally there and then, "where all other lights go down". We learn from it how to peacefully walk our own path amidst the darkest and deepest night.

The Moon person is melancholic and withdrawn, it is almost impossible to see them joyful, at the same time they are characterized by deep feelings, an irrational attitude towards life, developed intuition, and abilities to comprehend secret knowledge, the hidden sides of existence. Moods rule everything. Developed psychic abilities that are difficult to put under conscious control. They can also be latent, hidden (for example, excellent abilities for hypnosis). Both the refusal of awareness and the misuse of these abilities are dangerous. The person adapts well to the hidden, deep layers of information, but how will this turn out? This is exactly the case when, adapting to other people's problems, they risk "pulling" them onto themselves and getting sick with the same diseases (literally or figuratively) – The Moon shines with reflected light.

The Moon describes variability and fickleness, heightened and unstable emotionality, cyclically fluctuating, and more often – being in a negative phase of vulnerability, decline, crisis. Well, if you have nightmares, painful memories, and bad premonitions, it means you are still a human, and you have a soul that lives its own life. Sometimes The Moon speaks of depression, feeling downtrodden, of the absence of clearly defined goals and tasks in life. Because of this, it is imagined as a "valley of shadows", through which someone drearily trudges, stumbling, towards a future that is equally unclear and joyless.

At the same time, The Moon can also describe a phase of emotional surge, a "full moon" in the inner world (and how a person endures it is another question). Despite its poor reputation, for some people, The Moon manifests itself quite positively, bringing inspiration and relaxation. In the reality of the unconscious, live not only the monsters of fears (often symbolically depicted as dragons, snakes, reptiles), but also romantic dreams, deep desires, creative fantasies. The harmony of magical moments, a stream of elusive sensations, thoughts, intuitive understandings. Faced with an abyss of feelings, a person becomes richer and wiser. If they feel at home in astral spheres, in the realm of images of the unconscious, then The Moon is perceived by them with interest.

It brings vivid dreams, mediumistic experiences, interesting psychic experiences refracted in creativity, archetypal images surfacing from the inner depths. However, if this sphere causes distrust and fear, then the Eighteenth Arcana will hardly bring this person anything positive.

The Moon is distinguished by very rich symbolism, having a contradictory effect on the conscious and subconscious.

It makes sense to look closely at this card, if it has appeared in a spread. It can equally well inspire anxiety and reassurance. Sometimes the splintering deceptive light, the image of howling dogs and towers looming in the distance seems simply like a nightmare. Another time, the drops of light falling from the Moon announce peace and tranquility to all living things, the reservoir in which the crayfish hides becomes a symbol of depth and refuge, and the impact of the heavens seems like a continuous miracle that one only needs to appreciate.

And truly, what makes a dog and a wolf howl at the moon? Terror, delight, longing, the belief that the call will be heard? The third living creature, the crayfish, crawling out of the water onto the land, is a symbol of the zodiacal constellation of Cancer, ruled by the Moon. The crayfish, a symbol of motherhood, which the Moon patronizes (which is why the water is sometimes stained with blood, reflecting the pangs of birth).

Symbolically, this Arcana represents the process of childbirth: from the warm, safe maternal womb, one must burst out through a narrow gate towards the dazzling light of the world (the next Arcana is The Sun). The winding road between the two towers is essentially a portal, a path to the realms of the astral, of powerful and mysterious psychic forces. These are the gates of fear and rebirth, a narrow birth canal. In these gates there is danger, pain, behind them lurks the unidentified.

The Moon Arcana is a symbol of a difficult emotional journey, a path through fears, ghosts rising from the pool of the soul. It is interesting that the very center of the constellation of Cancer corresponds to the 9th lunar day, whose unfavorable influence is known to astrologers. This is a day of active delusion, when a person is pursued by illusions and seductions, deceptions and delusions, susceptibility to negative influences, bad dreams that cannot be trusted. We only receive bad omens and must soberly consider and evaluate each one. A confusion of thoughts and feelings is felt, spiritual heaviness, the power of inner visions. A battle with ghosts is going on, the cleansing of the pool of the subconscious, the depths of the soul from fears, flaws, and secrets. All this closely corresponds to the mystery of the Eighteenth Arcana, when the focus shifts to the astral plane and "reality" suddenly turns out to be there.

