The Moon card can be scary when you look at it. I remember going through my first deck, which was RWS. I was about 14. I am a cancer, which is linked to the moon, so I really wanted to see the Moon card.... Needless to say, I was not happy when I saw the picture. I thought it would be more like the picture on the Star....The moon felt very dark to me and it forever changed my opinion about the moon.
It's a card that can bring up fears and solve mysteries on it's way. It is also a card ruled by 28 days. Some people read this as there are 28 days in a menstrual cycle, so it can be about pregnancy, which makes sense when you think about the way the moon is exaltated in Venus.
It's also double water, isn't it? It's ruled by the moon (obviously), which is ruled by cancer, but the card itself is ruled by Pisces. Pisces is also a mutable sign, so like the moon it waxes and wanes. It's fluid and easily movable. I see the Moon as a card where adapatation is easy. You can easily flow between one world and the other. Pisces is ruled by Neptune and Neptune is also the planet symbolized by psychics and mystics, who have to use their subconscious to access information. Neptune is also ruled by King Poisedan, who ruled the sea. That's a lot of water. In the occult, water represents the subconscious.
There's a lot of creative, mutable energy to this card and if funneled correctly you can have a great time coming up with amazing ideas, creative inventions and mind blowing art or music.
The Moon comes up at night, so dreams are important area of the Moon card. The dreams in symbolism is also important. When I was no more than 3 or 4 I would hate falling asleep. I would ask my mother to hold my hand as I fell asleep. My mother was often exasperated by this, but I was very scared because every night I would "go somewhere." I was afraid it was a place I wouldn't be able to return.
I expressed my fear to my mother, "Where do you go when you sleep?" I asked. She replied with the same tired answer, "You don't go anywhere. You stay right here." But my vocabulary was growing so I asked again, "But I GO somewhere. I get up from my body. Sometimes I fly to the tree. Sometimes I fly on flying refrigerators. They take me to the city in the sky. And I am very afraid I won't come back."
To this my mother exclaimed, "Why, Laurel! You're just having dreams! Congratulations."
But I was never quite convinced that we truly don't go anywhere. Why then does every dream I ever had about flying happen to happen in familiar places? Why do the same people come up and incorporate themselves into my dreams. Why when I fall asleep with a question in a meditative state, is the question answered?
The Moon card answers this question about your dreams. They are not only your subconscious, but an access way to the astral world, the mystics and the psychics, but be careful because there is a fine line between psycho and psychic!
