Major Arcana · 18
The Moonfor Cancer · The Future
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A moon shines down on a dog and a wolf howling at the moon while a lobster comes out of the water to bask in its glow. The moon reveals what is hidden in the dark and asks us to be charged with our own magic. The moon is highly tied to your emotional brain and to water signs-- it asks you to pay attention to dreams (or nightmares) especially. Light and dark are at play with the Moon card (perhaps your shadow self needs to talk to you)
Something is coming up from deep within, a perhaps unpleasant truth that needs to be spoken (maybe a relationship isn't what you actually want, you are mad at your friend but didn't want to say, or an opportunity you thought you wanted just overwhelms you). True self love accepts the parts of us that aren't as fun and light. You must open yourself up to the parts of you that were hidden and hear what they are saying and show them love.
You are disconnected from your own emotions (perhaps avoiding a big or deep truth that might cause pain). Avoiding your feelings can backfire in unexpected ways so the work to unblock is important; but beware that unblocking yourself from deeply rooted emotions can be painful
Its place in the deck.
Where it shows up.
The Moon for Cancer in The Future
The Nurturer
Moon rules Cancer, so this card is not describing an outside force. It is describing Cancer to itself, which is why there is no distance in it. Upright, this is surfacing whether or not it was invited.
When reading about what comes next through a Cancer lens, the Moon card says that you feel like the future is a home you are building in your mind, it should feel like a place you belong (or like a place that wants you), and you are afraid it will not come. This has either kept you planning endlessly without moving, or given you the patience to build something real. You already know what comes next, and you are afraid of what it will cost you to get there. The Cancer blind spot in it is being seen as a burden, or as someone whose needs are too much.
In practice that can look like a door closing and it mattering, or the next chapter starting without permission. Whatever form it takes, it is surfacing whether or not it was invited.
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