Tarot pulls its symbols from a vast pool of knowledge that we all share as humans. Carl Jung called this the collective unconscious. It's the same symbols that we use when our minds create dreams, weaving them into complex patterns whose meanings we strive to find in waking life.
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The moon's domain is the night, where free from conscious thought, we can move towards giving into our instinctual impulses, our unconscious and our intuitions. Being ruled by cycles, it reminds us also of the cycles of the cosmos.
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The sun brings us light, life and is what drives away the dark of the night. As the bringer of light, it nurtures all living things, and gives us the ability to see, thus giving us knowledge and being representative of truth.
The star shines its light to us from an almost unimaginable distances, their light taking millions of years to reach us. With the vast amount of them in our universe, they humble us and remind us that we are only small fragments of the universe.
The egg is a universal symbol for the origin of life. In many cultures, the universe is hatched from an egg. When the egg breaks, we are left with 2 halves, representing the sky and the earth.
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