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(2015), graphite pencils on paper, 5.5"x10.5" backed with digital frame.

The Moon card confronts us with a dark agenda, the night, dreams, nightmares, the source, exploration of inner depths, descent into the subconscious, intuitive understanding, empathy, medial perception, fantasy, mysticism, metamorphosis, introspection, dreams and images rising from the imagination, confronting one’s inner demons and exploring one’s dark side.

The Moon can be a double-edged card. Traditionally it shows a dog and a wolf howling at a waning moon that is weeping silver tears amid a dark landscape of standing stones, a branching path and a body of water that holds a crab scuttling about. All of that makes it probably one of the most mysterious-looking cards of the deck. Well-aspected the Moon may mean that we are operating mostly on the intuitive plane: the crab in the water is what scurries about underneath the surface of our conscious mind, and while we follow our instinct we walk the paths of dreams with the certainty of a sleep-walker. The Moon encourages us to be open to hunches and to listen to our inner voice.

On the other hand, the Moon also holds a message of caution: The dark moonlit landscape may be the scene of nightmares, of drugged hallucinations, of illusions that guide us down the wrong paths where wolves are snapping at our heels and the guiding light of the moon wanes and fails. Looking under the surface of our consciousness may make us encounter our shadow rather than our inner guardian.

For my card I simplified the imagery a little bit. Instead of the landscape with the crab and the two canines I added a bunch of moonflowers underneath the waning moon. Moonflowers are beautiful - pure white large flowers with a scent of gardenia, cucumber and lime blossoming at dusk and wilting under the sun the next morning. However, they are a member of the nightshade family and poisonous. Ingested they will give you hallucinations and result most likely in a paranoid episode. On the other hand, natives in North America used the moonflower as an initiation plant, so there is an aspect to the card where the descent into your subconscious can yield truths that allow you to grow.

In a spread the Moon may mean that things are not quite what they seem. Perhaps you are pursuing the wrong goals or someone is trying to deceive you. You have to face up to your fears and to beliefs that are wrong and lead you astray. Trust in your instincts rather than your imagination. You may also decide to set aside your emotions and take a rational view of a decision you need to make because your subconscious is muddying the waters.

Description

(2015), graphite pencils on paper, 5.5"x10.5" backed with digital frame.

The Moon card confronts us with a dark agenda, the night, dreams, nightmares, the source, exploration of inner depths, descent into the subconscious, intuitive understanding, empathy, medial perception, fantasy, mysticism, metamorphosis, introspection, dreams and images rising from the imagination, confronting one’s inner demons and exploring one’s dark side.

The Moon can be a double-edged card. Traditionally it shows a dog and a wolf howling at a waning moon that is weeping silver tears amid a dark landscape of standing stones, a branching path and a body of water that holds a crab scuttling about. All of that makes it probably one of the most mysterious-looking cards of the deck. Well-aspected the Moon may mean that we are operating mostly on the intuitive plane: the crab in the water is what scurries about underneath the surface of our conscious mind, and while we follow our instinct we walk the paths of dreams with the certainty of a sleep-walker. The Moon encourages us to be open to hunches and to listen to our inner voice.

On the other hand, the Moon also holds a message of caution: The dark moonlit landscape may be the scene of nightmares, of drugged hallucinations, of illusions that guide us down the wrong paths where wolves are snapping at our heels and the guiding light of the moon wanes and fails. Looking under the surface of our consciousness may make us encounter our shadow rather than our inner guardian.

For my card I simplified the imagery a little bit. Instead of the landscape with the crab and the two canines I added a bunch of moonflowers underneath the waning moon. Moonflowers are beautiful - pure white large flowers with a scent of gardenia, cucumber and lime blossoming at dusk and wilting under the sun the next morning. However, they are a member of the nightshade family and poisonous. Ingested they will give you hallucinations and result most likely in a paranoid episode. On the other hand, natives in North America used the moonflower as an initiation plant, so there is an aspect to the card where the descent into your subconscious can yield truths that allow you to grow.

In a spread the Moon may mean that things are not quite what they seem. Perhaps you are pursuing the wrong goals or someone is trying to deceive you. You have to face up to your fears and to beliefs that are wrong and lead you astray. Trust in your instincts rather than your imagination. You may also decide to set aside your emotions and take a rational view of a decision you need to make because your subconscious is muddying the waters.