Approximately 2 weeks later, and here we are at the full moon, the time when the light through the darkness is brightest (as long as we’ve got relatively clear nights!).
Back at the new moon, we looked at II High Priestess, and the development of intuition, our inner knowing.
Here at the full moon, we’ve got XVIII The Moon itself to light our way.
If II High Priestess is the indicator that we’re being called to be receptive and recognize our intuition, XVIII The Moon offers us opportunities to apply our intuition to our daily lives. Here we’re not just reveling in the mysteries, we’re embodying them and walking them.
That kind of intuitive development is a spiritual victory: the sacred flourishing in the midst of the mundane. (If you’ve been reading here regularly, you’ll remember that the sacred path in daily life is a theme for 2014.) Our feelings are elevated to motivate action and the journey of creativity; they’re fused with our thoughts in our intuition and our dreams.
That’s all if we’ve got a clear channel of receptivity and stay on the path of true purpose. But what happens when the night is cloudy and we’ve got a bunch of subconscious fears we haven’t faced, or delusions we won’t let go of? (lunacy/lunar, anyone?)
That would be when we can lose our balance and wander around in our self-deception.
Given that this is the Full Wolf Moon, let’s look at the wolf and dog on either side of the path in the Rider Waite Smith XVIII The Moon. They’re another pair we need to keep in balance to stay on our path of true purpose: our wild and unknown side, and our familiar, civilized self. Most of us wander into the delusion that we are our dog self. When we meet our wolf self, we’re not nearly so comfortable.
Ask yourself: are you the wolf pack baying at the Full Wolf Moon, or are you the victim surrounded by the pack?
Then listen to your inner wisdom – integrate your intuition — to discover your psychic reality without the ego mask . . .
your true self dancing by the light of the XVIII The Moon