Hello darling reader!,

Today is the Libra Full Moon, where the midnight luminary shines an honest light into the relational dynamics between self, the other and society. Justice is aided by the scales and the sword, seeking equality, balance, and piercing truth.

In the tarot, the card that corresponds with the Moon in Libra is the Two of Swords. This is a card of splitting, emotional suppression and psychic self defense.

A lover is never a liar. Without love what justice could there ever be?

I’ve previously taught a class on the lunar cards in the tarot, archetypal defense mechanisms and the inner-child. If you want to work with your inner-child and prime your practice to be trauma-informed than you can access this class by signing up for the Vault. You’ll get a whole lot more too! Access by upgrading below:

The card(s) comes to wake us up to injustice, asking us to honor our intuition and not turn a blind eye to abuse, exploitation and oppression happening right in front of us, to us, to our neighbor.

While the Two of Swords speaks profoundly to childhood trauma, the card that most constellates injustice, abuse, addiction, adultery and affairs is of course the Devil.

I had the pleasure of working through some of the complexity of the Devil while in conversation with The Rebis: The Devil contributors the other day.

While I’m currently serving as guest-editor to the coming Moon issue of The Rebis, I was interviewed for the Devil issue, and it was great to come together with previous editors: Meg Jones Wall, Charlie Claire Burgess, editor-in-chief Hannah Levy and of course, my tarot Empress, Laetitia Barbier, who hosted the event. As Laetitia writes:

“The Devil is a complex, contradictory card, one that refuses moral simplicity. Within this card, you can find pleasure and pain, liberation and oppression, pride and shame. The Devil asks us to look closely at what binds us and what thrills us, often revealing that they are not so easily separated. This is a card of the body: of appetite, attachment, fear, desire, power, and freedom”

We had a great time looking at how the Devil operates across the various creative, political, spiritual and personal terrains of our work.

Here’s a bit more about my colleagues:

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/he) is a nonbinary trans author and artist working at the intersection of queerness and mysticism. They are the author of Queer Devotion and Radical Tarot and the creator of the Fifth Spirit Tarot and Gay Marseille Tarot decks. His writing has appeared in The Rebis, The Lambda Literary Review, the Tarot in Other Words anthology, and elsewhere. Charlie lives in the Pacific Northwest with their spouse, a one-eyed pug, and an extreme number of houseplants. Find him online @the.word.witch, queerlydevoted.substack.com, and thewordwitchtarot.com. 

Meg Jones Wall (she/they) is a queer, nonbinary, chronically-ill tarot reader and teacher, who creates tarot resources and courses for spiritual misfits through her business, 3am.tarot. Meg is the author of Finding the Fool: A Tarot Journey to Radical Transformation and Tarot Spreads: How To Read Them, Create Them, and Revise Them, with another book on the Devil tarot archetype forthcoming. They are based in NYC.

Hannah Levy (she/her) is a poet and writer living in Northern California. She's the editor-in-chief of The Rebis (www.therebis.com), a print-only tarot literary anthology that explores the archetypes through original art, essays, fiction, and poetry. The Rebis is a not-for-profit, anticapitalist project that redistributes sales profits to social justice orgs. You can follow Hannah on Instagram at @hnnhlvy and @the__rebis, and you can sign up to stay in the loop on Rebis happenings at therebis.substack.com. The next issue will be The Moon and it's coming out Fall 2026. 

Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, as well as a professional tarot reader and teacher. Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. Along with her friend Lou Benesch, she’s the co-creator the Camena Tarot. Find more at www.laetitiacartomancy.com

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Happy Fool Moon friends!,