The moon in the Tarot is a card deeply associated with the innermost recesses of the mind, the subconscious sea where inspiration and insanity reign together. The Moon Tarot card is beautifully decorated with a full moon, and the two howling wolves that sing to it. The water is represented by the cold river that flows into the ocean. What mysteries does it hold?
Basic Meaning Of The Moon Card
The Moon is all about vision, genius, poetry and inspiration, but also madness and the illusions that send travellers off the true path and sailors crashing into rocks. If the Moon appears as a warning the querent should be careful of all things related to his or her mental health, and avoid drugs and alcohol and other addictive substances, specially if it’s combined with the Devil card.
There is within your core essence a knowing that all is whole, complete and perfect. There is nothing you need to do or be when you accept your truth of wholeness. When you accept your truth, the truth that is of light and love, you experience connection with Divine Source at a much deeper level than ever before.
Are you ready to acknowledge the perfection that is your Soul? There is only light and love. There are only two emotions that of love and fear. Emotions are positive or negative. Love is all inclusive. Fear is exclusive, creating doubt, confusion and limitation.
Angel Gazardiel, whose name means, The Illuminated One, will assist you with releasing self-doubt and confusion caused by thoughts of limitation. If you have thoughts of not being worthy or doubt your value, you will experience blockages in your energy and in your connection with Spirit. In truth there is no separation for we are always connected with Spirit, that which is Divine Source.
Tarot cards have been in existence since around the mid 15th century, in fact they have been around in European cultures almost as long as regular playing cards (it is not known exactly when playing cards were first used in Europe though there is evidence that states that a ban on playing cards was levelled in Bern, Switzerland in 1367). Around 60 years later the first deck of tarot cards were created in Italy, at first these were very similar to the playing cards of the time, but with the addition of allegorically illustrated trump cards (known as trionfi), these decks were referred to originally as carte da trionfi (triumph cards) and then, over time they began to be called tarocchi, which is an Italian word that has no origin and seems to have been created specifically for these decks of cards.Tarocchi, over time became ‘Tarot’.
The early ‘Regular’ playing cards did not use the suits that we know today – in fact they used suits that have survived and become part of the minor arcana of modern Tarot decks. Swords, Staves, Cups and Coins(the latter being known most commonly as discs or pentacles in modern tarot cards) have over time been replaced by hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades. Tarot cards were not originally designed for divination purposes, they were created as alternative playing cards and were used all over Europe for games of chance and games of skill, so popular were they that France, Spain and Germany all had different regional suits.
As the years went on, English speaking people started using them almost exclusively for divination purposes. In fact, playing cards of all types have been used for divination for almost 500 years, possibly even longer, but evidence of them being used in 1540 does exist. So, with the allegorical cards, the tarot gained popularity as there were more cards to use and to narrow down predictions.