The Moon
The Maja Arcana
The Moon art card of the 2025 Major Arcana collection.
Thresholds, Tides, and the Hidden World
The lunar landscape of The Moon Art Card of the Maja Arcana is very different from the more recognizable imagery of the Rider–Waite Tarot and the artwork of Pamela Colman Smith. As seen below
And yet the feeling remains familiar.
The moon still governs thresholds.
Still pulls at tides seen and unseen.
Still lingers in the psyche like silver pollen caught in the folds of a coat. 🌙
As children, many of us first encounter the moon not as science, but as enchantment. I see it now in the children around me. A daytime moon appears overhead and suddenly the rules bend:
Wait... the moon is out right now?
The ordinary world develops a crack in it.
Recently the world watched astronauts travel around the moon, reminding us that lunar mystery is not confined to folklore or dream symbolism. The moon remains astonishing even under the bright lamp of science. Perhaps especially there. Craters, gravity, magnetic influence, frozen shadows, hidden oceans on distant moons orbiting Jupiter... the cosmos keeps handing us locked doors and tiny silver keys. 🚀
In biodynamic thinking, the moon is more than an object suspended in space. Its rhythms are believed to create a breathing effect within the Earth itself, a subtle inhalation and exhalation shaping moisture, growth, tides, and timing. Whether approached spiritually, symbolically, or scientifically, the moon continues to act upon us.
It governs cycles.
Repetition.
Return.
The Moon card often represents the hidden world: instinct, dream logic, uncertainty, intuition, illusion, submerged memory.
Not everything illuminated is fully understood.
Day and night still alter us profoundly. Dawn and dusk remain emotional territories as much as physical ones. I find myself drawn increasingly toward these liminal hours, toward thresholds where opposites briefly coexist:
sun and moon,
light and shadow,
certainty and wonder.
Perhaps that is where art lives too.
Not entirely in darkness.
Not entirely in clarity.
But somewhere in the luminous in-between. ✨
About This Series
Early in the chaos of 2025, I felt the need to create an organizing center within my inner world. A place to gather my thoughts, instincts, and imagination into something tangible. The Tarot answered that call. 🌙
I gave myself 30 days to create 21 cards, building the collection in conversation with the structure of the Major Arcana from traditional tarot.
The collages were created using imagery from an original set of the vintage Time-Life book series, including Plants, Light, Vision, and The Body. Additional source material came from old books about princesses, found imagery, and personal collage ephemera collected over time.
The result became a symbolic landscape of thresholds, transformation, memory, and mystery. Part prairie dreamscape, part visual journal, part archetypal map. ✨
Prints and products featuring this collection are available through my made-to-order shop on Redbubble. Orders are printed in Canada or the United States.
Hi, I’m Maja Manitoba , a self-taught multimedia artist from Oakbank, Manitoba, Canada. I create intuitive mixed-media artwork inspired by myth, symbolism, nature, storytelling, and the strange poetry hidden inside everyday life. Whether online or in person, I love sharing art as a way of building connection, curiosity, and wonder. 🎨