At the stage of The Tower, a person faces threat and danger, the light of The Star gives them faith and strength of spirit, and The Moon speaks of a confrontation with the monsters within oneself. Occultly, this Arcana is interpreted as the Path of Knowledge, leading from the reservoir of human illusions to spiritual liberation through the Gates of Wisdom. Gerd Ziegler writes: "This is a time of final, and often most difficult, testing. The danger of forgetting your true purpose in the darkness is very great." But lunar shadows and the shifting reflections of true knowledge right now are still the only available source, and for lack of a better one, with their help one should still approach the truth (and not superstition and prejudices).

Eliphas Levi wrote about this Arcana that everything is closed to ignorance, but everything is open to the seeker. It is believed that the symbol of the crayfish on the card warns that backing up, "into the swamp," is certainly not something to do (the shell symbolizes the gradual ossification of the mind that has refused to move forward). You must walk this road to the end, regardless of fears and seeming hopelessness. It is also believed that the face of the Universal Mind is watching from above the outcome of the struggle in the human heart, radiating pacification and calm, as it knows absolutely for sure that sooner or later, in this life or in the next ones, a person will definitely walk this road.

Esoterically, the card symbolizes a picture of evolution, reflecting the world of plants, minerals, animal nature that has climbed out of the water onto dry land (in the foreground of the Arcana, the sea that gave birth to life is symbolically depicted), and man-made works, opposing and defending against the primordial environment. From above, the face of the Universal Mind looks at this, to whose influence everything is subjected. Moreover, what is man-made turns out to be the most fragile – in a mystical sense, the Arcana depicts moonlit fields on the site of Babylon, the road passes between the dead structures of the vanished city and melts beyond the horizon. There is an opinion that the zodiac sign of Pisces corresponds to this card - two fish, one of which slowly floats up, beginning to evolve, while the other, embodying the sphere of the subconscious, eternally remains asleep, at the bottom of the sea, so as not to lose connection with the original source, and plays the role of a support for a new existence.

The crescent inscribed in a disk is a very ancient symbol of the sacredness of the Moon. On steles in the Middle East, created by the Arameans and Phoenicians, the image with a sickle inside a disk is often repeated; in North Africa, especially in the area that was the center of Punic culture, the disk is more often depicted under the sickle. The drops falling into the water reflect the legend according to which the filling of the sacred Nile with water occurs due to the tears of the lunar Goddess.

Psychologically, the towers depicted on the card speak of an unconscious search for protection and control, a desire to cling to values established once and for all, of the ego's fear of losing meaning. Esoterically, these two pillars or pyramids symbolize the Pillars of Hercules, beyond which, according to the Egyptians, the sun never sets (again, the next Arcana we reach via the winding path of The Moon disappearing behind these pillars is The Sun). These towers are the outposts of consciousness on the border of the unconscious.

The Moon opens the path to the inner space, just as the path to the outer one was once open to us.

