Tarot Take #2: The Moon

Oscar-winning Female Performances in film, as inspired by the tarot

Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castevet in ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ (1968)

Like The Moon herself, Minnie is a highly original and unusual character, one which slowly reveals its darkness and occult depths. Watch as Minnie gifts Rosemary (Mia Farrow) a strange necklace, supposedly a good luck charm, a globe-like pendant shaped not unlike a fat full moon itself.

Things only get obscurer as Rosemary falls pregnant following a terrifying dream, setting into motion a sinister, insidious chain of events in which she begins to doubt her own reality in the gothic block of flats in which she and Minnie live.

What truly lies beneath Minnie’s neighbourly surface is anyone’s guess...