The Moon as a Tarot Birth Card

The Personality card shows how you come across. The Moon makes a person subtle and impressionable. They sense moods, have vivid dreams and notice symbols and coincidences. Their inner world is full of images that others find hard to grasp.

Others sometimes find such a person unpredictable: their mood changes like the phases of the moon. But they are the first to feel that something is wrong and to see what lies beneath the surface. The Moon's lesson is to tell intuition from fear.

• Imagination. You see images and possibilities that occur to no one else.
• Intuition. You sense what is hidden: moods, motives, the unspoken.
• Empathy. You feel deeply with others and understand their emotions.
• Creative depth. Your work moves people because it comes from deep inside.

The flip side of The Moon is anxiety. The sensitivity that was a gift starts painting fears out of nothing. The person mistakes their own worries for premonitions.

The second trap is illusion and escape from reality: dreams are more comfortable than life, and it's easy to sink into them. What the card teaches is that The Hermit's lantern, your Soul card, helps you tell a mirage from the real road.

In a relationship you are a romantic, tender and sensitive partner. You guess what your loved one wants and create an atmosphere of magic. Your feelings run deep.

Try not to fill in the blanks for your partner. Anxiety easily imagines betrayal or coldness where there is none. Ask directly instead of guessing.

Natural fits include work that calls for imagination and sensitivity: art, music, literature, film, photography, psychology and psychotherapy, work with dreams and symbols, medicine, caring for people, working with children.

You open up where you can create and work at your own rhythm. Rigid frames and dry numbers weigh on you.

The Moon outside, The Hermit inside. The world sees a mystery in you: subtlety, imagination, sensitivity. The Hermit explains what keeps that sensitivity in balance: deep inner knowing and a need to understand, not only to feel.

Where The Moon sees shadows, The Hermit's lantern lights the path. Together they describe someone who passes through doubt and fear and comes out of it with a clear understanding of themselves.