Group 2: Lovers, Tower, Strength, Moon, Sixes (S/W/C/P, and Eights (S/W/C/P)

“The Moon in the call to subversion, one we answer reveling in “the sheer animality of precariousness and survival” (Marmolejo, 300). 

A Red Tarot Lens

• The Moon represents a wildness of spirit that breaks through the “domesticity” of life in the chaos of night

  • Moon brings a focal point to the chaos, channeling it into an order

• Encourages indulging in and returning to animality within ourselves — present alone in the act of surviving

• A restoration of something more natural

“Giving and receiving beauty and pleasure simultaneously is an ecstasy recovered by this card.” (Marmolejo, 235-236). 

A Red Tarot Lens:

• Representative of an inner childlike sense of light and innocence

• Advocates for freeing us up to the wonder within the relationships around us

  • Exchange of flowers symbolic of a carefree existence

• Built upon connections — specifically their restoration

  • Draws on a desire to dwell on and recreating memories we love

“The power of language, its revelation, is signified by The Eight of Wands. It is the language born of fire. The Eight of Wands writer has a message to share, a testimony to deliver. This is the voice of gospel, regardless of religious affiliation, strengthened by a chorus tribute testifying truth to the spirit of dignity beyond doubt and despair.” (Marmolejo, 314). 

A Red Tarot Lens:

• Eight of Wands is a chance to reinvent our very framework and systems

• Brings a healing inventiveness 

  • Returns what has been stolen, offer stories where history has been taken

• Card of the writer - inspiration