Its the full moon tomorrow!

I pulled The Moon as my daily reflection card today.

When our inner demons come out to play…..

While a full moon, or a new moon always brings a sense of awe and reverence, I don’t feel so optimistic when the Moon appears in a tarot reading. You might say, the Moon tarot card represents the ‘darker side of the moon’…the aspect that is all about illusion, delusion, dissolution even, when your ‘inner demons’, the subconscious, unconscious, and often conscious doubts and fears come out to play….just looking at the card feels hormonal, psychologically disturbing! It doesn’t look happy. Troubled is the vibe I am getting. Which is exactly how I have been feeling the last couple of days, unsettled, uncertain, and infuriatingly I can’t quite pin my change of mood on anything…it’s lots of things niggling away in the background. 

When I pulled this card this morning, my thoughts went …

Illusion, delusion, unfathomable undercurrents/feelings I can’t quite name…Projection!  Now that’s a big one I often find with the Moon.  So often we project our own feelings of fear doubt insecurity, from old wounds, out into the world. 

So lets start there…what might I be projecting and thereby is showing up? 

First up is this undiagnosed hand stiffness inflammation pain thing that is going on that is bringing up all sorts of anxiety, question marks, frustration, vulnerability, reminding me of the early days when I had a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis.   A lot of soul searching went on then.  It seemed important to identify the cause, the trigger, the psychological trigger, the stressor.  

And here I am again being asked to ‘face my inner demons’ and bring them out into the light……in order to get into the SUN!  (see pic on card) 

I seem to remember once identified it was more about acceptance, acknowledgement, recognition, kindness, allowing, that was the way through.

Not to mention a lot of support from our wonderful National Health service. 

But in the end it sent me down the alternative route, to gut health, to Eft, to Energy Medicine, to qi gong, to all the modalities I have subsequently learned about and try to include in my life now to keep it in balance.   And I ‘was cured’.   Or ‘it’ departed. …..and is back in a different guise?? 

With the Moon reflecting a lens through which to view today I shall ponder on whatever is lurking behind the scenes out into the light. And today it is a dazzling sunny day. The card talks of facing your fears and I like the idea of shining a light on things that are hidden so they are not so scary, that there’s a psychological aspect of ourselves, of our psyche that needs to be included and seen in order to feel comforted by the warmth of the sun.  

Mind you it is the full moon tomorrow!! So perhaps it is just pointing to be prepared for that?  Ever hopeful.

And so I pulled a second card as a clarifying, tell me more, advice card. 

the moon joined by the four of wands in this morning’s tarot reading…

The four of Wands. 

I very much see the four of wands as representing individuals coming together creatively, each wand a spark of inspiration that together form the square, a foundation, a base from which to thrive!  This card speaks to me about how we as individuals thrive as part of the collective, that we each stand alone and yet together…that the whole is greater than the sum of its part.  And am often reminded of Kahil Gibran’s poem on marriage and the image of two trees standing back to back looking out into the world. 

Have a lovely day everyone.

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