July is devoted and dedicated to unpacking and examining The Moon card here on No Bad Cards! I hope it serves you! Some of the info in this piece was adapted from a class on The Moon card that I taught for Jeff Hinshaw’s Online Fools Tarot Journey.
Gentle TW: mention of accidents, disability/locked-in syndrome, death, and end of life
Last week on No Bad Cards, we dove into an exploration of The Moon card through the lens of Neptune’s influence, drawing parallels with our work in this card to deep journeys through the depths of our inner ocean. You can read it here if it is of interest!
Today, we are going to dig into Jupiter’s influence on our Piscean ruled Moon card, and how it often calls upon us to create from those oceanic trenches, the abyss within ourselves.
First, a quick recap on The Moon card:
The Moon is card 18 in the Major Arcana journey, and is ruled by Pisces, which connects it with both Neptune and Jupiter (more Jupiter and The Moon card next week).
There are many key words and experiences that we might associate with The Moon card: initiation; illumination; an underworld journey; a sense of delusion and illusion; a sense of choice; deep mystery; void space; the unknown; subconscious themes; dreams; imagination.
The main invitations of The Moon card, as I see them, are as follows:
VOID — It is, first and foremost, an invitation to embrace the void, and deep uncertainty;
RESISTANCE/SURRENDER — Secondly, it is an invitation to notice where we might be getting pulled into illusion, delusion, distraction, self blame, blame of others, and/or assumptions because we are uncomfortable with this deep uncertainty. This process often pulls us from resistance to surrender and back many times over.
TREASURE — And lastly, if we can weather it, it is an invitation to dive into the depths of our own being, exploring the richness of our inner cosmos and ocean — our subconscious — to discover the treasures that lie there.
The Moon card also has a connection to Jupiter, as Jupiter is the traditional ruling planet of Pisces (along with Neptune, which is more of a modern day ruler).
Jupiter is also connected to Wheel of Fortune in the Tarot.
Pisces rules, among other things, jails, nursing homes, hospices, and hospitals – institutions (12th house) and “last stop” places. They are all places where there is often nowhere to go but within, for better or worse.
We can see the effect that Neptune would have on many of the aforementioned places. Delusions can be a huge experience for folks in end of life care, as well as a strange sense of time, both of which can show up with The Moon and Neptune’s influence (although, of course, that is not all these energies bring forward).
But to bring Jupiter to these kinds of places inverts the typical Sagittarian journey that we associate with this planet, painting it with a Pisces brush.
With Sagittarius, there is often a sense of expansion – we are called to travel, meet new people, see new places, learn, broaden our horizons in any way we can. This is often a part of our work with Wheel of Fortune.
Pisces and Jupiter via The Moon card takes this same spirit and draws it all inward.
Where do we go when a migraine upends our day? When we are bedridden? When we are dying, or sick, or healing from an injury? We can go “out,” but there are times when there is nowhere to go but in.
In this consideration, The Moon card can be a profound expander, an invitation to go within and travel to places that live within ourselves that we might not typically go to other wise.
Below, I will list out a few brief examples of lived Jupiter/Moon card journeys, as I observe them:
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