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Given Fulgour's wonderful reflections in a new thread just opened a few hours ago - Marseille Moon ~ Phoenix Rising! - I thought it would augur well to next reflect on the meanings of this card.
All too often it has perilous significance attached.
Yet, as the Moon itself reflects the begign rays of the Sun, so does our thinking reflect thoughts that enter therein.
It may certainly influence the tides - one part of the day heaving this way, another part that way. Likewise our own diurnal and lunar (month) rhythm ebbs and flows.
Not only are the sublunar realms implied as our own dwelling place, but also that we share it with not only other human beings unseen (though their towers indicates that they are perhaps asleep), but also with creatures both warm and cold-blooded, both from land and from water.
In a reading, it may point that deep reflection is called for, and a state of understanding of the whole situation - not so much with the clarity of day, but perhaps with the sense that night brings, a sense for an overall merging, with intelligence and with understanding, of that upon which reflection is called for.
I attach a Marseille variant - a Bolognese.
All too often it has perilous significance attached.
Yet, as the Moon itself reflects the begign rays of the Sun, so does our thinking reflect thoughts that enter therein.
It may certainly influence the tides - one part of the day heaving this way, another part that way. Likewise our own diurnal and lunar (month) rhythm ebbs and flows.
Not only are the sublunar realms implied as our own dwelling place, but also that we share it with not only other human beings unseen (though their towers indicates that they are perhaps asleep), but also with creatures both warm and cold-blooded, both from land and from water.
In a reading, it may point that deep reflection is called for, and a state of understanding of the whole situation - not so much with the clarity of day, but perhaps with the sense that night brings, a sense for an overall merging, with intelligence and with understanding, of that upon which reflection is called for.
I attach a Marseille variant - a Bolognese.