Major Arcana · 18
The Moonfor Taurus · The Future
"Not everything needs to make sense right now."
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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 Taurus in The Future
The Builder
Moon is a luminary and Taurus runs on Venus, 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 what comes next through a Taurus lens, the Moon card says that you feel like the future is something you control by not changing, a place you have already planned, and something that should feel familiar. This has either meant building a life so predictable it becomes a cage, or choosing what you want and moving toward it steadily enough to sleep at night. You already know what comes next, and you are afraid of what it will cost you to get there. The Taurus blind spot in it is the feeling that the ground is shifting under something they thought was permanent.
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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