SleepingOrchid

The moon=SUBTLETY “Secret crushing”

The Moon and the Sun have nothing in common. The Moon is a planet, the Sun is a star. The Moon doesn’t give light; it reflects light; it is tired of being compared to the Sun. What an unfair fight! The Moon is our hostage, circling us slowly. Balefully. Oh, it has its worshippers. I mean, which would you rather be, Moonstruck or Sunstruck? You can recover from The Moon. The Moon seems manageable; Earth has visited it many times. The Moon is symbolic; vital for poets; unavoidable for lovers. The Moon is the Planet for people who like to sneak around. The Moon manages our tides, but subtly. Cruelly. She is the Queen of passive aggression.

Subtle Power: There are two ways to accomplish anything: full-frontal or “sneak attack.” This knowledge, so dear to military strategists, is one of the first things we discovered as children. You rarely get what you want simply by asking for it. Instead, you must study “the target” and determine likely responses. As children, we usually realized it helped if “target” was in a good mood! Bad mood targets say “no” to everything! But this simple reality has important ramifications for us adult planners: there is also “weather” in the world of human desire and accomplishment. It’s much more difficult to “take off” in a storm. The Moon is visible entirely by borrowed light, but that’s the least important thing about her. Her power is invisible, but we feel it in our bodies! There could be no more useful introduction to the potency of Subtle Power. Sometimes in order to achieve our desire we must first prepare our target to even hear us. Jesus illustrated this brilliantly in a series of parables anyone would understand. When he was asked a question, he’d tell a story whose moral was obvious. He allowed seekers to answer their own questions by determining what “paradigm” they were in. Plotting the “weather” and analyzing the “players” tells us much of what we need to know when planning to move forward. It can be admirable to lay all our cards on the table, or it can be foolhardy; as men discover who propose on the first date. We’ve been given complex brains. Let’s use them to think strategically.

Do you have a secret crush? Do you know why or is not knowing an important part of its power? What’s influencing you? Where is this pull coming from? The moon is passive aggressive, entrancing its quarry like a sidewinder. When you pull a moon card it means time to think outside the box and take a deep dive into your motives and desires with a view to possibly re-educating yourself if you don’t like what you see. We all have prejudices; keeping them in darkness allows them to proliferate. The Moon is one of the Imposture cards (Fireflies is the other) but the moon is more about posing to fool yourself. We who seek our Perfect Other Half wish to be free of all that. We want to know what we actually want, and be able to speak it honestly. Study your real self, your desired self and your desirable self – and learn.

SIMONETTA:

Botticelli’s Muse

Ah Simonetta!
Pity the griffon backed toad
Who dreams of you

And you alone;
Accepting your fatality –
Dreaming of your eyes

Flint deep, pebble shallow, your
Thunder lines coiled
Around lips pursed so tight

As tantrummy children
Punish parents by
Refusing to breathe.

As this world is not
Perfection you can’t be;
Yet somehow you embody

All we yearn for; your
Pear-hard belly
Anticipates Savonarola’s ravages;

Even to that scar that splits you twice
Equator-wise, spilling out
a thistle-tailed phoenix

Who wears your face,
Ropes of rubied veins
Cloud of gilded hair

Arching back to
Burst you, husk and all
Against the sun.