The Enchanted Tarot

Astrology

Enchantments

Alchemy

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The symbol shows a waxing Moon. Two semi-circles symbolizing the division of Spirit or All-There-Is into individual 'Souls'. The Moon represents the emotional half of the individualized Soul (the other half, used in the glyphs for Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus, symbolizes the purely mental half). The symbol can be seen as a parabolic mirror-reflector used to reflect, collect and concentrate energy emanating from an external source, or on its side, a bowl to contain and nourish.

The Moon is always changing her shape as she causes the tides to wax and wane along with her. Consequently, she has come to represent our ever-changing moods, emotions; feelings which wash over us. Yet, as she reflects the Sun's light, she changes shape in a regular, predictable cycle and so we associate the Moon with habits and responses. The Moon's period of rotation, or, more simply, the time between full Moons and twenty-eight days and corresponds closely with the menstrual cycle of a woman, linking the Moon with fertility as well as motherhood. The new Moon, unseen but watching over us, represents our intuition, unconscious attitudes, patterns and past conditioning. The Moon rules the breast & stomach.

KEYWORDS: emotions; moods; feelings; intuitions; to wax and wane; reflect; respond; adapt; habits; cycles; what we depend on; our support system; motherhood; nurturing; protection; unconditional love; adoption; our past; our motherland; cooking; home making; conditioning and writing that comes from the Soul.

THE MOON'S MESSAGE: 'Identify with the other and you will understand both of your situations in the deepest, most helpful way possible.'

THE MOON'S WARNING: 'Nurturing should produce strong independent individuals with minds of their own, not carbon copies of the nurturer.'

The Sun		Mars