The Moon

Upright

You can't see properly, and the danger is that you'll fill the gaps in with whatever you fear most. That's what this card is about. Not deception by other people — the story you're constructing out of insufficient information, at night, on your own. The path is there. You just can't see all of it, and your imagination is being extremely unhelpful.

Reversed

Either the fog lifting, or getting further inside the story you invented and starting to defend it.

Its correspondence

Pisces — dissolving edges, dreams, the place where what's real and what's imagined stop being cleanly separable. Pisces is enormously creative and completely unreliable as a narrator, which is precisely the warning and the gift of this card.

How it's usually misread

It isn't a warning that people are lying to you. Nine times out of ten the fiction is homemade.

Knowing the card isn't reading it

Every entry on this site is free, and always will be — meanings are the easy half. The hard half is what a card does in a position, next to another card, for a real question. Learn to Read is the lessons for that, plus a practice partner that critiques your interpretations — $111, once.

Or read this card in your hand: the deck is all 78 drawn the way you see it above.