18. The Moon

“I can’t be honest yet. Luckily, the Moon knows it all.”

Vision

This card evokes the image of a humid, filthy pond obscured by the most unspeakable yet intimate secrets. The Star has taught us to transmute unconscious energy into tangible reality. Here, the black silhouette symbolizes a more emotionally charged continuation of this metamorphosis. Something even more repressive is to be decoded, and the best way to liberate repression is by transferring and articulating our internal conflicts in constructive ways. Such internal conflicts are drawn as fragmented lines of poetry on drifting paper scraps. Only the lowest candle is lit, suggesting a phase of active subconsciousness.

Message

As if lured by a voice rising from within, I feel myself being slowly pulled away and even against ordinary life. It seems once I enter any mysterious domains, I will realize that the familiar self I once knew was just a hypnotic lie. The hard-won life I have now will crumble as well, just like how numerous radical changes have upended my life before. In the tightly woven narrative of the present, I find myself an outsider, an alien once more. I long for peace and solace, but strange marvels keep seeking me out to remind me that the journey is far from over.

Keywords

obscure | profound | complex | suppressed | traumatic | unspeakable | beyond words | overcoming fear and darkness again | hoarding emotions | catharsis | callings from mysterious forces | attracted by the unknown | active state of unconsciousness | revelatory dreams