Post by caridwen on Oct 23, 2014 12:07:30 GMT
In honour of the New Moon in Scorpio, I thought we could add our thoughts and insights on the Moon card
To start us of,here is a quote from The Virgin of the World:
"In the sevenfold astral spheres the Moon is representative of Fate, and presents two aspects, the benign and the malignant. Under the benign aspect the Moon is Artemis, reflecting to the Soul the divine light of Phoebos; under the malignant aspect she is Hekate the Avenger, dark of countenance; and three-headed, being swift as a horse, sure as a dog, and as a lion implacable. She it is who, fleet, sagacious, and pitiless, hunts guilty souls from birth to birth, and outwits death itself with unerring justice. To the innocent and chaste soul, therefore, the lunar power is favorable. Artemis is the patron and protectress of virgins—that is, of souls undefiled with the traffic of Matter. In this aspect the Moon is the Initiatrix, Isis the Enlightener, because through a beneficent Karma, or fate, the soul receives interior illumination, and the dark recesses of her chamber are lit up by sacred reminiscences. Hence, in subsequent births, such a soul becomes prophetic and “divine.” But to the corrupt and the evil-hearted the influence of the Moon is malignant, for to such she assumes the aspect of Hekate, smiting by night, and terrifying with ghostly omens of misfortune. These souls fear the lunar power, and in this instinctive dread may be discerned their secret recognition of the evil fate which they are preparing for themselves in existences to come."
www.masonicworld.com/education/files/may04/reincarnation.htm
The Moon is what the High Priestess is guarding behind her veil. It is the 'other' side. To many Western thinkers, because the ego represented the I and therefore the Male, the Moon was the fluidity, the confusion they called Woman or the Other. Something they could not define, something that attracted them but also repelled, the indefinable, that which Freud named the subconscious. Cycles, mysterious forces, menstration, irrationality, passivity et al The alter and opposite of the Male and Rationality. It is the Dark Sea of the Subconscious. Therefore it represents hysteria (which was defined against the Womb), madness, psychosis, uncontrollable urges and unexplained forces.
The Moon is lunacy, the realm of the subconscious, it is venturing behind the veil of the High Priestess and you go there unaided at your peril. The Moon is psychobabble and dreamspeak. Its messages are cryptic at best and could drive you insane at worse. It is the realm of confusion, an unmapped place of hidden marshes and sinking sands. It's full of secrets, whispers, half truths and fear. It's also a transition from one form to another, of growth and awakening although its message may not be clear for some time.The lunar sky is always black because diffraction of light requires an atmosphere and it has a dark side called maria (singular mare) or seas.
The gravitational attraction of the Moon is responsible for the tides on Earth, thus it (seemingly) controls the uncontrollable - the sea. The Moon rules Cancer (note that Armstrong stepped onto the Moon's surface on July 20).
The Moon has been revered for centuries, indeed the first plausible explanation for the Moon other than as a deity, given by Anaxagoras, was the cause of his imprisonment and eventual exile. Practically every ancient culture has a Moon deity, many are female possibly because it is said to control the menstrual cycle. It may also be worth saying that the first women burnt for witchcraft were worshipers of the goddess Oriente, a Moon goddess.
To start us of,here is a quote from The Virgin of the World:
"In the sevenfold astral spheres the Moon is representative of Fate, and presents two aspects, the benign and the malignant. Under the benign aspect the Moon is Artemis, reflecting to the Soul the divine light of Phoebos; under the malignant aspect she is Hekate the Avenger, dark of countenance; and three-headed, being swift as a horse, sure as a dog, and as a lion implacable. She it is who, fleet, sagacious, and pitiless, hunts guilty souls from birth to birth, and outwits death itself with unerring justice. To the innocent and chaste soul, therefore, the lunar power is favorable. Artemis is the patron and protectress of virgins—that is, of souls undefiled with the traffic of Matter. In this aspect the Moon is the Initiatrix, Isis the Enlightener, because through a beneficent Karma, or fate, the soul receives interior illumination, and the dark recesses of her chamber are lit up by sacred reminiscences. Hence, in subsequent births, such a soul becomes prophetic and “divine.” But to the corrupt and the evil-hearted the influence of the Moon is malignant, for to such she assumes the aspect of Hekate, smiting by night, and terrifying with ghostly omens of misfortune. These souls fear the lunar power, and in this instinctive dread may be discerned their secret recognition of the evil fate which they are preparing for themselves in existences to come."
www.masonicworld.com/education/files/may04/reincarnation.htm
The Moon is what the High Priestess is guarding behind her veil. It is the 'other' side. To many Western thinkers, because the ego represented the I and therefore the Male, the Moon was the fluidity, the confusion they called Woman or the Other. Something they could not define, something that attracted them but also repelled, the indefinable, that which Freud named the subconscious. Cycles, mysterious forces, menstration, irrationality, passivity et al The alter and opposite of the Male and Rationality. It is the Dark Sea of the Subconscious. Therefore it represents hysteria (which was defined against the Womb), madness, psychosis, uncontrollable urges and unexplained forces.
The Moon is lunacy, the realm of the subconscious, it is venturing behind the veil of the High Priestess and you go there unaided at your peril. The Moon is psychobabble and dreamspeak. Its messages are cryptic at best and could drive you insane at worse. It is the realm of confusion, an unmapped place of hidden marshes and sinking sands. It's full of secrets, whispers, half truths and fear. It's also a transition from one form to another, of growth and awakening although its message may not be clear for some time.The lunar sky is always black because diffraction of light requires an atmosphere and it has a dark side called maria (singular mare) or seas.
The gravitational attraction of the Moon is responsible for the tides on Earth, thus it (seemingly) controls the uncontrollable - the sea. The Moon rules Cancer (note that Armstrong stepped onto the Moon's surface on July 20).
The Moon has been revered for centuries, indeed the first plausible explanation for the Moon other than as a deity, given by Anaxagoras, was the cause of his imprisonment and eventual exile. Practically every ancient culture has a Moon deity, many are female possibly because it is said to control the menstrual cycle. It may also be worth saying that the first women burnt for witchcraft were worshipers of the goddess Oriente, a Moon goddess.