In the images of the wolf and the dog, an ancient tradition also found its reflection. According to Zoroastrian myths, during the first degrees of Cancer, the Devil attacked the Creator's creatures, and He restored them and gave them guardians – dogs. Therefore, the days of the passage of the first degrees of Cancer received the name of dog days. These are days of purification from any defilement. During this period, no events were held, in Ancient Rome the senate was dismissed, and state life was suspended. The summer "holidays" began (named after the constellation Canes Venatici – Caniculus). It was exactly into the sign of Cancer 2 thousand years ago that the Sun entered at the moment of the summer solstice, hence the name "Tropic of Cancer", from the Greek τροπή — turn, that is, the process of the "reversal" of the sun's movement at the solstice (and the crayfish "backs up"). Dogs, as faithful watchmen, according to the ideas of the ancients, guarded the correct passage of the Moon and the Sun at critical moments. The images of animals on the Arcana also correspond to the French name of the twilight hour "entre chien et loup" – "between dog and wolf", you can't immediately make out who is in front of you. In addition, the dog and the wolf are symbols of Anubis, a "twilight" deity (neither night nor day), standing on the threshold between life and non-life in his dual guise of a human-jackal. In essence, the journey through hell is a descent into the underworld, into the depths of the unconscious (astrologically – the 4th house), wandering through the hidden labyrinths of one's soul, among illusions and fears, for the sake of acquiring deep knowledge of oneself. The Moon indicates that time period when the waking consciousness of all living things is turned off, enabling the subconscious to penetrate into all spheres of life, but not comprehending them, only feeling them. Tongues of divine flame fall upon the sleeping Earth, penetrating souls at the moment when no one can see it. Therefore, every person has the opportunity to return from this journey with a cleansed and renewed soul. The Moon dies in the east, disappears for three moonless nights, and is born again in the west. Therefore, it symbolizes all wanderers, heroes, and liberators who descended into the Lower World for three days, and then returned unharmed.

Finally, the number of the Eighteenth Arcana corresponds to the repeatability of the sequence of lunar and solar eclipses over an 18-year cycle.

"Horror in the dark." Unstable work, uncertainty about tomorrow. Fear of not finding a job at all and a calling to one's liking in particular.

Sometimes The Moon becomes an indicator of all sorts of "transitional" states, restructurings, reorganizations with a foggy future, since completely unforeseen circumstances pop up along the way and pressure points are exposed that no one suspected. Deception, disorder. Irrational organizational decisions.

The lack of full and clear information causes mutual misunderstanding and conflicts, creates the ground for fraud and organizational intrigues. Hidden pitfalls and under-the-carpet showdowns. Unresolved relationships, accumulating tension. Tangled labor relations – someone promised someone something, then bailed, then threw something in, then didn't sign... just listening to this story, you feel dizzy and almost physically plunge into some logic-less tangle, like in a bad dream.

Using someone for one's own (or others') interests. Hidden motives, bad influence. Deception, dishonesty. Some kind of lie, lack of clarity. Disappointment.

Stage fright, public speaking anxiety, what is known as stage fright. Fear of defeat, failure (especially if we are talking about some exams, attestations, presentations).

Artists, photographers, writers, creative personalities (especially those who prefer to work at night) often pass under The Moon. Generally, professions associated with reflecting the internal in external, visible forms. Occultists, exorcists (in general, specialists in defense against psychic and astral attacks), mediums. Also illusionists, magicians. Sometimes psychologists and psychotherapists, those whose duties include "getting into the soul", in special cases – representatives of the oldest profession.

In old interpretation books, a connection with maritime affairs and navigation is mentioned.

Modern tarot readers associate The Moon with the "world of illusions" - show business, cinema, the advertising industry, as well as all possible types of the gambling business.

Unstable income, feast or famine.

Volatile financial situation.

A situation where, having money, a person turns into a wild spendthrift, and then has no idea how to make ends meet and get out of debt.

Financial crisis.

Some facets of the money issue are unclear, as there are some hidden circumstances. Dubious deals. Unreliable investments.

An old interpretation – material enslavement.

Traditionally, this is a card of betrayal (here "cooling" is combined, for the light of the Moon does not warm, and its "inconstancy", fickleness). It says that there are, if not outright lies in the relationship, then at least some hidden motives, something that the partner prefers to keep secret. Of course, this is fraught with insincerity, and that in turn – with disappointment. A double game is possible here (from which the person might not derive any pleasure at all, but that's how it happened), an element of guile and insincerity, which always arises when the whole truth cannot be told.

Traditionally, "false excuses" are associated with The Moon - exactly the case when it is impossible to say it as it is. Perhaps the relationship was superficial from the very beginning, or the person was not completely free, and now everything has gone far and it is unclear how to get out of it. Whatever the motives and experiences of the person, The Moon communicates the gloomy news that they cannot be relied upon, at least at the present moment.

