Hey Deryn, thanks for this great comment. Love the connection between the moon card and the subtle body. I'm curious how you define subtle body in this context? Some thoughts come to mind like the chakra system or the astral body, etc.
As the subtle body is seen as a sort of "liminal space" between concrete reality and spirit, I think it certainly can relate to the moon card. It is a card of liminality, and finding ease with being in that subtle realm.
Here's a quote from Jung via Daryl Sharp's lexicon:
"The part of the unconscious which is designated as the subtle body becomes more and more identical with the functioning of the body, and therefore it grows darker and darker and ends in the utter darkness of matter. . . . Somewhere our unconscious becomes material, because the body is the living unit, and our conscious and our unconscious are embedded in it: they contact the body. Somewhere there is a place where the two ends meet and become interlocked. And that is the [subtle body] where one cannot say whether it is matter, or what one calls "psyche."[ Nietzsche's Zarathustra, vol. 1, p. 441.]
I like his emphasis as the place where "the two ends meet and become interlocked" - where matter and psyche are intertwined. Gives one a lot to reflect on!
Hey Deryn, thanks for this great comment. Love the connection between the moon card and the subtle body. I'm curious how you define subtle body in this context? Some thoughts come to mind like the chakra system or the astral body, etc.
As the subtle body is seen as a sort of "liminal space" between concrete reality and spirit, I think it certainly can relate to the moon card. It is a card of liminality, and finding ease with being in that subtle realm.
Here's a quote from Jung via Daryl Sharp's lexicon:
"The part of the unconscious which is designated as the subtle body becomes more and more identical with the functioning of the body, and therefore it grows darker and darker and ends in the utter darkness of matter. . . . Somewhere our unconscious becomes material, because the body is the living unit, and our conscious and our unconscious are embedded in it: they contact the body. Somewhere there is a place where the two ends meet and become interlocked. And that is the [subtle body] where one cannot say whether it is matter, or what one calls "psyche."[ Nietzsche's Zarathustra, vol. 1, p. 441.]
I like his emphasis as the place where "the two ends meet and become interlocked" - where matter and psyche are intertwined. Gives one a lot to reflect on!
You're welcome :)