19 ShuiZhongLaoYue 水中撈月

Lift the Moon from the Water

XVIII: The Moon

tides

This card has the same reaching down into dark water feeling as the movement. It's hypnotic. The water reflects the Moon, but note that the Moon too is a mirror reflecting the sun. As we lift the Moon from the water, the Moon is also lifting the water around us, a tide.

I imagine moving the water necessary to make a tide. With a bucket. With my cupped hands. The Moon moves this water every day and night without effort.

This card reflects the Moon's uncanny aspects, her connection with the bestial, with water, with darkness, with death.

To reach down into the water and lift the Moon into the sky is a deep and courageous act of magic.

A descent into darkness and a retrieval of light.