In the worst case, The Moon brings false friends (and hidden enemies), "setups", slander, disgrace. Other cards will suggest how painful the situations can turn out to be. A fog of the unknown, of uncertainty is present in the relationship. The Moon can indicate that this is an unstable connection, with many emotional and sexual ups and downs (and occasionally tantrums accompanying them). This card can describe not only the nature of the relationship, but also some phase of it, filled with riddles and guesses, half-confessions and omissions, hints at hints and misunderstood words... languid, painful, exciting and frightening, beating around the bush, when nothing has yet been exposed. Bella doesn't know who she fell in love with yet.

Less often (with the appropriate surrounding Swords and Cups) scandals, quarrels, and discord come under The Moon. In general, it is rather a card of silence, of what is hidden, secret, and unspoken. That is exactly the problem. This is exactly why under The Moon people flounder in a quagmire of distorted perception, delusions, misunderstanding, hidden meanings and motives (their own and others'). When a person has a secret about which they must keep silent, or which they simply cannot express because their tongue won't move, this is what happens. A characteristic feature of The Moon's situation is that it is almost impossible to articulate it clearly and coherently. "He said, not knowing that he knows, and he thought that he knows, and therefore didn't say later..." - and you feel your mind slowly going from attempts to understand what's what. In general, the situations described by The Moon can be terribly convoluted and burdensome.

The Moon also has another meaning, connecting it with deep instincts and needs, the abyss of unconscious aspirations and longings. Mysterious, dubious, bewitching, it possesses a special dark attractiveness that affects exactly those sides of the soul regarding which a person usually pretends they do not exist at all. And this is one of the reasons why

The Moon is sometimes (not necessarily) an indicator of relationships created on a latently homosexual basis. It touches a hidden part of erotic perception, highlights "blind spots", brings experiences that a person is very afraid of and which they unconsciously need. Naturally, they get scared, do not understand what is happening, but neither can they turn off this road, because "hidden forces possessing enormous energy act upon them", as is written in old interpretation books. Well, imagine a person who was pricked by a spindle, like sleeping beauty, and it awakened in them what they did not know, although it was always in them. They are terrified. But such is the path of The Moon – to go into the unknown, by the path of fantasies, instincts and dreams, myths and emotions, fear and trembling, exploring the most hidden depths, courageously meeting the abyss of one's own feelings and aspirations. They help answer the questions that have long tormented: who am I? where do I come from and where am I going? what should I do to be happy?

Under The Moon, one must get acquainted with their subconscious, surrender to the power of inner flair, processuality; this will give an opportunity to feel harmony and interconnection with the Higher Powers that govern the world. Only one's own fear can hinder getting closer to one's inner truth. But when this Arcana falls out, a person has usually already walked too long a path to turn back. The Moon can describe the initial phase of such a relationship, when both are nervous, both are scared, they still do not fully understand their desires, but feel an instinctive attraction to each other. They will need all their courage to understand how strong their feelings and the need for each other are.

Mysterious, intoxicating influences, attractions, and temptations come under The Moon. In astrology, the sign of Cancer, ruled by the Moon, speaks of deep affection. This is not the case when you can say "I love for this, this and this" - under The Moon we ourselves are unable to really explain what is happening, why the connection exists. It may indicate that this is a tangled, secret, hidden relationship, or at least one that is not advertised. Or – strictly nocturnal, when in the light of day (literally and figuratively) people simply do not cross paths and no one knows they are having a romance. Sometimes – completely ephemeral, a "castle in the sand", more of a dream than a real relationship.

In some cases, The Moon speaks of a partner who is "crazy" about the querent (or vice versa), about an obsession like the one that makes a wolf howl at the moon. This is a kind of delusion, a huge instinctive need for another, blind and silent, an inexplicable strong pull, perhaps mixed with pain and suffering, with a feeling of unrequited (or not entirely requited) love. Here there is a danger of despair and even suicide (with the appropriate surrounding cards). The second participant in this connection shines with "reflected light" (and does not particularly warm). They love because they are loved, their feelings are incomparably weaker, but this does not mean that they are ready to remain on their own at any moment.

