About the Moon, it can be both female and male, as to the circumstances, the querent, the other cards surrounding it, and so on.

I think this question about the Moon being male or female is a tough one, since quite quickly one finds oneself in a rigid system where some chains of equivalence (as they put in discourse theory) are being established like: solar=male, positive, active and lunar=female, feminive, passive etc.

I don’t have a problem with solar=positive, active and lunar=negative (or reflective), passive etc. It is when when it is mixed up with the gender stuff it becomes slightly problematic, to put it mildly.

I really like the idea of solar lunar aspects for both males and females or as characterising both men and women.

Women can be solar, men can be lunar and vice versa. I surely know that from my self. Sometimes I withdraw to within myself, at other times I act “aggressively” to get things done.

As for the solar woman, Eowyn in LOTR could be an archetype. Arven being her lunar counterpart.

As for gods (for example): The trickster Loke in the norse mythology may be lunar, while Thor or Tyr may be solar deities. I guess.
Apollon both has lunar and solar attributes – being both a solar deity, and also connected with the delphic oracle, being the ruler of initiations of death and rebirth, and being connected to Persephone (This I have read on Rachel Pollacks blog). This sounds quite “lunar” to me.

Persephone for herself could be a lunar goddess, as her mother, Demeter, a corn goddess, being more solar.

Reading a book about Gawain (by John Matthews) I learn that the great Goddess apart from being a triple deity, also divides in two: The Flower Maiden and the darker Goddess – later known as Morgain la Fay, also solar and lunar aspects of the Goddess.

There’s plenty of examples. You may not agree with my interpretations all the way ;o)

My point merely being that for my part, that if I restrict my self to single sided, gendered, conceptions of both Tarot and other subjects, I’ll miss important learning.

Maybe it is so simple, that the Sun card is about the solar aspects of life, The Moon card about the lunar aspects of life, among al the other meanings ;o)

I går aftes, kort tid før jeg skulle sove, læste jeg en novelle af Isaac Asimov, der hedder The last question.
“Det sidste spørgsmål” var sådan set det ovenstående, i forskellig form, stillet af mennesker til forskellige tider, til en kæmpecomputer, der efterhånden overtager styringen af universet. Menneskeheden for sin del koloniserer universet, men udvikler sig også gradvist på en måde, jeg ikke vil røbe her, men som er mægtig interessant.

Problemet er blot – Hvad gør vi, når vi har brugt al energien i universet til at ekspandere med? Hvad gør vi når den sidste stjerne er død? Her virker det lidt fjollet at skrive “vi” – af indlysende grunde. Alligevel – det er et kollektivt spørgsmål, og det fremgår også af novellen.

Det ironiske er at mennesket eller menneskeheden ikke afstår fra at ekspandere, afstår fra at anvende energi (og her bliver novellen i den grad aktuel, når man betænker den klimasituation, der diskuteres så meget for tiden) – det er et behov som har sin årsag i overpopulation (et andet aktuelt emne). Der er således mange lag i novellen, og den kan varmt anbefales.

Men spørgsmålet i sig selv – det er et mægtigt, interessant og svimlende spørgsmål – som det ikke er særligt smart at tænke på lige før man skal sove. Eller også skal man blot slukke lyset, vende sig om på den anden side, og lade være med at tænke på at Solen en dag eksploderer, imploderer og forsvinder …

Men svaret på spørgsmålet – det må du læse selv i novellen, som findes i samlingen “Robot dreams”.