The Moon
The Moon
Number 18 Water Pisces
A major arcana card: the big weather rather than the daily forecast.
Upright
uncertaintyfeardreamsnot seeing clearly
You cannot see properly and you are filling in the gaps with the worst available option. The Moon is anxiety, half-information, the dream you keep having, the situation where something is genuinely being hidden and something else is entirely in your head, and the card refuses to say which is which. Do not make big decisions in this light.
Reversed
clarity returningfear namedconfusion lifting
The light is coming back. Reversed, the Moon is confusion lifting, a fear finally named and found smaller than it was, or the truth of a murky situation arriving. It can also mean the opposite: that you are ignoring a real unease in order to get on with things. Context decides.
What is in the picture
A dog and a wolf howling at the moon, a crayfish crawling out of a pool, a path between two towers going off into hills. Everything in the picture is on the edge of being something else.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: you are not seeing this clearly, and part of what is missing is real.
Reversed: the fog is lifting. Things look smaller in daylight.
Love and relationships
Upright: something is unsaid. It may be theirs; it may be yours.
Reversed: an honest conversation clears more than a month of guessing did.
Work and direction
Upright: you are being told part of the story. Do not commit on it.
Reversed: what was going on becomes visible. Less sinister than you assumed.
Money and security
Upright: do not sign this. Something in it is not disclosed.
Reversed: ask the direct question. The answer is available and you have not asked.
Me, honestly
Upright: anxiety is generating detail here. Detail is not the same as evidence.
Reversed: you have been braver about this than you are giving yourself credit for.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: no. Not on this much fog.
Reversed: ask one more question and then you will be able to decide.
With other cards
With The High Priestess
Two cards that both say you are not seeing everything, one calm about it and one frightened. Trust the calm one. Wait.
With The Star
Fear, then relief. The Moon exaggerates and the Star corrects it. Read the Moon card as smaller than it feels.
If this card leads
Do not decide anything in this light. Wait for morning, literally if need be.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as no. Reversed, maybe.
“Not knowing yet is not the same as bad news.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