The Moon has a magnetism that attracts and rules, and even if the less interested partner is ready to howl from longing at times (and from the loss of power over themselves), the other affects their subconscious and will in such a way that the destruction of this connection does not seem possible. Sometimes The Moon says that the "weaker" partner got entangled in this relationship only out of fear of loneliness and emptiness, or driven by some other irrational motive in combination with a weakness of will. One of the traditional meanings "forced agreement with something unpleasant, concession, compromise" should be understood primarily in this sense - there is a lack of willpower to do otherwise.

Sometimes The Moon says that at least one of the two feels bad and scared right now. They are insecure, afraid of everything, suspecting something, and this uncertainty breeds all sorts of monsters. They experience embarrassment, confusion, defenselessness, and anxiety, they are very worried about something, confused. Under The Moon, a person loses their orientation, a real connection with people and events as they are, and becomes lost and vulnerable. And the more scared they are, the more they drown in emotions and slide into behavioral models established in childhood, so petty tricks and sobbing into a pillow are commonplace here.

Symbols of moisture and fertility, the power of instincts and emotional depths make this card sexually accentuated. This is emphasized in a number of decks, and in many cases it acts noticeably in practice.

The Moon brings trust to the deepest inner impulses, a complete dissolution in irrational experience, including sexual experiences. Just as some people are afraid of sex (losing themselves in it, power and control over themselves), other people (and sometimes the same ones) are afraid of stepping beyond the bounds of ordinary consciousness in anything and setting off on a mystical flight (or swimming) of the spirit, along the mysterious waves of meanings and the silver paths of revelations, into the abysses of the soul. Both sex and spiritual search are a special state of consciousness, the search for a higher point, the accumulation of what has been acquired and the transition of quantity into quality. That is why The Moon Arcana links fears, sexual feelings, and immersion into the depths of the soul. Sexuality leads into another world, sometimes frightening, but always creative. Sometimes The Moon is a night of love in its pure form. It brings complete submission to sensual impulses and emotions, immersion in romanticism and charm, encourages one to fully trust the impulses of passion, the wisdom of ancient instincts, the mighty force and power of the unconscious.

The partner described by The Moon carries a magnetism acting on the deep side of nature, they envelop, attract, and rule. Almost maternal care and eternal wardship emanate from them. They will penetrate into the soul as deeply as only Cancers and Mothers know how, with them the most secret sides of nature are lived out. The other yields to them as if bewitched and does not necessarily feel happy, confident, and satisfied with themselves while doing so. It may seem to them that they have gone down a "dangerous path of bad influence" (as is written in old interpretation books), but in reality they merely surrendered to the power of secret suppressed feelings. This could also be a betrayal – to that partner with whom, perhaps, everything was fine in its own way, but these secret sides remained unengaged.

It happens that The Moon speaks of a deep psychological crisis or clinical depression, when the help of a specialist is required. Sleep disorders, nightmares. Sleepwalking. Lethargy, narcolepsy, coma.

Mental disorders. Hysteria. Fears, persecution mania. Various forms of escapism (including alcohol, drugs). Illusions and hallucinations. In general, dependence on the "world of illusions" - alcohol, drugs, some virtual affairs.

Sometimes delayed reactions to experienced stress pass under The Moon – a person has already taken an important step, the worst is behind them, it is time to rejoice, and right then the consequences of what they experienced make themselves known with all sorts of nausea and aches.

Hidden ailments, especially those associated with fluid exchange. Swellings. Incontinence, urination problems.

Sometimes The Moon indicates the onset of pregnancy. It is believed that in special cases it speaks of heredity, genes (especially maternal ones), which play their role in the state of health or in the course of the disease.

Viruses, infections, epidemics, and generally problems of environmental contamination by pathogens, toxins, or something similar pass very confidently under The Moon.

