Major Arcana · 18
The Moonfor Pisces · Self and Identity
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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
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The Moon for Pisces in Self and Identity
The Dreamer
Moon is a luminary and Pisces runs on Neptune, so this card lights something up rather than fixing it. It is asking to be seen before it is solved. Upright, this is surfacing whether or not it was invited.
When reading about yourself through a Pisces lens, the Moon card says that you feel like yourself is something you discover by watching how others react to you, your own thoughts are hard to locate because you're always sensing the room first, and clarity about who you are feels dangerous or impossible. This has either kept you fluid enough to move through difficult situations, or left you so uncertain that you remake yourself each time someone new arrives. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Pisces blind spot in it is the moment they have to stop being useful and admit they're drowning.
In practice that can look like something you cannot un-see about yourself, or a season ending. Whatever form it takes, it is surfacing whether or not it was invited.
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