Why The Moon?

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OK so I'm gonna recap what I typed out last night:

First I wanted to say that you were right Ankh, my question was definitely astray . I think what I was trying to ask was something along the lines of "What compatible archetypal metaphor would there be to the moon on Venus since Venus has no moon?"

As Adonai so enigmatically hinted towards, the moon shines because it reflects the light of the sun. Well yes, that seems pretty obvious now doesn't it So now we turn our attention to The Sun, the Significator of the Spirit. Ra defines the archetype of the Sun as follows: "The Significator of the Spirit is that living entity which either radiates or absorbs the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator, radiates it to others or absorbs it for the self." (80.17) Few attain this state of being however: "The progress chosen by many adepts becomes a confused path as each adept attempts to use the Catalyst of the Spirit. Few there are which are successful in grasping the light of the sun. By far, the majority of adepts remain groping in the moonlight and, as we have said, this light can deceive as well as uncover hidden mystery." (80.10)

So the Sun symbolizes aspects of self which exist fully within the awareness of the light of creation and consciously radiates its own light/absorbs the light of other-selves.

Ra doesn't have much to say about The Experience of the Spirit, but here's a nice quote on how a positive adept can move through the Experience of the Spirit and attain the light of the Sun: "The Experience of the Spirit, that which you have called the Moon, is then, by far, the more manifest of influences upon the polarity of the adept. Even the most unhappy of experiences, shall we say, which seem to occur in the Catalyst of the adept, seen from the viewpoint of the spirit, may, with the discrimination possible in shadow, be worked with until light equaling the light of brightest noon descends upon the adept and positive or service-to-others illumination has occurred." (80.15) (I see now that Ra says "that which YOU call the Moon," so you all are correct, it was we earthlings who named the archetypes in the tarot) In the Experience of the Spirit the darkness of Matrix has been illuminated somewhat by the lightning strike of the Potentiator, offering Catalyst upon which we can reflect. The light of the Potentiator is the light of the Significator, though we are not fully aware of this connection since we are still "in the dark" as it were, so all we can do is observe the reflection of that light, which come to us through other-selves and our surroundings. In the shadows of the moonlight then we can either attempt to find the true picture of self-identity or build false images instead. As Ra puts it: "The moonlight, then, offers either a true picture seen in shadow or chimera and falsity. The power of falsity is deep as is the power to discern truth from shadow. The shadow of hidden things is an infinite depth in which is stored the power of the One Infinite Creator." (80.8)

So I guess you could say the archetype of the moon represents the reflection of self as seen in other-selves, which Ra tells us is the best tool to study in order to discover the true nature of self.

As I was going to sleep last night I had a thought out of nowhere: If Ra helped develop the tarot as a method for teaching and it was based on a system they used in their third density experience on Venus, then why did they choose the moon to symbolize the experience of the spirit since Venus has no moons? I wonder what they would have used as a symbol for this archetype. Just a thought I wanted to share.

I tried an online search on the Moon-Earth-Venus triangle. Found an interesting mainstream news article. Am attaching it here.

Moon may have originated from Venus

It's funny, I was gonna post something about how maybe Venus did have a moon in 3rd Density, but I thought that might be too cooky