lunare lumen oracle deck
connecting with the moon can boost your awareness into what makes you do what you do and why you feel how you feel.
the secrets are all right there in your subconscious mind.
the moon can assist you in developing your intuitive abilities.
she opens the doors of perception.
she can assist you in reigniting your embers of inspiration.
helping you find your spiritual path …
unlocking the ineffable divine mystery of the cosmos.
lunare lumen was created for you.
the mysteries of the moon revealed through the lunar lumen oracle deck
we live in a solar based masculinized culture.
the sun represents the conscious mind.
the outward gaze.
how do we look to others?
the sun rules our outward persona and how we perform this role of our “self” to the external lens.
and this - how do others perceive me? mindset can place our focus far too much on the external.
if we place importance on what others think of us as a self-worth measurement, it’ll likely become detrimental to our psychological well being.
it’s highly probable this mindset has us giving our power away.
reliable happiness is an inside job. to honor ourselves, we may need to face feelings we locked away, out of sight. the only way out is through.
what are our secret wounds?
where were we insulted so cruelly and unfairly?
what triggers our feelings of self-worth betrayals?
and conversely, what lights us up?
what has us excited and hopeful to do? what is for our enjoyment alone?
what gets us revved up to tackle the new day with a breath of fire?
how well do we really know ourselves?
to truly know thyself requires the subconscious lens…
much like the lens of the moon.
the moon is our subconscious purpose, how we are truly feeling deep down.
she shows up in our daily habits and emotional life.
she defines our feeling of belonging and security.
when we feel insecure, our moon knows that something is not right and holds our truth out before us.
the moon is the guardian of our true emotions and inner realm, the seat of our authentic sovereignty.
she is our inner world which is rarely, if ever, seen by those around us.
this oracle deck is obsessed with the feminine lens.
a self-empowered and empowering way of being that has largely been forgotten.
the 28 lunar mansions of lunar astrology.
(as opposed to the 12 Houses in Solar Astrology)
lunar mansions are different from: the moon is full, the moon is waning, the moon is waxing, the moon is new.
these terms describe the relationship the moon has with the sun.
lunar mansions concern the relationship the moon has with the zodiac.
each night as the moon travels along her orbital path, she travels amidst a new handful of stars each night, called “asterisms.”
these baby constellations are the basis of a 28-sign lunar zodiac. these are the locations of her 28 lunar mansions.
Lunare Lumen explores the 28 Lunar “Manzils” or Lunar Mansions…
a concept tracing all the way back to roughly 1800 bc in ancient sumeria, ancient babylon and ancient mesopotamia which today is iran/iraq/kuwait/syria.
the hindus, the chinese and the persians all borrowed heavily from the wisdoms of these first civilizations.
astrologers and scholars incorporated wisdom teachings from ancient greece and ancient india into the picatrix: gayat al-hakim, an encyclopedia of talismanic astrological tradition.
once these studies of the lunar zodiac were translated into latin and published in venice (15th century), this knowledge rippled out throughout western europe.
for our lunare lumen oracle deck experience, we access the ancient persian astronomers’ conceptualizations from about 1100 ad.
according to the astrologers/astronomers of that time, every night - the moon checks into a different mansion.
each of these mansions generates a different psychology. some mansions are malefic (challenging) and others are benefic (loving).
during the moon’s stay for the day/night in each mansion, some things are advantageous for us and others are not.
“this above all: to thine own self be true, / and it must follow, as the night the day, / thou canst not then be false to any man".
– hamlet
