The Moon card illustrates a full moon in the dark sky between two large towers. The Moon is a symbol of dreams and the unconscious. Its light is faint compared to the sun, and only lightly clarifies the path to higher consciousness bending between the towers. In the front is a small pond, symbolizing the subconsciousness. A small crayfish crawls out of the pond, symbolizing the initial stages of consciousness unfolding. A dog and a wolf standing in the green field, yelling at the moon, representing both the silent and the wild characters of our mind.

Upright
Illusion, fear, anxiety, dreams, subconscious, intuition  
Reversed
Release of fear, repressed emotion, inner confusion
Astrology
Pisces
Element
Water
The Moon

Upright Moon

The Moon symbolizes your illusions and often shows up when you are projecting fear and worry into your present and your future, based on your past. You may have a depressing memory that caused emotional suffering, and rather than dealing with the emotions, you pushed them down into your subconsciousness. Now, these emotions are appearing again, and now you find yourself under their impact on your conscious or subconscious. To solve this, connect with your unconscious mind and free any fears holding you back. Hypnosis, treatment, and shamanic healing can be very helpful.

The Moon can symbolize a period of uncertainty. Be careful of making quick judgments and decisions when the Moon shows up because you may later realize that there was a hidden side of the situation. You need to trust your intuition so you can see beyond everything. Feel into circumstances rather than analyzing. Let go of your conscious mental barriers or negative thinking and let your intuition lead you. Your dreams and inner guidance guide you toward higher levels of understanding if you listen to the messages of the subconsciousness.

When the Moon card arrives in your Tarot reading, pay attention to the cycles of the moon and be in tune with its divineness by meditating. Once Zen meditators have opened their eyes, and they have seen the moon and out of their meditation, a certain phrase has emerged. Only through meditation will you be able to understand it; it is not poetry, it is not composed with the mind, it is a deep feeling in the heart.

One full moon;

stars numberless; the sky

dark green.

If you are in deep meditation and you see this dark sky with so many stars and a single moon, your silence will become very deeper.

Reversed Moon

The Moon reversed shows the negative impacts of fears and anxiety that you have been dealing with are descending. You are fighting through your fears, understanding them and free yourself from such limiting beliefs. This is a truly liberating practice.

You may try to avoid your darkness by burying these feelings even deeper within your unconscious. This strategy might work for a short period, but finally, you will need to bring to the surface these emotions and deal with them.

The Moon reversed can also show that you are accepting intuitive messages but it is difficult to understand what they signify for you. The message may be unclear. Trust that the solutions you need are already inside you, pay attention to your dreams, and tune in to your inner guidance to discover answers.