Tarot — Poster :: The Moon

Card XVIII in the Major Arcana. What's hidden in the dark still shapes the light.

The Moon represents intuition, illusion, the subconscious mind. It often signals a time of confusion, hidden truths, or facing deep-seated fears — a moment when things aren't quite what they seem.

Upright: intuition — trusting your inner voice and gut feelings when logic fails. Illusion — dealing with deception, anxiety, or self-doubt clouding your judgment. Subconscious — uncovering repressed memories, dreams, hidden emotional patterns.

Reversed: clarity — the lifting of confusion, fear, and anxious thoughts. Truth — unveiling secrets, or realizing you've been deceiving yourself. Blocked feelings — refusing to process deep emotions, or struggling to understand your intuition.

Key associations:

The number 18 — reducing to 9, symbolizing a threshold of transition
The zodiac sign Pisces — emotion, sensitivity, intuition
The element Water — the world of feeling and the subconscious

Symbols to know:

The two towers — the boundaries between the known and the unknown
The howling dog and wolf — instincts, tamed and wild, coexisting
The crayfish emerging from the water — what slowly rises from the depths of the subconscious

A poster for anyone learning to navigate the blur, trusting what they feel over what they see.

The details:

Museum-quality poster, thick matte paper
Paper thickness: 0.26 mm (10.3 mil) — weight: 189 g/m²
Opacity: 94% — ISO brightness: 104%
Paper sourced from Japan