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The Moon

A 78-card digital tarot drawn in the tones of nacre and dancheong.

The Moon

Illusion, intuition, uncertainty, the subconscious, dreams.

Keywords · Upright

  • illusion
  • intuition
  • uncertainty
  • the subconscious
  • dreams

Keywords · Reversed

  • clarity emerging
  • released fear
  • truth surfacing
  • confusion lifting
  • self-deception ending

Clarity emerging, released fear, truth surfacing, confusion lifting, self-deception ending.

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How this deck reads it

The moon is not hung in the sky but suspended on the path between two stone towers. With the path and the moon placed at the same height, the reason the way ahead cannot be seen is revealed to be not darkness but moonlight itself. The pearls falling from the sleeping-faced moon are inlaid in mother-of-pearl and glint differently wherever they catch the light. This material quality—the same light bright on some pieces and dim on others—shows that certainty and uncertainty branch from a single source of light.

The wolf on the left and the dog on the right answer each other, and a crayfish crawls out from the pond. Water and land, wildness and domestication are placed side by side in one image, yet neither prevails over the other. The composition, in which the winding path crosses the image between the two stone towers, suggests that determining direction is not a revealed map but the act of continuing to walk itself.

Artwork

A sleeping-faced moon drips strings of pearls over a winding path between two stone pagodas, a wolf and a dog howling upward, a crayfish crawling out among lotus leaves in the pond below.

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