Hello!
I've just read this thread as I'm looking for a particular meaning of this card. I also work with Robin Wood.
I would like to add something. Autumsdaughter mentions that the moon is full on this card, but it is not; it's a crone's amulet: depicting both waning and full. The waning moon is far more prominent and the Full Moon is basically only a glow.
Waning Moon stands for letting go, release, banishing. Seeing the Full Moon fading out, could mean that that what was at it's peak, the fruits of what you had sown before, is decreasing, becoming less important, less fulfilling.
The Waning Moon is congruent with leaving that what you have behind, letting go of it, seeking new things.
At first this card meant to me what I've read here too: leaving and not coming back at all anymore.
Now I have a wider view on it, it also feels as if the person is (temporarily) turning away from the what he has to do soul searching. (In this sense having nothing do to with a relationship but with a person's self). So less focus on material things, the emphasis on soul searching. In this sense I see the probably return to this "spot" in the fact that the chalices are neatly stacked. Kind of like cleaning your home before you go on holidays, so it's nice and tidy when you get back.
Actually, it can also mean he leaves well prepared, not in a huff: He doesn't make a mess of what he leaves behind, he's got a cloak to keep him warm, he's got a walking stick with which he can defend himself, but it also supports him so he doesn't trip so easily.
The (I think) bay leaves stand for protection as far as I know.
The determination in this person to do what he's doing, I see in the red of his cloak.
The seemingly missing chalice makes me feel as if he took some of what he had with him (the chalice), wisdom for instance?
Feathers and birds are connected with Air. Not sure what to make of that yet. Maybe meaning that his thoughts, his mental side, is stable, so again he's leaving in "an orderly fashion", not leaving in a craze?
Another card reader had yet another explanation to this card in a reading he did: seeking things without, not within. So in that sense it can be a *bad* thing, i.e. holding others responsible for stuff, but not yourself. Or turning to others for your own stability instead of finding it within. That kind of thing. So basically the advice to look within, not without.
Looking forward to your views on mine, eager to learn
Warm wishes
Ravenne