It is believed that the reversed Moon can be an indicator of speech problems (stuttering, muteness, or just very great difficulties with verbal expression). Silence, apathy. Manifestations of autism, depression. A painful reaction to lunar phases, atmospheric changes, heightened meteorological sensitivity.

Under the upright Moon things are lost, under the reversed one – they are found. A small deception is revealed before it harms anyone. Minor mistakes and flaws, trifling miscalculations not worth worrying about.

Cessation of a situation of unclarity, instability, or lies. Loss of illusions. Overcoming unpleasant influences. Perhaps something was revealed in the process of psychotherapy – addictions, disorders, traumas. And perhaps the person found out that they are wasting their strength shadowboxing.

Using someone for one's own interests. A goal achieved for nothing, "as a freebie", a success for which one did not have to pay the true price (and it is not a fact that this is good).

Refusal to accept someone in the entirety of their nature, including irrational qualities, weaknesses. Denial of the existence of the unseen world, clinging to habitual conditioning, militant rationalism and practicism (especially in the face of confusion). A person blocks information coming through subtle channels. An excessive fear of some danger is compensated and rationalized to the extreme (for example, a person installs all sorts of sophisticated security systems at home, almost exceeding the value of the dwelling, despite the fact that they are afraid not so much of thieves as of ghosts, which they will never admit to themselves). Fear of psychic attacks, occult attacks, sorcerers, hexes.

Mary Greer writes that the reversed Moon can indicate a person's encounter with frightening and completely "impossible" circumstances. This can be both a nighttime robbery and an unusually vivid dream in which they visited aliens. A feeling of "parallel lives", memories of past incarnations.

The reversed Moon in old interpretation books is an indicator of water, a river, the sea, in bad combinations it speaks of the danger of drowning. Dew, fog, rain, dampness.

With The Fool - inclination towards occult pursuits, wandering along the roads of the unconscious outside worldly conditioning (can also manifest as mental illness).

With The Magician – excellent extrasensory abilities, intuition.

With The High Priestess – the need to finally speak out and clarify the relationship, the situation. The combination can indicate pregnancy. This is also a powerful combination for creativity and working with the inner world. Like The High Priestess, The Moon indicates a secret and something secret (just not so sacred, rather intimate, hidden from people's eyes).

With The Empress – depression due to domestic troubles. Emotional imbalance, typical during pregnancy. Regarding finances – profit, but not as large as expected.

With Death – depression, apathy, loss of strength.

With The Devil – a fairly typical indicator of drug addiction.

With The Star – a good combination, serenity, pacification, peace. This is exactly the case when The Moon can be interpreted positively.

With The Sun – confidence replaces anxiety, clarity and illumination take the place of everything chaotic, hidden, and foggy.

With the Three of Wands – independence (according to Guggenheim).

With the Six of Wands – a warning that this is a false path.

With the Two of Swords – self-deception.

With the Eight of Swords – complete lack of clarity, confusion, and feeling lost.

With the Seven of Cups – the meaning of illusions and fantasies, unreal ideas is enhanced.

With the Eight of Pentacles – real projects (according to Guggenheim).

Night, the maternal womb of the Moon.

Myths describing the descent into the Lower World (Orpheus, Odysseus, Inanna, Psyche, Aeneas). Journey to the Kingdom of the Dead as a "chthonic birth".

Initiation rituals, dedications that require overcoming one's fears.

"Battle with the monster".

Hecate – the Greek goddess of magic; a ghost wandering in the night accompanied by Cerberus (the dog guarding the gates of Hell).

Medusa.

Hydra.

"The sleep of reason produces monsters"

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

"You have already come close to knowing the truth - and only fear prevents you from crossing its threshold. But you have already come too far to turn back, you just need to go further and penetrate to the very essence."

Movies that demonstratively accentuate the Moon. As a rule, they are also "tied" to the theme of the Eighteenth Arcana – this is either erotica or horror films, less often something exquisitely romantic.